Painting Decorating Naperville, IL
Painting done properly, from the prep coat to the last cut line
Fresh walls, a repainted exterior, cabinets sprayed white or a dining room wallpapered. We answer the phone around the clock and schedule the work from Naperville and Elmhurst.
- Calls answered 24/7
- Interior and exterior
- Naperville service office
- Cabinets and wallpaper
- 24/7Calls answered
- Interior & exteriorOne crew, both
- Cabinets & wallpaperFinish work too
- Naperville & ElmhurstTwo offices
Quick answer
Need a painter in Naperville? Call (630) 389-8505 any hour; we book interior, exterior and cabinet painting for Naperville, Elmhurst and the surrounding DuPage and Will County suburbs. Every job gets surface prep, two finish coats and a walkthrough with you before we pack up.
Painters for the western suburbs
What a Naperville painting job looks like when the prep is done first
Most calls start the same way: builder flat paint has scuffed through, the oak trim has gone orange, or the south wall is chalking and the trim is peeling at the joints. That is normal for a Naperville house from the 1980s or 1990s, and it is the work Mario's Painting & Decorating does every week.
Interiors run year round and exteriors from spring through October, when the suburbs give us the dry, above-50 degree days a coating needs to cure. In between we spray cabinets, hang and strip wallpaper, repair plaster in the older houses near downtown, and take the commercial and turnover jobs that happen after hours.
The number rings through 24 hours a day, and the estimate is a walkthrough of the actual rooms or elevations, not a square-foot guess over the phone. If you want to read up first, our painting guides cover costs, seasons and colors for Naperville homes.
Every job in the trade
40 painting and decorating services, grouped the way you would ask for them
Each service has its own page with what the work involves, what drives the price and how long it takes. Not sure which one you need? Start at the full list or just call.
Interior Painting
Walls, ceilings, trim and basements, including the oak-trim-to-white conversions so many 1980s and 1990s houses need.
Exterior Painting
Siding, brick limewash, decks, fences, doors, garage doors and the trim that peels first after a freeze-thaw winter.
- Exterior House Painting
- Brick Painting & Limewash
- Deck Staining & Sealing
- Fence Staining & Painting
- Front Door & Entry Painting
- Garage Door Painting
- Exterior Trim, Soffit & Fascia Painting
- Exterior Wood Rot Repair
- Stucco & EIFS Painting
- Cedar Siding Staining
- Metal Railing & Iron Fence Painting
- Porch Floor & Patio Coatings
Cabinets & Woodwork
Sprayed cabinet paint, restaining, staircases, built-ins and furniture. Finish work that has to hold up to hands and heat.
Wallcoverings & Finishes
Wallpaper hung and removed, accent walls, board and batten, Venetian plaster and limewash walls. The decorating half of the name.
Repairs & Prep
Drywall and plaster repair, popcorn ceiling removal and power washing. Most paint failures are prep failures.
Commercial
Offices, retail, HOA common areas and rental turnovers, scheduled around your hours and your tenants.
Recent finishes
The kind of work that comes out of our vans
Interior colors are usually Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore lines; decks get Cabot or Sikkens depending on the wood.
Process, plainly
What we actually do on the job, room by room and wall by wall
Interior. Walls and ceilings are patched, sanded and spot-primed before any color goes on. Trim gets a bonding primer and two coats of enamel, sprayed where the room can be masked and brushed where it cannot. Furniture is moved to the center and covered; floors are papered, not just dropped.
Exterior. The house is washed, scraped to sound paint, sanded at every transition and primed bare. Rotted trim is replaced rather than filled. Caulk goes in every joint that moves. Two coats of a 100 percent acrylic finish, and we come back for the touch-up walk once it has cured.
Cabinets and decorating. Doors and drawers are sprayed off site; boxes are painted in place. Wallpaper goes on sized, skimmed walls with the seams planned before the first drop.
Local conditions
Why painting in Naperville is its own job
Naperville is mostly two-story houses built between 1980 and 2000 on quarter-acre lots, which means cedar or aluminum siding on the older ones, vinyl and fiber cement on the newer, and honey oak trim and cabinets almost everywhere inside. The interior work we do most is turning that trim and those cabinets white or off-white, and repainting builder flat with a washable finish.
