Home Repair: Beyond Paint: Decorating Walls With Stencils

Beyond Paint: Decorating Walls With Stencils

Written by Kathy Burns-Millyard

Continued from page 1

This is an example of very delicate and truly artistic treatment of stencil-work, and one can easily see how it can be used either in simple or elaborate fashion with great effect.

Irregularly placed floating forms of Persian or Arabic design are often admirably stencilled in color upon a painted wall; but in this case repparttar colors should be varied and not too strong. A group of forms floating away from a window-frame or cornice can be done in two shades of repparttar 100027 wall color, one of which is positively darker and one lighter than repparttar 100028 ground. If to these two shades some delicately contrasting color is occasionally added repparttar 100029 effect is not only pleasing, but belongs to a thoroughly good style.

One seldom tires of a good stencilled wall; probably because it is intrinsic, and not applied in repparttar 100030 sense of paper or textiles. It carries an air of permanency which discourages change or experiment, but it may take a bit of practice to do well.

© 2005, The Do It Yourself Home Decorating Network - A large and growing portal of home decorating and decor articles, tips, advice and excellent home decor shopping sections. This article may be republished on any website, as long as it remains unchanged, carries this copyright and reprint notice, and has a live link to our site.

The Surest Way to Happy Customers!

Written by Wally Conway

Continued from page 1

Lastly, it is critical to keep repparttar customer engaged in repparttar 100026 process. When repparttar 100027 customer is deeply involved with every turn in repparttar 100028 home buying journey they feel more in control. For repparttar 100029 home inspection, this means repparttar 100030 buyer must attend repparttar 100031 inspection. It is interesting to study home inspection complaints. We receive about one complaint for every 500 homes inspected. That is really very few, but remember we are working toward zero! By our definition a complaint is a call from a past customer that could not be solved over repparttar 100032 phone, but required me to revisit repparttar 100033 home. In 9 out of 10 complaints, repparttar 100034 customer did not attend repparttar 100035 inspection!

By not attending repparttar 100036 home inspection, buyers have a greatly reduced understanding of not only repparttar 100037 inspection process, but also a reduced understanding of their home. And more bad news, if repparttar 100038 buyer did not attend repparttar 100039 inspection, their real estate professional probably did. Now not only are they unhappy with me, they are also unhappy with their agent!

After more than ten years and 20,000 inspections I can tell you this, repparttar 100040 surest way to a happy customer over repparttar 100041 long term is:

Always put repparttar 100042 best interest of repparttar 100043 customer first Educate your customers for clear and comfortable decision making Participate along with repparttar 100044 customer in every event So far so good, repparttar 100045 phones are ringing, repparttar 100046 schedule is filling and to this point, a complaint free year! Let's all work hard to keep repparttar 100047 streak going!

Wally Conway is President of Florida HomePro Inspections, and has recently written a book entitled "Secrets of the Happy Home Inspector", available at GoHomePro.com. As a speaker, writer, and instructor, Wally blends the right amount of up-to-date information with just the right amount of humor, insight, motivation, and real-world application. Visit WallyConway.com for more information!

<Back to Page 1