Custom Interior Painting

What a Custom Interior Actually Includes

Henderson's open floor plans make interior color harder than it looks: the great room flows into the kitchen, the kitchen into the hall, the hall up a two-story stairwell. There's rarely a clean place for one color to stop and another to start, so the palette has to be planned as a system — main field colors that carry through the connected volume, deeper tones where rooms can close a door, and transitions placed where the architecture gives you a natural break. That planning is the first half of our job. The second half is execution on the features that make your house yours:

• Built-ins and media walls. Painted-in-place bookcases and entertainment builds get a furniture-grade brush-and-roll finish in a tone that anchors the room — not the same wall color rolled over shelving.
• Niches, arches, and pot shelves. The 1990s and 2000s Henderson signature. Painted in deliberate contrast, they turn from dated leftovers into the best feature in the room.
• Feature ceilings. Coffered dining ceilings, stepped tray ceilings in primary suites, and tall great-room ceilings all take color or tone-on-tone treatments that make a volume feel finished instead of forgotten.
• Trim, doors, and railings. A custom repaint decides trim color on purpose — warm white, painted-out to match the walls, or contrast — and carries the decision consistently through the whole house.

Your Color Direction Leads

We're not a color-consultation service that hands you a palette, and we're not a crew that just asks "what color?" and starts rolling. Custom means you set the direction — the mood, the references, the colors you already love — and we do the translation: which walls carry the deep tone, where the palette needs to lighten to keep a north-facing room from going dim, how the ceiling and trim decisions support the walls. You approve every color before it goes on, sampled on your actual walls in your home's light.

Prep and Coats, Stated Plainly

Walls get patched and sanded before anything else happens. Furniture is moved and covered, floors and fixtures masked. Every color change gets two full coats of Sherwin-Williams paint — that's what it takes for a new color to cover a 2000s gold or beige completely and read true, and we don't quote it any other way. Cut lines at ceilings, corners, and two-tone transitions are done by hand by painters who do detail work daily.

Doing the exterior too? Most of our clients pair this with a custom exterior repaint so the whole home is designed and scheduled as one project.