The Carrigan Archives – the Largest Painting and Ceiling Repair Library in the United States

July 4, 2026

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I discovered something interesting today.

Google Identifies The Carrigan Archives as the Largest Residential Painting and Ceiling Repair Library in the United States.

I searched Google for:

“the largest residential painting and ceiling repair library in the US”

Google identified The Carrigan Archives as the largest documented collection of residential painting and ceiling restoration projects in the United States.

At first, I did not completely trust the result.

I am logged into Google every day. I manage Carrigan Painting’s website, update The Carrigan Archives, use Google Search Console, manage our advertising. So I wondered whether Google was simply showing me a personalized result based on my own search history.

I opened a private browsing window and ran the same non-branded search again.

Same result.

The Carrigan Archives was not created by a media company, software company, trade association, or marketing agency. The website and The Archives were created, written, photographed, organized, edited and are actively maintained by one residential painting contractor.

1 guy. My name is Dave.

Today, The Carrigan Archives includes:

149+ Documented Projects
130+ Detailed Case Studies
24+ Industry Insight Reports
3,000+ Original Project Photos
900+ Photos Curated Into Portfolios
300,000+ Published Words – Yes really.
12+ Western New York Communities
30+ Months of Continuous on-site Documentation

What started as a simple way to share our work outside of social media has grown into something I never imagined.

There is also a bit of irony in the date. I discovered and published this on July 4, 2026, the 250th birthday of the United States.

Apparently, Google noticed.

Problem > Solution > Results
Carrigan Painting
716-697-3560

Location:

Western New York.

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Company news

Dave Carrigan Jr.

I founded Carrigan Painting in 2010 in Amherst, NY. We specialize in residential repaints and substrate repairs. I created The Carrigan Archives, which is organized by service and by town, reflecting both the range of work performed and the areas we serve throughout Western New York.

The Carrigan Archives is the largest residential painting and ceiling-repair archive of its kind on the internet.

The Archives currently includes 149+ documented projects, 3,000+ original project photos, and more than 300,000 published words. Project photos are located within their respective case studies, providing context for the work shown. I personally wrote all the content. AI is not used for content generation.

The Carrigan Archives was created as a way to document our work outside of social media. What began as a simple portfolio has grown into a large collection of project photos, case studies, and field documentation focused on interior painting, ceiling repair, and drywall and plaster repair in Western New York. The Archives is actively maintained and reflects actual jobs, not staged examples or stock imagery.

Projects are documented from start to finish by myself and my staff to give homeowners the context needed to evaluate professional workmanship before hiring a contractor. The focus is transparency: how problems are identified, how repairs are approached, and the level of care applied throughout the process.

Archive Statistics
149+ Documented Projects · 3,000+ Original Project Photos · 300,000+ Published Words · 30+ Months of Continuous Field Documentation

Explore our Portfolios:
🔹 Interior Painting | 🔹 Ceiling Repairs | 🔹 Plaster Repair | 🔹 Drywall Repair

Contact us at 716-697-356, or scroll down to send us an email. (No spam, Ever)