Painting Bolingbrook homes, from Westbury to the newest subdivisions

Bolingbrook incorporated on October 6, 1965, and its first subdivision was Westbury. The village grew fast: its population quintupled to more than 37,000 by 1980, and with 73,946 residents in 2020 it is the second-largest town in Will County after Joliet.

That history means the housing comes in layers. The early neighborhoods are split-levels and ranches from the 1960s and 1970s, many with aluminum or wood siding that has been painted several times. A second building wave in the 1990s and 2000s added two-story homes with oak trim, builder-grade paint and treated decks.

So a week of Bolingbrook work might include scraping and repainting a 1970s split-level, spraying a 2000s oak kitchen white and staining a fence that has gone gray.

Split-levels and ranches from the village's early years often have a mix of siding materials, such as brick on the lower level and wood or aluminum above, so an exterior repaint means different prep for each material. Inside, paneling and dated stained trim are common, and painting them is one of the quickest ways to modernize these homes.

Bolingbrook sits just southeast of our Modaff Road service office in Naperville, so walkthroughs and multi-day jobs there are easy to schedule. Calls are answered any hour.

Bolingbrook is part of our Will County coverage.