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Choosing the Right Color for your Home: Part 2
Here are four helpful tips to help you choose the perfect color scheme for your home’s interior. 1. Get to know the color wheel. Studying the color wheel will familiarize you with each color’sintensity and range of hues. Learning about … Continue reading
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Check out McCarthy Painting on Pinterest!
Follow us on Pinterest to check out photos of our painting jobs around Marin, as well as for color and design ideas. http://pinterest.com/mccarthypaint/
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Tamalpais Paint & Color
For all of our interior and exterior paint jobs, we recommend buying painting materials from Tamalpais Paint & Color. With stores in Mill Valley and Corte Madera, Tamalpais Paint & Color provides a great selection of the highest quality stains, primers and paints, from premier … Continue reading
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Gutter Installation: General Roofing Company
If you’re thinking about giving your home a new exterior paint job, you should also consider replacing your gutters. After years of wet winters and foggy Marin summers, metal gutters can rust and erode, causing leaks that may lead to … Continue reading
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Choosing the Right Color for Your Home
Whether you realize it or not, the color in your home has a great impact on your daily life. Studies have shown the color of a room can help decrease stress, increase productivity and positively influence your mood. A professional interior paint … Continue reading
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McCarthy Painting is a Licensed General Contractor
McCarthy Painting holds a general contractor’s license from the state of California, meaning we are licensed to do framing and carpentry work on your Marin home or business. In addition to interior and exterior painting, we perform small repairs including applying dry wall and replacing wood damaged by dry rot. We … Continue reading
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What Does Low-VOC Mean?
If you’ve done any research into different types of paint for your new interior or exterior job, then you’ve likely come across brands such as Sherman Williams and Benjamin Moore touting their low-VOC “green” paints. But what does low-VOC mean … Continue reading
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IdeaPaint CLEAR
Check out IdeaPaint CLEAR, a new transparent dry-erase paint that can be applied to any smooth surface or color. At McCarthy Painting, we have done a number of commercial painting jobs with IdeaPaint for Bay Area businesses, including design company Autodesk, in … Continue reading
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How to Hire a Painting Contractor: Part 2
Buying a new paint job is different than buying a new car. It is important to realize that painting is not done in a controlled, regulated factory environment. In fact, when hiring a contractor, you bring the factory to your … Continue reading
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How to Hire a Painting Contractor: Part 1
Painting your home can be a big undertaking. When hiring a painting contractor for a residential project, it is important to make sure the company is committed to dealing with you fairly and doing quality work on your home. Here … Continue reading
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