The first day of spring is here and we are looking forward to getting some fresh air! Usually the season for spring cleaning and gardening, spring is also an ideal season for exterior painting.

The temperate climate in spring is perfect for painting. And after a windy, wet and cold winter, your home’s exterior siding and trim may need a fresh coat of paint.

Make your home pop with a bright colour painted on the front door, clean and crisp window trim and solid siding with no fading or green stains from mould and mildew.

With a professional paint makeover your home will be as fresh and bright as those spring blossoms!

St. Patrick’s Day is such a happy day of celebration, whether you’re Irish or not. And you get pinched if you’re not wearing green, how fun is that? So today all of us at Benchmark Painting are raising a green glass to you and wishing you well, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Thinking of selling your house soon? A fresh coat of paint is a great way to show off your home in the best light. Re-painting is a relatively inexpensive way to prepare your house to sell, and may even help to sell your home quicker and/or for a higher price.

Both interior and exterior painting can transform your home in a way that draws buyers in and leaves them impressed. Curb appeal is the first impression buyers have of your house, and interior walls reveal if you have taken good care of it.

Before you put your house on the market, start with a professional paint application of modern colours. Benchmark Painting is the best professional painting company in the Fraser Valley and Greater Vancouver area.

Contact us for your free, no-obligation estimate.

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Benchmark Painting! We certainly feel the love from our clients who voted us “Best Painting Company” on HomeStars and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts! Enjoy the day with your sweetheart!

Today is Family Day in BC, and all of us at Benchmark are happy to be spending time with our families. We hope you’re enjoying the day with your family too!

If your commercial space needs re-painting but you can’t afford to limit your productivity during painting, Benchmark Painting will be your invisible commercial painters.

We can work after hours to fit your schedule, so you won’t even see us, you’ll just see your professionally re-painted walls. We paint retail spaces, offices, warehouses, institutional spaces and more. Call us for your free estimate—604.803.5041.

With wear and tear, your walls can start to look old and scruffy. Sometimes we get used to the change over time, and hardly notice how sad our walls have become. Here are four signs that your walls could use a fresh coat of paint:

1. Scuffs. Scuffs can happen when we bump into a wall with the vacuum cleaner, toys and various other objects. The colour is transferred onto the paint and doesn’t wash off.
2. Water marks. Sometimes excess moisture in the air from showers and cooking can condense on your walls and leave subtle but stubborn water marks on the paint.
3. Stains. If you have kids or pets, you probably have some stains on your walls from various substances that don’t wipe off no matter how hard you try.
4. Dents. Sometimes bumps to the walls cause more damage than a little scuff. Moving furniture and decor can easily result in dents in your walls, which really age the look of your home.

Take a good look at your walls, you may find a few of these signs that you need to re-paint. The good news it that you can get some very high quality and durable paint these days, which decreases wear and tear on your walls and is easily washable.

Benchmark Painting offers professional painting services that will make your walls look brand new.

We had a wonderful year of painting and moulding makeovers in 2015 and are looking forward to more happy clients in 2016.

If renovation is one of your New Year’s resolutions, we would be happy to help you with our painting services and more. Call Benchmark Painting for your free quote – 604-803-5041.

Today we’re setting aside our paint brushes to celebrate Christmas with friends and family. All of us at Benchmark Painting would like to wish a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Professional painters always have the right paintbrush for the job, use quality paint and primer, and are very skilled in painting techniques. However, the key to a professional looking paint application is: surface preparation.

Many amateur painters overlook the need to prepare the surface properly before painting. They are eager to get started and see the results quicker, so they do minimal, if any, surface preparation. The result is a newly painted wall full of blemishes like bumps, cracks and holes.

Here is how to prepare a surface for painting like a professional:

1. Repair drywall cracks with putty and sand down to an even finish.
2. Fill nail holes and other imperfections with putty and sand flat.
3. Wipe dust and dirt from walls.

Benchmark Painting always takes the time to prepare surfaces before painting for a professional paint application.

Everyone here at Benchmark Painting would like to express our sincere gratitude to our Canadian war veterans. Without their service and sacrifice we would not enjoy the freedoms we do today. Lest we forget.

