PERENNIAL PAINTERS

You are just about to open the door to the powder room that is connected to the front foyer of your house, when you flash back to last night's party at Al in Accounting's place. Because of your fondness for certain libations, you found yourself in Al's powder room a few times; and while locked in there, you almost felt like you were interacting with a stunning work of art. The walls shimmered with colors that were subtly layered, and served to enhance the framed painting of a

It is near the end of the first week of "agreeing on a color to paint the den"; and as you lie in bed imagining the hues and shades of the latest possibilities, you realize that, now, even your dreams are in color. After you had the outside of the house painted last summer by the Perennial Painters, and you started getting a flurry of "thumbs-up" from neighbors, friends and even strangers walking by, you realized that you must have done something right with the colors that yo

You know that the outside of your house is due for a paint job. Well, maybe "over due" would be closer to the truth. You've been watching the DIY TV shows for a couple months, memorized your favorite You tube videos on the topic, interrogated your cousin who painted his own house, and convinced your wife that you will be extra cautious on the ladders. You've also endured the scorn of your kids after telling them that the family won't be going to the lake this summer because

Thank you for entertaining thoughts that I have formulated about the nature of decorating your living space. In my forty five years as a house painter, I have experienced a boggling array of decorating situations..each one with its unique challenges and many with surprising solutions. Some of my projects have flopped miserably; but most have culminated into attractively artistic results. Still, the common demoninator to the undertaking of a decorating project [success or fail