Interior Painting & High-End Custom Decorative Painting Services for New York City
Whether you require the painting and decorating of a home, office, store, or even a church, NYC Painters is the perfect choice. We will work around your needs and your times, causing minimum disruption to your home life. We will treat your timetable as a fixed deadline – not just a guideline!
Our success is based on combining experienced, fully qualified residential and commercial decorators and painters, rigorous quality control and flexible hours of working. We use eco-paints with no smell if that is what you need. According to our clients we are one of the best painting and decorating companies in NYC.
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Almost no NYC apartment wall is bare plaster anymore — it's latex paint over plaster, or latex over drywall, sometimes ten coats deep. Limewash can still go over it, but only with the right primer underneath. This guide covers which primer, how prep changes for flat versus glossy paint, the painted-brick exception, and the lead-paint rule that matters in pre-war buildings.
Read MoreA limewash job in a Manhattan apartment usually lands well above a standard repaint, because the finish is brushed on by hand in thin coats and the prep is fussier. Here's what drives the price room by room, what the materials cost, and where you can save without wrecking the finish.
Read MoreLimewash and whitewash sound like two names for the same pale brick finish, but in a Manhattan apartment they behave very differently. One is a mineral finish that bonds with bare brick; the other is usually thinned paint sitting on top of it. Which one belongs on your wall comes down to what your brick already has on it, and how much of the brick you still want to see.
Read MoreLimewash isn't just flat paint with a fancy name. It's crushed limestone, water, and mineral pigment that turns back into stone on your wall — and in a pre-war Manhattan apartment with real plaster, that difference shows. Here's what it is, what it costs, how it goes on, and the rooms where we'd talk you out of it.
Read MoreHell's Kitchen runs on railroad flats — rooms in a line, no hallway, light at both ends and a dark middle room. A working painter's guide to the color ideas that actually work in them: one warm white down the whole train, how to handle the windowless middle room, and the color-drenching trick that erases the tunnel feeling.
Read MoreInwood is the northernmost tip of Manhattan — a 196-acre old-growth forest, pre-war rent-stabilized apartments, and the borough's last relatively affordable rents. A working painter's guide to what that means for paint: the plaster, the light, the turnover work, and the colors that actually fit.
Read MoreBattery Park City apartments get more natural light than almost anywhere else in Manhattan — and that changes the rules for paint color. Here's how to pick colors that work with waterfront views instead of fighting them.
Read MoreTenement-era Lower East Side apartments were built dark: narrow lots, room-after-room railroad layouts, and airshaft windows. This guide shows how NYC painters brighten them — which light-reflectance values actually bounce light around, the warm whites and greiges that work in low light, the plaster prep tenement walls demand, and what a repaint costs in 2026.
Read MoreFinancial District condos are a different animal — floor-to-ceiling glass, concrete columns, and smooth walls that show every flaw. Our painters break down the sheens, techniques, and condo-board rules that get a sleek, flawless finish in FiDi's modern towers.
Read MoreEast Village apartments are small, old, and full of character — and the wrong paint makes them feel like shoeboxes. Our painters share the color ideas, light-reflectance tricks, and renter rules that make walk-ups, railroad flats, and tenement studios feel bigger than they are.
Read MoreTribeca lofts are warehouses first and apartments second, and they paint like it. A working painter's guide to 12-foot ceilings, exposed brick, timber beams, and cast-iron columns — plus the colors that actually work inside these cavernous floor plates.
Read MoreWest Village brownstones pair landmark status with tiny floor plans and 150-year-old plaster. Here's how to paint them right — no LPC approval needed for interiors, lead-safe prep for old woodwork, and the color tricks that make small rooms feel bigger.
Read MorePainting a high-rise condo in Midtown isn't like painting anywhere else in Manhattan: the building's management office sets the rules, the floor-to-ceiling glass sets the palette, and everything else is logistics. Here's how we handle the COI paperwork, elevator windows, sheen choices for window walls, zero-VOC paint for recirculated air, and what a full repaint really costs.
Read MorePainting a classic Upper West Side doorman apartment is mostly a color problem: the architecture is the star, the rooms are grand but light-starved, and the building's rules shape everything. Here's how we approach paint colors in these pre-war buildings — from the landmarked blocks of Central Park West to the West End Avenue corridor.
Read MoreWe approached about 32 NYC painting companies for this survey. All have been given an opportunity to provide a virtual quote for a particular apartment on Zillow. We asked for all the walls, ceilings, baseboards & door to be painted, including the closets.
Read MoreIn December 2024 we approached about 25 NYC painting companies for this survey. All have been given an opportunity to provide a virtual quote for a particular apartment on Zillow. We asked for all the walls, ceilings, baseboards & door to be painted, including the closets.
Read MoreWe asked 30 NYC painting companies to provide an estimate for their services for a particular apartment in NYC. See their estimates, including tax, paint and materials. We have excluded companies that ignored our repeated attempts to contact them or that have no reviews on Yelp.
Read MorePainting your apartment is the long-overdue makeover it needs. It comes with questions like “should I DIY or hire professionals?”, “What’s my budget?” and “How soon can it be completed?”. We get it; hence freeing up your time while getting the best look for your space comes first. Apart from cost, we wanted to share some quick tips on how to choose a reliable painting business for the job
We asked over 20 painting companies to provide an estimate to paint everything in a 1100 sq.ft 3-bedroom 2-bathroom apartment in Jersey City. We then checked their Yelp reviews to select the best painters in Jersey City by price and quality of services.
Read MoreHow much does it cost to paint an apartment in NYC.
Are you excited to update your New York City apartment? Whether you are undertaking major renovations, or just giving a few rooms a facelift, a fresh coat of paint can go a long way to make your home look great. Choosing the right NYC painters is an important step to ensuring that you love the outcome when the project is finished.
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