How much extra do multiple colors cost?

Every additional color is another masking sequence and another set of edges, so it is real labor rather than a rounding error, and on this housing stock it is usually worth it, because a well-resolved three-color scheme is what makes these facades look right. Your estimate prices the scheme rather than burying it.

My house is in a historic district. Does that change anything?

It can. Some properties carry review on street-facing changes, and it is worth confirming your situation before colors are ordered. We will raise it at the estimate; the approval itself sits with you and the relevant authority. Our guide to painting older homes in the Twin Cities covers what to expect in more depth.

Can you match the original color scheme?

Usually. We take a reading from an unweathered area, under a porch soffit or behind a shutter, rather than from a sun-faded wall, because matching to faded paint gives you a color nobody chose.

How long does a Victorian exterior take?

Longer than the three to four days a typical home takes. A heavily detailed facade is commonly a week or more, and the estimate gives you real dates rather than a range.

Do you paint porches, columns and rails?

Constantly, it is the most requested single element in this city, and often the most urgent, because a porch takes weather from three sides.

What about the garage and the fence?

Both can be included, and the alley-facing structures in this city are frequently in worse condition than the house because nobody looks at them. They are itemized separately so you can decide — see our deck and fence staining page for what that covers.

Do you work on duplexes and multi-unit buildings?

Yes, this city has a lot of them, and they are quoted with a written scope you can share with a co-owner or an association.

What does the warranty cover?

Workmanship, for two to five years depending on the scope of the job, in writing, with a 30-day touch-up window on top.

Is my St. Paul home too old for lead-safe painting?

No home is too old, but most St. Paul homes built before 1978 need lead-safe prep by law. That means EPA-compliant containment, hand scraping instead of open sanding, and proper collection and disposal of paint chips and dust. It is itemized on your estimate rather than assumed, so you know it is being done before work starts. See our full guide to lead paint testing in Minnesota for more.

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QUICK ANSWER

What Painters Charge in St. Paul, MN

Painting costs in St. Paul span a wide range, because the work itself varies more here than almost anywhere else in the metro. A full exterior repaint typically runs $6,000 to $12,000: a modest Como or Frogtown house with straightforward siding can sit near $4,000, while a Summit Hill Victorian with bracket work, spindle rails and three colors can pass $12,000, and the difference is almost entirely brushwork. Interior painting is quoted by room, roughly $600 to $700 for walls in a standard 12x12 bedroom ($300 to $400 for the ceiling, $500 to $800 for trim). When a house needs wood repair before it can be painted, that work is priced and itemized as its own line on the estimate, never folded quietly into the total. Every figure here is written down after a free estimate.

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WHAT MAKES THIS CITY DIFFERENT

Why St. Paul Homes Take More Time Than Their Square Footage Suggests

St. Paul's core was built from the late 1800s through the 1930s, and Summit Avenue holds the longest intact stretch of Victorian-era homes in the country. That heritage shapes exterior and interior work alike on St. Paul's older homes: elaborate millwork outside, plaster walls and original trim inside. It is also why a square-foot quote, on either side of the house, is close to meaningless here.

Detail cannot be sprayed

Hand work, not sprayed work, is what this housing stock requires:

Brackets, spindles and dentil courses
Porch columns and corbels
Fish-scale shingle
Multi-profile casings
Divided-light sashes

A crew can spray a plain suburban elevation in a morning and spend three days on a porch of the same visible area. Any bid that does not distinguish between those two things has not priced your house. The same standard applies inside: original woodwork, plaster walls and older stairwells get the same hand-finished care, because a rushed coat shows on a hundred-year-old profile the way it never would on flat modern trim.

Multi-color schemes are normal here, and the cut lines are the finish

Two, three and occasionally four colors across body, trim, sash and accent are standard on this housing stock. Every additional color is another masking sequence, another set-up and another set of edges, and a wandering cut line on a spindle rail is what people notice from the sidewalk for the next eight years.

Original wood is under everything

Sills, sash, porch floors, columns and rails on a house of this age have taken a century of freeze-thaw. Wood repair is not an exception on a St. Paul exterior; it is a line item you should expect to see, and its absence from a quote is a warning rather than a saving.

Preservation matters on some streets and not on others

In and around the historic districts, color and finish decisions get looked at, and there are properties where changes to a street-facing facade carry review. Summit Avenue alone still carries 373 of its original 440 homes, the longest intact stretch of Victorian-era homes anywhere in the country, and that kind of concentration is exactly why review exists here. That is worth establishing at the estimate rather than discovering later.

