A Look Back at 2024
Posted on January 14, 2025
2024 has been a year filled with exciting projects, expert advice, and inspiring transformations shared through our blog. It’s been an honor to provide content that not only informs but also inspires. As we wrap up the year, we’re taking a look back at the ten posts that sparked the most interest and engagement—your favorites!
Let’s count down the top blog posts of 2024 that had everyone clicking, reading, and sharing.
What’s the Difference Between Acrylic and Alkyd Primers? [Video]
Sherwin Williams offers acrylic and alkyd primers, both of which are great in different situations. Acrylics can be used as a general purpose primer on most raw surfaces to ensure and improve adhesion, bond longevity and finish coat leveling and presentation. Read on to learn about acrylic primers.
Good, Better and Best – Benjamin Moore Paints [Video]
One of the benefits to using paint from a company as big as Benjamin Moore is the vast inventory of different types of paint. Their paints vary in price, durability, coverage options, and more. And in terms of good, better, and best, let’s talk about Ultra Spec, Ben, Regal Select, and Aura. Click to continue reading.
Problock Primer, an Alkyd Primer by Sherwin Williams [Video]
ProBlock Primer by Sherwin Williams is an alkyd primer, which is basically an oil-based primer. Oil based primers are recommend when you have or need one of the following…read on…
Creative Ways to Display Books Without a Bookshelf
Bookshelf, schmookshelf! Who needs one? No really, bookshelves are awesome and make a lot of sense but maybe your library has outgrown the one or two you have. More than likely, if you have this many books you love them and want to take care of them. You’re not just going to strew them about willy nilly. Click for book display inspo!
SuperPaint, Resilience, and Duration – Good, Better, and Best [Video]
SuperPaint, Resilience, and Duration are all considered premium products from Sherwin Williams. On a spectrum, SuperPaint is good, Resilience is better, and Duration is the best. SuperPaint has Sherwin Williams’ Advanced Acrylic Resin technology; Resilience has the Moisture Guard Technology, making it a great summer paint (especially in the Ohio Valley region); and Duration is an architectural coating. Learn more.
Breakthrough vs Advantage 900 – PPG Paints [Video]
Breakthrough and Advantage 900 are two great products from Porter Paints (PPG), both with their own distinguishing advantages. Read on for similarities and differences.
Hi-Hide from PPG Paints [Video]
Hi-Hide is PPG’s interior wall paint, referred to as a premium wall paint, which is ranked just below Silken Touch. Hi-Hide goes on smooth, dries quickly, cleans well, and covers well. Click to read more and watch the video.
Permanizer Exterior Paint from PPG Paints [Video]
Permanizer is a great exterior product from PPG (Porter Paints) that can be applied on many different surfaces, such as brick and hardy board, and it has great color retention for PPG colors. PPG recommends priming brick prior to applying Permanizer, and it claims that it is self-priming on wood or hardy board. Recommendations and considerations.
Kentuckiana’s Most Haunted Locations
It’s almost Halloween and haunted houses are being advertised everywhere. What we don’t hear enough about are the real life hauntings that inspired the money making attractions people flock to every year. The Southern Indiana and Louisville areas are full of these interesting locations, and many of them hold tours year-round. Click here for a spooky time.
ProMar Interior Latex Ceiling Paint – Sherwin Williams [Video]
ProMar Interior Latex Ceiling Paint isn’t your typical ceiling paint. It can be rolled or sprayed (without back rolling). It comes in white and it’s a flatter white which helps hide many of those imperfections and blemishes. In the short video below, Lee Sapata and Vicki Waterbury discuss the benefits of this product from Sherwin-Williams. Read more and watch the video.
Thank you for making 2024 such an incredible year for our blog!
