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eg warmers and toe socks might be making a comeback, but when it comes to interior design, the

1980s should be banished forever.

Nikki and Peter purchased their home from her parents, who were

downsizing. But along with more space they also found themselves in possession of their very own time warp — a

salmon-pink living room, complete with her parents’ matching floral furnishings.

Stepping into that room was enough to transport any visitor back to the decade of big hair, blue eye shadow and skin-tight jeans.

Nikki and Peter avoided using their living room at all costs and so it languished, unused and unloved, until we arrived with a plan to transform this distinctly dated space into a welcoming haven with truly timeless appeal.

Along with the pink walls, the living room featured more horrors — a gas fireplace surrounded by tacky pink-veined marble, uninspiring wall-to-wall broadloom carpeting and a cove ceiling backlit by harsh fluorescent lighting.

The first step in bringing this space into the modern age was to cut down the coves and install recessed halogen

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ealMaster Hawaii is a one-stop source for pavement maintenance products and equipment. It also carries some concrete, roofing and sports products (such as track, basketball and tennis courts) under SportMaster.

SealMaster Hawaii has products designed for the island conditions. It makes asphalt maintenance products with local materials — made in Hawaii, for Hawaii. With everything under one roof, contractors and homeowners can save valuable time and money on the products, tools and equipment necessary to do the job right. It is staffed by professionals trained to provide the best possible customer service.

For more than 40 years, quality-driven contractors have relied on SealMaster for all of their pavement maintenance products and equipment needs. SealMaster is the most recognized name in pavement maintenance throughout the world.

Asphalt maintenance with acrylic crack fillers and CrackMaster Supreme Once moisture penetrates the asphalt, it will deteriorate the underlying layers, eventually causing failure. One of the major ways moisture penetrates asphalt is through cracking. These cracks allow water into the pavement which slowly breaks it down, eventually forming a pothole. SealMaster Hawaii provides cold and hot pour crack sealants, such as CrackMaster Supreme, that will stop moisture. It also provides all the necessary tools and equipment to get the job done.

Asphalt repair If cracks are not repaired soon enough, a pothole could form.

SealMaster Hawaii has a high performance pothole patch, PatchMaster, which can repair those problems. This product can be used in any weather and is easy to use: just pour and tamp.

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around the island. Maui County also has finished a number of slurry projects.

Equipment SealMaster Hawaii is the only local manufacturing facility with oil that meets state specifications. SS-1H (tack coat) is an anionic asphalt emulsion designed for use as a tack coat for patching, paving and coating processes. SS-1H is available in 5gallon pails or in any bulk quantity. Tack coat acts like glue and binds the hot asphalt to the current surface. It is sprayed in the patch area and around the edges.

CQS-1H is a cationic asphalt emulsion designed for use in slurry seals. The City and County of Honolulu used this oil last year to slurry seal, which was done

Sealcoat Sealcoating protects against oxidation.

Unsealed pavement allows water to penetrate into and through the pavement structure leading to base erosion and ultimately pavement failure. Sealcoating provides a protective barrier to stop water penetration. Also, if left unsealed, oil and gasoline will soften and deteriorate the exposed asphalt binder. Sealcoating provides a protective barrier that resists attack from oil and gasoline. SealMaster Hawaii provides two main sealcoat products: SealMaster Ready-To-Use and OptiPave Plus. These products are made at the company’s shop in Mapunapuna with local materials. It was designed to be made with Hawaii products for Hawaii asphalt.

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SportMaster SportMaster tennis court surfaces are technically advanced, 100 percent acrylic resins to ensure long-term protection from all the elements and supreme resistance to the sun’s damaging ultraviolet degradation. Tennis court resurfacing is a unique trade, and sports surfaces are not available in common hardware stores. SportMaster sports surfaces are available at SealMaster Hawaii.

Not only does it stock sports surfaces and repair products, but also many of the common tools used for mixing and applying tennis court resurfacing products.

The City and County of Honolulu has used Sport-Master in fixing more than 70 tennis courts last year. Sports surfaces for basketball, roller hockey, track and field and other sports also are available.

All product specifications and MSDS are located on the company’s website at www.sealmasterhawaii.com.

Pavement maintenance is simple with the help of SealMaster Hawaii. Do it yourself or use a SealMaster-authorized contractor. SealMaster Hawaii services all islands.

Call 839-2782 and visit the company showroom, located at 2927 Mokumoa St. Representatives will be at the Hawaii Buildings, Facilities and Property Management Expo from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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The ‘art’ of Deco Painting D

eco Painting Hawaii offers residential and commercial interior and exterior painting, as well as wood staining and a variety of faux finishing services.

But the services don’t end there.

