Interior painting for Naperville homes

Bedrooms and living rooms are the rooms people live with, so we spend the most time on color here, with large samples on two walls viewed morning and evening. Walls take a washable eggshell or matte finish; ceilings a flat white. Furniture is pulled to the middle and covered, beds included, and pictures and shelves are taken down, labeled and rehung after. A typical bedroom is a one-day job, a large living room with high walls one to two days. Kids' rooms get a scrubbable finish that stands up to crayon and handprints.

Hallways and stairwells take the most scuffs in the house and are the hardest to reach, especially the two-story foyers and open stairwells common in Naperville. We set up planks and extension ladders safely over the stairs, patch the dents from moving furniture, and use a scrubbable satin or eggshell that can be wiped down. The long, uninterrupted walls in these spaces show roller marks and lap lines more than any room, so they are rolled top to bottom in single passes while the edge is still wet.

Painting a whole house, often before a sale or right after a purchase, is scheduled room by room so you can keep living there. We agree the colors for every room up front, confirm the sheen for each surface, and work in a sequence that keeps the kitchen and one bathroom usable. Ceilings are done first, then walls, then trim and doors. A crew can typically paint the main living areas of a Naperville two-story in about a week, with bedrooms and basements added as needed.

Picking a color from a chip under store lighting is the most common way to end up repainting a room twice. We bring fan decks from the major paint lines, narrow the choice with you based on the room's light and the fixed elements like floors and countertops, then paint large sample patches on two walls. You look at them morning and evening before deciding. For whole-home repaints we suggest a restrained palette so rooms flow into each other, with bolder color saved for a few spaces.