Farrow & Ball Tinting Machine Hirshfield’s Edina store has a new tinting machine. Usually not a big deal, except to the store associates, but this is a Farrow & Ball tinting machine which means our Edina staff can now tint Farrow & Ball paint at their store. The paint bases used for in-can...Read More
Options. It’s all about the options you have when it comes to sampling paint colors in your home. The newest option offered by Hirshfield’s is 8 x 10 Peel & Stick paint samples from Benjamin Moore’s Favorites fan deck. This collection features 75 tried-and-true colors handpicked by the color experts at Benjamin Moore....Read More
What’s new with Farrow & Ball? Farrow & Ball adds a touch more glamour and drama to nine of their “best-loved” designs with a layer of metallic: gold, silver, copper and gilver (a mix of gold and silver). Lonny quotes the head of creative at Farrow & Ball, Charlotte Crosby, “We are seeing more...Read More
“How are the bees?” is a question Hans Hirshfield gets a lot. In March, the U of M Bee Squad stopped by for a “Well Bee Checkup” and told us the Hirshfield’s Hives were healthy and happy. We lost two hives over the winter of 2015 and the University of Minnesota’s Hive to Bottle program...Read More
Are you a fan of the look and feel of rustic well worn barn wood? Beth (Hirshfield’s Woodbury) shares her quick and ridiculously easy tutorial on how to age wood using Cottage Paint products. Here are directions for creating gray barn wood from new pine boards. Quickly sand the wood with 60 grit sandpaper. Distress...Read More
Keeping in line with a commitment to sustainability, there’s a colorful new addition atop our Hirshfield’s Paint Manufacturing facility in Minneapolis. But the pink and blue panels aren’t there for the color, they’re there for the power. Solar power. Hirshfield’s partnered with iDEAL ENERGIES, a Minneapolis commercial solar developer, to install a 20kW solar energy array utilizing Xcel...Read More
No and Low VOC paints have improved tremendously over the years- it’s now much easier to enjoy the benefits of a low VOC paint without sacrificing the high quality of a regular paint. Low VOC paints are especially important to those who suffer from asthma or allergies, because breathing in volatile organic compounds on a regular...Read More
Friday Finds: Update on Bud’s Bees Last Spring, Bud and Hans Hirshfield teamed up with the University of Minnesota’s Bee Lab and introduced two honeybee colonies to the environs just outside of downtown Minneapolis. Hive #1 flourished throughout the summer, but Hive #2 lagged behind and towards the end of the summer the U of MN...Read More
Create a Cozy Home Vibe with Window Treatments It’s the time of year in Minnesota that we aim for cozy – as in warm and cozy. When the temperatures plunge to the single digits (sometimes above zero, sometimes below), we Minnesotans seek ways to stay warm both physically and emotionally, and that extends to the...Read More
