Wallpaper removal reveals the plaster damage, then we repair the plaster cracks and skim coat the walls. The walls then have that organic plaster feel again.

here is what we found after removing the wallpaper of this brownstone plaster wall

After skim coating the wall and painting it

A wall in the process of wallpaper removal

The same brooklyn brownstone wall after skim coating and painting

David Cobell, Brown Harris Stevens, 718-399-4139  dcobell@bhsusa.com

Andrea Yarrington  Corcoran  718.832.4192  AYARRINGTON@Corcoran.com

Attention to detail is a big reason why people hire us. And we take great care when working in people’s homes. We cover everything with canvas or plastic tarps. It takes time, but if you don’t do the prep work, the paint job will show it.

we cover built in shelves and fireplace

rollers can splatter paint, so we cover it all

The green trim is a nice accent

The finished room

Tarps and plastic removed, the final colors look great.

If you are looking for Brooklyn or Manhattan painters, please consider calling HandyMan Eric . We paint in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Park Slope

We paint an apartment, but we also do a lot of other work that other painters don’t. We install light fixtures, install dishwashers, vanities, sinks, repair walls, caulk tubs.

Here is a 9th Street 2 bedroom apartment we painted. The couple had just bought the coop and we painted every room before they bought new furniture.

In addition to painting the aparment, we installed a HDTV over the fireplace. Hiding the wires from a HDTV that is hanging above the fireplace can be a challenge. I think this is a good solution. We used wiremold painted the same color as the wall to hide the HDMI and power cables for the HDTV.

HandyMan Eric painted the whole apartment and more for the new owners of this 9th St coop

If you are looking for painters or handyman services or HDTV installers in Manhattan or Brooklyn, please consider HandymanEric.com

Here’s a kitchen cabinet repair we did in Cobble Hill. You can see here in the close up, that the side of this cabinet is torn off from the back wall of the kitchen cabinet.

This cabinet was leaning out about an inch, and making the homeowners nervous. Not an unusual feeling when your kitchen cabinets need repair.

Here is the damage

When removing the broken kitchen cabinet, I discovered that when the cabinet was installed, the screws holding up the cabinet did not screw into the wall studs. So this cabinet was supported by the adjoining cabinet. It eventually tore away from the back wall because of the weight of the items in the cabinet.

The support screws had missed the wall studs, so nothing was really holding this cabinet up

I took the kitchen cabinet back to the shop to repair it.

Small blocks were screwed and glued into several discreet places and the cabinet squared back up again.

Small blocks of wood to strengthen the cabinet

Here I am with the kitchen cabinet repair back in place

practical Ikea Shelving installed by HandymanEric.com

A found objects artist moved into a new studio and we were hired to install new Ikea shelving, the omnipresent Expedit bookcase and a few Billy bookcases.

I like the shelving we installed, its practical and works well. It is similar to Elfa shelving, just as strong, but not as elegant, but then, you don’t need elegant in an art studio. You just need shelves.

This ikea shelving hangs from a top bar that we screwed into the stud in the wall

Expedit assembled and used for a work bench

The Natura line is a no VOC latex paint that has very good coverage for a green paint. Two of the colors we used were one coat colors. We usually roll walls twice, but this paint is great.

The Natura paint costs almost twice as much as a regular latex paint, but you will use less of it, so the paint costs are the same. For the parlor floor living room and kitchen, we used 3 gallons of the green no VOC Natura paint.

Normally we would have to use 5-6 gallons of regular latex to cover the same area.

I was very impressed by this Green Paint, I usually wear a mask when rolling paint, and I did not on this job, and I did not have a headache, nor was there that ‘latex paint’ odor.

Our client was very pleased with the job and the paint, she is about 8 months pregnant, and wanted the apartment painted before the baby arrived.

Looking for Green painters in Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Fort Greene? Email us, we’re green converts with this line of low VOC and no VOC paints.

Prepping the walls

Cutting along the ceiling

Living Room windows painted

The pocket doors were primed and painted, and we removed all the old paint on the glass from previous paint jobs