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Interior painting

Walls, ceilings, trim, doors, handrails and banisters. Most of our interior jobs land between $3,400 and $7,100.

$3,400 to $7,100

Walls, ceilings, trim and doors. Filling, caulking, sanding and two coats.

The middle job was $4,900. What moves it up and down.

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What the work involves

Most of an interior job is the part nobody photographs. Furniture moved to the middle and covered, floors covered, switch plates off, holes and dents filled, caulk where the trim meets the wall, sanding, and primer on anything bare or patched.

Then the paint. Walls get cut in by hand at the ceiling and the trim and rolled in between. Trim and doors are brushed or sprayed, depending on what’s in the room and whether the room is empty.

Coats are decided at the walkthrough, not in advance. Light over dark, a strong color, or a wall that has been patched usually wants another one.

The crews cover the floors and clean up, usually at the end of each day. Open a room up late and the sensible thing is to leave the covers down and finish in the morning. The aim is a house you can still live in while the work runs.

What we paint inside

  • Walls
  • Ceilings, and ceiling texture
  • Trim, baseboards and window casings
  • Doors and door frames
  • Handrails and banisters
  • Built-ins and shelving

Priced on their own

  • Kitchen cabinets. We paint them, and they’re their own job.
  • Drywall that has to be hung or replaced, rather than patched.
  • Commercial and apartment work. We take it, and it’s not inside these numbers.

Rooms we painted

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  • The same front room after painting: pale gray walls, white trim and white casings in the bay
    A front room before painting: a green wallpaper dado, stained trim and stained window casings
    Before After
    A front room with a bay windowWalls, ceiling, trim and the window casings.
  • The same staircase after painting: white spindles and trim with a dark handrail
    A staircase before painting: stained wood spindles, newel post and door
    Before After
    A staircase, spindles and trimSpindles, newel post, door and casings.
  • The same bedroom after painting: deep slate walls behind the bed with white trim
    A bedroom before painting: flat beige walls and beige door casings
    Before After
    A bedroom in slateWalls, ceiling, door and casings.

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How a job goes

  1. We come look

    We walk the rooms with you, count what’s in and what’s out, and talk through colors, ceilings, trim and anything that needs patching first.

  2. You get the number

    Written, with what’s in it and what’s not.

  3. We agree the week

    Which rooms in which order, what gets moved, who moves it, and whether you need to be home. That page is here.

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The numbers behind this page: what it costs to paint the inside of a house. Painting the outside instead? Exterior painting.

The best time to paint inside is when nobody wants to

Exterior work in this metro runs roughly April to October, and inside work is what fills the rest.

In January and February a crew has time. The schedule isn’t stacked behind a run of exteriors waiting on weather, so a start date is a start date. In June the same job sits behind every house that has been waiting since March.

The other reason is the air. A house running its furnace is dry, and dry air is good drying weather for paint. The thing to watch in winter is the ventilation, not the paint. Windows shut for three months means the smell hangs around longer, so we run fans and crack what we can on the mild days.

If you’re planning a kitchen, a bath or a whole floor for spring, the time to get a number is now. The estimate is free and the quote is good whether you book for next week or next April.

The paint we put on

  • Sherwin-Williams
  • Benjamin Moore
  • Behr
  • PPG

Most of our jobs go on in Sherwin-Williams. If the color you have settled on is a Benjamin Moore, a Behr or a PPG, we will use theirs instead. Pick the color you want and we will get it.

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