The Ultimate Guide: Hiring an Interior Painter on the South Shore
CertaPro Painters of the South Shore, Plymouth and Boston area.
Ultimate Guide To Hiring an Interior House Painter on the South Shore (Massachusetts)
There are many reasons to hire an Interior Painter for your Boston and South Shore-area home. This guide will help you understand the process and help you more easily narrow down your choice of South Shore painting contractors.
Let’s jump right in.
- Chapter 1: How do I know I need to paint my South Shore home’s interior?
- Chapter 2: Choosing the right interior paint sheen.
- Chapter 3. Choosing the right interior paint color.
- Chapter 4: Getting inspired to paint your exterior (the fun part!)
- Chapter 5: Ensuring you painter executes your vision.
- Chapter 6: Methods of applying Interior paint
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Chapter 1: Does my Boston-area home’s interior even need painting yet?
In this chapter, we’ll explore the following topics:
How do you know if you need to paint your home’s interior?
The benefits of painting your home’s interior.
Chapter 2: How to choose a South Shore interior painting company:
You’ll learn how best to find a Residential Interior Painter from the following places:
- Online reviews – how to easily sort through all the online review sites.
- Getting quotes – what to look for in this process (hint: The behavior of the painter at this stage often foreshadows the rest of the project).
- Details of the quote – What should be included in a good interior painting quote?
Chapter 3. How often should I hire a painter for my South Shore Home’s Interior?
This chapter will cover:
- How often to paint your South Shore Interior – with recommendations on what to do if you can’t afford to hire a painter.
- Defining the scope of the interior painting job so that all interior painting companies are bidding on the same project (we call this “apples-to-apples bidding”).
- Secret (free) services New England painters may offer if you know to ask.
- Setting your interior painting budget.
Chapter 4: Getting inspired to paint your South Shore and Boston-area home (the fun part!)
In this chapter, you’ll learn:
- Working with a designer or color consultant to get the colors just right.
- How to sample paint so you choose right.
- Where to find a designer on the South Shore or in the Boston-area if your painter doesn’t offer one.
Read Chapter 4 
Chapter 5: The final decision – choosing an interior painter.
If you’ve never hired an exterior painter in the South Shore and Boston area before, you might need to understand the following:
- How the quoting process foreshadows what’s to come when you hire a painting company.
- Why to almost never accept a “time and materials” bid.
- Why wallpaper removal CAN and might be quoted as “time and materials.”
Read Chapter 5 Chapter 6: The Interior Painting Process for your South Shore and Boston-area home
- Communication with your painter is critical.
- The details and stages of the painting process from power washing to the final clean up.
- Changing your mind (it happens!)
- Change orders or add-ons to the initial project
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