Painting and decorating across DuPage County

DuPage County counted 933,029 residents in the 2020 census, and its housing runs the full range. Lisle Township is the oldest settlement in the county, and the towns along the old railroad lines, from Hinsdale and Downers Grove to Glen Ellyn and Wheaton, still have streets of plaster-walled houses with original trim. Wheaton is the county seat.

Most of the county, though, was built out after the expressways arrived, and the subdivisions of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are where the bulk of our calls come from: builder paint that has scuffed through, oak trim and cabinets that owners want lighter, decks and fences on their staining cycle, and exteriors that need their first full repaint in decades.

Because the Naperville office covers the southwest of the county and Elmhurst covers the east, a job in Lombard or Villa Park is as close to us as one in Lisle or Warrenville.

Across the county, the order of work tends to follow the age of the house. Pre-war homes in the railroad towns start with plaster and windows; 1970s and 1980s homes start with siding, trim and dated interiors; and 1990s subdivisions start with oak trim, cabinets and decks. We plan each job from what the house actually needs first, not from a fixed package.