Interior · exterior · cabinets · Independence, MNPainting for the west metro and Central Minnesota
Brushtek · House painters · West metro & Central Minnesota
Interior and exterior painting, cabinets, trim and built-ins for homeowners and custom builders around Independence, Medina, Plymouth, Delano and Buffalo. Prep done properly, edges cut clean, rooms left the way we found them.
Exterior · navy shake siding, white trim
Trusted by builders. The painters four west-metro builders hand their finished homes to.
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors, built-ins. Winter is interior season in Minnesota and it is where most of our work happens.
Interior painting
May to mid-OctoberLap siding, stucco, fiber cement, decks and fences, on the short window the weather gives us.
Exterior painting
Kitchens and bathsDoors off, degreased, sanded, primed, sprayed. The 1990s oak kitchen question, answered honestly.
Cabinet painting
Trim · wainscoting, dining roomNail holes, screw pops, cracked caulk at the trim, glossy old enamel that needs a bonding primer. Skipping this is how a paint job fails in year two.
Ceiling lines, trim lines, and the inside corners of an accent wall are cut with a brush and a steady hand, and checked in daylight before we call it done.
Scrubbable eggshell where kids and dogs live, flat on ceilings, enamel on trim and cabinets, and exterior products that flex through a Minnesota freeze.
Furniture returned, outlet covers on, floors clean, touch-up paint labeled and left with you.
Exterior window is open. Interior season books from November.
Exterior paint needs the wall and the air above 50°F for a couple of days. Around here that is roughly May through mid-October. The other seven months are interior season.
Navy = exterior window · grey = interior season
The shop is in Independence on the Hwy 12 corridor, so the Lake Minnetonka towns, the Hwy 55 corridor and Wright County are all a short drive. Each town page says what we see in its houses and how far it is from us.
A single room is usually a day, two if there is a lot of trim or repair. A whole-house interior repaint on an average west-metro home runs about a week, working room by room so you are never out of the whole house at once.
Often, yes. The rule is that the surface and the air stay above 50°F for a couple of days, and some exterior products go lower. Early October usually works. By late October we are watching the forecast day by day and will tell you honestly if it should wait for spring.
If the boxes are solid and you like the layout, painting is the better answer and a fraction of the cost. We degrease, sand, fill the grain if you want a smooth look, prime with a bonding primer and spray the doors off-site. If the boxes are particleboard and swelling, we will tell you to replace.
Yes. We do finish painting for several custom builders in the west metro: primed walls, trim and doors, built-ins and cabinetry, on the builder's schedule. That is why so many of our photos are of brand-new rooms.
Text a few photos of the rooms or the house and tell us what you are after. We reply with a written estimate, no pressure and no invented urgency.
