Painting Services in Jamaica Plain, Boston MA
Most of what we paint in Jamaica Plain is Victorians and three-deckers. Queen Anne and Italianate Victorians near the Pond and Sumner Hill, three-deckers through Hyde Square and Egleston, and 1920s two-families in between. Sumner Hill is a Boston Landmarks Commission district. Exterior alterations visible from the public way require review before work starts, colour included.
Painting Services in Jamaica Plain
Interior Painting in Jamaica Plain
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 Jamaica Plain.
Exterior Painting in Jamaica Plain
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 Jamaica Plain.
Cabinet Painting in Jamaica Plain
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 Jamaica Plain.
House Painting in Jamaica Plain
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 Jamaica Plain.
Trim Painting in Jamaica Plain
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 Jamaica Plain.
Ceiling Painting in Jamaica Plain
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 Jamaica Plain.
More from us around Jamaica Plain: Start from the Jamaica Plain 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 Jamaica Plain
Estimates are written, itemised, and free.
(617) 777-7700 Call Now Request OnlineWhat Painting Work Here Actually Involves
Queen Anne and Italianate Victorians near the Pond and Sumner Hill, three-deckers through Hyde Square and Egleston, and 1920s two-families in between.
Most of our painting work here is for owner-occupants who care about original detail, plus two- and three-family owners toward Egleston and Hyde Square.
Sumner Hill Historic District
Sumner Hill is a Boston Landmarks Commission district. Exterior alterations visible from the public way require review before work starts, colour included.
Ornate Victorian trim
Brackets, spindle work, fish-scale shingle and multi-colour schemes. This is brushwork, and it's what separates a proper JP exterior from a rolled one.
Pond and Arboretum shade
Heavy mature canopy on the western side keeps elevations damp. Mildew builds every summer and paint will not bond over it.
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 Jamaica Plain, Boston specifically, the work is mostly Victorians and three-deckers, and the Sumner Hill historic district 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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Raised ranch, colour changeCrew working the transition from the original yellow. Full prep before any finish went on, garage doors and trim picked out separately.
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