Painting Services in Allston, Boston MA
Most of what we paint in Allston is three-deckers and student rentals. Three-deckers and two-families from the 1890s through the 1920s, plus brick apartment blocks along the avenues and a scatter of single-families in Lower Allston. Almost every lease in Allston ends on the same day. Units get patched, primed and painted in a matter of days, not weeks, and everyone in the trade is booked at once.
Painting Services in Allston
Interior Painting in Allston
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors — Prep is most of it — wash, patch, sand, prime, then two finish coats. We move and cover furniture and clean up at the end of every day.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle interior painting in Allston.
Exterior Painting in Allston
Siding, trim, porches and doors — Full pressure wash, scrape back anything loose, feather the edges, replace rotted wood, caulk every gap, prime bare surfaces, then two coats.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle exterior painting in Allston.
Cabinet Painting in Allston
Kitchen and bath cabinetry — Doors come off and get sprayed with cabinet-grade enamel for a factory-smooth finish. Degreasing and bonding primer are what make it last.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle cabinet painting in Allston.
House Painting in Allston
Whole-home interior or exterior — One crew, one schedule, one point of contact for the entire house rather than piecing it out.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle house painting in Allston.
Trim Painting in Allston
Baseboards, casings, crown and doors — Brushwork with clean cut lines where trim meets wall. Semi-gloss enamel so it wipes down and holds up.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle trim painting in Allston.
Ceiling Painting in Allston
Flat, textured and detailed ceilings — Stain-blocking primer where there's water staining, then even coats that don't flash or lap.. If you want the detail, here's how we handle ceiling painting in Allston.
More from us around Allston: Start from the Allston overview.
More on this trade generally: Painting Services across our service area.
Small Crew, Licensed, Fully Covered
Aura is family-run out of Allston. Licence #193121 is on file with the Commonwealth, and both liability and workers' comp are in force on every property we set foot on.
Estimates in Allston
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(617) 777-7700 Call Now Request OnlineWhat Painting Work Here Actually Involves
Three-deckers and two-families from the 1890s through the 1920s, plus brick apartment blocks along the avenues and a scatter of single-families in Lower Allston.
Most of our painting work here is for landlords and property managers running student and young-professional rentals, plus owner-occupants living in one unit of a three-family.
September 1 turnover
Almost every lease in Allston ends on the same day. Units get patched, primed and painted in a matter of days, not weeks, and everyone in the trade is booked at once.
Heavy tenant wear
Student rentals take more abuse than owner-occupied homes. Washable finishes and proper patching matter more here than a designer colour.
Pre-1978 stock
Nearly every original Allston three-decker has lead under the newer coats, which puts exterior scraping under federal RRP rules.
What Actually Drives a Painting Quote
What drives the price
Square footage is the smallest part of it. What moves a painting number is condition and access. A tight, previously well-maintained elevation is a wash and two coats. The same house with failed caulk, bare wood at the sills and mildew holding on the north side can double the labour before a finish coat goes on. Height is the other multiplier — past a two-storey ladder you are into staging, and staging is time before it is anything else. In Allston, Boston specifically, the work is mostly three-deckers and student rentals, and the September 1 turnover crunch shapes how we schedule and stage it.
How the work is sequenced
Interiors run top down: ceilings, then walls, then trim, so drips land on surfaces not yet finished. Exteriors run the opposite way in sequence but the same way in principle — wash, dry, scrape, feather, repair, prime, caulk, then finish. Caulk goes on after primer rather than before, so it bonds to a sealed surface instead of raw grain and does not split at the first freeze.
Where it usually goes wrong
Almost every failed paint job we are called in to correct failed for the same reason, and it is never the paint. Coating over a damp or chalky surface traps moisture and the film lets go in sheets inside two years. Skipping the feather sand leaves a ridge at every scrape edge that telegraphs through the finish. Patching without priming leaves flashing — dull patches showing through the sheen wherever compound absorbed differently.
How long it takes
A room is one to two days. A full interior is four to eight. A single-family exterior is five to nine working days weather permitting, and the first two of those are wash and dry-out where nothing visible happens. We give a window at the estimate and hold to it.
Recent Work
Before & After
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Three-family exterior restorationCornice and bay-window brackets had failed with rusted flashing behind them. Carpentry repaired first, then the full envelope prepped and refinished.
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