Interior Painting
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and cabinets. Tell us what needs painting and a licensed interior painting company that serves your address comes out, measures and gives you a firm written price before anything starts.
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Room by room
Interior painting gets quoted as one number, but the work changes a lot from one room to the next. Knowing where the money goes helps you read an estimate.
The straightforward part. Flat or eggshell on walls, a washable finish on trim. Cost is driven by wall height and how much furniture has to move.
Moisture changes the product. These rooms want a satin or semi-gloss that survives steam and scrubbing, and the cut-in around cabinets and tile is slow work.
Priced separately by most painters and often skipped in a cheap bid. Worth asking about directly, because a fresh wall under an old ceiling looks unfinished.
The most labor per square foot in the house. A crew that sprays and back-brushes trim gets a finish a roller cannot match.
Anything that needs scaffolding or a ladder above ten feet costs more, because it is slower and it is a safety question.
Small, but each one is a separate cut-in. They add up faster than homeowners expect, and they are often excluded.
Where the hours go
Rolling colour onto a wall is the short part of the week. Nearly everything you are paying for happens before it: moving and covering, filling, sanding, taping seams, re-caulking the line where trim meets wall, and sealing whatever will not take a topcoat evenly.
Ask any painter to walk you through that list out loud. A company that repaints for a living names the steps without hesitating. Someone who bought a sprayer last year says "we take care of it". The same principle applied to the outside of the house is the whole of why paint fails faster here.
Timeline
A single day, sometimes two if the ceiling and trim are included.
Two to three days with a full crew.
Three to five days for an average home. Longer with heavy patching or wallpaper removal.
Most crews work room by room so you keep the rest of the house. Say up front if you work from home.
Latex paint is dry to the touch in hours but keeps curing for two to four weeks. That is why you should not scrub a freshly painted wall or push furniture against it for the first couple of weeks, even when it feels dry.
The one that is not really a wall
Every other surface on this page is priced by area. Cabinets are priced by how many separate pieces come off, get prepared and go back on, and by what those pieces are made of. That is a different conversation, with its own vocabulary and its own reasons for two quotes to land thousands apart, so it has a page of its own.
If the kitchen is part of what you are planning, price it alongside the walls and trim rather than as an afterthought. The crew is already in the house and the disruption overlaps.
Cabinet painting, refinishing and spray finishing covers the five things the word can mean, what actually moves the number, and how long the kitchen is out of use.
Living in it while it happens
Almost every interior repaint happens with the family still in the house. That is normal and it is fine, but it only goes smoothly when both sides agree on the choreography before the first drop sheet comes out of the van.
The friction is never the painting. It is the dog that gets out through a propped door, the bedroom that had to stay usable on Wednesday night, the colour that was still undecided on the morning of day one, and nobody knowing who was letting the crew in on Friday.
Sort those five things at the walkthrough and the week is quiet. Leave them for the day it starts and every one of them becomes a phone call.
Agree it at the walkthrough
None of this is unusual to ask for. A company that runs crews weekly will have an answer ready for all five.
Where to go next
If the outside of the house is on the list too, the calendar matters and the physics are different. If you are still deciding who to call, the guides are written for that stage rather than this one.
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