Interior House Painting Across Los Angeles
Aggregate Construction Group is a licensed painting contractor handling interior work across Los Angeles, from single rooms to whole houses and occupied rental units. Interior painting looks like the simplest trade in the house and is the one homeowners most often regret hiring cheaply, because the work that decides the result is finished before any color goes on the wall.
Older Los Angeles houses make that harder than new construction does. Plaster over wood lath does not take patching the way drywall does, and a filled crack in plaster telegraphs back through a fresh coat within months unless the substrate is stabilized first. Hand textured walls from the twenties and thirties need the texture matched, not flattened. We deal with that regularly in the older housing around Westwood and the pre-war streets on the Westside.
Rooms, Surfaces, and Finishes We Paint
We paint walls, ceilings, crown and base trim, door casing and jambs, interior doors, closets, stair railings and risers, garage interiors, and cabinetry. Cabinet refinishing is its own discipline, since sprayed cabinet fronts need degreasing, deglossing, a bonding primer, and cure time before the doors go back on, and skipping any of that is why refinished cabinets chip at the handles within a year. Where cabinets are past refinishing, replacement fronts come out of our carpentry shop, which is usually the honest answer on a kitchen with water damaged boxes rather than tired doors.
The Preparation That Decides How Long the Paint Holds
Preparation is most of the labor on a real interior job. Furniture is moved and covered, floors are protected, and surfaces are washed before anything else happens, because paint over kitchen grease or a bathroom’s soap film will not bond no matter what it cost. Nail pops are reset, drywall damage is patched and sanded flush, plaster cracks are bridged with tape rather than filled and hoped for, and the whole surface is spot primed so patches do not flash through the finish coat. Caulking at trim joints goes in before paint, not after. Where flooring is being replaced in the same project we paint before the floor installation goes in, since the reverse order costs a day of masking and still risks the finish.
Sheens, Color, and How Los Angeles Light Behaves Indoors
Sheen is a durability decision that people treat as a style decision. Flat hides substrate imperfection and is the right call on an older ceiling, but it does not clean, so hallways and children’s rooms want eggshell or satin. Trim and doors take semi-gloss because they get touched. Bathrooms and kitchens want a washable finish with mildew resistance. Color behaves differently here than it does in a showroom, since strong direct sun through south facing windows pushes warm whites yellow through the afternoon and north facing rooms pull the same color grey. We sample on the actual wall and look at it at three points in the day before committing a whole house, which costs an afternoon and saves a repaint. For anything outside the building envelope, see our exterior painting services.
Hiring an Interior Painting Contractor in Los Angeles
Aggregate Construction Group holds California contractor license number 1034714 and carries general liability and workers compensation coverage. Interior painting is quoted with the preparation described room by room, the product line and sheen named per surface, and the coat count stated. Occupied units and tenanted buildings are scheduled so people keep a usable home through the work, the same way we sequence our apartment renovation projects. Request a walkthrough and we will confirm scope, timeline, and next steps within one business day.