Blog: Exterior Painting

Artistic Finishes just finished our largest, longest job to-date.  We began painting the new construction home in March with priming and painting the new stucco and then hand painted over 300 decorative corbels along the soffit. Following the completion of exterior work we moved inside where we began by priming all new walls and ceilings—a…

Artistic Finishes, Inc. is called upon to wood-grain and faux finish many doors.  These doors were in very bad shape as you can see from the pictures. We began by sanding and scraping, then washing with a detergent and rinsing.  The next day we checked the doors and washed them down again.  After base-coating with…

Artistic Finishes, Inc. most recently completed its largest commercial job to date.  The Park West Gallery Building in North Miami measure over 110,000 Sq. ft. of exterior wall space. We started the job during late December by pressure cleaning the building.  We used a 60 foot Sunbelt boom lift to help with the challenge of…

This past Saturday Ryan and six other volunteers had the opportunity to paint the Refuge building. The Refuge is an outreach ministry of Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale. It is a program that feeds and meets needs of the homeless and under-resourced communities seven days a week.  The Refuge also houses a time of worship and…

During the rainy month of September Artistic Finishes, Inc. was asked to paint the exterior of two buildings at the Faith Farm in Fort Lauderdale.  This opportunity proved to be a bit of a challenge but a blessing indeed as Faith Farm Ministries of Fort Lauderdale was preparing for their grand re-opening of the New…

Ryan had an unusual job request – to turn regular old stepping stones into expensive looking Terracotta tiles.  After doing some research, coming up with different color combinations, and making samples Ryan was up for the challenge. The stones were recently pressure washed so Ryan began with a Terracotta primer as the base coat to…

Our personal and public freedom and right in this country is to be able to vote.  Have you taken the time to vote today (or before today)? Standing in line to vote today with our 1-year-old I had this strong sense that this was more than standing in a boring line to vote in the next president of the United States.  It…

Ryan and the Artistic Finishes team painted a home in West Palm Beach.  The customer really liked the paint job they did on the exterior of her home, going from a light color to dark.  They used Benjamin Moore paint color HC-46 Jackson Tan for the exterior.  Choosing the right color is where a homeowner’s…

On Monday Ryan came home with a customer’s order for paint from a large warehouse store.  The job was to start Tuesday and the customer had just been able to choose the colors for her home.  Ryan understands that when a customer spends time choosing the color they want for their home, they want that…