Living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms and offices repainted for homeowners and businesses in Edwardsburg, Cassopolis, Niles, Dowagiac and the surrounding southwest Michigan communities.
What a room costs, and why
It is the question we are asked first, so here is the honest answer: the price of an interior job is set by five things.
- Room size: floor area, but wall area more.
- Ceiling height: a nine-foot room is not a ten per cent bigger job than an eight-foot one once ladders and staging are involved.
- Surface condition: what state the walls are actually in under the current color.
- Preparation required: filling, sanding, caulking, priming, and how much of each.
- Materials selected: the paint, the sheen and how many coats the color change needs.
Nobody can price that down a phone line without guessing, and a guess is only ever wrong in one direction. We look at the space, then give you a clear number, and the estimate costs nothing.
Rooms and surfaces we take on
Walls and ceilings, trim and baseboards, doors and frames, window casings, crown molding, stair rails and spindles. Drywall and plaster both, and woodwork that has been painted before.
Kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms ask more of a finish than a bedroom does, because moisture and wiping are constant. Hallways and stairwells take the knocks. Where a room is used decides the finish as much as how it looks.
Before any paint is opened
Furniture is moved clear and covered with plastic sheeting and the flooring is protected. Walls are inspected: imperfections corrected with spackling, sanding or priming, and separation in trim and molding caulked. Patches are sanded and primed rather than painted over, because an unprimed repair reappears through the finish coat as soon as the light is at an angle.
Older houses around Edwardsburg and Cassopolis often have settlement cracking at the corners and above door frames, and some have plaster rather than drywall. Both are ordinary to work with; both take longer to prepare than a modern wall, and it is better to know that before the quote than after.
The painting itself
The painting itself is brush and roller: sharp cut-ins, uniform texture, no spray in a lived-in room. We use Sherwin-Williams products, and we clean up behind ourselves.
How many coats a wall needs depends on the color underneath, the color going on, and the product. A close tone can sometimes cover in one; a big change usually will not, and a tinted primer is often a better answer than a third finish coat. We will tell you what we expect the room to need when we quote it.
What to expect while we are there
Edwardsburg has its own crew, so the people who quote the work are the people who turn up to do it. We will tell you which rooms are out of use and for how long, and we work room by room where that suits the house better than opening everything at once.
You do not need to empty the place. Clearing small items off surfaces and taking down anything fragile helps; we will say at the estimate what is worth moving and what we can work around.
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