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Live Big. Live Bold.And Give Back

Hetrick Painting is very passionate about our community; The families, people, animals and small businesses that make up who and what Richmond, VA is.

Thats why its so important to us to be giving back as much as possible. We dedicate time in each week for volunteering and giving back

Once a week our office volunteers at Hanover Animal Care and Control

These animals are abandon, scared and in need of forever homes. Often times they are in their crates for 23 and 1/2 hour out of every day. Without volunteers to walk and bathe them, they can deteriorate quickly in the shelters.





Hetrick painting has also had the opportunity to partner with various business in our community to help fund large home projects for those in need.
Since the beginning on 2020 we have already assisted, with the generous help of Home Depot and Sherwin-Williams , in four large community projects for families in need.
These projects involved, but were not limited too, removing of water damaged/mold areas, replace drywall, siding and ceiling areas.
Wall paper removal, painting and repair work as needed for a single mother, an elderly woman and two families who are struggling financially.

We want to thank you all so much for your help in these community projects by hiring us. You have given back in more ways than you know and we are so grateful for the opportunity to serve you and othersxthetr!



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Choosing the right paint color

" Painting is a quick and cheap way to give an old room a breath of fresh air or to make your house more sellable if you are putting it on the market.

Heres some helpful tips, when looking for paint colors--

Which paint should you choose?

Paint comes in a variety of sheens as well as in either oil or latex. Latex paint is the most commonly and preferred paint type to use because of its ease of clean up and long lasting durability. It also tends to be more fade resistant and breathes better than oil, resulting in less blistering of the paint. I recommend using a latex paint for most of your walls and household uses. However, oil based paint is great for priming real wood moldings and trim as it tends to seal stains and knots from the wood better than a latex paint wood. It does take longer to dry than a latex paint though, so plan for more drying time. I personally use an oil based shellac primer on my trim and then opt for a latex paint as the top coat. There are a variety of brands on the market, but my top preference is Behr paint.

Which sheen should I select?

The glossier the paint, the easier it is to clean up. If you have small children and the room you are painting has high traffic, like in a playroom, or tends to get grease on the wall such as in a kitchen, opt for high gloss sheen as you can easily wipe the wall down with a damp sponge. This will however make blemishes and imperfections in your wall more apparent and in rooms such as living rooms, could give off an unpleasant shine. High gloss is also great for trim and will give the trim a nice finished look, complementing the flatter sheen of your walls.

Semi-gloss would also be a good choice for kitchens and baths as well as trim providing you with ease of wash-ability and less shine than the gloss. It is also slightly cheaper than the gloss finish and is a very common alternative. Satin sheens have a satiny smooth finish to them and could also be used in kitchens, baths and hallways. This may be a good choice if you really want some gloss and paint that can clean easily without the shine of a gloss.

If you have walls with lots of imperfections, select a flat or matte paint. You can usually get away with one coat of paint with a flat. The downside to this paint is that it does not stand up well to a good cleaning and does tend to show dirt more so choose this for rooms that will not get lots of fingerprints and dirt on them. Probably the most popular sheen is eggshell, which hides imperfections like a flat does but is easier to wash, so more durable and smoother to the touch. I recommend this for most rooms as it seems to have the best of both the flat and glossy worlds.

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Which color should I choose?

If you are in the process of selling your house, I recommend selecting a white or off-white color as the choice for walls. This will allow the buyer to easily cover the wall with their choice of color and will give your rooms a brighter and clean appearance. However, you should take full advantage of the hundreds of paint selections and brochures at your local paint store as well as talk to a salesperson about the various color schemes for the look you want. You can change the feel of any room in your house with a little planning and some color, varying the shades for a certain look or feel.

A good rule of thumb is to remember the color wheel. We all learned about the primary colors in school - red, yellow and blue. These are on the color wheel at 12:00, 4:00 and 8:00 respectively. Combining any of these will give you a secondary color (i.e. purple, orange). Colors near each other on the color wheel such as blue and purple are analogous to each other and will allow one color to stand out more. Colors opposite each other on the color wheel such as green and red are complementary to one another and will nicely play off each other. Staying within the same shade of color (i.e. greens) will give you a subtle and soothing look. Painting with cool colors such as blues, greens and purples makes small rooms appear larger and more airy while colors such as reds, yellows and oranges will give a room a more vibrant appearance. You can vary the warmth even with a red or yellow by choosing muted shades of those colors such as pink, peach or a buttery yellow. Warm colors have cool ones as their complementary colors while cool colors have warm complements. Shades are either pure or vibrant, muted (which are less intense than their vibrant counterparts) or shaded (the darker colors in the same color scheme).

I want a subtle and soothing look:

You can choose to stay within the same shade and use a monochromatic approach such as select a variety of shades of blue for subtle color that tends to be soothing. This tends to look good in a bathroom or a bedroom if you want the feeling of calmness. Just choose your favorite color and overlap the shades. For example, select a darker color for the wall and then another in the same color scheme but different shade and slightly lighter for the trim. Your curtains, towels or bedding as well as accessories such as candles can be varying shades within the same scheme. You can also layer the colors by selecting a lighter green as the basecoat and then do a faux paint with a darker green overlay.

Light color choices such as blues, lavenders, pinks and soft yellows are great choices for a romantic feeling of tranquility and restfulness in a room. If you are looking for a calm ambience in your bedroom, choose lighter shades of either cool or warm colors. Use different textures in your bedding and accessories to make the room even more appealing. Don’t hold to the old rule of one shade and one texture. You will be pleasantly surprised at the effects just changing textures and colors can have on a room.

