At M&C Painting, full exterior painting projects generally start around $9,000, with a typical South Shore home often falling between $14,000 and $22,000. Larger Braintree homes or projects requiring extensive scraping, aging-wood repairs, detailed trim work, or significant preparation can exceed $20,000. We price exterior projects around the overall scope rather than square footage alone, and our estimates include labor, materials, and carpentry repairs related to the painting project. About exterior painting cost

Older homes can have multiple layers of previous paint, aging wood siding, detailed trim, plaster interiors, repaired surfaces, and materials that need more preparation than newer construction. This is especially relevant in older areas such as South Braintree, Braintree Square, and East Braintree, which the Town has identified as some of its higher-priority historic residential areas. We inspect the existing surfaces first and build the preparation around what the individual home actually needs.

Yes. M&C Painting holds Massachusetts lead-safe credentials and is certified to perform painting work on homes built before 1978. When older coatings may contain lead, our team can follow the appropriate lead-safe practices while completing the preparation and painting work required for the project.

It depends on the work being done. The Braintree Town Center Historic District, located around South Braintree Center and Washington Street, contains 18 historic properties whose visible exterior architectural changes can fall under Historical Commission review. Braintree’s historic-district rules generally exempt ordinary maintenance that does not change the design, material, color, or outward appearance, and paint color itself is generally exempt unless considered blatantly unsuitable. If you’re planning a significant exterior change, it’s a good idea to confirm the requirements for your specific property with the town before work begins.

Braintree homes face the full range of Massachusetts conditions, including rain, snow, high winds, summer heat, freezing temperatures, and seasonal moisture. Proper preparation, sound caulking, correctly primed surfaces, and durable exterior coatings help the home stand up to those repeated weather cycles.

Older interiors can contain plaster, repaired cracks, detailed trim, built-ins, previous patches, and generations of old coatings. Those surfaces often benefit from more preparation before painting begins. We evaluate walls, ceilings, doors, and trim individually so the finished paint highlights the room instead of drawing attention to imperfections underneath it.

If your cabinet boxes are structurally sound and you still like the kitchen layout, refinishing can completely update the room without replacing cabinetry that still has years of useful life. It generally costs substantially less than full replacement and creates far less disruption than tearing out and rebuilding the entire kitchen.

We provide residential painting throughout Braintree, MA, including Braintree Square, South Braintree, East Braintree, Weymouth Landing, Braintree Highlands, North Braintree, West Braintree, Dyer Hill, and Granite Park, along with residential neighborhoods throughout the rest of town.