This exterior painting makeover in Ormond Beach brought a house with two personalities under one color. The front had a yellow body with a grey gable and a grey garage section. Out back, under the pool screen enclosure, the wall was bare new wood siding that had never been painted.
By the end, the whole house was pale yellow with blue trim around the windows. The four photos below follow it through: the back wall before and after, then the front halfway through and finished. Ladders are still up in two of them. That is how the shots were taken, not a sign the job stopped there.
- Location
- Ormond Beach, FL
- Property
- Single story home with a screened pool enclosure
- Surfaces
- New wood siding, body walls, gable and garage section
- Work shown
- Before, during and finished
Before, during and after photos
Each photo is labeled with the state of the work. The during shot shows the front with the old grey still on the gable and garage.
Does new wood siding need to be primed before painting?
Yes. Bare wood should be primed before any finish coat, and new siding is no exception.
Fresh grooved plywood siding like the panels on the back of this house is thirsty. Paint rolled straight onto it soaks in unevenly, dries blotchy, and leaves the wood open to moisture through the thin spots. Primer seals the surface so the topcoat sits evenly on top. It also helps stop sap and tannins in new lumber from bleeding through a pale color like this yellow.
Timing matters in Florida. New wood left bare through a few weeks of summer rain and sun starts to gray and check, and that damaged surface has to be sanded off before primer will bond. So if a carpenter is putting up new siding on your house, book the painter before that job wraps up, not after. Our exterior painting page covers how we prep each kind of surface.
How do you paint a wall inside a pool screen enclosure?
Carefully, and with the pool protected. A screen cage means tight room for ladders, a deck that has to stay clean, and water that should not end up with paint in it.
The aluminum frame blocks the obvious ladder spots, so ladders go in the gaps between posts, and the deck gets covered wherever the crew is working. Spraying inside a cage is risky. Overspray drifts through the screen and settles on the frame and the water. Brush and roller is slower, but it keeps the paint where it belongs. It also means the painter can work right up to the screen frame without leaving a fog of color on the aluminum that you would be looking at every time you sat by the pool.
Then there is the pool itself. Leaves, dust and drips all land in it while a wall is being worked, so keeping debris out of the water is part of the job, whatever state the pool is in when the painters arrive. If the deck around your pool is also looking tired, we handle pool deck painting as well.
Should you paint a two color house all one color?
Often, yes, especially when the two colors look like they came from different eras of the house. One body color pulls a mixed exterior together and makes the house read bigger from the street.
The front of this home shows why. In the during photo, the grey gable and garage section look like an add on next to the yellow body, even though it is all one house. Covering them in the same pale yellow and keeping blue trim around the windows gave the front one clean look.
There is a practical side. Going from grey to a light yellow is a big jump, and a lighter color over a darker one usually needs more coats to cover evenly, so expect that in the estimate rather than being surprised by it. In an HOA neighborhood, check the approved color list before you pick. More before and after work is on our residential projects page, or call Color Masters Painting for a walkthrough.
Want your house to look like one house again?
We price exterior repaints in writing, with the prep and number of coats spelled out. Call Robert or send a request to set up a walkthrough.