Our work

Painting before and after, from our own jobs.

Every photograph on this page is Rise and Prime Painting's own work, taken on the job or by the customer afterwards, and none of it posed for a catalog.

There are 72 photographs on this page, and a good share of them are mid-job on purpose. The masking, the doors coming off and a wall opened up are shown because that work is what the finish sits on.

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Same room, twice

Seven interiors, before and after.

Drag the handle across each one. Every pair is the same room before and after the paint.

The same kitchen after painting, the perimeter cabinets and cooking arch now white with the island kept dark, granite counters and tile backsplash unchanged — Dark cherry to white, with a dark island. Same granite, same tile.

Kitchen before painting, dark cherry raised-panel cabinets and a matching island under a tiled cooking arch, with speckled granite counters — Dark cherry to white, with a dark island. Same granite, same tile.

The same galley kitchen after the cabinets were painted white, the granite counters, white appliances and blue backsplash strip unchanged — A galley kitchen, dark stained cabinets to white. Same granite, same appliances.

Galley kitchen before painting, dark stained wood cabinets above and below granite counters, white wall ovens and a white refrigerator — A galley kitchen, dark stained cabinets to white. Same granite, same appliances.

The same kitchen island after painting, the cabinet panels finished in charcoal gray around the beverage fridge and dishwasher — A kitchen island, honey stained wood to charcoal around the beverage fridge.

Kitchen island before painting, honey stained wood cabinet panels around a beverage fridge and a stainless dishwasher, tile floor — A kitchen island, honey stained wood to charcoal around the beverage fridge.

The same kitchen peninsula after painting, the shiplap and corbels finished in deep navy against the granite bar top — Bare shiplap peninsula to deep navy, under the original granite bar top.

Kitchen peninsula before painting, bare white shiplap cladding and corbels under a granite bar top, floor papered off — Bare shiplap peninsula to deep navy, under the original granite bar top.

The same stairwell after painting, the molding grid finished in warm greige with the stair treads and handrail in black — Stairwell molding, filled and patched, then finished in greige with black treads.

Stairwell accent wall before painting, a grid of applied molding on gray wall with white filler dabbed over every nail hole and joint — Stairwell molding, filled and patched, then finished in greige with black treads.

The same bedroom after painting, the walls finished in light gray above the white chair rail

Bedroom before painting, pale sage green walls with a white chair rail, two windows and a ceiling fan, furniture under plastic

The same commercial room after the repaint, all-white walls and ceiling over a light floor, a black bar with white stools at the far end — A commercial room, gray and red walls to all white.

Commercial room before the repaint, gray walls with a red and dark gray band, black and white checkered floor, a ladder and plywood sheets against the wall — A commercial room, gray and red walls to all white.

A few jobs get the full story, start to finish, in painting projects in Houston.

Kitchens

Cabinet work.

Sprayed on site with the area contained. Doors and drawer fronts come off to be finished flat, away from the boxes, and the hardware goes back on at the end.

Kitchen before painting, honey oak cabinets around a stainless range and hood with a white tile backsplash — Before: honey oak

Long wall of kitchen cabinets with every door and drawer front removed, each opening papered and taped, the room tented in plastic and the floor covered — Doors off, openings papered

Kitchen cabinet boxes painted white with the doors still off, shelves empty and hinges exposed, dark granite counters and a mosaic backsplash behind — Boxes finished, doors still off

Kitchen fully masked before cabinet painting, plastic sheeting taped floor to ceiling over the counters and appliances, blue tape lines on the papered floor and the dark cabinet boxes left exposed — Masked and sealed before spraying starts

Kitchen after cabinet painting, white cabinets with black bar pulls under a tray ceiling, marbled counters and backsplash and gray plank flooring — White cabinets, black hardware

Galley kitchen after cabinet painting, white cabinets with black hardware against a marbled backsplash and a farmhouse sink — Galley kitchen, finished

Back of a kitchen peninsula with raised-panel cabinet doors painted slate gray, above an oak hardwood floor — Peninsula backs in slate gray

Kitchen with white painted cabinets and gray walls around a white gas range, stainless refrigerator and dishwasher — White cabinets, gray walls

Kitchen cabinets painted black above and below white counters, a white hexagon tile backsplash, floating shelves and a stainless range — Black cabinets, white hex tile

Kitchen upper and lower cabinets in dark espresso brown around a white quartz counter with a coffee station — Espresso cabinets (customer photo)

Cabinet painting in Houston

Brick exteriors

Outside, in Texas sun.

