Interior Painting NJ: Family-Owned Interior Painters

Jobs start at two rooms or $2,000, and each room is usually finished in about a day. A full-home interior typically takes two to five days depending on the square footage, number of rooms, and level of prep work required.

We ask that you remove small and fragile items from the room. Our crew will move larger furniture to the center and cover everything with protective drop cloths before we begin.

Low-VOC and zero-VOC interior paint is available on every project. We carry a full selection of premium paints from trusted brands like Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams — ideal for families with children, pets, or sensitivities.

Interior painting in New Jersey is quoted on site, with a two-room or $2,000 minimum. The quote is worked out from the rooms themselves, not a flat rate, and reflects room size and ceiling height, which surfaces are included (walls only, or ceilings, trim and doors too), how much patching and priming the walls need, color changes that take an extra coat, and the paint line you choose. Every estimate is free and itemized, and our cost guide sets out typical New Jersey price ranges.

Ceilings, baseboards, crown molding, interior doors, railings and two-story stairwells and foyers are all part of what we paint. Trim and doors get an enamel suited to high-touch surfaces, and tall stairwells are set up with the right ladders or staging so the walls and ceiling can be painted safely without marking the treads.

Our interior painting service covers walls, ceilings, baseboards, crown molding, interior doors, railings and stairwells, along with the prep they need: furniture moved and covered, floors protected, holes and cracks patched and sanded, gaps caulked, stains spot-primed and two finish coats cut in by hand. Your written estimate lists exactly which rooms and surfaces are included.

Eggshell for most living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms, satin for kids’ rooms, mudrooms and busy hallways, flat for ceilings, and a satin or semi-gloss enamel for trim and doors. Sheen names vary between brands, so we confirm the exact product and sheen with you at the color consultation.

We paint most interior jobs while the family lives in the house, so your interior painter plans the job around your household. We work room by room, keep the rest of the house usable, clean up at the end of every day and use low-VOC paints. Paint feels dry within hours, but treat new walls gently and avoid scrubbing them for the first two weeks while the finish cures. If the house was built before 1978, federal rules cover paid work that disturbs old paint. NJ Painting Co. is not an EPA Lead-Safe Certified firm and does not scrape or sand paint on homes built before 1978, so ask any painter, us included, how they handle it; our guide to lead paint in older NJ homes explains what to ask for.

Nail pops, cracks, dents and small holes in drywall and sheetrock are patched and sanded as part of every interior job. NJ Painting Co. is not an EPA Lead-Safe Certified firm and does not scrape or sand paint on homes built before 1978. Larger drywall repairs, water-damaged ceilings and popcorn ceiling removal are quoted separately on the estimate. Plaster is a different trade and not something we take on — on an older plaster-walled home we will tell you at the estimate what needs a plasterer first. See drywall repair cost in NJ for larger damage.

NJ Painting Co. is a family-owned, licensed and fully insured residential painting contractor based in Morganville, with more than 20 years of experience painting homes in Monmouth, Middlesex, Ocean, Mercer, Somerset and Burlington counties, plus Union, Essex, Hudson, Bergen and Passaic in North Jersey.

Every interior project includes a complimentary color consultation. We help you explore palettes, finishes, and accent options so you feel confident before the first coat goes on.

Every interior project is backed by our two-year workmanship warranty. If something is not right, we come back and make it right — no questions asked.

Concrete and block walls, drywall and exposed joist ceilings are all painted, with moisture checked first and a masonry primer and breathable paint on dry masonry. We are not a waterproofing company, so a damp or leaking wall has to be fixed before it is painted, and a basement floor can be coated with epoxy instead. See painting basement walls and ceilings for the detail.

Wallpaper removal and popcorn ceiling removal are both part of our interior work. Wallpaper is stripped, the adhesive washed off and the walls primed and painted; we remove wallpaper but do not hang it. Popcorn ceilings are scraped, skimmed smooth and painted, after a ceiling from before the 1980s has been tested for asbestos. NJ Painting Co. does not scrape popcorn ceilings on homes built before 1978. See popcorn ceiling removal cost in NJ and wallpaper removal cost in NJ.

We paint plaster walls and ceilings, but we do not repair plaster. It is a separate trade. Eggshell suits older plaster because it looks close to flat. Where cracks or loose areas need a plasterer first, we tell you at the estimate so that work can be done before we paint.

Two-story foyers and the tall stairwell walls beside them are painted from the right ladders or staging rather than a stretched ladder, so the walls and ceiling can be reached safely without marking the treads or railings. They are common in New Jersey houses from the 1980s and 1990s.

Painted or stained wood paneling, common in dens and basements of mid-century New Jersey houses, is painted in the sheen that surface needs. Tell us at the estimate which paneled walls you want included. Installing new panelling is carpentry, which we do not do.

Closets are painted when you want them included. Closets are a separate item rather than something assumed with the room, and a walk-in is a small room of its own. Say at the estimate which closets you want painted, so two bids can be compared on the same scope.

Painting with kids and pets in the house works as long as they stay out of the room being worked on, because of ladders, open cans and wet paint. Our guide to living in your house while it is painted covers crating pets, keeping children clear and what the EPA advises.

Floors are covered and taped, furniture goes to the center of the room under drop cloths, and switch plates and outlet covers come off before any patching starts. The work area is cleaned at the end of every day.

Pianos, gun safes, aquariums, large wall-mounted televisions and anything plumbed or hard-wired. We ask you to handle wall art, shelf contents and anything irreplaceable before we arrive. See where your furniture goes during a repaint for the full list.

A ceiling can match the walls or be tinted to a fraction of the wall color instead of plain ceiling white. Our guide to how we paint ceilings compares the options.

An old water stain gets a stain-blocking primer before the flat ceiling paint, once the leak behind it has been fixed. Our ceiling painting guide explains why the stain comes back without it.

Handrails, balusters, newel posts, stringers and risers are cleaned, sanded and finished in a hard-wearing trim enamel, with the treads protected. Our guide to painting stairs and banisters explains why those parts need different products from the treads.

A scrubbable finish in kitchens and a moisture-resistant paint in bathrooms, where a working exhaust fan also matters. Product detail is in our guides to the best paint for kitchen walls and the best paint for bathroom walls.

Usually the next night for low-VOC wall paint with a window open and a fan blowing out, though no agency publishes an official wait. Our article on when a painted room is ready to sleep in covers enamels, nurseries and asthma.