We paint around your life, not through it.

What happens before any color goes on

Most of an interior job is preparation, and most of the price is too. Furniture comes to the middle of the room and gets covered, floors get papered or dropped, and switch plates and vent covers come off into a bag labeled for that room. Taking a plate off takes twenty seconds. Cutting around one leaves an edge you notice every time you turn the light on.

Then the walls get looked at properly. Nail holes, dents where furniture has been pushed against the wall, hairline cracks along the drywall seams, and the shiny patch where somebody wiped a mark off with a cleaner. Those get filled, sanded flat and spot primed. Filler on its own drinks paint at a different rate to the wall around it, so an unprimed patch shows through the finish as a dull shape in raking light.

If we are covering a dark color, a strong red, or a stain left by water or smoke, that gets primed too. Trying to bury it under extra coats of finish paint costs more and works worse, and it is why a lot of do it yourself rooms end up with four coats and still look patchy.

• Furniture moved to the middle and covered, floors protected
• Switch plates and vent covers off and bagged by room
• Holes filled, sanded flat and spot primed
• Two coats of Sherwin-Williams, cut by hand and rolled
• Plates back on and the room put back before we leave

Sheen, picked room by room

Sheen is how shiny the paint dries, and it matters more than most people expect. A flat finish hides an uneven wall better than anything else, which is why it belongs on ceilings and on older walls that have been patched a few times. What flat will not do is take a wipe with a cloth without burnishing a shiny spot where you rubbed.

Eggshell and satin carry enough sheen to clean, so they go where life happens. A hallway with hands on it, a kid's room, a family room. Bathrooms, laundry rooms and kitchens want something tighter again, because they get steam and splashes and they get wiped often. Trim and doors go a step further still, so they stay hard and clean up easily.

The more sheen you add, the more of the wall you can see, so a glossy finish on a wavy old wall shows every wave in it. We walk the rooms with you and say what we would use where, and it goes on the estimate by name instead of being decided later with a roller already in somebody's hand.

Living in the house while we work

Almost every interior we do has somebody living in it. That means one room at a time, a clear path through the house, and tools packed away before we leave rather than left across the floor. Punctuality and work ethic both show up in the reviews on our Google profile, and an occupied house is where you find out whether that is real.

Interior paint today is water based and low odor, so a room is usually usable the same day. We still keep air moving and keep the door closed on the room we are working in, because low odor is not the same as no smell and nobody should have to sleep in a bedroom that smells of anything.

One customer wrote that we handled her interior painting with excellent communication and fast turnaround and finished in just one week. Another wrote that the last thing we did was a walk through with his wife, and that everything she pointed at got taken care of. That walk through happens on every job, and it is the moment where anything you are unhappy with gets fixed while the paint is still in the truck.

Ceilings, trim and the cut line

The line where the wall meets the ceiling is the first thing anybody looks at, whether they know it or not. It gets cut in by hand with a brush. Tape helps on a few surfaces and it is useless on textured drywall, where paint runs under the edge and leaves you a worse line than a steady hand would have.

Ceilings around here are usually knockdown or orange peel texture, and texture drinks paint. A textured ceiling takes more material than a flat one, and it wants rolling in one direction across the whole room so you do not get lap lines showing up under the light fixtures at night.

Trim, baseboard, casing and doors come last so nothing already finished gets knocked or splashed. Doors get taken off the hinges and done flat where it makes sense, because a door painted hanging in its frame collects a run along the bottom edge that you feel every time you close it.

Color, and the way Florida light reads it

Color behaves differently in this state. Rooms here take a lot of daylight, often bouncing off a white tile floor or in through a screened lanai, and that light is warmer and stronger than the light a paint chip was designed under. A gray that looked soft in the store can read blue on a wall facing a pool deck.

So look at the color in the actual room, on the actual wall, at the time of day you are usually in there. Big samples beat small ones, and a color you looked at once in the morning is a color you have not really seen.

We can pull the match for a color you already have as well. Bring a chip, a lid, or a piece of the wall and Sherwin-Williams can read it. A match taken off an old wall is never exact, because the color on the wall has faded, and we would rather show you the match than promise you one.