Fireside Restaurant - Roseville, MN

Light fixture inside the banquet room

The dining room with the banquet room in the background


Detail of the banquet room trusses

Banquet room as viewed from the dining room


This job involved some serious staining and varnishing, plus a good amount of painting. There are three colors of stain (the wainscoting, the trim, and the paneling).

The ceiling was the first thing to do. It received a maroon "dryfall" paint weeks before the actual construction began.

The walls were primed and painted next, then the trusses above the bar were stained and varnished prior to the contractor installing them.

The wainscoting was stained and varnished prior to the trim being installed.

The biggest challenge was the banquet room. Because the contractor was using this room as their shop and storage area, all the wood was installed prior to staining and varnishing any of it. Once all the contractors equipment was moved out, we stained and varnished all the banquet room wood in one very long, tiring weekend.

This is a project I am quite proud of - and the food is outstanding too! Pay them a visit sometime.

Kitchen cabinet painting

These cabinets were in good shape, but the customer wanted them painted since the rest of the woodwork in the home was white already, and some new cabinets were ordered as part of a kitchen remodel. They turned out great!

Blacking out, layout and add new parking stalls

This is the same lot as the previous post. We moved the two handicap stalls from this area and needed to stripe for regular parking stalls. The crosswalks for ADA accessiblity were "blacked out" and then the area was remeasured to accomidate one additional parking area.

Parking Lot Striping

Here are some before and after shots.

The customer wanted to move some handicap stencils to a location where a new ADA compliant ramp was installed earlier in the week.
By the time we arrived to cross out two stalls in front of the ramp, two cars had already hit the ramp. After the striping and stenciling was completed, I added some reflective tape to the ramp so, hopefully, people will see the new addition to this lot.

Painting a brick fireplace

This is the fireplace from the living room side. The challenge was in protecting the freshly cleaned carpet, masking off the inside of the fireplace and the wood mantle that was built into the brick.

Kitchen side of fireplace
Another shot from the other side in the kitchen

The paint I used matched the wall color the customer selected, and was a satin sheen. The brick was primed and then painted with an airless sprayer to achieve a nice, uniform coating while showing off the natural texture of the brick and grout without showing brush and roller marks. I forgot the camera before I started, so I don't have any "before" pics of this one.

First outdoor job this season

This is the finished entry, after getting the two tans matched to the existing colors.

The new entry, primed and ready for paint.