Older houses get more care, as standard

Century-old construction is the rule across this city's core, and most of it predates 1978, which means lead-safe practices are not optional. Our crews follow EPA-compliant containment and cleanup on every pre-1978 home: work areas are contained, there is no open sanding, and paint chips and dust are collected and disposed of properly. For the full breakdown of what that involves and why it matters on a St. Paul repaint, see our guide to lead paint testing in Minnesota.

ACROSS THE CITY

Durahome Serves Saint Paul Neighborhood by Neighborhood

The housing changes sharply as you move across St. Paul, and so does the work.

The Victorian and Queen Anne heart of the city, and the most detailed exteriors we take on anywhere in the metro. Multi-color schemes, extensive porch structures, and facades that get looked at.

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Summit Hill and Cathedral Hill

The Victorian and Queen Anne heart of the city, and the most detailed exteriors we take on anywhere in the metro. Multi-color schemes, extensive porch structures, and facades that get looked at.

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OUR COMMITMENT

Wherever your house sits on that spectrum, the estimate is written for the house rather than for the postcode.

WHAT WE DO HERE

Painting Services for St. Paul Homes

From exterior repaints and trim updates to interior painting and cabinet refinishing across St. Paul.

HIGH-DURABILITY FINISH

Exterior Painting

The city's hardest job and our most requested. Wash, scrape, sand, repair the wood, caulk, prime, then a multi-color scheme cut by hand.

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CLEAN & PRECISE

Interior Painting

Plaster, deep original woodwork, stairwells and the built-ins that come with this era of house.

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SPRAYED ENAMEL FINISH

Cabinet Painting

Kitchens across the city, plus the original built-in buffets and bookcases in the older stock, which deserve a careful conversation before anything is painted.

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SMOOTH & MODERN

Popcorn Ceiling Removal

Most common in the mid-century housing on the East Side and in later basement finishes elsewhere.

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WEATHER PROTECTION

Deck & Fence Staining

Stripped, sanded, repaired and stained, including the porch floors and steps this city is full of.

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RESTORE & REFRESH

Pressure Washing

The first stage of every exterior repaint, and worth doing alone each spring.

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MINIMAL DISRUPTION

Commercial Painting

Offices, retail, multi-unit common areas, exteriors and roof coating.

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WHAT YOU END UP HOLDING

Every Document You Get

The single most common complaint about painting contractors is not the finish, it is that nothing was ever written down. Here is the paper trail on a Durahome project, and why each piece exists.

Itemized by surface: what is being painted, the prep specified for each, the products and the number of coats, the protection, the timeline, the warranty term, and anything explicitly excluded. On a St. Paul house that exclusions list matters, a porch column you have decided to defer is written down so it is never ambiguous in September.

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The written estimate

Itemized by surface: what is being painted, the prep specified for each, the products and the number of coats, the protection, the timeline, the warranty term, and anything explicitly excluded. On a St. Paul house that exclusions list matters, a porch column you have decided to defer is written down so it is never ambiguous in September.

✓ Written Guarantee Included✓ Zero Ambiguity Promise

The written warranty. Two to five years depending on the scope, plus a 30-day touch-up window afterwards. If something comes up inside the term, it gets made right, and the escalation path behind that promise is documented too: your foreman, then the production manager, then the owner.

IN THEIR WORDS

What Homeowners Say

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Durahome made painting the exterior of my house a breeze. Consultation, quote, colors, and a three-day completion with courteous, conscientious painters and a final inspection walk.

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Durahome are fantastic people. Responsive throughout, careful attention to plants (800+ bulbs, undamaged), and a crew that came back to touch up spots after the final estimate.

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THE CALENDAR

Booking Your St. Paul Painting Project

Exterior painting here runs roughly May through early October, and St. Paul fills earlier than most of the metro for one specific reason: the houses take longer. A detailed facade is a week rather than three days, so a crew's season holds fewer St. Paul projects than it holds suburban ones, and the good slots go early.

NOV – MARWinter Estimate & Scope

MAY – JUNSpring Prep & Wood Repair

JUL – SEPPeak Exterior Cure Window

OCTOBERFinal Exterior Wrap-Up

SEASONAL FACTOR 01

Detailed facades scheduling

A detailed facade is a week rather than three days, so a crew's season holds fewer St. Paul projects than suburban ones, and the good slots go early.