Our sister company, Aloha Interior Design & Remodeling, takes upgrading your home to new levels — offering wallpapering, venetian plastering and mosaic tiling services as well. Our motto is “dream the unthinkable, build the unimaginable.” This can be seen firsthand in the owner’s personal residence, where a few colors on the palette are enhanced by contrasting textures and accent colors.

Deco Painting uses a special tech-

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Again, we pay attention to details.

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Deco Painting never charges a consultation fee, and no project is ever considered too small. The staff members at Deco Painting are professionals in their business.

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ith record crowds at this past January’s BIA Home Building and Remodeling Show at the Blaisdell Exhibition Hall, the “buzz” among attendees was solar electricity. Hawaii’s leading solar design and installation firm, RevoluSun, was one of the busiest booths at the show, according to a number of BIA staff. Hundreds of homeowners visited RevoluSun to talk one on one with the company’s experts to learn about solar energy and how it can work for them.

“This year our goal for the BIA Show was honest, data-driven, solar education,” said Eric Carlson, RevoluSun principal. “Because of the amount of confusing information in the marketplace regarding which solar company is the largest, RevoluSun pulled permit data from the City and County of Honolulu Building Department to showcase the truth.”

In 2011, RevoluSun installed solar systems in 951 homes — more than double the amount of its nearest competitor.

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also can check out one of the free solareducation series RevoluSun holds in locations around Oahu every month as well as on Maui and the Big Island. Find a listing of these free open houses and solar education seminars at RevoluSun .com or by calling 748-8888.

it’s not our top measure of success,” Carlson added. “Numbers don’t mean anything unless our clients are receiving the highest level of support, service, design, product and installation.

Because we focus on this side of the equation, we expect to continue to be Hawaii’s No. 1 choice for solar electric systems.”

For those of you who missed the show, RevoluSun recommends homeowners interested in a solar system should:

• Ask if company employees are NABCEP-certified. NABCEP (North American Board of Certified Energy Professionals) is the national “gold standard” for PV installation certification. Designed to raise industry standards and promote consumer confidence, NABCEP offers certification and certificate programs to renewableenergy professionals throughout North America. RevoluSun boasts five out of the seven NABCEP-certified professionals on Oahu.

• Get comfortable with the technology and the installer by visiting a solar open house, where other Hawaii homeowners invite the public to see their solar system in action, and talk story about design, installation and how it affected them. Hawaii homeowners

As Hawaii’s leading solar provider, RevoluSun designed and installed more than 1,500 solar systems, generating 20 MW of clean energy, and is able to help you, too. Schedule your free energy evaluation by calling 748-8888 or visiting www.RevoluSun.com.

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Roofs can make great impressions

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f you’re getting ready to sell your house, take a moment to look at your roof from a potential buyer’s perspective. Does your roof look ratty or like a problem waiting to happen with tattered or missing shingles? Or does your roof look clean and wellmaintained?

Hawaii’s real estate market is fairly competitive, so it makes sense to get your roof in tip-top condition and ready for showing. Whether you just need to buff up the roof for showing or opt to replace your roof, a call to Murakami’s Roofing for a free roof inspec-

tion makes sense. If you do replace your roof, according to Remodeling magazine’s 2010-2011 Cost to Value Report for Honolulu, 65.5 percent of the cost for an average roof replacement is recouped. This is higher than the national average of 59.5 percent of the cost recouped.

The company offers free roof inspections, so call Murakami’s Roofing at 348-8270 to set up a free inspection by a roofing professional. Murakami’s will make a recommendation to repair or replace and will provide a written estimate based on the condition

and size of your roof.

The following do-ityourself steps to beautify your roof are among the top 10 basic repairs recommended by Marilyn Lewis of MSN Real Estate: • Replace missing shingles or broken tiles. This is not entirely a do-ityourself repair, but easily improves the appearance of your roof. Call a roofing professional if you need help. • Wash and treat the roof. Mold is a common problem in Hawaii, causing a dark appearance in some areas where the mold is growing. Power wash the roof and treat

with a zinc solution recommended by a roofing professional. • Clean and caulk the gutters. Clear out leaves and debris from the gutters, and while you’re there, recaulk the gutter end caps. Just like your bathtub or kitchen sink, old caulk allows for leaking, or in the case of your roof, will cause pooling and potential damage.

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Amazingly, the oldest known surviving concrete surface was found in the former Yugoslavia. It was used as flooring and thought to have been laid in 5,600 B.C. The first major concrete users were the Egyptians around 2,500 B.C. and the Romans starting around 300 B.C. From structural concrete columns to polished concrete

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The Romans discovered it by mixing a pink, sand-like material from a local volcano, Mt. Pozzuoli, with their normal lime-based concretes and from doing so obtained a far stronger material. The pink sand turned out to be fine volcanic ash that had properties much like today’s Portland cement, which is the fine gray powder used to produce concrete today. Since the late 1800s, Portland cement has been produced in an industrial rotary kiln.

