Interior Painting Services & Prices

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Price a Room in a Minute

Enter a room’s length, width and ceiling height, and the calculator prices it from the same tables used on this page. The walkthrough confirms the final number.

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Walls & Ceilings

Every price is all-inclusive — labor, Sherwin-Williams paint, primer, and materials. Each card shows what a small, average, and large room costs, based on floor dimensions at 8-foot ceilings.

Freshly painted walls and ceiling — Home Strategy LLC, Michigan

Walls Only

Repaint the walls, leave ceiling and trim as-is

From $365/room

Small room 8 × 8$365

Average room 12 × 12$525

Large room 14 × 16$745

Two coats of Sherwin-Williams Duration Home in the color and sheen you choose—a washable, professional-grade paint, not builder-grade. Want the premium line? Emerald Symmetry is available for the difference in material cost.
Nail holes filled, minor scuffs sanded, dust wiped down, and spot priming where it’s needed. Larger repairs are quoted separately so you can see what they cost.
Ceiling lines, corners, trim edges, windows, and outlets are cut in by brush for a clean, straight line.
Floors covered, furniture moved to the center and wrapped, outlet and switch plates removed and reinstalled, and the room put back together before we leave.

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Full Room

Walls, ceiling, and all trim in one visit

From $585/room

Small room 8 × 8$585

Average room 12 × 12$870

Large room 14 × 16$1,210

Two coats on the walls, standard prep, hand-cut edges, full protection and cleanup.
Flat ceiling paint applied over the whole ceiling—not just the stained spot. Fixtures and fans masked or dropped as needed.
Trim caulked where it meets the wall, sanded smooth, and finished in your chosen sheen. Door slabs and frames included for the room’s standard door count.
Ceiling first, then walls, then trim—the order that keeps every finished surface clean. It is also why painting a full room at once costs less than three separate trips.

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Ceilings

Ceilings on their own, or added to any room

From $120/room

Small room 8 × 8$120

Average room 12 × 12$205

Large room 14 × 16$290

One price covers the whole ceiling, however many square feet that is. A small ceiling starts at $120 and an average bedroom ceiling runs about $205—bigger ceilings cost more in total but less per square foot, because the setup and the cut-in around the edge are the same either way. Your estimate prices your actual rooms.
Ceiling-grade flat paint that hides roller lap marks and imperfections instead of highlighting them.
Old water stains and smoke discoloration are sealed with a stain-blocking primer first, so they don’t bleed back through the finish coat.
Ceilings above 8 feet, vaulted rooms, and two-story stairwells need staging and add setup time—quoted on the estimate as its own line, never as a surprise.

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Trim, Doors & Windows

The finish work that makes a room look professionally painted. Each item is priced individually, so you can add exactly what you want.

Painted baseboard, casing and door — Home Strategy LLC, Michigan

Baseboard & Trim

Baseboard, casing, chair rail, and crown

From $2.90/linear ft

Gaps between trim and wall are caulked, and old drips and brush ridges are sanded flat. This preparation is what produces a sharp, smooth trim line.
Satin, semi-gloss, or high gloss. We will recommend which holds up best for the room—high-traffic areas need a more durable sheen than a formal dining room.
Painting over stained or varnished woodwork requires deglossing and a bonding primer. It costs more, and we state that up front, because skipping the step causes the finish to peel.

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Doors & Frames

Priced separately—frames often need paint when the doors don’t

From $70/door, both sides

$50 frame & casing, both sides $120 door and frame together

Knobs, latch plates, and stops are removed and reinstalled—never painted over or taped around.
Front, back, the latch edge, and the surrounding jamb and casing. If only one side of a door needs paint, it is priced at half.
A flat slab door and a six-panel door are not the same work. Heavily detailed, louvered, or French doors are quoted individually on the estimate.

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Window Trim

Sash, sill, casing, and stool

From $30/window

Glass is masked before painting. Any stray paint is cleaned off the same day, before it cures onto the pane.
The horizontal surfaces that take the most sun and wear are prepped and coated along with the casing, not skipped.
A small bathroom window and a large bay window are priced differently. Each is counted and measured during the walkthrough.

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Drywall Repair

Repair cost tracks how bad the damage is, not how big the room is, so we don’t publish a flat price.

Every repair is measured, photographed, and quoted as its own line on your estimate.

