House Painting in Brookside, Kansas City

Plaster cracks. Original trim has eighty years of paint on it and often oil underneath. Woodwork is frequently stained, not painted, and the decision to paint it is one you only get to make once. We talk that through with you honestly before we touch it. Where we do paint, we degloss and prime properly so the finish bonds instead of peeling in two winters.

Brookside kitchens are often small, original, and full of character worth keeping. Refinishing the existing cabinets — rather than gutting the room — preserves the proportions of a 1920s kitchen while bringing the color into this decade. We spray a hard urethane finish and reinstall the hardware so it looks like cabinetry, not a paint job.

Tudor half-timbering, wood windows, dentil trim, deep eaves — Brookside exteriors have a lot of surface area and a lot of places for water to get in. We scrape, prime bare wood, replace rot, and re-caulk before painting. We also work carefully around mature landscaping and the tight lot lines and shared drives common in the neighborhood.

These are close-set streets with neighbors who notice. We keep a tidy site, protect walkways and plantings, keep the noise reasonable, and clean up daily. Small thing, but it matters more in Brookside than it does on a half-acre lot.