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A member of our team painting the pale tree’s branches onto the oxblood wall beside the bed
Oxblood walls and a tree, painted by hand, Zionsville

Interior painting that makes you love coming home

Crisp lines, smooth walls, and fresh color, from the front door to the bedroom ceiling.

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Talk with Greg or Gabriel now, until 10 p.m. Text us any time. Greg or Gabriel will reply first thing in the morning.

What should you look for in an interior painter?

Perfect prep, immaculate cleanup, and one company for the whole job, so your home feels new again. We repaint walls, ceilings, trim, windows, and doors north of Indianapolis, and also plaster, build built-ins, set up lighting, and repair wall and trim damage. The free design visit takes 20 to 45 minutes and ends with one fixed quote, in writing.

Rooms where paint and finishes meet

Our own work, in Indiana homes.

  • The oxblood bedroom under a glowing woven ceiling light, with a carved four-poster bed and the painted tree
    Oxblood bedroom with a painted tree, Zionsville In this home, each room is a mood of its own, made to shine at the hour it is used and for what happens there. The bedroom is drenched in deep oxblood, with a pale tree and birds painted across the wall. The same home has a Cypress Ink kitchen and a lavender bathroom.
  • Close view of the lavender finish, with pale streaks running down the wall
    Lavender walls that catch the light, bathroom, Zionsville Marcopolo Luxury by San Marco, one of our imported exotic paints, in a rainfall effect: lavender walls with pale streaks that catch the vanity lights, a gentle start and end to the day. This bathroom shares its home with an oxblood bedroom and a Cypress Ink kitchen.
  • Sage and peach lime plaster walls meeting in a soft curve under a sloped ceiling, in a Geist play area
    Play area in lime plaster, with boards built into the wall, Geist A baby’s play area in limestone plaster, sage and peach meeting in organic curves through the corners, the peach in a stone texture. The pink wall around the window, its casing, and the floating cabinet under the boards glow in a pearlescent wet silk, San Marco’s Cadoro. A magnetic chalkboard and a dry-erase board are built right into the plaster, and the ceiling and trim are a custom warm cream that holds the whole color story together.
  • Golden, textured walls with a soft sheen around a white vanity, in a Zionsville powder room
    Golden “wet silk” powder room, Zionsville A powder room in one of our imported exotic paints, a golden, textured finish that looks like wet silk and glows like lamplight. The same home has a limestone backsplash and a La Catedral clay living room.

A dusty rose that warms the whole kitchen

We painted this Geist kitchen in Freudian, a special-order Edward Bulmer color drawn from the cloth behind Lucian Freud’s paintings at Chatsworth. Its dusty rose and terracotta stay true in every light, never brick and never the pink the couple did not want, and have drawn compliment after compliment.

The kitchen’s bay of windows and its glass door to the deck, framed in white trim on dusty rose and terracotta walls, under the bone Marmorino ceiling and three lantern pendants
Freudian by Edward Bulmer, Geist

Designer paints we love

Our color library holds more than 4,000 colors from more than 20 premium makers, every one in real paint, limewash, or plaster on the makers’ own color boxes and fan decks, never a printed chip. We help you choose among them for your room’s light and materials. Here are ten of those makers and what we love about each.

  • Farrow & Ball: begun in Dorset in 1946 by a chemist and an engineer, and known ever since for rich colors made to its original recipes.
  • Fine Paints of Europe: Dutch paints with finely ground pigments, and Hollandlac, the high-gloss lacquer we choose when a door or a wall should shine like still water.
  • San Marco: an Italian maker founded in 1937 and based near Venice, whose pearlescent Cadoro and metallic Marcopolo Luxury are among the exotic paints we apply.
  • kt.COLOR: a Swiss workshop that makes its paints by hand from natural pigments, in a range that includes Le Corbusier’s 63 architectural colors, licensed from his foundation.
  • Pure & Original: a Belgian maker whose Fresco lime paint shifts gently in color as it dries to a soft, cloudy matte.
  • Edward Bulmer: natural paint with every ingredient listed on the tin, and historic colors such as the Chatsworth collection, drawn from the house’s own finishes, paintings, and stone, Freudian among them.
  • C2 Paint: full-spectrum colors mixed from several pigments instead of black, which can make a color look dull at certain hours of the day.
  • Little Greene: a family-owned British maker whose highly pigmented paints are made in North Wales, in colors drawn from historic houses.
  • Donald Kaufman Color: a New York studio that has created colors for architects since 1976, including the colors of the buildings at Philip Johnson’s Glass House.
  • Porter’s Paints: begun in Sydney in 1982 by a house painter who revived traditional limewash and its soft, chalky finish.

Wildflowers, painted by hand

We paint murals by hand, like these wildflowers and tall grasses rising from the baseboards on soft green limewash, as if they grew there.

Wildflowers and grasses in pink, white, and green painted up from the baseboard inside a soft green alcove, a small pink dragonfly above them
Wildflowers painted into an alcove

Boards painted right into the wall

In a Geist play area, the chalk and dry-erase boards are magnetized with industrial-strength magnetite, so drawings, lists, and magnets live on the wall itself.

