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Power Wash Your Paint Job in the Spring

If you’ve had a fresh paint job on your house or business within the past couple of years (and even if it has been longer than that), it is probably time to get...
Hardwood Floors and Paint Colors

Best Paint Colors for Hardwood Floors

One of the questions we get frequently at All American Painting Plus is “What Paint Colors Work Best With Hardwood Floors”. The short answer is both easy and uninformative: “Hardwood looks good with...
Painting Kids' Room

3 Approaches to Painting Your Kids’ Rooms

When it comes to painting kids’ rooms, there are several different schools of thought. A child’s room should be a place where they enjoy spending their time, but which integrates with the rest...
Latex and Oil Paint Differences

Differences in Oil and Latex in Exterior Paint

Most homeowners don’t have much knowledge about the qualities and histories of paints for external painting applications. For the most part, when it comes to household external painting applications, consumers have had just...
Preparing the house before the painter arrives

Preparing A House Before A Painter Arrives

If you are counting down the days until All American Painting Plus arrives to paint your home, you’ve got a beautiful house to look forward to. In the meantime, there is a little...
Spring and Summer Painting and Carpentry

Spring and Summer Painting/Carpentry

When you think of All American Painting Plus, you might think about the best Virginia painters around. And though we won’t say you’re wrong on that point (thanks for the compliment!), we want...
Front Door Paint

Don’t Underestimate Front Door Painting

People ask us all the time about the relationship between a fresh coat of paint and home equity. This is a complicated conversation, but generally speaking, the fresher and nicer your paint job,...
Fresh Paint for Businesses and Public Buildings

Businesses See Benefits off Fresh Paint

We can all use a makeover from time to time. But if you have a business or represent a publicly-accessed structure of some kind, you know that a real estate makeover is not...
Paint Color Goals

Paint Colors We Recommend for Clients

With modern paint technology, you can produce infinite color variations. These endless shades can be used on interior or exterior walls, cabinets, fixtures...anything you can imagine. But because homeowners and business owners have...
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Lose Mistakes With Interior and Exterior Paint

If you are a homeowner, painting your home’s interior or exterior is a job you don’t want to do often. A good paint job can last for years, but one performed poorly will...