 Colors such as sage can turn a kitchen quickly into one of comfort and shades of buttery yellows in a kitchen will lend to that feeling baked goodies brings. Shades of powdery blue also tend to yield feelings of tranquility.

I want an elegant look:

Neutral colors offer elegance and flexibility within a room. Neutral colors are no longer simply white or beige. You can turn a simple living room into one of elegance by selecting varying shades of neutral colors such as almond walls with red toned browns on the trim. You can also add splashes of color throughout the room with a color throw, pillow or vase carefully placed to offset the subtle neutral tones in the room. Again, don’t be afraid to add texture to your accessories. Neutral colors allow you more flexibility in quickly changing the feel to a room. You can easily change the feel of a neutral room by adding different colored accessories or painting the trim a new color. You can choose either lighter or deeper neutral colors and vary the look of the room. Remember, the lighter color you go, the more spacious the room will appear. Varying shades of rust, mahogany or garnet will offer instant elegance and a feeling of earthiness and richness.

 I want a vibrant look:

If you want a room with pizzazz, choose vibrant colors and their respective shades such as oranges and gold, reds and dark purples. You can complement these colors by selecting a two next to each other such as gold and orange and one from the opposite side of the color wheel such as purple. You can also select black and red for a real stand out contrast and look that is reminiscent of an Oriental look. Choose two colors next to each other on the color wheel for a visual contrast as one will stand out from the other. "

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Why we give back to our community...

If every middle class family took on one neighbor to help this year, I believe we could completely end homelessness, and end depression in a widespread area of our community. This year we could change lives. Sure that sounds sweet….but who's actually going to get around to doing that. It started with an idea . . . but isn’t that always how these things start? The hard part was putting into words what we were doing. Organizing the heart behind something we had already been kind of doing all along.

Dad always had a huge heart for the Richmond community. I remember him mentioning the idea of turning his painting company into a "one for one" mission by, "giving a percentage of our income to helping our neighbors”. I loved the idea but the timing (for whatever reason) was just "off" for me. I remembered that conversation from two years ago this past Christmas break and brought it up to dad over one of our 'Father- daughter date nights'. Dad's eyes lit up the way they do when he's super excited about something I'm saying or doing.

"I think this is the right time," he said, assuring me. "I've really been praying for confirmation and I feel like this conversation is it." Before you freak out and think this is another one of those “religious blogs about helping people, blah, blah, blah. . .” Give me a chance. I have this crazy thought that this has nothing to do with what you believe, and everything to do with that fact that we ALL are a part of something so much bigger then the same routine of life we live every day.

Well, there it is. HPI, Hetrick Painting, Inc. will now sister with HPI, Hope Provided Initiative. It hasn’t been long since we’ve put this whole idea into action. The actual helping part was something that came pretty naturally to my family and I. Missions trips and local acts of service have always been part of our family life. We LOVE people and community. It’s the nitty-gritty “office” work, the necessities to any successful organization, that I struggle with on a daily basis. The other hard part is the whole “When Helping Hurts” concept. This is when we step (more like trample), all over someone’s personal space and assume we know what’s best for them just because their lives look different from us. This brings me to the REAL topic, the core of Hope Provided

What we're about:

We are not a charity, ‘do gooders’ or in some mindset that we are so much better off that we feel we should give financially “until it hurts”.

While there is nothing wrong with giving financially, (in SO many ways money helps) It's just, I believe there’s a different mission for HopeProvided and that there is more to our lives than the simplicity of our “once in a while contribution to the needy”.

The truth is, I need this more than it probably needs me. I need to be reminded of the reality of the world all around me. Let me explain…

 I spent a year “finding myself” in Johannesburg, South Africa and Port-Au-Prince, Haiti back in 2010. The desperation of the human race was never so real to me. But what was most shocking to me after this experience was to learn that, Africa and Haiti, were everywhere. And it wasn’t necessarily taking on a different form either. Desperate, depressed, lost and hurt people were all over the place. I know we can all get a little fed up with the man on the street holding the sign “hungry, anything helps.” Some of us think “yeah, sure buddy, those shoes look brand new and you're clean shaven, you're doing just fine.” Or “I just gave change to your friend a few blocks back.” Or some will give, give, give and give… But is any of this solving the actual problem? Whether or not the guy holding the sign is ‘actually’ homeless or whether or not we are giving him money, the bottom line is: Why does he feel like he has to stand there? Why is it day after day? Why aren’t things getting better? Could it be the problem is not the hundreds of homeless people, or the countless broken families?

Maybe I am the problem. Maybe I am so caught up with myself that I’m convinced I don’t have time to REALLY stop and help. I’m so consumed with this “American Dream” for my family and myself, that I’m ignoring what makes America such an incredible and unique country; Freedom and community. I’m finding, more and more, that these issues are a simple problem of never experiencing real relentless love and not so much about money…. It shouldn’t matter if you’re religious or a humanitarian. What should matter is that we are all neighbors, that without all of us, we don’t have this “dream life’ we all seem to be striving towards. These are real people with a past, a present and a hope for a future. I want to get to the bottom of these issues. I want Richmond to be the strongest community in America. The most selfless. That’s what changes things. Our simple little choices to take time for the things that ACTUALLY matter. To care about the root of the problems, and care about finding the solutions. If every middle class family took on one neighbor to help this year, we could completely end homelessness, depression, loneliness and helplessness in our community. And change both their lives and our own.

So here’s the challenge. By working alongside a local business once a month (to promote small businesses in the Richmond area) and helping a neighbor in need, until it’s complete, HPI and Hope Provided plan on changing things. Neighbor to Neighbor.

- Kourtney

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