Upper East Side Commercial Painting Contractor

Whether you are popping into Target for socks or Walgreens for shampoo, when you’re on East 86th Street, for sure carve out time for Shake Shack. With humble beginnings of a hot dog cart in Madison Square Park, the company has expanded worldwide to 436 locations, six of them in the Big Apple. This Upper East Side street has its own non-profit association “to improve the quality of life along the East 86th Street corridor.” There’s lots going on here, and we worked all around the business schedule and daily urban action in and around Shake Shack.

We were honestly honored to get called in to paint yet another Shake Shack without sacrificing one shake order – or one shackburger order, for which it’s also very well-known. Our project was to prime and paint all the woodwork, plus plaster and paint the ceiling. Obviously, protecting e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. inside the eatery was imperative, so that was task one. Once things were sufficiently covered, our team set to work and worked all night, beginning at 11 p.m., when many Shake Shack customers were snuggling in for the night.

The restaurant opened on time at 10 a.m., and many well-rested regulars strolled in for frozen custard, fresh lemonade, a shake, some fries and maybe their awesome sweet-n-salty peanut butter and bacon shackburger, oh my! We actually did this two nights in a row to finish the project, freshen the restaurant and provide our excellent services, which we do often in the night for retail businesses. We love all our commercial clients and willingly do our work around their work, so everyone gets to work, on time.

Freshly painted showroom modeling a modern, industrial, historical atmosphere.

Freshly painted, spacious, bright showroom.

Relaxing little alcove in this showroom.

Chelsea NYC Commercial Interior Painter

We are touchy-feely people, no doubt about it, and that bodes well for retailers, animal rescue organizations, automobile dealers and others. There’s so much more to viewing, touching and walking around something up close and personal than seeing a picture online or in a catalog. Mouse clicks, taps and swipes can spell convenience, but the customer showroom remains a huge draw for consumers who enjoy the entire shopping experience in person.

The company we recently painted for in Chelsea was moving its showroom into a new space and wanted it perfectly clean and freshly painted. White walls reflect natural daylight streaming in the windows, so their merchandise takes center stage visually. And then there’s the touchy-feely part where customers can inspect things from every angle, see the precise colors, feel the material, compare items and sizes for the best choice to enhance their personal style. Yet another benefit to shopping in person is having a knowledgeable sales staff to offer information, answer questions and, if asked, offer a potentially valuable opinion.

There’s always a starting point needing some serious attention.

West Village Commercial Retail Store Painting 

Indoor plants can improve creativity, relieve stress and enhance productivity. They also serve as an integral part of the overall interior decorative theme, adding nature and greenery, as well as filling blank spaces and providing purpose. The Old Yew in Manhattan offers an abundance of fresh plants, plus plant styling and landscape design.

We were thrilled to paint this shop in West Village for its opening. Beginning with removing old shelves and prepping walls, we then patched whatever needed attention. Chantilly Lace paint color exudes an elegance against which to showcase the plants, and Windsor Green is the ideal shade for the bathroom and entrance door. You may not notice our fine painting for being totally distracted with all the plants and accessories, which is part of the plan here. The Old Yew is an outstanding one-stop shop for all your house plants and landscaping.

Shake Shack Exterior Metal Painter

From one hot dog cart in Madison Square Park to more than 350 fast casual restaurants in the world, Shake Shack still shakes things up with burgers, fries, floats and shakes. The park opened to the public in 1847, and Shake Shack did the same in 2001 with a mission to raise money for a public art project. Recently, the Shake Shack powers-that-be went out in search of quotes to replace its galvanized metal exterior. Sticker Shock! Enter Paintworks!

We cleaned, restored, primed and painted the distinguished metal surround with part of the menu on it –BURGERS FROZEN CUSTARD FRIES SHAKES and so on. The folks at Shake Shack are as cool on their lemonade and floats, fun to work for, and Madison Square Park’s challenges were met by our experienced paint crew with grace and determination. It is essential to use the right products for bonding to metal while being resistant to the elements. Not only did we finish the job for about one-tenth of the replacement quotes, we worked between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. so the business never had to turn away one shake order. And just so you know, the obstacles of working in a park and overnight and with metal don’t shake us up one bit. 

See a video overview of the process:

Finished product

NYC Property Manager Painting Contractor

From a statistical standpoint, elevators are the safest way to travel. Elevator music was installed in the 1920s in an effort to calm the fearful riders. The first elevator was right here in the Big Apple in a 9-story building. It’s nice to know that while elevators are supported by many cables, in fact any one cable is strong enough to carry the elevator and its passengers. Urbanites love fresh air, views and being up on the roof, so many rooftops are being renovated for schmoozing, relaxing and socializing.

We were called to a building where the rooftop was getting a new bar, some event space and a remodel. Obviously, the elevator lobby needed to match the class of the rooftop, so we painted it an elegant black matte, in washable paint. Now guests streaming to the rooftop will experience a hint of the sophistication and style to be discovered in the fresh air, with the views, up on the roof. As the 1962 song “Up On The Roof” by The Drifters goes:

 When this old world starts getting me down
And people are just too much for me to face
I climb way up to the top of the stairs
And all my cares just drift right into space.