It is time we wave Good bay to the leafy Naremburn.

Our main office moved to the new location at NEUTRAL BAY.
New beginnings are exciting!

Ol'Painting became the finalist of the 2015 Local Business Awards. A big thanks for all our supporters! It means a lot to us.

Are you a happy customer? We will appreciate you vote for Uncomplaining at the Local Business Award. It will take you only 20 seconds.
https://thebusinessawards.com.au/business/10800/OlPainting

Local Business Award nominations

A big thanks to our mystery supporter (or supporters) who nominated Ol'Painting for the Local Business Award in not one but two categories. We just found our accidental while voting for another business. What a pleasant surprise!

https://thebusinessawards.com.au/business/10800/OlPainting

Front Door Painting Silent Auction at the Green Day Out fundraiser

Do you need your front door painted? Love bargain hunting? Then check out our Silent Auction Item at the Green Day Out fundraiser. Bid online or visit an event tomorrow.

Ol’Painting will paint the entry door to the winning bidder's house. Either both sides the same colour or one side one colour.

Baby News and Gender Neutral Nursery

     

We have a beautiful baby who is gorgeous little person, an absolute joy to watch. But time if very scarce now and my blog was neglected for very long.

This is our gender neutral nursery. Our theme - Monkeys and Giraffes. Colour scheme - white, burned orange and olive.

We are renting while our house extension is in progress – can not paint or make any permanent changes. So wall decals are our solution. Decals are custom made by Etsy's PinkBlueBaby. We redesigned it from their standard design to our likings, colour, and size to fit our room. I painted furniture and mum-to-be made baby blankets and towels.

An old family photos display using old painted frames. Also framed the butterfly that did not made it through our wedding butterfly release. So is now pinned up on a wall for as a memory. Will fill empty frame with baby's first flowers.

Dulux EnviroWash ES 160 (160liters) unit for hire

Ol’ Painting now offers the Dulux EnviroWash ES 160 (160liters) system for hire - the only place in Sydney that hires it.  We are painters, not a hire company. But we have few units and usually at least one is available. So we are happy to share it. Contact us to confirm availability.

Many homeowners and businesses are very environmentally aware. Clients often request painters to use an EnviroWash on their project. Many DIY renovators want to use it in their projects. This is a great and important trend. But the EnviroWash is an expensive equipment and out of reach for many painters, not to mention once off use for most of homeowners who doing painting themselves.  Many painters want to try it before committing to spend money buying one.

The cost of hire:

• 1 day - $100+GST
• 2-4 days - $70+GST per day
• Weekly hire - $200+GST per week
• Once off Administration charge - $20+GST per each hire event;
• EnviroWash unit to be picked up and returned to our office in Lane Cove empty and cleaned.
• If the unit is returned uncleaned – the cleaning charge is $50+GST
• The price does not include Dulux EnviroWash hardener. But it is available from Dulux, 3D, Inspirations shops, as well and many hardware stores.

See this post about EnviroWash system and how it works

Disaster in Japan

Poor Japan! One disaster after another! Can’t watch TV news anymore, can’t stop watching it!

National Treasure. Project of the month - August

The best thing about our work is that we get to meet some incredible people and learn some fascinating stories. But this is perhaps the best of all!

We did some project for a lovely family. As we helped them to move furniture to a new place the lady told us a story of her grandad. On 9 July 1900 on his property in UK and in this very chair was signed the Commonwealth of Australian Constitution Act! This it a true national treasure!!!

Most of furniture and the table a family donated to museums. But they kept this chair. I can't wait to hear the rest of the story tomorrow!

Ol’Painting in NRMA motorcycle campaign

Our manager Oleksandra with 4 other bikers went yesterday on the photo-shoot for the new NRMA motorcycle safety campaign by a talented photographer Dan Luke.

It’s freezing, windy and very wet in Sydney. The shoot took place in the Royal National Park - a long way from home and work. Oleksandra showed up back to the office late afternoon soaking wet, cold, and exhausted. Hope her effort will help to make roads safer for a motorbike riders!

Photos (drafts for now) by Dan Luke.

Check his website! He's so talanted!

My great friends on Chanel 9 Design Show

I wrote about this audition to the new Chanel 9 Design Show "From the Ground Up" back in March. Guess what?!

