Interior, exterior & cabinet painting — Coquitlam & Port Moody
Prestige is a small crew of finish painters. We bring the colour consult into your living room, put every product, sheen and coat in writing, mask like it’s our own floor — and hand the house back on the day we said we would.
Why repaints go wrong
Anyone can roll a wall. What separates a finish that still looks sharp in 2036 from one that flashes and peels by next winter happens before a single tin is opened — the sanding, the filling, the caulking, the right primer on the right substrate.
A two-inch chip under showroom light tells you nothing. That greige goes green at 3pm in a north-facing Coquitlam living room, and by then you own four gallons of it.
Quoted a week. Three weeks later you’re still eating dinner beside a half-taped dining room and a ladder that has become furniture.
No sanding between coats, nail holes left proud, no bonding primer over old oil-based trim. It photographs fine on day one and shows every flaw by the second summer.
A number scribbled on a business card becomes “the ceilings were extra” and “that deep colour needed a third coat.” You find out on the invoice, not before.
What we do
Walls, ceilings, doors, casing and baseboard — sanded, filled and caulked first, then cut in by hand and rolled in two full coats. Matte or eggshell on walls, semi-gloss or a waterborne enamel on trim, low-VOC throughout so you can sleep in the room that night. Popcorn ceilings scraped and re-textured, wallpaper stripped and skim-coated, furniture wrapped and floors covered end to end.
Book a colour consultPressure wash, scrape, sand, spot-prime bare wood and back-caulk every joint before a drop of finish goes on. Hardie, stucco, and cedar siding stained or painted, booked inside real paint-ready weather windows — not sprayed onto a damp wall in November.
Ask about summer bookingDoors and drawer fronts come off, get tagged, degreased, sanded and sprayed in a controlled space with catalysed lacquer or 2K urethane — a factory-hard finish that shrugs off fingernails and cleaning spray, not a brushed-on wall paint on your kitchen. On character homes we go further: lead-safe practices on pre-1980 millwork, stripped and rebuilt window sashes, and colour matching to the original palette so the house still reads as itself.
How a Prestige job runs
We bring large sample boards to your home, hold them against your light, and narrow five maybes down to one yes.
Room by room: surfaces, sheens, products, coats and start and finish dates. One fixed price, signed before we load the van.
Floors covered, furniture wrapped and centred, sanding, filling, caulking and priming — the whole first day, every time.
Two full coats, then we walk every room with you under a light and fix anything on your list before we invoice.
“We don’t start painting on day one. Day one is sanding, filling, caulking and masking — and that’s the part you’ll still be seeing in ten years.”The Prestige prep rule
Rooms painted across the Tri-Cities and Greater Vancouver
Written workmanship warranty on every finish
Full coats minimum on every wall, ceiling and trim run
Average homeowner rating after final walk-through
Sample figures shown for demonstration — replaced with your real numbers.
Recent work
Concept imagery — replaced with your project photographyNine rooms of tired builder beige, plus original fir casing that had been painted over in oil three owners ago. We skim-coated the plaster cracks, bonded over the old oil trim with a shellac-based primer, and took the front room to a deep heritage teal in matte with a waterborne enamel on every stick of trim.
Concept imagery — replaced with your project photographyThirty-eight doors and twelve drawer fronts, tagged and removed, degreased twice, grain-filled, sanded to 220 and sprayed in catalysed lacquer. Boxes were masked and sprayed in place with the family still living there — kitchen back in use each evening, hardware back on by the Friday.
Concept imagery — replaced with your project photographyA west-facing elevation that had given up years before the north side did — chalked stain, split boards, failed caulking at every butt joint. Washed, scraped, spot-primed the bare cedar, back-caulked the joints, then two coats of solid-body stain sprayed and back-brushed so it actually sat in the grain.
One visit, about an hour. You end it knowing exactly which colour you want, exactly what the job costs, and exactly which days we’ll be in your house.
It is priced by surface area, ceiling height, the condition of what’s already on the wall and how much trim there is — a room with crown, wainscot and six-panel doors is three times the labour of a plain bedroom the same size. Deep colours over white need an extra coat; failed oil trim needs a bonding primer. That’s exactly why we measure and write it down: after the consult you get a fixed, line-item price per room and it does not change once you sign.
That’s the consult, and it’s included. We bring large brushed sample boards rather than chips, hold them on the actual walls, and look at them twice — in daylight and under your evening lamps, because a north-facing Coquitlam room shifts a warm white grey and a west-facing one turns it yellow by 5pm. We also handle strata colour approvals and sort out sheen: matte where you want walls to disappear, eggshell in hallways and kids’ rooms so they can be wiped, semi-gloss or waterborne enamel on trim and doors.
A typical three-bedroom interior is four to six working days with a real crew on site, not one person stretching it out for a month. Kitchen cabinets run about five days from doors-off to hardware back on. Exteriors are five to ten days depending on siding and access, and we only start when the forecast gives us a genuine paint-ready window. Your written scope carries a start date and a finish date, and if we’re running behind you hear it from us first.
Yes — inside the season, which here runs roughly late April to early October. We need the substrate dry, air above about 10°C, and enough of a dry stretch for the coating to cure before the next system rolls in off the inlet. That’s why exteriors get washed and scraped days ahead: pressure wash, scrape and sand the failed areas, spot-prime bare wood, back-caulk the joints, then coat. Anyone offering to spray your cedar in mid-November is selling you a repaint in three years.
For cabinets, yes — and it’s the product more than the tool. Doors come off and get degreased, sanded and sprayed with catalysed lacquer or a 2K urethane, which cures hard enough to take fingernails, cleaning spray and a kettle’s worth of steam. Wall paint brushed onto cabinet doors stays soft for weeks and prints every thumb. Walls are the opposite: we cut in by hand and roll them, because a rolled wall holds a subtle texture that hides drywall imperfections a sprayed one shows off.