Don’t worry, there’s still time to makeover your living space with freshly painted walls and even custom moulding installation. Create an inviting space that welcomes your guests and is worthy of your biggest celebrations.

Benchmark Painting will complete your interior makeover on time and on budget, before your guests arrive. Give us a call for your custom estimate.

Halloween is one of our favourite celebrations because drop sheets make great ghost costumes. All of us here at Benchmark Painting hope you have a wonderfully spooky, candy-filled Halloween!

Benchmark Painting would like to wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving!

We are so thankful for our dedicated craftsmen, our stellar industry partners, and most of all our amazing clients. Thanks to all of our clients for putting your faith in us and allowing us to help you with your special projects!

Benchmark Painting specializes in making popcorn ceilings as smooth as butter. Ceiling re-texturing is not an easy job to do yourself. We will cover and protect your furnishings from dust and debris, use our professional tools and techniques, and finish with two coats of professional paint application.

Save yourself from a sore neck and dust in your eyes, or worse, a popcorn ceiling—choose Benchmark ceiling re-texturing service.

When people think of mouldings in a home, they often think of crown mouldings and baseboards. While those applications are excellent for adding character to your home, moulding can also be used in creative ways to create a unique design feature in your home.

Here are some examples of custom moulding installations:

1. Elevate the style of a room with a coffered ceiling.
2. Transform a wall with the look of board and batten.
3. Create a feature wall with a custom geometric wainscotting design.

The possibilities are nearly limitless, so bring your imaginative ideas to Benchmark Painting and we’ll make your dream design a reality.

After a beautiful summer we are excited to begin the busy fall renovation season. Many clients find the fall an ideal time to freshen up their homes with interior paint and moulding installations. You can give your space an inviting makeover to prepare for holiday entertaining and house guests.

Autumn can also be a great time to have the exterior of your home re-painted, especially in the early fall when the weather in the Lower Mainland tends to be clear and sunny.

For professional painting in the Lower Mainland, call Benchmark Painting at 604-803-5041. We would love to help you with your fall makeover!

Benchmark Painting recently painted the bedroom for the son of Linda Jervis, an LPGA golf instructor. We later received a call letting us know how happy he is with his makeover.

This is why we do what we do, client satisfaction is our number one goal!

If you’re looking for a professional painting company in Langley, call Benchmark Painting for your free estimate. We provide professional interior painting, exterior painting, moulding installation and more.

You know you want to repaint your living space, but you’re not sure what colour would look the best and work for the long term. Our 5 steps below explain how to decide on a paint colour for your space.

To begin, start with a broad decision and narrow down from there. If you would like to visualize your room in a variety of colours before making any decisions, try this online room colour visualizer by Sherwin Williams.

1. Decide if you would like a light colour or a dark colour. Light colours expand space and brighten a room while dark colours create a cozy, intimate feeling.
2. Decide if you would like a warm colour, a cool colour, or a neutral colour. This is often a matter of personal colour preference, but could also depend on how you are using the space and how you want the space to feel.
3. Narrow your choice on the colour wheel from either the warm colours or the cool colours. Search for a colour theory chart if you would to choose a colour based on its mood associations.
4. Visit your paint store to pick up some paint chips in various shades of your chosen colour. Bring the paint chips to your space and compare them in that lighting.
5. Once you have your favourite shades narrowed down to two or three, the best way to find the right one is to purchase sample paint in those shades and paint generous sample applications to your wall, side by side for accurate light comparison. That way you can see how the paint colour looks on your wall, in your lighting.

Deciding on your paint colour can be the hardest part of painting your space. Once you have your paint colour chosen, call us at Benchmark Painting for a no-obligation written quote of our professional painting service—604.803.5041

At Benchmark Painting we strive for happy clients, and that’s why we only work with and recommend the best in our industry. We recently recommended interior decorator Sue Womersley of Decorata Design to our client, who then called us to say how happy she is with Sue’s work, because she took the stress out of the renovation. A stress-free renovation? That’s when you know you’re working with the best.