Painters in Danvers, MA

Work we have finished in Danvers

The photographs on this page are Cayo’s own, from interiors we have finished in Danvers: a kitchen, a dining room with a white coffered ceiling, a warm gray living room and a stairway. Some show the rooms finished; a couple show them mid-job, floors covered and the new kitchen still going in.

Painting around a new kitchen

One of the Danvers jobs is a good example of a room being painted while a new kitchen goes in.

The cabinets in those photographs are new units being installed — not something we painted. Our work was the room around them, cut in cleanly against the new cabinetry. The mid-job photos show the flat-packed boxes still on the floor.

If you are doing a kitchen, the order matters. Painting before the cabinets go in is faster and gives the cleanest edges, because there is nothing to cut around. Painting after works fine too — it just takes more care. Either way it is worth talking to your installer and to us before the work starts, not after.

Coffered ceilings and detailed rooms

The dining room on this page has a white coffered ceiling over soft gray walls, with deep window casings. It is one of the most satisfying rooms to finish and one of the slowest.

Every beam in a coffered ceiling has four faces, every recess is cut in by hand, and all of it is overhead. A flat ceiling of the same size might take an hour; a coffered one takes most of a day. That is why it is quoted on its own — and why a quote that treats them the same has not looked up.

Old houses, and the North Shore climate

Danvers has some of the oldest housing on the North Shore. The town began as Salem Village, and colonial-era houses like the Rebecca Nurse Homestead still stand. Much of the rest of the town runs from Victorians through post-war and modern single-family homes.

Old houses bring old paint. Trim that has been recoated for generations needs its build-up sanded back before anything new goes on, or the new finish simply records every drip and run underneath.

Near the water in Danversport, the climate adds a second concern. Salt air and damp are hard on exterior paint, so on an exterior job there the preparation and the choice of product matter more than they would a few miles inland.