Interior Painting in the GTA

A single room is usually one day. A three-bedroom home with walls, ceilings and trim runs three to five working days with a crew of two to three. Occupied homes take slightly longer than empty ones because we stage room by room so you always have somewhere to live. Plaster repair, wallpaper removal and cabinet work all add days on top and are quoted separately.

No. The large majority of our interior work happens in occupied homes. We stage the job so bedrooms are finished and back in use before we start on living areas, and modern low-VOC paint means rooms are re-occupiable the same evening. If someone in the house is pregnant, asthmatic or chemically sensitive, say so at the walkthrough and we will schedule around sleeping areas and specify a zero-VOC product.

Two, on essentially every wall. One coat over a same-colour wall can look acceptable on the day and then flash unevenly within a month as the sheen settles. The genuine exceptions are rare: a brand-new, factory-primed surface in a same-family colour can sometimes take one. Any quote offering "one coat coverage" as a standard is quoting a thinner job, not a better paint.

If the walls are changing colour meaningfully, yes, the old ceiling line will read as dingy against fresh walls, and the cut line between the two is the hardest thing to fix later without repainting the wall anyway. Ceilings are cheap to do while the room is already protected and expensive to do on their own afterwards.

Matte or a modern washable matte for ceilings and low-traffic walls, eggshell for living areas and bedrooms, satin for kitchens, bathrooms and hallways where hands and bags hit the wall. Higher sheen is more scrubbable but shows every imperfection in the drywall behind it, on a wavy hundred-year-old plaster wall, sheen is your enemy.