Legacy Painting Seattle

The number moves on coating area, the condition of what we are covering, the product line you choose, and how much of the property is in scope. Run the exterior or interior calculator for a rough figure, then let us measure it properly on site.

Exterior work wants a dry, settled stretch, which around here means roughly spring to early fall. Interiors have no season and book straight through the winter.

Yes. We carry both in King County, which covers all of Seattle, and can send the certificates over before a crew is scheduled.

Labor and materials, for three years, residential and commercial alike. You get it in writing at closeout, and a covered failure inside that window brings us back at our cost.

Both Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore. Stocking the two means an HOA spec or a building standard rarely forces a substitution.

Yes, and occupied buildings are most of this work. We phase it one section at a time so residents keep their access throughout, and the 3-year warranty applies here exactly as it does on a single-family repaint.

No. Most clients are at work through the painting itself. The two points we do want you present for are the walkthrough at the start and the one at the end.

Yes, and it is one of the more common requests we get in Seattle, usually a kitchen where the boxes are fine, and the doors look tired. Being interior work, it schedules in any month.

Seattle’s Craftsman bungalows in Capitol Hill and Wallingford often still carry original plaster or early drywall, trim profiles, and built-in woodwork that need careful prep and cutting-in rather than a quick roll-and-go. Interior work runs year-round regardless of the region’s rain, so there’s no need to wait for a dry stretch to refresh a room.

Homes in Ballard, Green Lake, and Magnolia carry original wood siding that shows wear first on west-facing walls exposed to weather rolling in off Puget Sound. Thorough surface prep, power washing, scraping, mildew treatment, and priming are what keep a new coat from failing early in this climate, and the reliable exterior window runs spring through early fall.

Downtown and South Lake Union office buildings run on property-management rules before they run on paint: a certificate of insurance on file before a crew badges in, work staged outside tenant hours, and a finish that matches whatever the building already has on record. Retail is the opposite constraint, since a storefront on Pike Place or Ballard Avenue cannot close for a week, so we phase the work around open hours and hand the space back each evening. Stocking both Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore is what lets us meet a spec written years ago instead of asking a building to change it.

Condo and apartment boards in the U-District, First Hill, and Capitol Hill are usually working from a color already written into the governing documents, chosen long before the current board sat down. We pull the specified product rather than proposing a substitute, which is straightforward when the spec calls for either Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore. On an occupied building, the sequencing matters as much as the coating: we take one elevation or one corridor at a time so residents keep their entrances, walkways, and parking stalls for the length of the repaint.

A 1920s kitchen in Wallingford or Phinney Ridge usually has cabinet boxes worth keeping, solid frames that outlast their own finish by decades. Refinishing them runs a fraction of replacement and keeps the original proportions, which matters in older Seattle kitchens where a stock cabinet run will not fit the wall. We degrease, sand, prime, and lay down a topcoat rated for daily handling. None of it depends on the weather, which makes a kitchen one of the better projects to put on the calendar in February.

Seattle lots put fences tight against the neighboring house, a hedge, or a retaining wall, where they catch almost no direct sun and stay wet for days after a storm clears. That is what grays a cedar fence, opens checks along the grain, and eventually softens the boards from the bottom rail up. Stain penetrates the wood instead of laying a film over it, so moisture can still escape, which is why it outlasts paint on fences, railings, and anything in ground contact here. Booking it alongside an exterior repaint puts both on one mobilization instead of two. There is more on the reasoning behind why staining your fence or deck is the better way to go.