Paperhanging
Residential wallcovering from the paste table. We cut to the repeat, hang plumb, and recut a miss instead of stretching it into a corner. Jonathan palms the last seam before the van rolls.
Trades
Cut, paste, and the roller after
Paper first when the pattern is the point. Paint when the wall should stay a quiet sheen. Prep whenever the covering would otherwise telegraph.
Interior rooms
Walls and ceilings in occupied houses. We mask like we live there, keep a wet edge, and leave a sheen that holds under raking afternoon light from the sash.
Clapboard and trim
Body, sash, and corner boards on New England exteriors. We break color at the board, scrape what will fail, and do not chase a weather window with a thin coat.
Prep and skim
The wall under the paper. Joints, holidays, and old adhesive get named before a roll is opened. If it will show, we skim — we do not hope the pattern hides it.
A day on site
Four marks from the first look to a dry seam
Same order on paper or paint. We do not skip the wall read because the calendar is tight.
1
Read
Light, joints, and whether paper or paint is the honest finish.
2
Protect
Floors, sash, and the furniture that stays. The dining room becomes the shop.
3
Hang or roll
Plumb first length, or a kept wet edge. No stretching, no holidays.
4
Palm
Jonathan walks it. The van leaves when the seam is quiet, not when the clock says so.
Ring Jonathan from the Littleton shop
Name the room. Leave a number. He calls from Great Road.
Send a phone