TIPS & TRICKS

If you’ve ever tried to fix holes or imperfections in your walls, you know how messy and time-consuming drywall repair can be. At Expressions Painting, a professional painting company in Moncton, NB, we’ve developed a method that delivers flawless results without the need for sanding, saving time and keeping your home clean.

In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the exact steps we use for drywall repair, sharing tips that both homeowners and professional painters can apply.

Step 1: Prepping the Repairs

Before applying any compound, we go through the room and prep the repairs. This involves:
- Checking for loose drywall or protruding nails
- Pushing drywall paper into the holes
- Ensuring the wall surface is flush with a utility knife or 5-in-1 tool

Prepping first allows us to focus on filling the holes in a second pass. It’s more efficient, reduces tool switching, and ensures a smooth final finish.

Step 2: Choosing the Right Compound

One of the secrets to a flawless finish is the...

When it comes to interior painting in the Greater Moncton area, there’s more than one way to get the job done.

At Expressions Painting, we’ve developed a process that ensures high-quality finishes, minimal disruption, and true-to-color results for homeowners in Moncton, Dieppe, and Riverview and surrounding area.

I’m Remi Boudreau, a licensed painter and color consultant. In this post, I’ll walk you through the 5 steps we follow on almost every project, explain a common—and costly—color illusion, and show why our method helps homeowners fully leverage the transformative power of color in their space.

Step 1: Repairs

Before any paint touches the walls, we start with repairs. This includes drywall patching, filling nail holes, and caulking. While it may seem obvious to start here, by doing repairs first, we also contain the mess before laying down drop sheets, making the process cleaner and more efficient.

Step 2: Ceilings

Next, we tackle the ceilings. Many DIY painters make the mi...

After more than 26 years in the painting industry, one thing is clear: there is no single correct way to do the job.

Every painting project is influenced by location, materials, budget, and client expectations. That’s why professional painters often work differently — and still deliver excellent results for their clients.

Over the years, we’ve developed our own proven systems through real-world experience, testing, and continuous improvement. These methods help us deliver high-quality results while staying efficient and customer-focused.

In a recent video (see below), I explain the problem I noticed with how to videos and what I've decided to do about it.

To read the full article visit:
https://www.expressionspaintinguniversity.com/blog/here-s-the-problem-i-noticed-with-how-to-videos

If you’re in Moncton, New Brunswick and looking for professional interior painting services, we’d be happy to help.

Contact us today to discuss your next project.

"Everywhere you see that YELLOW... 

I want that gone." 

I remember in the early 2000s, every job seemed to have a color with some yellow or gold undertones for the main color. This particular one from Sherwin Williams called Blonde SW6128 was quite popular

Basically, it seemed like everywhere you looked, there was this yellow goldish beige color serving as the main tapestry for most houses. We used to call it the builder's beige since at the time every new house was getting painted with a color along this line.

To go with those colors, we would often see burnt oranges or reds often with sage greens.

Kind of like this (see image)

But that trend changed in 2011...

I remember this so vividly because it's almost as if from one year to the next, everything changed.

From then on out, it seemed like every time I'd walk into a client's house to give an estimate, one of the main things they would say is this  "everywhere you see that yellow, I want that gone".

Seems like people had had...

We are excited to announce that Expressions Painting will now offer the service of CARPENTRY along with our main service of interior repaint.

For years, we have noticed this trend where finding trades people to do small projects getting harder and harder for our clients. Most people tend to be quite busy and it's tough to leave the job site to go and do this tiny small job, which is understandable.

But since we have been doing carpentry for years now, it just made sense for us to offer this service to our clients.

This means, while we're there repainting your home or office, if:

• A door frame needs to be changed
• Some doors need to be realigned
• Some hardware or new door handles need to be replaced
• You want to replace the metal shelves in a closet and install a bunch of customized shelf to increase your storage.
• You’re getting your kitchen cabinets refinished and there there's a piece of molding that's missing or you'd like to add a piece of trim.

Whatever it is, as long as i...

With 2025 now behind us, I thought I'd take a moment to share with you which colors we've actually ended up applying most in our client's home this past year.

Number one: Agreeable Gray SW7029 (Sherwin Williams)

This is a wonderful, gray/beige color and depending on the environment you put this color in, it will lean more towards the gray or towards the beige, especially depending on the lighting. In a lot of cases, this is a color we put in homes where the floors might have a bit of a goldish or amber undertone to it (a bit of yellow or orange tint in the wood color).That tends to remove a bit of the attention from the floor and makes this gray/beige color turn a little bit more on the gray side during the day... and, a bit more on the beige side come evening since the light tends to have a bit of more of the yellow hue in the evening. So it's a nice color, versatile, tends to tie in together all sorts of different wood colors. If you have different color wood like more on the red o...

If there's a way to complete a project in a way that wastes less time and resources, it's a win for everyone.

Here's a way we found to make things a lot more efficient with our commercial projects.

Well, after being away for over 5 years... I"M BACK!

To be honest, for the longest time, I thought that maybe I was done with shooting painting and color videos. 

But then, something really big happened recently that I absolutely wanted to share with all of you.

Choosing colors with Grey Undertones will typically give you the following 2 benefits:

• COVER Better
• PERFORM Better (More washable, Better Adhesion, etc)

But there's another KEY BENEFIT you get for choosing colors with some sort of Grey Undertone which is what I discuss in this week's Tips & Tricks Video. 

Has this ever happened to you?

You picked a color to paint your walls... BUT once it was all painted, it looked different than you expected?

If so, you're certainly not alone.

If fact, this is one of the most frustrating (and painful) part of the repainting process.

Which is why we have taken it upon ourselves to dig deep to understand what causes this... and better yet, how to avoid this situation for our clients.

In this video, I'll share with you the 3 STEPS we take with our clients to make sure that the COLOR they have in their mind, is the COLOR that will appear on their walls once it's all said and done.