Repaired and repainted drywall — Home Strategy LLC, Michigan

Patches & Nail Pops

Small holes, popped screws, dings and dents

Quotedper repair

Compound is built up in coats and feathered wide so the repair disappears under paint instead of showing as a bump in side light.
Bare compound drinks paint differently than the wall around it. Every patch is primed so the finished wall has one uniform sheen.
When repairs are done as part of a painting job, they’re priced as an add-on to that room rather than as a separate trip—which is almost always cheaper.

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Older Homes

Cracks & Skim Coating

Settlement cracks, damaged seams, skim coating

Quotedby the wall

Cracks are opened up, taped where movement requires it, and rebuilt in coats. Filler applied over an active crack reopens within a season, so we do not take that shortcut.
Each coat has to dry before the next. Significant crack and skim work takes two to three visits per wall, and the schedule states this before you commit.
Repair cost tracks how bad the damage is, not how big the room is. We photograph and measure each affected wall and price it as its own line item.
Older homes carry extra requirements when painted surfaces are disturbed. Tell us the year the home was built and we’ll confirm the right approach before scheduling.

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Water & Stain Damage

Ceiling stains, peeling paint, past leaks

Quotedper repair

Peeling paint and soft, failed material is scraped back to a sound edge before anything new goes on top of it.
Tannin, smoke, and water stains bleed through ordinary paint—sometimes weeks later. A proper blocking primer stops that permanently.
Painting over an active leak wastes money. If the source looks unresolved, we tell you before quoting the repair.

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Accent Walls & Color

A single wall can change a room, and color and sheen guidance is included with every estimate.

Accent Wall

A single wall in a new color

From $225/wall

The line where the accent color stops is cut by hand at the corner for a clean, straight edge.
Saturated reds, deep blues, and near-blacks often need a tinted primer plus three coats to look right. The estimate says so up front—three coats quoted as three coats.
Adding an accent wall to a room we’re already painting costs less than a standalone visit, since setup and cleanup are already covered.

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Color & Sheen Consultation

Help choosing before you commit

Includedwith every estimate

Flat paint hides imperfections but wears quickly in high-traffic areas; eggshell and satin clean up well but show surface flaws. We match the sheen to how the room is actually used.
Which colors to sample, where to place the samples, and what time of day to review them—so you do not end up repainting a room to correct a color choice.
Paint is included in every line price: two coats of Sherwin-Williams Duration Home, supplied by us. If you have already purchased paint or prefer a specific line, tell us at the walkthrough and the estimate reflects it.

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Whole-Home Interior

Multiple rooms, one schedule, one price

$5,250–$9,000typical

Most 1,500–2,000 sq ft interiors land in this range depending on scope, ceiling height, and repair. Your estimate prices your actual rooms.
Rooms are scheduled so you always have somewhere to sleep, cook, and work. Vacant homes and rentals get a compressed schedule instead.
If the total is more than you want to spend, we remove whole line items and the price drops accordingly. Whatever remains is completed to the same standard.

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How Pricing Works

What These Numbers Mean

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All-Inclusive

Published prices include labor, Sherwin-Williams paint, primer, and materials. Duration Home on walls, ceiling flat on ceilings, and a urethane trim enamel on woodwork. Emerald Symmetry is available on request for the difference in material cost.

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Starting Points

“From” prices reflect a standard room with 8-foot ceilings and typical condition. Larger rooms, higher ceilings, heavy repair, and stained woodwork add to it—each as a visible line on your estimate.

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$350 Painting Minimum

Any painting job carries a $350 painting minimum, which covers setup, materials, and cleanup. Small jobs are best bundled with other work in the same trip.

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Fixed Before You Commit

Your estimate is a fixed price, good for 30 days. 25% deposit to schedule, balance on completion, and a 1-year workmanship warranty on everything we paint.

What we don’t do

We prefer to be clear about this up front:

Exterior painting. Interior only for now. (Exterior cleaning is a different matter—house power washing is on the maintenance services list.)
Wallpaper removal as a standalone job—though we’ll quote it when it’s in the way of painting.
Structural drywall replacement. We repair cracks, holes, nail pops and water damage. Rebuilding a wall is a different trade.
Popcorn or textured ceiling removal. We’ll paint them; taking them down is specialty work.

If a job is outside what we do, we say so on the spot.

Our Work

Our Recent Work

Every photo here is a real home in Oakland or Livingston County, photographed the day the work was completed. Each caption notes the job and the location.