SEASONAL FACTOR 02

Winter estimate advantage

Practically, that means an estimate over the winter is the difference between the dates you want and the dates that are left. There is no obligation attached to it, and a scope written in February is a scope with time to think about color in.

SEASONAL FACTOR 03

Spring vs late summer window

Spring is when the winter's damage is visible and least expensive to address. A split sill or an open joint found in May is a repair; the same one found in October has had a summer of rain in it. Late summer and early fall bring the most stable cure conditions of the year.

SEASONAL FACTOR 04

Year-round interior window

Interior painting, cabinet work and popcorn ceiling removal run year-round, which is why many households here run the exterior inside the weather window and the interior over the winter, on one relationship and one standard.

WORTH KNOWING

The Four Failures We Are Most Often Called In to Correct

A useful way to judge a bid is to know what the common failures look like, because each of them is caused by a specific corner being cut. These are the four we see most on this city's houses.

FAILURE CASE 01

Peeling that starts at the porch

A porch ceiling, floor and column set take weather from three directions and dry more slowly than any other part of the house. When the previous crew treated the porch as an extension of the wall, same prep, same product, same day, it is the first thing to let go, usually within three seasons.

✓ Prevented in Durahome Surface Prep

FAILURE CASE 02

A wandering cut line on spindles and sash

The finish on a detailed facade is the edges. Rushed brushwork on a rail or a divided-light sash reads as untidy from the sidewalk forever, and it cannot be fixed later without redoing the element.

✓ Prevented in Durahome Surface Prep

FAILURE CASE 03

Coating over soft wood

A sill or a column base that was painted rather than repaired looks perfect on handover day and fails structurally inside two years, at which point the repair costs several times what it would have. This is the single most expensive shortcut available on an older house and it is invisible at handover, which is exactly why it happens.

✓ Prevented in Durahome Surface Prep

FAILURE CASE 04

Caulk applied over a joint that was never cleaned

Sealant needs a sound, clean, dry surface to bond to. Run over old failed caulk and dirt, it looks right for a summer and opens at the first hard freeze, and an open joint on a century-old facade is how water gets into the wall.

✓ Prevented in Durahome Surface Prep

PREVENTION GUARANTEE

None of these is exotic. All four are prevented in the preparation stage, which is why our estimates spell prep out surface by surface and why the crews photograph it as they go.

LOCAL

Not a Franchise, and Not a Seasonal Crew

01

Local Metro Presence

Durahome Painting Plus is a local company working this metro every week. That is not a slogan; it is what makes the rest of the page true.

02

Warranty Backup & Experienced Judgment

A written warranty is only worth what the crew's ability to come back is worth. A committed start date only holds if the people keeping it are working nearby. And the judgment that separates painting contractors on a street like this, knowing which trim profile is going to take a day, or which porch column is sound under the paint and which is not, comes from doing this work here repeatedly rather than from a franchise manual.

03

Experienced & Dedicated Crews

We are fully insured, with general liability and workers' compensation on every crew member and warranty included. Our painters bring years of hands-on experience working on Twin Cities homes, which is why the same crew that starts your house finishes it. St. Paul sits in the 651 area code, and we work the surrounding cities too: Minneapolis, Roseville, White Bear Lake, Woodbury, Eagan and out through the rest of the metro.

ST. PAUL HEADQUARTERS

504 Prior Ave N, Saint Paul, MN 55104 · Call (612) 250 5396 · Two to Five Year Warranty – depending on scope

LOCAL EXPERTS

Proudly Painting St. Paul

We are a local Twin Cities company, not a national franchise. Serving St. Paul and surrounding neighborhoods with experienced, dedicated painting crews.

• Summit Hill• Cathedral Hill• Macalester-Groveland• Highland Park• Como Park• St. Anthony Park• Merriam Park• Hamline-Midway• Frogtown• North End• Payne-Phalen• West Seventh• Highwood• Battle Creek• Sunray• East Side

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🎨 PALETTE USED:

Curio Gray (SW 0024)

Alabaster (SW 7008)

Interiors📍 Minneapolis, MN

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Pure White Vaulted Living

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Pure White (SW 7005)

Natural Pine Trim

Interiors📍 St. Paul, MN

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Hale Navy Kitchen Cabinets

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Hale Navy (BM HC-154)

Interiors📍 Minneapolis, MN

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Ripe Olive Accent Fireplace

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Ripe Olive (SW 6209)