Two arched boards set into peach lime plaster, one white for dry-erase and one green chalkboard, above a small floating cabinet in pink wet silk
Chalk and dry-erase boards in the wall, Geist

Perfect prep, immaculate cleanup

Before a can is opened, we cover your floors and furniture. We repair, fill, and prime each surface for its paint, keep every line crisp, and leave each room cleaner than we found it.

When a wall wants more than paint

Many clients come to us for a repaint, see our sample boards, and choose a mineral finish for their walls, with paint on the trim and ceilings. Ask to see limewash, Roman clay, and Venetian plaster at your free consultation.

Finishes to try on one wall

Color matching is included

Tips from the studio

  1. Let quiet trim frame the finish

    Crisp trim in a soft white, or in the wall’s own color, lets a hand-made finish do the talking.

  2. Paint the trim the color of the walls

    When the trim, the doors, and the walls share one color, a room feels calmer and taller. Change the sheen instead: matte on the walls, satin on the trim.

  3. Try a finish on one wall first

    Unsure about a whole room? Finish one accent wall and live with it for a season, through bright mornings and winter evenings. Then decide on the rest.

  4. One warm cream above every room

    Ceilings and trim in one warm cream, carried through the house, tie rooms of very different colors into one calm story.

  5. Treat the ceiling as the fifth wall

    A ceiling a shade lighter than the walls lifts a low room. A deep one brings a tall room down to a human scale and makes a large space feel intimate.

  6. Judge a color on your wall, never on a chip

    A chip under store lights tells you little. We look at real samples on your walls in the morning and the evening, because north and south light can make one color two.

  7. Start color with what stays

    Choose wall colors from the things you will not change: the floor, the stone, a rug you love. Greg designs every color around them, so the whole home reads as one story.

  8. A lacquered front door

    A front door in high-gloss lacquer, in a deep green or oxblood, greets every guest with a mirror shine. It is the smallest project with the biggest first impression.

  9. What lies beneath matters most

    Most failures start under the surface: the wrong primer, a damp patch, a crack left open. We prepare every wall for its finish, not just for paint.

  10. Start with limewash

    Never lived with a mineral wall? Limewash is the gentlest way in: soft, cloudy color that moves with the light all day and asks very little of you.

  11. Wire the lighting before the finish

    Settle the sconces, picture lights, and LED channels before the walls are finished. The wiring goes in once, the finish goes on once, and nothing has to be patched later.

  12. Turn built-ins into a gallery

    Built-ins finished in clay or stone-look plaster show your best pieces like a museum shelf, give the eye a place to land, and become the conversation at every dinner party. Light them from within, and they glow at night.

  13. Drench a small room in one color

    Color the walls, the trim, and the ceiling in one deep shade, and a small room stops feeling small. It feels deliberate, wrapped, and quiet, like the inside of a jewelry box.

  14. Know which way your light comes

    North light is cool and steady, south light warm and changing, and west light turns golden at dusk. Choose color in the light the room actually gets.

  15. Choose the color before the finish

    The finish gives a wall its texture; the color gives it its mood. A color consultation settles the palette first, so every finish in the house belongs to one story.

  16. Clear the walls and nearby surfaces

    Take down frames, mirrors, and treasures from the walls we will finish, and clear the tables and counters beside them. Nothing precious stands in the way of a ladder, and our hours go into your walls.

  17. Move large furniture to the middle

    Pull sofas, beds, and cabinets into the middle of the room, or out of it, before we arrive. We cover whatever stays, and open space along every wall lets us work in long, even passes.

  18. Walk through it twice

    See the finished room twice: once in daylight, once in the evening with your lamps on. A mineral wall has two characters, and you should love both.

  19. Paint can glow too

    Not every beautiful wall is plaster. Exotic paints shimmer like silk, pearl, or metal, and they love a ceiling, a niche, or a powder room.

  20. Touch-ups, years from now

    We keep every color and formula on file, so a scuff, a new doorway, or the next room years from now can be matched to the walls you already love.

  21. Know the signs of a rushed wall

    Peeling, chalking, lap marks, and blotchy patterns usually start with one rushed step. Paint and plaster problems shows what to look for before you hire anyone.

What you can count on, in writing

Every step, in detail

Questions about interior painting

Can you paint and plaster in the same project?

Yes. We paint the walls, ceilings, trim, windows, and doors, and finish the walls you choose in limewash, clay, or plaster, with one plan and one fixed quote.

Do you repair wall and trim damage before painting?

Yes. We repair damaged walls and trim first, so the paint goes on over a sound, smooth surface. Walls can also be skimmed to Level 5, the smoothest grade.

Do you build built-ins and set up lighting?

Yes. We build built-ins and set up their lighting, such as LED light in the shelves, then finish them in paint, lacquer, or stone-look plaster.

Who paints, builds, and plasters in our home?

Our own people. Greg or Gabriel is on every job, with trusted, vetted, and experienced employees of ours who paint, build, set up lighting, and plaster.

Tell us which rooms are ready for fresh color

Greg or Gabriel replies today, or by the next business day.

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How should we reach you?

A phone number or an email address is enough.

Preferred contact
Where should the magic happen?
Where is the home?Where is the business?

For example, Whitestown, Broad Ripple, or Lebanon

When would you like to walk in and see it finished?
Is the holiday a firm deadline?

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