Posted by creed on July 27, 2009 under Marketing | 
My company was founded with the help and guidance of many friends and business associates. I thank everyone of you for keeping my business top of mind as you meet people and hear of needs that we can solve. Tony Scelzo founder of Rainmakers marketing group has been a mentor and business coach for over a year now. Recently he mentioned my business in a blog post titled “The fine line you have to walk” which talks about the crowded market place and how our messages need to get through an increasingly complicated filter to reach our customers. You can read the post by clicking this link Tony Scelzo’s Blog
Posted by creed on July 21, 2009 under Kitchens |
The kitchen is the most used room in your home. Everyone gathers there during get a party because thats where the food and drinks are always found. The same reason the family gathers around the kitchen as well. The area between and around your kitchen sink, oven, and stove top is the most used area of the kitchen. Why because all the food preparation is done there. This means the thing called the back splash or the wall between the counter top and the bottom of your cabinets tend to get the most abuse of any walls in your home. Constantly under attack from over spray from the sink or splashes when dishes are placed in it. Or the things that come from the stove top when frying something in a pan or when the sauce bubbles over.
The advise we have is to pick a darker color if your choice is to paint your back splash as it will show stains less. Also at a minimum go with a satin or a semi gloss in your paint choice as this will make the surface easier to scrub over a flat finish paint.
The easiest to clean and maintain will always be to tile the back splash. This makes the seam between the back splash and counter top completely water proof or sealed. Once the grout between the tiles are sealed it is a easy to clean and a very sanitary surface.
Color of tile comes in such a huge variety these days it can be hard to choose. Choose well as this is something you wont want to change often due to the expense mostly. Try picking more neutral colors that accent your cabinets, counter tops and floor colors. Try to think of the stranger that will walk into your kitchen years from now and will be trying to decide if your kitchen could be theirs once they purchase your house. If you like to be bold and love bold colors then do that with the paint you select for your walls as those can be changed with the lease amount of effort.
As always if you dare to dream of your next home improvement projects call on us at CREED Improvements. We can help you from the design process to the completion!
Tiled Back Splash
Posted by creed on July 20, 2009 under Garages |
You probably never stop to think about your garage floor. It is one of the things in our homes that we take completely for granted. It does its job day in and day out. Its always gray and well its not very exciting say against the color of your kitchen floor.
Depending on the age of your house your garage floor might have seen better days. You might have oil stains or over spray from one of your children’s painting projects that didnt go as well as planned. CREED Improvements can help make over your garage. More and more people are realizing the importance of stepping up the finish on their garage from the wall color, trim, organization and most importantly the coating and finish of the floor.
In the pictures you will see a before and after because we did one half of this garage floor at a time. This floor was over 20 years old and had oil stains and spray paint. We prep the floor by treating it with acid that breaks down all the sealers and chemicals that are in the top layer of the concrete. We sand down any paint or gum etc that might be on the floor. We also fill any cracks. Then we apply the epoxy coating with or without a non-slip grit along with or without a color coordinating flake as you see in the pictures. Lastly we apply several coats of high gloss or matte coating that makes it so anything just wipes away or with basic scrubbing. As always if you dare to dream of your next home improvement projects call on us at CREED Improvements to help you from the design process to the completion, we can help!
Before & After Garage Floor
