New VT PRO Truck

New Hazmat Masks in Action

Company men, Ian and Pete, enjoying the new hazmat masks performing lead remediation at the Warren United Church - another one of our great historical restoration projects that Vermont Pro is tackling this summer in Warren.

Historical Restoration Underway.

The Vermont Pro construction and paint crews are underway restoring the Brauer's beautiful colonial farm house in Warren, Vermont.  This intensive project requires lead paint remediation, siding and trim replacement (of both classic and decorative trim), insulating and flashing windows for an airtight and watertight seal, and more. Once Vermont Pro has completed the project, we will be sure to showcase the end result on our blog, and we look forward to turning over an amazing product to the Brauer's to enjoy for years to come.

Baby Gap Ad - Happy Birthday Skylar Parker

As a little thank you from Vermont Pro, I took a couple of shots for the Parker family. Their son Skylar celebrated his first birthday on Father's day and clearly took center stage in every shot.

Parker House

Jim, Kristin, and Skylar recently had a newly designed and built home that the VT PRO paint crew proudly capped off with a great paint job!

While building was in process Jim and Kirsten met with us to come up with a color scheme that matched the country/modern look that they wanted to achieve.  For the main body of the house we did the siding in Phelidelphia Cream (a historic color from Ben Moore), trim in Chalk White, and the ceiling of the deck in Natural stain.  The garage and apartment was done in solid-body Barn Red, trim in Chalk White, and the garage doors were hit with Cedar Stain, along with the doors.  The chimney and vertical soffit board siding on the basement level and first floor of the house received Seagull Gray in solid-stain 

Thanks Parkers!  More exciting projects with the Parkers are in the works and will be featured soon.

Bardes Home: Interior Painting

David recently had the paint crew return to his gorgeous Vermont home (which we had painted the exterior of a few years back) to update several rooms with a new color palette.  The rooms that we worked on were northern and western facing which caused them to see a range in natural lighting through out the day.

Our goal was to update the rooms with a more contemporary and natural feel so one by one David and I went through each room putting up color samples and dialing in our choices while the crew worked hard to prep each room paint.  In the end we toned down the guest bedroom and bathroom to make them more relaxing and accented the hallway walls with a very cool shade of Ben Moore's grey, in Regal Select, that changed in appearance through out the day's lighting; at times it had a brown-ish look to it while early on in the morning there was almost of hint of dark purple/black.

All in all a fun job and great end product that showed off Dave's well designed and built home. Thanks for everything Dave!

On a side note thanks again Dave for cooking the entire crew dinner - quite the gracious host!

Energy efficient windows: time to get rid of those leaky old windows!

Tim and his family had some leaking windows in their home that were in need of replacement since the 80's ... the day they were installed, Ha!  The Vermont Pro Construction division was happy to help tighten up the house with well installed, sealed and insulated, low-e high efficiency Integrity windows.

As repeat customers we wanted to go a step beyond giving our client a new window with simple box trim (prior trim), ordinary is boring! So we decided to have some fun with the trim and add multiple layers and give the window a nice weight .... something they will be able to enjoy for many years to come.

Thanks Tim!

Isles Bathroom Remodel

Chris and Betsy have an older Vermont farm house that was in need of a bathroom remodel.  When they came to the Vermont Pro Construction team they were interested in an extensive overhaul top to bottom, with one goal .... a classy southwestern inspired bathroom.  Done!

The bathroom was completely gutted and turned into a thing of beauty.  Over the course of the project a new ceiling height was projected, new duct work and insulation was installed, new subfloor laid ... complete with radiant heating, and freshly sheet-rocked.

A Distressed Finish

New and clean is not always as nice as you think.

A distressed look, or antiquing, can go along ways in bringing an added dimension to your work by giving it age and character.  With this particular project installing a new threshold to match the existing look I have taken a 5/4 piece of clear pine with a knot and "distressed" it.  Since the client's current flooring is old pine, which is a softer wood, I took the time to scan the house and match some similar wear and tare patterns and marks in my new threshold, think about what dings you might see in a threshold with 100 years of use!  One little trick that I have picked up over the years is when you are looking to replicate an aged pine look Minwax's Golden Pecan stain on new pine can quickly achieve a desirable look ... you will have to decide how many coats it will take based on lighting in the room.

Edgcomb Design

Edgcomb design in Warren received a full lead prep and paint.  With the color palette of this project we wanted to go with more of a natural and muted look in order to blend in with the surroundings.

Thanks Jim and Lexi!

The Abbott Room - The Inn at the Round Barn Farm

The Round Barn had a large pre-Christmas project in store for the Vermont Pro team.  In five weeks they wanted us to completely make over five rooms in time for a Christmas wedding.  Done deal - someone get out the "easy button."  In the first of the projects Stefan is working away in the Abbott room stripping wallpaper, repairing the sheet rock, painting, and installing new fixtures.

The Terrace Room - Inn at the Round Barn Farm Inn

The Terrace Room at the Round Barn had an outdated bathroom complete with a plastic shower insert and awful off white tiles.  In the image below Greg is working hard to tear up all the tiles and remove all flooring, stripping the entire room down to bare bones.  Once the room was stripped, plumbing had to be re-done to meet code, walls insulated and blocked, and then the new tub could be installed and pitched; from here electrical locations were changed and sheet rock, backer board, and tile were all installed.  Before the project was completed, the ceiling and walls were painted, fixtures and baseboard installed, and the vanity and toilet hooked up.

The Game Room - Round Barn Farm Inn

The Game Room at the Round Barn Farm is now complete with a bar which can entertain their guests while they play pool, watch movies, and relax.