Exterior House Painting Pricing Guide
For homes in the Boston, South Shore & South Coast areas
Scroll down to find the size and style of your home for ballpark exterior painting pricing.
Financing available$7,500-11,0000
2,500 sf, 4-bedroom Colonial, clapboards on front and sides, cedar shingles on back. These homes are typical to cul-de-sac developments on the South Shore.

$9,250-$18,000
Large contemporary Colonial homes, typical on the South Shore in newer neighborhoods and developments.

$8,250-$16,000
Newer colonial home with farmer's porch - approximately 3,500 sf.

$5,900-$10,500
3-bedroom Colonial approximately 2,100 square feet

$4,900-$9,000
One-story ranch, approximately 1,800 square feet.

$6,000-$10,500
Tudor style home (stucco body with wood trim) typical of the Milton, MA area

$7,000-$18,000
Contemporary home - stained (pricing depends on the condition of the exerior wood)

$900-$5,000+
Deck staining - pricing depends on your deck size, condition, and material.

$900-$1,950
Shed

Assumptions that accompany the painting prices:
- Clapboard and trim prices are based on spot priming (priming only those areas that are “raw” or have been sanded/filled/prepped) and 1 top coat of paint.
- Includes a quality residential architectural coating such as Sherwin Williams Resilience Benjamin Moore Regal or Sherwin Williams Woodscapes or Benjamin Moore Arbor coat stains. Choosing an excellent grade of paint matters and will almost always save you money (even when you’re painting yourself!).
- Carpentry to replace any rotted wood is extra.
Factors that affect exterior painting prices:
Some things might affect the price from these ballpark estimates, such as:
- The number of surfaces painted will affect the price. For example, are you painting Trim? Shingles? Decks? Clapboards? All of the above?
- The conditions of the surfaces we’ll be painting will make a difference in the preparation cost. If there are lots of dings, scratches, and holes, more labor will be needed to fill and sand them.
- Is there rotted wood that needs replacement? Paint cannot be applied over rotted wood surfaces because the moisture in the rotted wood will cause the paint to degrade very quickly, usually within a few months of painting.
- The height of your home is a factor because painting a first and second story is more manageable than painting a third or fourth story. High areas that require intricate ladder moves to reach will require more labor as well.
- Will you be changing colors? If you’re changing the color of your exterior to something much darker or much lighter, it will require more coats of paint to cover over the old color.
- In general, we quote projects with 1-2 coats of paint if they are the same or a similar color to the surface paint we’ll be covering.
- When painting your exterior a different color than your current paint (i.e., changing the clapboard color from brown to beige) tinted primer coat needs to be applied first, followed by 2-3 top coats, in order to get good coverage and not have the old color seep through the new color.
- Sometimes, Clients have us give a quote for painting their entire exterior but then choose to paint just the trim. This is fine, but understand that since the original price included one trip charge, and if you now want to break up the project in stages, the quote will have to include multiple trip charges. This is why “bundling” the whole house and painting it at once is much less expensive than doing each exterior area piecemeal.