Residential Painting for Whole-Home Interior and Exterior Repaints in the West Metro

Sequencing a whole-home repaint around the Minnesota calendar

A full interior and exterior repaint is really two jobs that share a schedule, and the calendar decides the order. The exterior can only happen from roughly May to mid-October, so it gets the warm months and it gets booked first. The interior runs any time, so it goes in the shoulder seasons: late winter and early spring before the exterior, or late fall after it. That way you are never living in a masked-off house at the same time the siding is being sprayed. On a lake home that the family uses in summer, we often run the exterior in late May and the interior in October after the dock comes out. We map this on one calendar at the estimate and adjust as the weather does what it does.

• Exterior booked first, inside the May to mid-October window
• Interior in the shoulder seasons around it
• One calendar, one crew, one written estimate for both

The ten-year repaint on a west-metro two-story

The most common whole-home job we see is a house built in the late 1990s or 2000s that has reached the point where everything needs attention at once. Inside, that means builder flat on the walls that flashes at every touch-up, oak trim the owners want white, and ceilings that have gone ivory. Outside, it means faded siding, chalking on the south side, peeling on the north, and fascia that the ice dams have worked on for a decade. Doing it all as one plan lets us prime the oak trim and the exterior fascia in the same order of operations we would use on a new build, and it lets you pick one palette for the whole house instead of a room at a time.

Coordinating with a remodel, a move or a builder

Whole-home paint often lands next to other work. If a kitchen or bath remodel is happening, we come in after the drywall and trim are done and before the fixtures go back, and we paint the rest of the house in the same visit so the new work and the old walls match. If you are moving in, the empty-house window is the cheapest interior we will ever paint for you, and the exterior can follow in the next warm stretch. For new construction and additions, we already do finish painting for several west-metro custom builders, and we can carry that same finish standard through the existing parts of a house that was added onto. One contact, one color schedule, one crew that knows the whole house.

What you get

• Interior and exterior planned on one calendar around the season
• One palette for the whole house instead of room-by-room decisions
• Same prep standard inside and out: fill, sand, prime, caulk, two coats
• Oak trim conversion and exterior fascia handled in one plan
• Coordinated with remodels, moves and builders
• One written estimate that lists every surface, inside and out

How it goes

1. 1

   Photos of every room and every side

   Send photos of the interior rooms and a shot of each exterior elevation. We build one written estimate with interior and exterior as separate sections you can adjust.

2. 2

   One calendar for both halves

   Exterior is placed in the warm window first. Interior goes in the months around it. We agree the order with you so the house is never torn up inside and out at once.

3. 3

   Exterior, then interior, or the reverse

   Each half is run the way its own hub page describes: wash, scrape, meter and prime outside; patch, sand and prime inside. Two coats everywhere, sprayed or brushed by surface.

4. 4

   Final walk inside and out

   We walk the whole house with you at the end of each half, touch up what you point at, and leave labeled leftover paint for every color inside and out.

What does it cost to paint a whole house inside and out?

A whole-home repaint is quoted as two sections on one estimate, interior and exterior, each built from the same factors as its own service page: area, surfaces, prep, coats and access. We start from photos for a range and finish with a walkthrough that covers every room and every side. The number moves with house size, with how much trim is being converted from oak, with the condition of the exterior paint, and with how many colors are in play. Doing both halves with one crew saves setup and travel compared with two separate contractors, and it lets us order paint once. The estimate is free, written and split so you can phase the work across two seasons if you want.

• Total interior area and number of rooms
• Exterior square footage, stories and siding material
• Trim and doors included, inside and out
• Condition of existing paint on each half
• Number of colors and sheens across the house
• Phased across two seasons or done in one stretch