House Painters in Arcadia

Painting services in Arcadia

Ivan's Pro Painting covers Arcadia from San Gabriel, a short drive out. Interior and exterior painting, cabinet refinishing, stucco repair, drywall repair and commercial work. Licensed under CSLB #1095819, insured, and every job carries a written workmanship guarantee.

The work here splits three ways. New builds and rebuilds that need a smooth-wall finish. Siding that has to be repaired before it gets painted. Kitchens and interiors where the existing cabinets are worth keeping. Estimates are on-site and itemized, so prep, primer and coats are priced separately instead of rolled into one number.

New builds and rebuilds

A new build is not an easier paint job. It is a different one. Level 4 and level 5 drywall is smooth and unforgiving, and these houses are full of downlights that rake straight across it. Roller nap, sheen and cut lines all show.

Bare board and joint compound do not absorb the same way. So the whole surface gets a drywall primer before any color goes on. Skip that step and the taped joints read back through the finish as wide flat bands once the lights are on. Sheen gets picked for the wall rather than out of habit. The flatter the finish, the less the surface argues with the light.

The check happens before sign-off, not after. Downlights on, daylight out, and a look along the wall at a low angle. That is the view the owner has every night, so that is the view that decides whether the wall is done.

Outside, new siding and new stucco both go on raw. Board-and-batten gets every face and every cut end primed before it is fastened, and the joints get caulked. New stucco is left to cure before a coating touches it. Nothing on a new exterior has an existing paint film to sit on, so the primer choice is doing most of the work.

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Siding repair and replacement

Paint is a film. It is not a repair. A split, soft or rotted board keeps moving and keeps holding water underneath that film, and the failure comes back up through the new finish. Coating over bad siding hides the problem for a while and makes the next fix bigger.

So the damaged boards come off first. Replacements are cut to the same profile, lap or board-and-batten, and the reveal is matched to the runs either side so the wall reads as one plane. Back faces and cut ends get primed before the board goes up. That is where water gets in, and it is the one part nobody can inspect afterward.

Then the rest of the wall gets the prep it needs. Failed paint is scraped and sanded back to a sound edge. Holes and gaps get patched. Butt seams and trim joints get caulked. Bare spots get spot-primed. Finish coats go on after all of that, not instead of it.

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Interiors and cabinets

Cabinet painting runs $2,000 to $6,500. Refacing is $4,000 to $9,000. Replacement is $12,000 to $35,000, and it pulls the countertop, the backsplash and the plumbing along with it. If the boxes are solid and the layout works, refinishing is the cheaper answer by a wide margin.

The finish comes down to two things. Degreasing decides whether anything bonds to a kitchen door at all. And the bonding primer has to match the substrate, so wood, laminate, melamine and thermofoil each take a different one. Doors and drawers come off and get labeled, then get sprayed rather than brushed, because a sprayed film leaves no brush texture across a door face. Figure three to five working days, with the kitchen usable for most of it. A sprayed finish wants touch-ups every five to eight years.

Accent walls are a layout job more than a paint job. The color change has to land square to the ceiling and the baseboard, and neither of those is guaranteed to be straight in the first place. Deep colors need enough coats to sit even, and they show every roller lap and every wander in the cut line. Trim gets cut against the wall color, not the reverse. One decision worth making slowly: painting original stained woodwork is effectively irreversible.

Full detail on the cabinet side is on the cabinet painting page.

Arcadia painting cost, at a glance

Lime wash, lime paint, Venetian plaster and Roman clay are quoted separately. We use Portola Paints for Roman clay and lime wash.

Every estimate is on-site and itemized, so prep, primer and coats are listed separately rather than rolled into one number.

Where we work around Arcadia

Ivan's is based in San Gabriel, so Arcadia is a short drive. We also cover Pasadena, Altadena, South Pasadena, San Gabriel, San Marino, Sierra Madre, Temple City, Monterey Park, Glendale and La Cañada Flintridge.

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