Decorative Painting Apprenticeship Program

Building Application

DPAP is an organization comprised of professionals, national and international, who are experts in paint restoration and decorative finishes. Our mission is to revive and restore buildings with decorative painting of all types. If you are seeking restoration or a completely new design we offer a unique program that benefits you in saving on labor costs, and benefits eager apprentices who seek training in the decorative arts.

DPAP reviews building applications often to select the location of future projects. Authorized parties are encouraged to contact us.

If your building is selected, a design team will be assembled, a plan created and with your approval, work will begin. Master artisans will be invited to teach and classes will be advertised.

Our group of artisans will teach and supervise the apprentices in the skills required to be competent in our trade. We keep the work groups at a minimum and return the building to a functioning area as required. Allowing DPAP to teach various techniques in your building not only gives the apprentice "on the wall" experience, it offers you an affordable alternative for restoration or new decorative painting in your building. We offer a wealth of experience in the process of creating new design schemes, or we will interface with your designer in order to create a program tailored to your specific needs.

How it works

We normally require 3-4 months lead time to schedule instructors and line up apprentices for your particular building.
Based on the project design, a reasonable project price is communicated to the building representative and normal project management protocol is adhered to.
If scaffolding or "decking" is required, this is also the building owners' responsibility.
Because people travel to participate in our apprenticeship program, hotels and eateries close to the site are very important. Ideally, both the hotels and food establishments will "work" with the building-owner price-wise to accommodate the crews. Projects can last months. Crews rotate weekly along with instructors,
We try to schedule to get the project completed as quickly as possible.

If you are a building owner, a representative from a building, an architect, or an interior designer, we'd like you to contact us so that we can talk further.

You may call Marlow DeMars (DPAP co-founder) at 860-558-9186 or you may send us an e-mail us at info@dpap.org with your name, your phone number, and the building that you have in mind and we'll call you back.

Thank you,

Marlow DeMars, Brita DeMars, Bernadette Forese