Professional interior painting services for walls, ceilings, trim, doors, cabinets, and drywall repair, from a family owned painting contractor serving Austin and Central Texas.
Nothing else gets you this much change this fast. A couple of days of work and a room you have walked past for years suddenly looks intentional again. Scuffs gone, colors current, trim crisp.
Cornerstone is a family owned painting company in Austin, and our interior painters handle everything from a single accent wall to a whole home repaint. Walls, ceilings, trim, doors, and cabinets.
Here is the part that actually decides how a paint job looks in two years: prep. Sanding, patching, caulking, and priming take longer than rolling color on the wall, and skipping them is why cheap paint jobs start peeling and showing seams. We do the boring part properly.
Austin homes each bring their own quirks. Historic houses in Central and East Austin have textured walls, settled cracks, and sometimes original woodwork that needs careful handling. Builder grade homes out in Cedar Park, Georgetown, and Pflugerville usually went up with a single flat coat sprayed on fast, which means thin coverage and walls that mark if you look at them wrong. Open concept layouts, which are everywhere here now, need color chosen for how it flows across sightlines rather than room by room. And Central Texas sun coming through big west facing windows will fade a color over time, so where a room faces matters when you pick it.
Our interior painting services cover prep, paint, and cleanup. As residential painters, most of our projects pull from these:
Single rooms, main living areas, or the entire house. Two coats, cut in clean at the ceiling and trim, with the sheen matched to how each room gets used.
Living room painting, bedroom painting, dining room painting, hallway painting, home office painting, and nursery painting with low odor and low VOC products. Every room has different traffic, light, and cleaning demands, and we pick the product and finish accordingly rather than running one sheen through the whole house.
Flat ceilings, vaulted ceilings, and tray ceilings. Flat white is standard, but we will talk you through when a slightly warmer ceiling color works better with your wall color.
Stairwell painting and foyer painting are the jobs most homeowners will not touch, and for good reason. Two story entryways need proper ladders, scaffolding, and someone comfortable working at height. It is also the first thing anyone sees walking into your house.
Crisp lines where trim meets wall. This is the detail that separates professional painters from a rushed crew, and it is where we spend the extra time.
Doors and casings painted or sprayed for a smooth finish without brush marks.
One of the best value upgrades in a house. A sprayed, durable finish on kitchen or bathroom cabinets transforms the room for a fraction of replacement cost. Degreasing and prep matter enormously here since cabinets take daily abuse.
A single wall in a deeper color or a different finish, done with clean edges and no bleed.
Walls and ceilings finished properly so the garage stops looking like unfinished construction. Popular with homeowners converting garages to gyms, workshops, or storage.
Cracks, holes, nail pops, and water stains are repaired and textured to match before any paint goes on. Covered up rather than fixed is not repaired.
Stripped, walls skimmed smooth, primed, and painted. Almost always worth doing properly rather than painting over.
Julie helps with color, sheen, and how it reads against your flooring, cabinets, and light. Choosing from a two inch swatch is how people end up repainting twice.
Most people call us because a room has been bugging them for a while. Here is what fresh paint actually does:
We are Joe and Julie Davila, and Cornerstone is our family business. Joe was born and raised in Austin and runs the construction side, on site and hands on. Julie handles color and finish selection, which is genuinely the difference between a paint job and a room that looks designed.
Every project is managed by our in-house team from planning through completion. Whether it is one room or the whole house, you will always have one point of contact.
Painting as part of something bigger? Our house painters work inside whole home remodeling, interior remodeling projects, kitchen remodels, and bathroom remodels. Painting also pairs naturally with new flooring and cabinetry, and doing them together saves you a second round of furniture moving and cleanup.
We keep the process simple on purpose. No runaround, no mystery.
Tell us which rooms and what you are thinking. Free, takes a few minutes.
We look at wall condition, measure, and flag any repairs needed first.
Samples on your actual walls, with help from Julie if you want it.
Furniture moved and covered, floors protected, surfaces cleaned, sanded, patched, caulked, and primed.
