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The sign for a business is right up there with the front door and the website for making first impressions, which are the hallmark of brand awareness. This can set the stage in a New York minute for someone to make a decision to become a customer right away, inquire about products and services or turn around and make a hasty retreat.
A home office and den space in a glass residential skyscraper with a city view across and over to the urban landscape deserves a powerful, yet comforting, color. From relaxing with a good book, TV show or movie – with popcorn – to brainstorming and keeping the brain in high gear – with coffee – this stunning, rich, deep blue color exhibits confidence and stability.
There a lot of moving parts in a work space for productivity and achievement to soar. From the people, compatible personalities and appropriate technology to the environment, perks, pay and more, every component that plays a part is essential for success. Interior settings busy with outdated colors, patterned wallpaper, dingy paint and clutter can negatively impact the best of employees.
Neutral is a delightful lukewarm word that stands in the middle of things without a commitment to anything. Neutral in the car transmission is neither forward nor reverse. In politics, it’s neither for nor against. In colors, it’s not black or white, not even light or dark. The advantages are abundant starting with that proverbial blank slate.
A homeowner in Battery Park City called us in to remove wallpaper in the bedroom. It’s a wonder he ever slept next to this bold green, cluttered, jungle-like pattern.
It’s about a 6-hour drive from New York City to Martha’s Vineyard, seven miles off the Massachusetts coast. One of the first explorers on the roughly 20-mile long and 9-mile wide island was a Brit named Bartholomew Gosnold.
One homeowner decided the dark, stringy wallpaper, akin to a loosely woven burlap sack, in the dining room simply had to go. We are the best with copious experience in removing wallpaper, always beginning with protecting floor, furniture, electronics and pet hamsters.
Oak offers the golden tone and warmth of wood, but it can be magnificently upstaged, especially in a kitchen, by white. The clear, crisp, clean attributes of white offer room for other colors to come into the space in a complementary or contrasting way which never clashes.
In an established condo building in Murray Hill, we were tasked with painting the whole place after some floor repair. Around 30 square feet of wood flooring in a living room corner had been removed. It was an ugly sight, and we cleaned and primed the concrete before installing new wood flooring seamlessly.
If you’ve ever walked into a room and thought, “Wow, this space looks so polished!” chances are the molding played a big role in that. Molding (also called “trim”) is a decorative element that can transform a plain wall or ceiling into something special. Here’s a quick, casual rundown of some popular molding types and where you might see them.