Living in Your Home While It's Being Painted

Most of our interior projects happen with the family still in the house. It takes a little more planning than an empty-house job, but with the right sequence you keep a working kitchen, a place to sleep, and a bathroom every single night.

We work in zones, not all at once

Rather than opening the whole house, we finish one zone completely — prep, prime, paint, and put the room back — before moving to the next. Bedrooms usually go first so you always have somewhere settled to sleep, then living areas, then kitchen and baths last since those affect daily routine the most.

Dust and odor control

• Plastic zip walls at doorways so sanding dust stays in the work zone.
• HVAC returns covered during sanding, then filters changed at the end of the project.
• Low- and zero-VOC waterborne products in occupied homes, which are usually odor-free by evening.
• Floors protected with breathable runners rather than plastic, which gets slick.

What we need from you

Clear small items off surfaces, take down anything fragile on the walls, and tell us where pets will be. We move and cover furniture ourselves. If someone works from home, let us know which room and which hours so we can schedule the noisy prep elsewhere.

A typical three- or four-room interior repaint runs three to five working days. We clean up at the end of every day, not just at the end of the project, so the house is livable each evening.