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PNP Craftsman have used some pretty fine paints over the years. But, one in particular stands out: Farrow & Ball. In case home and business owners on the UWS of Manhattan are unfamiliar with the paint company, Farrow & Ball colors are special and impossible…

Those familiar with Fine Paints of Europe's Hollandlac line will surely have noted its fade-resistant color depth and brilliant surface appearance. For people far less informed about the oil-based Hollandlac paints, note that White is a great color option, as are the thousands…

The following link is an article about author Robin Cook, who's home we worked on shortly after I took over PNP Craftsmen over 10 years ago. I was trying to move my company up market but this was the break through for us. I used…

One of the distinguishing features of a truly exquisite paint job is using premium materials. At PNP Craftsmen, we work with some of the finest paints available, and one of our favorites is Farrow & Ball. We recently used Farrow & Ball paint products in…

Many residential homes in the NYC area have to deal with exposed water or heat pipes. We recently had a customer who wanted to make sure those ugly pipes disappeared as best as possible. Our craftsmen painters went to work to accomplish the task. See…

At PNP Craftsmen, we always enjoy variety and originality in our work. It is high-end custom jobs like this one on the upper-east side that keep residential painting interesting. We used Milk Paint to restore the floor in this Upper East Side Condo and make…

From high schools to hotels, from gas stations to office buildings to retail stores, all kinds of New York structures need their bathroom partitions painted from time to time. Painting contractors agree that the best method for painting bathroom partitions is electrostatic spray painting. How…

Skim coating, while simple in theory, is one of the most exacting and difficult tasks that we perform as a painting contractor. This was especially true in this Brooklyn townhouse, where we skim coated the ceiling! When a wall has imperfections or damage that cannot…

Thousands of buildings here in New York City rely on structural steel for their main strength and support. While it is often hidden, many architects choose not to hide, but to display the structural steel as another visual element in the design. In these cases,…