Innovation in House Painting? That's Right

Brian Scudamore is creating 1-888-WOW-1DAY!, a national franchise that promises to paint your whole house in a day. Some industries seem impervious to innovation. Take house painting. If your painters will work on cloudy days and don't miss that bit around the doorbell, what more can you expect? How about your whole house painted in a day? That's the promise of 1-888-WOW-1DAY!, a Vancouver ...

Painting fixer-upper will make it a home

Q: We just bought a house in Alameda. It was built in the 1930s and hasn't been touched since. We got it for a good price and are viewing renovations as a long-term project. We had a termite inspection, a roof...

Huebert Horace Elgin: From military career to house painting in Florida

Huebert Horace Elgin grew up as one of 14 children, with parents who worked in the textile mills of South Carolina and put up canned goods from a humongous garden to feed their brood.

Houdini exhibition lands at Sunbury

HOUDINI has landed - or at least his image has - at the Sunbury Neighbourhood House Art Exhibition.

Boy, 13, busted for spray painting own house

A 13-year-old boy is charged with two counts of suspicion of graffiti after he was turned over to police by his own parents for spray painting fences and signs and his own house.