Closer to downtown and the historic district the houses run from the 1870s to the 1960s, so we are dealing with plaster, old-growth wood trim and paint layers that predate 1978, and on the exterior with review rules for color and materials on listed properties. South of 75th Street and on the Will County side the subdivisions are newer but the decks and fences are due for stain every few years. The service area page shows how far we go.
1980s and 1990s subdivisions
Oak trim, builder flat, cedar and aluminum siding that has been repainted two or three times. Adhesion testing before we quote.
Historic district and pre-1978 homes
Plaster, old trim, lead-era paint layers and exterior review rules. Slower prep, better results.
Freeze-thaw winters
Around a hundred nights below freezing a year. Caulk, primer and a flexible finish matter here.
Where we paint
Naperville neighborhoods and the towns around them
Our service office is on Modaff Road in south Naperville. Each neighborhood and town below has its own page with the homes we see there and the jobs people book most. See the whole Western Suburbs area.
Naperville neighborhoods
Nearby cities and villages
From the first call
How a job runs, in seven steps
You call, we answer
The line is answered around the clock. Tell us the rooms or the elevations, and we book a walkthrough, at a time that suits you.
Walkthrough and written estimate
We look at the surfaces, test adhesion where a repaint is going over old coats, and note what needs repair. The estimate lists prep, products and coats, not a single number.
Color and product plan
We bring fan decks and large samples, help you pick a sheen that suits the room, and specify the primer and finish for each surface.
Protection and prep
Floors papered, furniture covered, fixtures masked. Patching, sanding, caulking and priming happen before any finish coat.
Two finish coats
Cut lines by hand, rolled or sprayed depending on the surface, with dry time between coats that the product actually calls for.
Walkthrough and touch-up
You walk every room or elevation with the lead painter. Anything you point at gets fixed before we call it done.
Clean-up and aftercare
Masking off, dust wiped, leftover labeled paint left with you for touch-ups, and a note on when the finish is fully cured.
Two offices, one phone number
Dispatched from Naperville, based in Elmhurst
Every call goes to (630) 389-8505, whichever office is closer to you. Directions and details are on the contact page, and our about page walks through how a job runs from the first call to cleanup.
Naperville service office
2342 Modaff RdNaperville, IL 60565
Where most of our residential and commercial work is dispatched from.
Elmhurst head office
693 W Avery StElmhurst, IL 60126
Our head office, and the base for jobs across the near-west and north DuPage suburbs.
Brands we apply
Ready for a color change or a repaint that lasts?
Interior or exterior, one room or the whole house. Call (630) 389-8505 and tell us what you are looking at.
Call (630) 389-8505FAQ
Questions Naperville homeowners ask before they book
Interior work is booked year round, so there is no seasonal wait. Call and we will give you a real start date at the walkthrough rather than a guess.
Roughly April through October. Most exterior coatings need surface temperatures above 50 degrees and a dry window of a day or two, so we stop booking exteriors once November's cold sets in and start again in spring.
Yes, and it is the most common interior request we get in Naperville. Oak needs the grain filled or accepted, a bonding primer and a hard enamel, sprayed where possible. We will show you a sample door before committing to the whole kitchen.
Chicago-area pros typically charge $2.50 to $5 per square foot of wall, or roughly $414 to $1,658 per room depending on size, ceiling height and prep. Those are market planning ranges from published cost guides, not our quote; your written estimate comes from the walkthrough.
All of it. Wallpaper installation and removal, plaster and drywall repair, popcorn ceiling removal and power washing each have their own page and can be booked on their own or as prep for a paint job.
Yes. Offices, retail, restaurants, HOA common areas and apartment turnovers, scheduled around business hours or move-out dates. Evening and weekend work is normal for those jobs.
Mostly Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore for interiors and exteriors, Cabot and Sikkens for decks and fences, and Zinsser or Kilz primers where stain-blocking is needed. If you already have a color or product in mind we will work with it.
We tell you straight away. When the schedule is full or your start date cannot be met, your call may be passed to another local painting contractor we trust so you are not left waiting. Our terms explain how call forwarding works.
Talk to a painter in Naperville now
One number for both offices, answered 24 hours a day. Tell us the job and we will book the walkthrough.
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