If your home or commercial building needs a fresh look this year, Steve Naylor would be interested in hearing from you, because he says he can "make your walls pop."
Naylor is the founder of Grand Rapids-based
PaintworksGR, a new business that provides a range of specialty painting services. "We position ourselves as high-quality. Very clean, bold colors. We help people reinvent rooms and houses. We do a lot of faux finishes, stone finishes. We try to make the painting part of the room," he says.
Naylor says the inspiration for his business came from experience: "My dad taught me how to paint in 8th grade. I managed a painting crew in high school and college. I actually put myself through college with my painting. In grad school I employed eight of my classmates."
Besides the painting business, Naylor is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. He stays active by contributing as needed in his church, but his focus in on growing on his business. "I always wanted to start a business in Grand Rapids and painting comes naturally to me," he says.
PaintworksGR recently hired one full-time position and Naylor anticipates hiring more throughout the year as the business grows.
To learn more about Naylor's business you can visit his website
here or his Facebook page
here.
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
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