Interior painting with clean lines and covered floors.

You live in the house while we work. So the furniture gets covered, the lines get cut by hand, and the room gets cleaned up every day.

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Lake cabin living room with one knotty pine wall painted white, the next wall still bare pine, furniture under drop cloths

Painting knotty pine

Plenty of cabins and ’70s basements up here are wall-to-wall knotty pine. Painting it can make a dark room feel twice as big. It also takes the right primer.

Knots bleed. Paint straight over pine and you’ll see brown spots come through in a few weeks. A stain-blocking primer goes on first, then the finish coats. Ask us which one we’d use on your wood at the walkthrough.

Interior work

Kitchen with deep red painted walls, oak cabinets and glass-front uppers, freshly painted by J.A. Houle Painting — Deep red walls cut in clean against oak cabinets.

Painted kitchen corner with oak cabinets, a black range and a red accent wall below a textured white ceiling — The same kitchen from the range side.

Vaulted room painted warm yellow with a sloped textured ceiling and a window looking out on snowy birch woods — Warm yellow in a vaulted room, birch woods outside.

Bedroom with soft white walls, a blue-gray textured ceiling and an oak six-panel door, painted for a new home — Two-tone bedroom: blue-gray ceiling, white walls.

What you can expect inside your house

Floors and furniture covered. Drop cloths down and furniture moved and covered before anything opens.
Cut lines by hand. Ceilings, trim and cabinets get a brush line, not a guess with the roller.
Patch before paint. Nail pops, cracks and dings get filled and sanded first. We do drywall too, so we fix it right.
Cleaned up daily. You get your rooms back at the end of each day.

“J.A. Houle Painting and Drywall worked with our tight building schedule to complete our new home painting project on time. Jason was great to work with and is straight forward and honest.”

BA, Hermantown, MNNew home painting

Questions we get

Do I need to move my furniture?

Clear out small things and anything breakable. We’ll move and cover the big pieces.

Can you paint while we’re living in the house?

Yes, that’s most of our interior work. We plan the rooms so you always have a bedroom and a kitchen you can use.

Do you paint ceilings and trim?

Yes. Walls, ceilings, trim, doors, and stairwells too.

Should I paint my knotty pine?

It’s your call, and it can’t easily be undone. If you do, it needs a stain-blocking primer first or the knots will bleed through.

Tell us what needs doing.

Free estimate, written price, and Jason walks the job with you before it’s done.

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