Colonial Revival houses from the early 1900s, 1920s Tudors, and generations of kitchens built to last. In Westfield, cabinets and careful trim work are most of the job.
NJ Painting Co. is a family-owned house painting company doing interior painting, exterior painting and cabinet refinishing in Westfield, Union County. Westfield homes are older than most: the Census Bureau dates 37 percent of them to 1939 or earlier, so interior work here is mostly plaster, original millwork and old oil-painted trim. We travel from Morganville in Monmouth County, and every Westfield estimate is free, written, and prices prep apart from finish coats.
Westfield is a town in Union County with one residential ZIP code, 07090. The New Jersey Historic Trust records that the Town of Westfield was incorporated on March 4, 1903, replacing Westfield Township, and that its downtown grew up around the commuter train line to New York. The housing is mostly from the first half of the last century. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey for 2020 to 2024 counts about 11,200 homes in the town and dates 37 percent of them to 1939 or earlier, another 21 percent to the 1950s, and 79 percent to before 1980.
Two neighborhoods show the range. Stoneleigh Park, planned around 1904, is thirty single-family houses on about twenty acres, most on a looped drive. Its National Register nomination describes the ten earliest houses as Colonial Revival, with 1920s additions mostly Colonial Revival and several English Tudor, and it is the one district on the State and National Registers in Westfield. Wychwood, developed in the late 1920s by Arthur Rule, began with Tudor and Colonial-style homes on Woodland Avenue and Kimball Circle. Around them are streets of foursquares, colonials and later houses from every decade since.
Westfield's Historic Preservation Commission was established by ordinance in 1984 and reviews proposed work on designated landmarks and in designated districts. Its current rules, General Ordinance 2023-13, say a Certificate of Appropriateness is not required to change a paint color, inside or out. Painting a material or surface that was never painted before, such as brick, stone or natural wood, does need one. If your house is a designated landmark, ask the commission before painting anything that has not been painted.
Older Westfield houses need patient prep inside and out. Colonial Revival and Tudor homes carry original millwork, plaster walls, stucco and half-timbering, and wood windows, so the scraping and sanding take longer than the painting, and old oil paint on trim gets a bonding primer before any waterborne topcoat. On Tudors, stucco panels and timber trim move differently and are prepared differently. With four homes in five built before 1978, the federal lead rule applies. The EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule says a firm paid to disturb more than six square feet of paint in a room, or more than twenty square feet outside, on a pre-1978 house must be EPA-certified. NJ Painting Co. is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified, so where trim or siding needs that, it needs a contractor who is, and we will say so at the estimate.
Many of these houses have solid cabinet boxes behind a dated finish, and a sprayed cabinet-grade enamel, with doors removed, labeled and finished off-site, gives them a factory look without a remodel. NJ Painting Co. is a family-owned company based in Morganville in Monmouth County, and we travel to Westfield for jobs. Every Westfield estimate is free, written, and separates prep from finish coats.
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There is no independent ranking of Westfield painters we can point you to, and we would rather give you things to check than a superlative. Westfield's housing is old: the Census Bureau dates 79 percent of its roughly 11,200 homes to before 1980, so ask each painter how old oil-painted trim will be primed, whether the written quote separates prep from finish coats, and whether the firm is EPA Lead-Safe Certified for pre-1978 work. NJ Painting Co. is family-owned and based in Morganville, uses Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams products, and is not EPA Lead-Safe Certified, so we say at the estimate when part of a job needs a certified contractor.
Not for a color change. Under General Ordinance 2023-13, Westfield's Historic Preservation Commission does not require a Certificate of Appropriateness to change a paint color, inside or out. Painting a surface that was never painted before, such as brick, stone or natural wood, does need one, so if your house is a designated landmark, ask the commission before painting anything that has not been painted.
Stoneleigh Park, planned around 1904, has thirty houses on about twenty acres: the ten earliest Colonial Revival, the 1920s ones mostly Colonial Revival with several English Tudor. It is Westfield's one district on the State and National Registers. Wychwood, developed in the late 1920s by Arthur Rule, began with Tudor and Colonial-style homes on Woodland Avenue and Kimball Circle.
Because we are locally based in Morganville, we can usually schedule your free estimate within a few days and lock in a start date that works for you. Reach out and we'll find the soonest available slot for Westfield.
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