Painting, Drywall & Remodeling in Western Springs, IL

Western Springs is an older-housing town, and that shapes almost every quote we write here. The streets near the village center hold a deep stock of early-twentieth-century houses — bungalows, foursquares, Tudors and colonials with painted wood siding, deep eaves and real trim detail — on mature, shaded lots. Beautiful houses, and demanding ones to paint well.

Shade and age together are hard on an exterior. Tree cover keeps siding damp longer after rain, which is how you get the chalky, mossy north elevations that will not hold a new coat without being washed and primed first. Decades of paint on wood siding mean the failure is rarely uniform — one elevation is sound and another is peeling back to bare wood. We walk all four sides and price the prep each one needs separately, because quoting an average across the house is how an exterior ends up failing on the side nobody looked at.

Inside, these are plaster houses more often than not. Plaster cracks along a line and lets go of the lath in sections, so the repair is to fasten it back tight and skim it properly rather than fill and sand. Ceilings in older homes are where we are called most, usually after a bathroom above has leaked or an ice dam has backed water under the eaves. Tell us what you have when you call — plaster or drywall — and we will arrive with the right materials.