Interior painting is priced by square footage, but the total depends on more than wall area. What yours costs comes down to:
Timelines are usually the good news. Most single rooms are a day or two including dry time. Whole home repaints take longer, and cabinet painting needs cure time between coats that cannot be rushed.
We would rather walk the rooms than guess. As an interior painting company, we will look at the actual wall condition, tell you what prep is needed, and give you a clear number before anything starts. No hidden fees.
Paint quality shows up in coverage, durability, and how it looks two years later. Cheap paint needs more coats and marks faster.
We work with quality product lines including Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, and PPG, and we will match the product to the room rather than using one line for everything.
Take a look at interiors we have painted for homeowners around Austin and Central Texas.
Get answers to common questions about remodeling costs, timelines, estimates, our process, and the services we provide for homeowners throughout Austin and Central Texas.
It is priced by square footage, but the total depends on room count, ceiling height, wall condition, how much trim is involved, and whether ceilings are included. Older homes with textured or damaged walls need more prep, which affects the number. We walk the rooms and give you a detailed quote before anything starts.
Most single rooms are a day or two including dry time between coats. Whole home repaints take longer depending on square footage and how much prep is needed. Cabinet painting takes additional time because the finish has to cure properly.
Interior walls generally hold up for five to ten years, though it varies a lot by room. Hallways, kitchens, and kids rooms take the most abuse and need refreshing sooner. Formal rooms that rarely get touched can go much longer. Rooms with strong west facing sun in Austin tend to fade faster than the rest of the house.
Yes, and it is not an upsell. Cleaning, sanding, patching, caulking, and priming are part of the job, not extras. Any painter quoting a suspiciously low number is usually cutting prep, and that shows up within a year or two.
Sometimes. Bare drywall, patched repairs, stained areas, and glossy surfaces all need it. A same color repaint over sound paint usually does not. Primer also matters when you are covering a dark color, since it saves you a coat or two of expensive finish paint.
Yes. It takes a tinted primer plus two finish coats in most cases rather than trying to bury it under three coats of color. We will tell you upfront if your color change needs the extra step so the estimate reflects it.
Two, as standard. One coat rarely gives even coverage, especially over a color change or a patched wall. Dramatic color changes may need a primer coat on top of that.
Satin or semi gloss on the walls, since kitchens deal with grease, steam, and regular wiping. Flat and matte simply do not survive it. Trim and cabinets go semi gloss for the same reason. Bathrooms follow the same logic.
Neutrals sell. Warm whites, soft greiges, and light warm neutrals photograph well, appeal broadly, and let buyers picture their own furniture. Bold or highly personal colors narrow your buyer pool. If you are staying put, paint what you love. If you are listing within a year or two, lean neutral.
We do. Furniture gets moved to the center of the room and covered, floors are protected, and fixtures and hardware are masked off. We clean up at the end of every day rather than leaving it all for the last one.
Paint is usually dry to the touch in a few hours, but curing takes longer. We generally put furniture back the following day and recommend keeping pieces slightly off the wall for a few days so nothing sticks or scuffs while the finish hardens.
Yes. Julie’s background is in interior design, so she helps with color and sheen and how it will read against your flooring, cabinets, and natural light. We recommend testing samples on your actual walls, since Austin light changes a color noticeably from morning to evening.
We do, and it is one of the best value projects in a house. It requires real prep including degreasing, sanding, and priming, plus a sprayed finish and proper cure time. Done right it changes a kitchen for a fraction of what new cabinets cost.
Textured walls, yes, though they use more paint than smooth ones. Wallpaper is different. Painting over it usually looks like painted wallpaper and causes problems later, so we strip it, skim the walls smooth, prime, and then paint.
Yes. Cracks, holes, nail pops, and water stains get patched and textured to match before any paint goes on. Painting over damage just gives you slightly cleaner looking damage.
Almost always. We work room by room so you are never displaced from the whole house, and we use low VOC paints where the product allows.
We do. Every estimate is free with no obligation, and if we do not need to visit your home first, you can often expect one within 24 hours.
Yes. Cornerstone Home Renovations is a licensed and insured painting company, so your home and your investment are protected.
Tell us which rooms you are thinking about and what is on the walls now. We will take a look, talk color, and give you a straight number.