My very-very dear friends Kon & Tamryn got selected for the show!!! The challenge massive - they have just 8 weeks to build a house from scratch! Show starts filming today and will go on screen in September. I'm upset we would not nave a chance to vote for them – the competition is for the largest final value of the building, not for the viewers favourite.

God luck guys! Make us proud!

"Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure" presentation

Our PowerPoint presentation of "the Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure" expedition is ready. I will send it today to all of our dear sponsors and supporters. Hope you will enjoy it!

Flying high!

What an amazing weekend we had! Our team & few friends went skydiving with Skydive the Beach at Wollongong. There is not better team building exercise! It was my 13th jump, a 2nd jump for our manager Oleksandra, and the 1st for Dmitry and everyone else.

We jumped at 3500m high - the highest skydive in Australia. You have 60 sec of a free fall and another 5 minutes of a calm descent after the parachute opened. You fly over the gorgeous shoreline, beaches & cliffs of the South Coast!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

Being of Ukrainian origin I can not resist sharing with you a picture of our Easter eggs. Aren't they beautiful!

Earth Hour 2010

8:30pm-9:30pm on Saturday, March 27th, don’t forget to turn off your lights in support of Earth Hour.

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"Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure" completed

Thanks from the bottom of our harts to all people who supported and sponsored our “Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure” event!

We just returned from the expedition, still exhausted. We both made it to the top (just!). Honestly, if it was not for the charity and we did not get supprt of so many people we would quit few hundred meters before the summit. (I know it sounds like a cliché, but it is very much try!) The air is just so thin here! But our pain and tidiness will pass. We are so happy we made to the summit. Thanks everyone for supporting our cause and giving us this extra motivation!

I’ll set up a slideshow to report back to all our sponsors & supporters. But in a meantime I’ll share with you some of my favourite pictures from the expedition.

DAY 1 - Cloud ForestDAY 2 - MoorelandDAY 3 - View to Mavenzi Pick

DAY 5 - SummitDAY 5 - long day

DAY 5 -still a long way down

A friendship born on a climb

and last, but not least - our (and not only ours) support team

JP Morgan Chase Corporate Run

Last week Ol’ Painting team run JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge in Centennial Park, helping to raise money for !Football United! This is our first team run and we hope it will become out tradition.

Top pickture: JP Morgan Corporate Challenge

Pink Ribbon Ride 2009

Oleksandra, our manager, for took part in a Pink Ribbon Ride and a group of us from Ol ‘Painting went to support her and to watch the ride start.

728bikes were officially registered. But they count almost 1,000 bikes at a carpark before the ride started. You should hear the road when thy all took off! People on streets along the ride were lining up to watch bikes passing. What an incredible event!

Top Photo: Pink Ribbon Ride

Ol' Painting New Website

Ol’ Painting website received a funky makeover. We included lots of information about who we, what we do, some recent projects and testimonials. We created a page about our “Mt Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure” fundraised. Now it is easy to just refer to it when talking to publishers or supporters what exactly are we doing.

Last few weeks were busy writing editorials and webpages about our fundraiser. It all has to be approved by the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation before we can use it. So we could not do much actually promoting our fundraiser. But hopefully everything will be finalised this week, so we can actually start working on raising funds.

Kt Kilimanjaro for Ovarian Cancer Cure

I don't normally talk much about, but 3 years ago my mum was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She lived just 9 more months. It’s hard to watch a person you love dying! I sincerely hope that none of me readers will go through the same loss!

1 in 70 Australians women will develop ovarian cancer before the age of 85. Only 42% will survive after 5 years. So we decided to help to get this cure quicker!

In February 2010 our Ol’ Painting team – me and Oleksandra, will climb Mt Kilimanjaro to raise money for the Ovarian Cancer Research. At 5,896m (19,344ft), “Kili” is the highest pick in Africa and one of the world largest free-standing mountains. We promise to work our guts out, fight the weather, altitude sickness and anything else on our way to the top. In exchange we ask for your donation to the Ovarian Cancer Research!

I’ll post updates on fundraising, planning and training this blog for our sponsors and friends to read. Wish us a good luck!