Twelve frames of one exterior painting job on a brick home in Texas. The soffit, fascia and eave line went dark brown, and one frame shows the fascia board off with the bare rafter tails behind it.

Red brick ranch home with a deep covered patio, the soffit and fascia repainted dark brown, live oaks overhead and a golf course lot behind — Soffit and fascia, brick ranch

Finished covered patio on a brick home, the beadboard ceiling and beams painted dark brown, patio furniture and a grill back in place on the paver floor — Covered patio, finished

Rear elevation of a red brick home after the eaves and gable trim were repainted, plantation shutters in the windows and a gravel bed along the foundation — Rear elevation and gable trim

Gable end and eave line of a red brick home repainted dark brown, with a round attic vent and a pressure washer hose still laid across the gravel — Gable, eave and vent

Side elevation of a red brick home with repainted window trim and a dark brown eave, a garden arch and grill in the foreground — Side elevation and window trim

Tall arched window on a red brick home, the surrounding trim and the eave above it repainted dark brown, photographed from below — Arched window trim

Dark brown painted patio ceiling and ceiling fan on a brick home, looking out past the brick columns to the yard — Patio ceiling and fan

Wrought iron double entry door on a brick home refinished in satin black, the scrollwork and glass panels clean and the brick surround untouched — Wrought iron entry, refinished

Eave on a brick home mid-job, the rotted fascia board removed to expose bare rafter tails while the soffit above it is already painted dark brown — Fascia off, bare wood exposed

Extension ladder set against the eave of a brick home where the fascia has been taken off, the exposed framing visible against the finished dark soffit — Working the eave line

Painter on a wooden stepladder under the covered porch of a brick home, holding a bucket and cutting in the dark brown porch ceiling by hand — Cutting in the porch ceiling

Painter standing on the shingle roof of a brick home beside the chimney chase, working on the siding above the gutter line — Chimney chase, roof level

Exterior house painting in Houston

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Interiors and repair

Walls, trim and the part behind the paint.

A wall opened up, backed, patched flush and skimmed out. Four frames of one repair, because that's the part that decides whether the wall still reads flat once the light hits it at an angle.

Open plan kitchen and entry after an interior repaint, greige walls with white trim and doors, white cabinets and a dark granite bar top — Open plan, walls and trim

Rectangular hole cut in a painted interior wall below the crown molding, exposing the stud bay and a blue water line inside — Step one: the wall opened up

The same wall opening with timber backing screwed into place around the edges, ready to take a patch — Step two: backing in

The same wall opening filled with a screwed-in drywall patch, flush with the surrounding wall and ready for tape and compound — Step three: patched flush

Interior stairwell wall skim coated with fresh compound below the crown molding, the repair feathered out and drying before paint — Skimmed and feathered out

Rise and Prime Painting crew member on a step ladder cutting in the wall-to-ceiling line of a living room by hand, drop cloths down and buckets staged on the floor — Cutting in by hand

Painter rolling the ceiling of a two-story foyer from the floor with an extension pole, curved staircase and chandelier behind and the furniture covered — Two-story foyer ceiling

Interior house painting in Houston

Color

Accent walls and whole rooms.

Paint colors at both ends: mustard under a vaulted ceiling, deep green and deep red behind the bed, dark teal over parquet, navy on a geometric hallway wall, and three rooms done top to bottom in quieter blues and grays.

Bedroom with a mustard yellow accent wall under a vaulted ceiling, the other walls white — Mustard accent wall

Bedroom with a deep green accent wall behind the bed, the other walls and trim white — Deep green accent wall

Bedroom with a deep red accent wall behind the bed, beside two windows with white trim — Deep red accent wall

Empty room with a dark teal accent wall and white side walls above a parquet wood floor — Dark teal accent wall

Hallway accent wall with a geometric trim pattern, the wall and the trim both painted navy — Geometric accent wall (customer photo)

Living room painted pale blue with white trim and a pass-through window to the kitchen, over a hardwood floor — Living room in pale blue

Empty bedroom freshly painted gray with white window trim and baseboards and a ceiling fan — Gray walls, white trim

Stairwell walls painted pale blue above stained wood stairs and a wood handrail, white baseboards — Stairwell in pale blue

Mid-job

What a room looks like while we're in it.

Furniture pulled to the middle and wrapped, floors covered, the color half on. This is the part that keeps paint off your things.

