Bedroom Painters in Somerville & Greater Boston

Where the color risks are taken

Bedrooms are where people are bravest with color. Living rooms stay neutral for guests; bedrooms get the deep navy, the teal, the dusty rose. The photographs on this page show all three.

Strong colors are beautiful when they are even and unforgiving when they are not. They show roller marks, patchy coverage and every wobble in a cut line, so they take more coats and more care than a pale color.

The details close to the eye

A bedroom is seen up close every day, from the bed, in morning light. That puts the detail work front and center:

• The ceiling line. A dark wall against a white ceiling is cut by hand, and there is nowhere for an uneven edge to hide.
• The trim. White casings and baseboards against a strong wall color need a clean, straight line all the way round.
• The accent wall. Where one wall is a different color, the corner where it stops has to be dead straight.

Working around the room

Bedrooms are lived in. Beds, dressers and wardrobes rarely leave the room, so the work starts by moving everything to the middle and covering it properly — and ends with the room usable again by night.

Two of our reviewers had bedrooms done: one had three painted together, another had two bedrooms and an office finished in a day and a half. Their words are below, copied exactly from Google.

The bedrooms on this page

The photographs are Cayo’s own, from bedrooms in Newton, Dorchester and Roxbury and others where he did not record the town. The Dorchester before-and-after shows a room with the furniture sheeted up mid-job, then finished in deep charcoal.