What Color Walls Go Best With Hardwood Flooring Gone are the days when the carpet dominated. While carpet certainly hasn’t gone away, today, hardwoods floors tend to be a trending home interior design style and desirable choice for most homeowners. Hardwoods create a sleek appearance and don’t hold onto dust and grime as carpet does. […]

Whether you are painting your home in Baltimore, Ellicott City or Rockville MD, or anywhere up and down the Chesapeake Bay, the sheen of the paint can be just as important as the color.  The sheen will determine the washability and can help create subtle and even dramatic differences.  There are certain rules of thumbs […]

I have been remodeling bathrooms for over 20 years and if I can borrow a tagline from Farmers “we have seen a thing or two”.  I like to educate our customers on what the expectations are in a project that often disrupts the daily flow and the strategies I have developed to manage a project of […]

Here’s a question for you:  How many companies could survive with just 10 good customers?   Not many, right?  In fact, a lot of businesses must be constantly attracting new customers because their previous ones move from one option to the next based on convenience, price, or whim.  As a result, these companies spend a lot […]

The Klappenberger Franchise Advantage A fundamental question I asked myself when I decided to franchise my painting and handyman business of thirty years is “What are the key advantages I can offer in my franchise that will set me apart from the other franchise companies in this segment?”  It is a question that I thought […]