Interior painting
Interior painting is the work most households hire first, and it is also the work most often rushed. Southwest Home treats a paint job as surface preparation plus color, not color alone. We wash, scrape loose edges, fill holes, sand proud spots, prime stains, and only then roll finish coats. The sheen is chosen for the room: flatter where you want dents to disappear, more wipeable where hands and backpacks land.
A typical scope names every wall, ceiling, door, and piece of trim. It also names what we will not paint, so a brick fireplace or a new cabinet does not get an accidental coat. Furniture that can stay is moved to the center and covered. Floors get a path cloth, not a rumor of protection. At the end of each day, tools are stacked and the room is walkable if the paint allows it.
Color that survives evening light
Samples stay on the wall through a full day. We look at them with the lamps you actually use, because a gray chosen at noon can turn pink after dinner.
Halls, doors, and the in-between
Hallways and door faces are where a paint job either feels finished or feels like a set of separate rooms. We include them when you want the house to read as one plan.
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Kitchen remodeling
A kitchen remodel starts with how you cook, not with a catalog. We watch the path from the door to the fridge, from the sink to the stove, and from the stove to the table. We mark door swings on the floor. We note the window you want to keep and the corner that has become a pile of bags. Only then do cabinets, counters, and lights get a drawing.
Scopes separate layout changes from finish swaps. You can repaint cabinets and change hardware without moving a wall. You can also open a pantry, add a dishwasher space, or replace a failing counter. Plumbing and electrical changes are called out so they are not discovered after stone is templated. Dust protection is part of the price, because a kitchen job sits in the middle of the house.
Cabinets that meet real walls
Walls are rarely square. We measure fillers and scribe panels so a run of doors looks intentional instead of gapped at the end.
A kitchen you can still use
When the house has one kitchen, we plan a temporary setup and name the days the sink or the stove will be quiet.
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Bathroom renovation
Bathrooms fail in small ways that become daily annoyances: a fan that does not clear the mirror, a vanity with no place for a hair dryer, tile that looks busy at arm’s length, a curb you step over half asleep. We rebuild around those facts. Waterproofing is not a line we skip to save a day. Ventilation is sized for the room, not leftover from the last fixture.
You will see tile, grout color, and metal finishes together before they are ordered. If the house has one bath, the schedule says exactly when water is off and how long that window lasts. Storage is drawn, not hoped for. A niche, a drawer, or a tall cabinet is chosen because someone in the house needs it, not because a photo had one.
Quiet tile, useful storage
We lean toward fields of tile that let the room feel larger, with one material doing the work of a pattern.
Light and steam
Windows, glass, and the fan are planned together so mornings do not start with a towel on the mirror.
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Flooring
A floor is only as good as what is under it. We check for bounce, high spots, moisture, and the height of neighboring rooms before a board or a tile is committed. Transitions at doorways are drawn so a door still clears and a sock does not catch. Shoe molding and baseboards are part of the finish, not an afterthought left in a box.
Hardwood, tile, and resilient floors each have a right room. We will say when a soft substrate should be stiffened, when a radiant-looking product is a poor match for a wet entry, and when the existing floor can be refinished instead of replaced. Furniture moving and a curing window are written into the schedule.
Rooms that meet cleanly
Where a new floor meets an old one, the transition is chosen for the heights we measured, not for a default strip.
Halls take the traffic
Hall runners and entries get the wear. We specify finishes that can be cleaned without turning cloudy in a month.
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Exterior and siding
Exterior paint and siding work are decided by water and sun, not by a color chip. We look for soft wood, failed caulk, loose boards, and edges where paint has pulled away. Those repairs happen before a finish coat. Painting over a damp or decayed surface is how a pretty week becomes a peel next season.
Owen’s crew schedules around weather and says so when a date should move. Color for doors, trim, and body is tested on the actual siding, because the same paint reads differently on wood, fiber board, and a shaded north wall. If a section of siding should be replaced rather than coated, that shows up as its own line.
Prep you can see
Scraping, sanding, and caulk are the job. The color is the last layer, and it only lasts if the layers under it are sound.
Edges and roofsides
We look at the places water travels: sills, corners, and the trim under an eave. Those details are in the scope, not assumed.
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Decks and outdoor living
A deck should feel steady under a table and kind to bare feet. We look at structure first: posts, joists, ledger attachment, and rail height. Surface boards and stain come after the frame is honest. Spacing is set so water leaves and so a chair leg does not drop into a gap.
Finishes are chosen for the sun the deck actually gets. A sample board stays outside through a hot afternoon before the whole surface is committed. Pergolas, benches, and simple planters can be part of the same visit when you want the outdoor room to feel furnished, not just rebuilt.
A finish you can renew
We tell you what month to wash and recoat, and we use a product you can maintain without stripping the whole deck every year.
Benches and rails
Rails are built to feel solid in the hand. Benches are finished with the same care as the walking surface, because they take the same weather.
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Windows and doors
Windows and exterior doors change light, drafts, and how a room sounds when it rains. We replace units that stick, fog, or leak at the sill, and we repair trim that has gone soft around them. The interior casing is finished so the new unit does not look dropped into an old wall.
Each opening is measured, including the parts you cannot see until the old unit is out. If a rough opening needs correction, that is discussed before the new window is on site. Interior doors are a separate, quieter job: planing, latch alignment, and paint so a door closes like it belongs.
Sills that shed water
The sill and the flashing around it matter as much as the glass. We do not treat a window as a picture frame only.
Doors that latch
A beautiful door that does not latch is unfinished. Hardware, strike, and paint are checked together on the last day.
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Cabinet refinishing
Not every kitchen needs new boxes. When the layout works and the boxes are sound, refinishing doors and drawers, replacing hardware, and painting the frames can change the room without a full demolition. We clean grease properly, sand, prime for adhesion, and spray or brush a finish that can live next to a stove.
We will also tell you when refinishing is the wrong economy: swollen particle board, failed hinges, or a layout that makes cooking miserable. In those cases the honest scope is a remodel, and we would rather say that before you pay to paint a cabinet you are about to remove.
A finish that can be wiped
Kitchen paint is specified for cleaning, not only for a soft look in a photograph. Sheen and cure time are part of the conversation.
Hardware and alignment
New pulls and aligned doors do as much as color. We adjust hinges so a run of doors shares one shadow line.
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