Welcome to a beta website!
This is a very simple (but also very useful) standard web layout: a fixed-width 3-column page with header and footer. There are thousands of variations of this layout, and this is no perfect solution. But it should be a great starting layout that we can customize in many ways and easily give a unique touch to. The layout is made of valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS only, and it has no tables. Even with the CSS, the page still works great in text mode (Test it on a mobile phone, and it works like a charm).
The layout features one big image (front.jpg) which you can easily replace with another header. The default image is the one you sent me in your email. The 'saying' can easily be replaced with an ad banner. There are also CSS classes for aligning text paragraphs and images.
This layout could also have a print stylesheet, that could be customized in any way you want to. Per default, navigation menus and images are removed, and only the main content text is printed.
The menubar
The main navigation menu is an unsorted list, where each list item has been styled to be a button. There are lots of ways to style lists for navigation, but I've kept things simple for this layout. Adding "that little extra" is up to you! 
If you like this layout and would like to use it, let me know. Otherwise there are hundreds of other templates we could use and modify.
Good luck with your painting business! (and please take good care of my bro Hutson!)