Painting Portland’s jewel of a garden.
Cascade Painting and Restoration’s painters feel privileged to have been chosen to restore and paint sections of the garden. Many areas, particularly the many pillars, have needed extensive repairs before painting. After thorough scraping and sanding, we have been applying three coats of Bondo, and sanding the last coat to a fine finish. Many of the railings have needed sanding and priming as well. To make matters more challenging, the pavilions are either in the middle of, or protrude into the garden’s koi pond so proper preparation and protection is vital. Luckily, Cascade Painting enjoys a challenge and different types of painting experiences. For a finish coat we chose Sherwin William’s latest and best exterior paint called Emerald. The paint finish is exceptional.
So far, Cascade has restored and painted three pavilions with several more to go. After that its on to stripping many of the teak windows in order to re-stain and refinish them.We have now completed painting a pavilion that’s called ‘flowers bathing in spring’ and its beautiful.
Aside from the exterior painting, we are also doing interior painting in the bathrooms. Come spring, we’ll be painting the exterior of the garden.
If you’ve never visited the Lan Su Chinese Garden, you’ve missed some place special so you should make plans to go. (Especially now that Cascade has painted and repaired a lot of it)
author Carl Nurmi