Denver, CO · Interior Painting
A clean interior paint job in an older Denver home is mostly prep: fixing the plaster cracks, priming the old oil trim, and working the paint right in dry mile-high air so it does not lap or peel.
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Juli I. · bathroom repair and finishWhat we see painting in Denver
Plaster walls, old oil trim, and dry high-altitude air all change how paint behaves here. After enough of these homes, we know where a job goes wrong. Here is what we handle before the first coat.
Most Denver paint jobs we work on are in homes near Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, built not long after the city was founded in 1858. At 5,280 feet elevation, the dry mile-high air and the old expansive clay soils are part of every job here, and a few of these blocks sit inside a Denver historic district.
Walls in Wash Park, Congress Park, and Baker are plaster over wood lath, so hairline cracks reopen if you just paint over them. We cut and re-bed the cracks, re-anchor loose plaster, skim it flat, and prime, so the wall stays smooth instead of cracking again next winter.
A lot of older Denver trim was painted in oil, and fresh latex peels right off it if you skip the prep. We de-gloss and spot-prime with a bonding primer first, so the baseboards and door casings take the new paint and hold up to hands and cleaning.
Homes built before 1978, which is most of the pre-war neighborhoods here, can have lead paint under newer coats. We use lead-safe practices, contain the dust, and clean up right so old paint is disturbed safely, not sanded into the air your family breathes.
At 5,280 feet the air is dry and paint sets fast, which is how you end up with lap marks and visible brush strokes. We keep a wet edge, work in the right size sections, and roll and cut in so the finished wall is even from corner to corner.
South- and west-facing rooms in Denver take strong high-altitude sun and fade faster. We point you to more durable, fade-resistant finishes in those rooms so the color you pick still looks right in a couple of years.
We mask, cover the floors, and protect the original details these Denver homes are known for, the picture rails, the built-ins, and the hardwood. You get sharp lines where the wall meets the trim and a house we clean up every day.
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Where we paint in Denver
From plaster-walled bungalows in the older parts of town to newer infill and finished basements, we paint all over the city. A few of the neighborhoods we are in often:
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