About This Service
Paint is the cheapest visual upgrade you can make to a house. It's also the easiest to do badly. Streaks, roller texture in the wrong direction, masking line bleeds, paint on the hardwood, two-tone spots where the primer was missed — every one of those is a half-day to fix later. We prep right, lay drop cloths over every surface, mask sharp lines, and apply two coats of premium paint. The result reads as new the day we leave and still reads as new five years later.
Interior Scope
Rooms, ceilings, trim, doors, baseboards, crown molding, and stair railings. Bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, hallways, home offices, finished basements, and bonus rooms. We move furniture to the center of the room, drape it in plastic, drop cloths over the floor, mask outlets and switches, and patch nail holes and small drywall damage before priming. Cabinetry is a separate scope — kitchen cabinet refinishing involves degreasing, sanding, and sometimes spraying, which is its own quote. Closets are usually included in the room price.
Two coats standard. Primer where needed — going from a dark wall to a light color, covering water stain or smoke residue, painting over patched drywall. Cut-in at the ceiling line and around trim by brush, roller pass on the walls. We back-roll on textured surfaces to even out the stipple.
Exterior Scope
Siding (wood, fiber-cement / Hardie, T1-11, vinyl prep-and-coat), trim, fascia, soffits, gutters (paint, not replace), doors, garage doors, and shutters. A typical exterior repaint starts with a soft pressure wash to lift dirt and loose paint — that's a couple of days before the paint crew arrives so the substrate dries fully. Then scrape any peeling, fill any cracks, prime bare wood, and roll or spray two coats depending on the surface texture.
Spring through fall is the working window. Exterior paint needs surface temperatures above 50°F and below 90°F, no rain in the 24 hours before, and low humidity for the cure. We don't paint in the wrong window — most paint failures we see on someone else's work happened because the crew chased a deadline through a 96°F afternoon.
Why Single-Family Detached Only
Apartments, condos, townhouses, and multi-family buildings have HOA approval processes, scaffolding requirements, exterior color codes, and coordination with other tenants. That's a different kind of contractor with a different equipment kit (lift trucks, multi-story rigging, mass-purchasing of paint). We're a single-family-detached crew and we're honest about it. If you live in a condo and want your unit interior painted, that's sometimes still doable — but exterior on a multi-family building isn't our trade.
Paint Brands We Use
Sherwin-Williams Duration (exterior premium), SuperPaint (exterior mid-tier), Emerald (interior premium with mildew resistance — good for bathrooms and kitchens), Cashmere (interior matte finish for bedrooms and living rooms), and ProClassic (cabinet and trim). Behr Marquee (one-coat possible if the substrate is already light and clean), Dynasty (exterior premium), and Premium Plus (interior workhorse for landlord and flipper projects on a tighter budget). Color consultation included — bring us a Pinterest board or a paint chip and we can match it from either brand's catalog.
Who Calls Us For This
Homeowners updating tired rooms before listing the house, before a big family gathering, or just because the kids finally moved out and the dorm-room poster pinholes need to go. Landlords prepping rentals between tenants — flat-finish white walls, semi-gloss trim, neutral and durable. House flippers in Springfield, Nixa, and the Joplin metro — fast turnaround, neutral palette that doesn't scare buyers, two-coat coverage that holds through showings. Out-of-state second-home owners at Lake of the Ozarks and Table Rock Lake who want a refresh between rental seasons. Restoration projects after water damage or smoke event — sealing primer, then color match.
What We Don't Do
Apartments, condos, and multi-family. Wallpaper installation or removal (we will paint over properly removed and primed walls, but we don't do the removal). Specialty finishes — Venetian plaster, faux marble, lime wash, color washing, ragging. Cabinet refinishing as part of a wall paint job (it's a separate scope and quote). Lead-based paint abatement on pre-1978 homes — that's a regulated trade with its own permitting and we work in EPA RRP-compliant practice for those substrates without doing the abatement itself. Industrial coatings, epoxy floor systems, or pool-deck coatings — different products, different equipment.
Getting Started
Send photos of the rooms or exterior elevations and rough square footage and we come back with a written line-item price within 48 hours (interior takes longer to scope because we count rooms and ceiling heights). Most interior jobs schedule within two weeks of acceptance; full-exterior jobs schedule by weather window — usually two to four weeks out from sign-off, sometimes longer in peak season.