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he Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “nanotechnology” as the art of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale. Nano Tek-On takes this art to a higher level, benefiting office buildings, industrial and agricultural complexes, hotels, condos and individual homes. Nano Tek-On’s products reduce costs by eliminating expensive cleaning products, cutting the time needed to clean and maintain surfaces or the costs involved in replacing them. Nano TekOn’s advanced technology also can save on water costs, equipment repair and replacement.

Often, the cost of “moneysaving” products outweighs the cost-saving benefits. This is not so with Nano Tek-On. Harald von Sydow, director of Nano Tek-On, explains that its surface protective coatings, for example, will reduce cleaning costs by up to 90 percent with

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up to 10-year warranties.

Think about that statistic for a minute: reduce cleaning time of glass, stone, tiles and grout, even stainless steel by up to 90 percent. That is very impressive! Nano Tek-On’s surface protective coatings are perma-

nent, invisible and not slippery. The technology used makes it possible to fill the pores of these surfaces, blocking dirt, stains and corrosion.

Other Nano Tek-On products seemingly permit surfaces to clean themselves. Perfect for using on walkways, driveways, roofs and eaves. Just watch as the dirt seems to disappear. If you have surfaces that are subject to mold and mildew or are porous and in areas where bacteria and allergens collect, you know how expensive and nearly impossible they are to clean.

Nano Tek-On’s antimicrobial coatings put molecular spears to work to kill these illnesscausing microbes. And they work in residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural applications.

Another Nano Tek-On product that works in all these areas is HydroFlow. Not a coating, HydroFlow is an environmentally safe system installed (plugged on) on the

plumbing of a structure to break down existing lime-scale deposits, and prevent future build up. This adds years of life to dishwashers, refrigerator/freezers, pumps, heat exchangers and even boilers in apartment buildings and solar hot-water systems.

All of these Nano Tek-On products are environmentally friendly. And von Sydow says that Nano Tek-On’s experienced staff will apply the coatings and install HydroFlow, or show you or your maintenance people how to maintain the products.

To see a HyrdoFlow unit and how these coatings work, come to the Hawaii Buildings, Facilities & Property Management Expo on Wednesday, March 7 and Thursday, March 8 at Blaisdell Exhibition Hall.

You’ll find Nano Tek-On at Booth #518, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days, and admission is free.

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Reservoir Red and Loden Wool. They create the perfect cozy feel, and accents of Ultra White will make your new colors stand out.

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EXTENDING THE DEADLINE

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he Building Industry Association of Hawaii (BIA-Hawaii) will present the 27th annual BIA Renaissance Building & Remodeling Awards on May 2, 2012 during the Gala Awards Dinner at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. This premier statewide competition is open to all residential and commercial projects, either new construction or remodeled, that have not been previously entered in a BIA Renaissance Building & Remodeling Awards competition. To enter the competition, the new final deadline is

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This call for entries is available to all residential, commercial and public works projects and welcomes contractors, developers, architects, designers and kitchen and bath designers. Entry divisions include Residential Remodeling, Commercial Remodeling, New Residential, New Commercial, Public Works, Details, Landscape & Outdoor Living, Hawaii BuiltGreen™, Historical, Kitchen & Bath and the new Innovative Design & Construction division. Official entry details are available

online at www.biahawaii.org.

For more information and to obtain a BIA Renaissance Building & Remodeling Awards entry form, call Clarice Watanabe at 629-7503, email ckw@biahawaii.org or visit the www.biahawaii.org website.

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I believe in recycling materials whenever possible, so one of Nikki’s tub chairs was sent off to be reupholstered, and the old fireplace mantle was repurposed into a shelf that we positioned under the room’s new flat-screen TV. I chose a soft buttery-yellow paint for the walls to help lighten and brighten the space and, mainly for Peter’s comfort, we incorporated a masculine touch by adding a leather club chair along with a modern wooden coffee table.

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To accent the clean ivory-andyellow palette, I splashed teal and turquoise accessories around the room. Along with the wood accents in the room, the overall effect is one of tranquil, spa-like relaxation and comfort.

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Every architect and interior designer wants a new and original color scheme. Several clients told me I was the best painter in San Francisco,” Suh said.

In January 2010, Suh reestablished his business in Hawaii, where he is a licensed and bonded painting contractor.

Here, he continues to provide quality painting at competitive prices for both homes and businesses. But why leave a lucrative painting business in San Francisco? Suh said he had always dreamed of living in Hawaii, and his family was increasingly eager to make the move after 18 years in an area not known for warm, sunny weather. “I have many friends living here and was encouraged that there would be opportunities for a first-class painting contractor ... and that’s the way it turned out,” Suh said.

Already, Suh has a roster of satisfied clients, and some are telling him they have never worked

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