- Body: Lichen
- Trim: Parchment
- Door and sashes: Damson
A Queen Anne in three colours
1890s Queen Anne, Elm Street
- Days on site
- 11 days
- Cost
- $18,400 all in
Booking spring exteriors
House painters · Maple Ford, Vermont
Colour, laid on clean.
Interiors, exteriors and cabinets painted by a family crew that fills every crack before the first coat, and leaves your house tidier than we found it.
- painting Maple Ford
- Since 2009
- price before we start
- Written
- touch-up guarantee
- 2 years
What we paint
Inside, outside and everything between
Six kinds of work, from one bedroom before the baby comes to a Victorian in three colours.
How a job runs
Most of the work is under the paint
A finish is only as good as the layers below it. Here is what goes on your walls, in order.
Prices →- 01
A free visit
We look at the rooms or the house, test old paint for lead where it matters and paint large samples if you're choosing colours.
- 02
A written price
One price for the whole job, with the prep, the paint and the number of coats spelled out. A deposit holds the start date.
- 03
Prep first
Furniture moved and covered, cracks filled and sanded, bare patches primed. On the outside, washing and scraping.
- 04
Two coats
Edges cut in by hand, then two full coats, ceilings first, walls next, trim last. Cleaned up every evening.
- 05
The walk-round
We go round together with a roll of tape and touch up anything you mark. Then you pay, and the two-year guarantee starts.
Recent projects
Fresh off the drop cloths
A few jobs from this season: what we painted, how long it took, the colours and what it cost.
- Cabinets: Bottle green
- Walls: Limewash white
Honey oak to bottle green
Farmhouse kitchen, Hollis Road
- Days on site
- 6 days
- Cost
- $5,600 with new brass handles
- Everything: Midnight ink
- Floor stays: Oak
A living room painted dark, ceiling and all
1920s cape, Brook Street
- Days on site
- 3 days
- Cost
- $2,450
- painting in Maple Ford since
- 2009
- rooms painted
- 1,900+
- house fronts
- 340
- always, never one
- 2 coats
- touch-up guarantee
- 2 years
Where the crews go
Larkspur Painting Co. 14 Mill Pond Road Maple Ford, VTBoth crews leave the shop on Mill Pond Road, by the river. We paint in Maple Ford and every town within twenty kilometres, from May to October outside and all year inside.
Get directions
Guides
Notes from the colour desk
Choosing a white that isn't cold
Why the same white looks grey in one room and yellow in the next, and how to pick one in five minutes with three samples.
Why exterior paint peels
Peeling, blistering and chalking each have a different cause. Here's how to read your siding before you repaint it.
Before we arrive: getting a room ready
The clients' checklist: what to move, what to leave to us, and how to keep the house running while we paint.
A colour note each season
Four short notes a year from Tess: a colour that's working in Vermont houses right now, when to book an exterior, and one small job that makes a room look freshly painted.
Thinking about a colour? Let's paint a sample.
Tell us which rooms or which side of the house, and send a photo if you have one. We'll come over, paint large samples on your walls and leave a written price.