Bedroom walls painted lavender, the furniture wrapped in plastic and the floor covered while the work is under way — Lavender, mid-job

Bedroom walls painted charcoal, the bed and furniture wrapped in plastic mid-job — Charcoal walls, mid-job

Small bedroom painted coral, the furniture wrapped and pushed to the middle of the room — Coral, mid-job

Bedroom mid-job with the furniture under plastic, a stepladder open by the wall and the ceiling fan still up — Bedroom, prepped (customer photo)

Woodwork

Doors, rails and built-ins.

Six-panel doors and bifolds in white, stair rails left stained over black balusters, and a wall of built-in shelving.

Six-panel interior door and its frame painted white — Six-panel door (customer photo)

White six-panel bifold closet doors with dark knobs — Bifold closet doors (customer photo)

Stained wood newel posts and handrail over black painted balusters, a drop cloth on the treads below — Black balusters, stained rail

Staircase with a stained handrail and turned newel post over black painted balusters, against a white wall — Rail and balusters

Floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves painted white, with crown molding across the top — Built-in shelves (customer photo)

Floors

Concrete, before and after.

A basement, a garage and a small entry, each one the same floor before and after the coating.

The same basement floor after coating, a smooth high-gloss gray surface reflecting the window light — Stained basement concrete to high-gloss gray.

Basement concrete floor before coating, stained and blotchy with a paint tray on the floor and white baseboard heaters along the wall — Stained basement concrete to high-gloss gray.

The same garage after the floor coating, a smooth light gray finish running the full length to the door — A long garage, worn concrete to a smooth gray coat.

Long narrow garage before the floor coating, the bare concrete worn and stained, walls painted turquoise and a black door at the far end — A long garage, worn concrete to a smooth gray coat.

The same entry floor after coating, a clean smooth light gray between the red brick walls — A small entry between brick walls, scuffed to clean gray.

Small entry floor before coating between two red brick walls, the old tan surface scuffed and streaked — A small entry between brick walls, scuffed to clean gray.

Finished floors

Flake and gloss.

Two flake-coated floors, a garage and a close view of the finish at the wall, and a warehouse floor in high-gloss gray.

Garage floor finished in a gray and black flake coating, a tool wall and a white roll-up door — Flake-coated garage floor

Close view of a gray and black flake floor coating where it meets a painted block wall — Flake coat up close

Warehouse floor coated in high-gloss gray, reflecting the loading bay doors and the ceiling lights — Warehouse floor, high-gloss gray

Epoxy garage floors in Houston

Commercial

Offices, break rooms and a warehouse.

Color on an office wall and a break room wall, and a warehouse painted from a boom lift with everything below it wrapped first.

Crew painting the upper walls of a warehouse from a boom lift, the floor and everything below wrapped in plastic sheeting — Warehouse walls from a boom lift

Office break room with a bright blue feature wall above white round tables and green chairs — Break room feature wall (customer photo)

Office wall painted bright teal beside a white door, under a drop ceiling — Office teal wall (customer photo)

Commercial interiors in Houston

Fair questions

About these photos.

Are these real photos of your own work?

Every photo here is Rise and Prime Painting's own work. Most came from Ray, from his own jobs or from the company's Google profile, and the ones marked customer photo were posted to that profile by the customer. None of it is a styled shoot, so the light is whatever the light was that day.

Why are there photos of unfinished work in here?

Unfinished work is on this page because the prep is the part of a paint job you can't see once the last coat of paint is on. The masking, the doors coming off, the wall opened up and patched and the fascia board pulled to show what was underneath are where the money goes.

Can I see a before and after of the same room?

Ten pairs on this page show the same space before and after, seven interiors and three floors. Drag the handle on any of them to move between the two frames.

Do you have photos of a house like mine?

The photos here cover kitchens, bedrooms, stairwells, floors, offices and one brick ranch in Texas with a covered patio, so there's a fair chance something is close to your house. If you want to see a particular room, finish or paint color before you book, say so when you call and Ray will tell you whether he has a photo of it.

What are the stages of a painting job?

A painting job runs in stages: the room is protected, the surface is repaired and prepped, bare or patched areas are primed, and then the finish coats go on. Ray's own order for cabinets is clean and degrease, sand, repair, prime, sand and detail, finish coats, then reassemble, and the repair set on this page shows a damaged wall opened, backed, patched flush and skimmed before any color.