Charleston home painting that holds up to Lowcountry weather

Charleston is a hard place to keep paint on a building. Humidity sits high most of the year, afternoon storms roll through from spring into fall, and anything within a few miles of the harbor takes salt in the air. Add the sun load on a south facing wall and a finish that would last a decade in a dry climate starts giving up early here. That is the reason our estimates start with a look at the surface rather than a look at the color deck.

Charleston Painting Contractors has been painting homes in this market since 2008, and the work spans everything from a single bedroom repaint to a full exterior on a century old house south of Broad. We are locally owned and family operated, licensed, insured, and bonded, and every surface our crew paints carries a 3 year guarantee against peeling, cracking, and blistering.

Interior home painting in Charleston

Interior work is mostly about the parts nobody photographs. Nail pops and hairline cracks get patched and sanded before primer. Old wallpaper comes off rather than getting sealed over. Popcorn ceilings get scraped, skimmed, and refinished flat. Trim, doors, and molding get cut in by hand, not chased with a taped line and hope.

Because so much Charleston housing stock predates 1978, we handle interiors under EPA Lead-Safe practices as a matter of course, which means containment and cleanup are built into the schedule instead of bolted on. We work in Benjamin Moore and Sherwin Williams, and low VOC water based products are available when a household has small children, pets, or anyone sensitive to fumes.

• Whole home and single room repaints
• Ceilings, trim, molding, doors, and built ins
• Drywall repair, patching, and skim coating
• Popcorn ceiling and wallpaper removal
• Free color consultation before anything gets ordered

Exterior home painting in Charleston

Exterior projects live or die on preparation. We soft wash first to pull off mildew, chalking, and pollen, then scrape and sand failing coatings back to a sound edge. Rotted trim and siding get replaced rather than filled. Stucco cracks get opened and patched. Joints get caulked, bare wood gets primed, and only then does topcoat go on.

Product selection changes by exposure. A shaded north elevation under live oaks has a mildew problem, not a UV problem, and the reverse is true on the west side of the same house. Homes in the historic district come with their own constraints, and we have worked inside those rules long enough to know where the approvals matter. If you want the traditional palette, Charleston Green on shutters and Haint Blue on a porch ceiling still read correctly here.

• Siding, trim, shutters, and soffits
• Porches, verandas, balconies, columns, and railings
• Decks, fences, and front entryways
• Wood rot and stucco repair before paint
• Historic restoration and repaints

Where we work

We paint homes across the Charleston metro, from downtown and the peninsula out through the islands and up the Ashley.

Charleston · Johns Island · James Island · West Ashley · Mount Pleasant · Daniel Island · Sullivan’s Island · Isle of Palms · North Charleston · Summerville · Kiawah Island · Seabrook Island · Wadmalaw · Edisto