Pure White Walls

Exteriors📍 Minneapolis, MN

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Alabaster & Blue Cruise Exterior

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Alabaster (SW 7008)

Blue Cruise (SW 7606)

Interiors📍 St. Paul, MN

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Clary Sage Living Room

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Clary Sage (SW 6178)

Soft Cream Trim

Exteriors📍 Minneapolis, MN

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Fashionable Gray & White Siding

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Fashionable Gray (SW 6275)

Extra White Siding

Exteriors📍 Roseville, MN

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Suburban Cedar Fence Staining

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Natural Cedar

Dovetail Charcoal

Exteriors📍 Minneapolis, MN

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Smoky Blue & White Siding

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Smoky Blue (SW 7604)

Extra White Trim

Interiors📍 Eden Prairie, MN

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Pure White Foyer & Living

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Pure White (SW 7005)

Natural Oak Trim

Interiors📍 Minneapolis, MN

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Creamy Kitchen Cabinets

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Creamy (SW 7012)

Interiors📍 Edina, MN

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Gray Owl Dining Room

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Gray Owl (OC-52)

Pure White Trim

Exteriors📍 St. Paul, MN

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Black Fox & White Exterior

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Black Fox (SW 7020)

Extra White (SW 7006)

Exteriors📍 St. Paul, MN

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Charles Olive-Tan Stucco Exterior

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Charles Tan/Green

Charles Black

Interiors📍 St. Paul, MN

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Hunter Green Study & Lounge

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Hunter Green (BM 2041-10)

Interiors📍 St. Paul, MN

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Iron Ore Kitchen Island

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Iron Ore (SW 7069)

Exteriors📍 Minneapolis, MN

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Earl Grey Stucco Exterior

🎨 PALETTE USED:

Earl Grey (SW 7660)

Tricorn Black (SW 6258)

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What Painters Charge in St. Paul, MN

Why St. Paul Homes Take More Time Than Their Square Footage Suggests

Detail cannot be sprayed

Multi-color schemes are normal here, and the cut lines are the finish

Original wood is under everything

Preservation matters on some streets and not on others

Older houses get more care, as standard

Durahome Serves Saint Paul Neighborhood by Neighborhood

Summit Hill and Cathedral Hill

Macalester-Groveland and Highland Park

Como Park and St. Anthony Park

Merriam Park and Hamline-Midway

Frogtown, North End and Payne-Phalen

West Seventh and Highwood

Battle Creek, Sunray and the East Side

Summit Hill and Cathedral Hill

Macalester-Groveland and Highland Park

Como Park and St. Anthony Park

Merriam Park and Hamline-Midway

Frogtown, North End and Payne-Phalen

West Seventh and Highwood

Battle Creek, Sunray and the East Side

Painting Services for St. Paul Homes

Exterior Painting

Interior Painting

Cabinet Painting

Popcorn Ceiling Removal

Deck & Fence Staining

Pressure Washing

Commercial Painting

Every Document You Get

The written estimate

The color schedule

The wood repair schedule

The start and finish dates

The daily record

The punch list

The written estimate

What Homeowners Say

Booking Your St. Paul Painting Project

Detailed facades scheduling

Winter estimate advantage

Spring vs late summer window

Year-round interior window

The Four Failures We Are Most Often Called In to Correct

Peeling that starts at the porch

A wandering cut line on spindles and sash

Coating over soft wood

Caulk applied over a joint that was never cleaned

Not a Franchise, and Not a Seasonal Crew

Local Metro Presence

Warranty Backup & Experienced Judgment

Experienced & Dedicated Crews

Proudly Painting St. Paul

Our Recent Transformations

Sanderling & Shiitake Exterior

Tempe Star Stairwell & Entry

Lodge Brown Deck Staining

Curio Gray Stucco Exterior

Pure White Vaulted Living

Hale Navy Kitchen Cabinets

Ripe Olive Accent Fireplace

Alabaster & Blue Cruise Exterior

Clary Sage Living Room

Fashionable Gray & White Siding

Suburban Cedar Fence Staining

Smoky Blue & White Siding

Pure White Foyer & Living

Creamy Kitchen Cabinets

Gray Owl Dining Room

Black Fox & White Exterior

Charles Olive-Tan Stucco Exterior

Hunter Green Study & Lounge

Iron Ore Kitchen Island

Earl Grey Stucco Exterior

Sanderling & Shiitake Exterior

Tempe Star Stairwell & Entry

Lodge Brown Deck Staining