At L.A.Converse Inc., our goal is to be the best. Our desire is to earn your respect, for us and the painting profession.

There is a specialized coating for every substrate. Look around everything is “painted” mostly by machines and it’s applied by mechanics, we don’t just hire mechanics, and we train painters. We study what we do. We look at jobs for what they need to give you the best possible results

Over the past 40 years we have painted houses, offices, churches, factories, cars, boats, museums, stores, machinery, and furniture. We’ve painted wood, plaster, canvas, sheetrock, plastic, metal, fiberglass, and concrete. We’ve brushed, rolled, sprayed, and ragged. We’ve used stains, glazes, oils, latex, polyurethanes, epoxies, elastomerics and acrylic lacquer to create the artistic look to make each job unique.

By some accounts, the second oldest profession is painting. Evidence of this can be found on walls in caves where the earliest homeowners decorated 20,000 years ago. Whether it was for spiritual, story telling, or bragging rights, it showed the world that man was different. Man unlike animals can create, visualize and copy. Using earth colors found in plants, minerals and animal fats they adorned their bodies, homes, tombs, and crafts.

As man became a farmer instead of a hunter, he moved from caves to buildings. Communities grew from villages to cities. Painting followed and grew as well, two distinctive types of painting emerged; decorative painting and protective coating.

In Babylon and Egypt, then Greece and Rome to all over the world people decorated their ceilings, walls and floors with paint.

Protective coating goes a long way back as well and is even mentioned in the bible. When Noah completed the ark, he “pitched it within and without”. The “pitch” or asphaltum used by Noah is used to this day by varnish manufacturers to produce protective coatings.

As cities became established, men started painting for others, and thus contract painting began. In the thirteenth century painting guilds developed. Master painters used journeymen and trained apprentices. As an apprentice, it took seven years to learn the craft of painting before becoming a journeyman and only a few of these men became masters. We know these masters as some of the best artists of the past. House painters and artists were one in the same.

L.A converse Inc.’s mission is to be the
standard banner for the “Profession” of painting.