Historic Restoration & Preservation
Your historic home is an architectural treasure, enhancing your neighborhood and street with its timeless artistry. Because you take such pride in maintaining your home’s authenticity, finding a historic home painting contractor with expertise in painting and restoring older structures is essential.
At Greeneville Painting we’re as passionate as you are about preserving your home’s charm and period details. In addition to superb craftsmanship and attention to detail, you can rely on us to provide exceptional service at every stage of your project.
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What Can We Do for Your Historic Home?
Exterior Painting and Restoration
Before painting, our team will prepare your home’s aging exterior to protect its health and appearance. This may include scraping, sanding, and chemically peeling layers of old paint, filling or caulking gaps, and replacing deteriorated wood shingles, clapboards, shutters, and other features.
We are also experienced in preparing and encapsulating surfaces coated with lead-based paint. When lead paint is present we use additional protection to manage dust hazards to the community and the paint crew.
Interior Painting and Restoration
Interior painting for historic buildings often means painting or papering over plaster (not drywall), which cracks as the building settles and sometimes results in moisture stains. Greeneville Painting corrects these problems by filling and sanding cracks and applying bacteria-resistant primer over discolored areas.
Your handsome wood trim makes your historical home unique. Don’t trust your interior paint job to a company not versed in old home preservation. Your Greeneville Painting team will ensure that original wood trim is protected and not splattered with paint. This is a painstaking job that requires expert cutting in at every conceivable angle.
Our interior paint process may involve stripping old wallpaper, patching/repairing cracks and nail holes in the plaster, recaulking trim/wall joints, sanding everything smooth, and removing all dust.
If your walls are covered in oil paint, special bonding primers must be used to ensure adhesion to modern, water soluble/low VOC top coats. Your historical restoration project deserves unparalleled attention to detail.
Other Services
Wallpapering: We have extensive experience removing a variety of wallcoverings, including those made with natural fibers such as silk and cotton.
Wood refinishing and restoration: Greeneville Painting can restore and re-stain your worn wood panels, moldings, baseboards, and trim to their original glory.
Chemical stripping: Through chemical stripping, we can remove paint or varnish that has built up on your home to reveal previously lost period details.
