Updated pg 2! How much should we pay for interior painting?

[jenn248]

I think our girls' rooms are a bit smaller than that and I want to say it was $300ish per room? That was just for the walls and trim, not the ceilings.

[livinthemiatalife]

I just paid $400 for one 11x13ish room and they papered one wall.


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[kaycee]

I'd expect about $1-2 per square foot.

[boiler717]

I'd say $250/room plus paint.

[krystee]

We just received two bids for one bedroom. One was $450 (which I thought was very high) and one was $165. That was lower than we were expecting. I think $400-$475 would be what I'd pay for two.

[pinotgrig]

We paid $600 about 4 months ago to have the boys' rooms painted. Included paint.

[whitemerlot]

We paid $300 a bedroom with no trim or ceilings. It included Sherwin Williams paint.

[chicago]

$600 for both rooms seems about right. We paid $400 for walls and trim in DD's room and it was the mid-range of quotes we got. Paint not included.

[motzie]

We have a friend who paints and gives us a super cheap deal and the last two rooms were around $150-200, not including paint. So $300 per sounds pretty good.

[thebreakfastclub]

We just paid $200 for a big master bath that has portions with 14' high walls.

[redpenmama]

We paid $150 to have DD's 15x12 room with 8' ceilings painted before we moved in. It was new construction, so the ceilings and trim didn't need to be painted. Sounds like we got a deal.

[puppylove64]

dh is a contracter and got a buddy quote, it was $1/sq ft plus paint. 10x10 room equals $100

[jewel]

Painting suuuuuucks. I'd pay $600 for someone else to do it.

I have a handyman that I use for little jobs. He did a pretty big drywall repair and painted the whole room for less than $300 recently. It's a risk - they don't have to be licensed for jobs under $500 (I think?) so you could get someone good and cheap, or crappy and cheap.

[VillainV]

Jul 23, 2016 16:00:48 GMT -5 @this said:

Hm, maybe it's not that crazy. Maybe I'm just cheap. It was $600 for both rooms.

Considering I paid more that to have one room painted, and it only had 2.5 walls, I think that's reasonable. Depends on how much trim work there is, too. If you figure it will take one solid weekend per room....I think I'd just go with it. Also, does this price include the paint?

[harrylauder]

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[holly116]

As much as painting sucks, this is why we always just suck it up and do it ourselves. I bet you could knock it out in one day since the walls are in nearly new condition.

[kermit]

Damn, I should start a painting business. I always do it myself and just painted the interior of our rental house. $600 seems super high. If I was going to charge I'd prob say somewhere around $300 total.

[wanderingenough]

I think I paid $300 for DS's nursery about that size, but that included choice of whatever brand of paint.

Also now I have a Ludacris song stuck in my head.

[icedcoffee]

We're paying $1200 next week for 1 room that size, a 4 foot bathroom vanity and a half bath that's pretty small. That price seems very reasonable to me. Home repair sucks and is expensive!

[soozy87]

Our painter charges $32/hr plus paint for indoor jobs.

[broadsheet]

We paid $400 for a very small bedroom (can't remember if that included paint) in a LCOL area.

[marie3246]

We just got a ton of quotes for our house. Its 2000 sq ft. Anywhere from 2k-5k. We ended up going with someone who is doing it for 2300 not including paint. Not sure what he charges per room though.

[turtlegirl]

Oh man, these estimates are making me nervous. We really want to have our garage painted soon. Becuase the prep of cleaning, patching holes, high cielongs, strange corners, etc seems like a lot more work than we are willing to take on. I'm sure it's going to be painful to pay $$$ since we normally DIY regular interior painting.

[polarbearfans]

That sounds high for no trim work. I would expect $400-$450 including closets.

[sent]

Our painter wanted around $800 to paint DD's room. This included removing a strip of wallpaper and paint and I also believe to paint the trims. I didn't do it because I was already spending $4000 to remove the previous owners wallpaper all throughout the downstairs and to paint over wood paneling in the basement. I figured Didi could live with the strip of wallpaper with musical instruments on it. My dad wound up finding someone else to repaint her room with energetic pink at a lot cheaper of a price.

[sent]

Our painter wanted around $800 to paint DD's room. This included removing a strip of wallpaper and paint and I also believe to paint the trims. I didn't do it because I was already spending $4000 to remove the previous owners wallpaper all throughout the downstairs and to paint over wood paneling in the basement. I figured DD could live with the strip of wallpaper with musical instruments on it. My dad wound up finding someone else to repaint her room with energetic pink at a lot cheaper of a price.

[h]

$600 is in line with if not lower than what I would expect, having paid for a lot of pairing over the last couple years in a L-MCOL area.

[simpsongal]

Jul 23, 2016 20:46:52 GMT -5 kermit said:

Damn, I should start a painting business. I always do it myself and just painted the interior of our rental house. $600 seems super high. If I was going to charge I'd prob say somewhere around $300 total.

hehe this is where I'm at. I do all painting at our house. Even though I'm third trimester i'm working on painting our basement. Painting is easy. It's skim coating poorly done dry wall and other issues that's taking forever. I would have been done with primer and 2 topcoats if the drywall wasn't so awful.

But I'm all for throwing money at problems when necessary.

[aspentosh]

That seems right, which is why I always go "I should pay someone" and then "HAHAHAHAHAHA" when I get the quote.

I actually enjoy painting. It's just finding the time.