Painting and decorating built around Lakeview homes
Lakeview covers a lot of ground and a lot of building types. The brick and greystone two-flats and three-flats on the side streets are mostly 1900s to 1920s, and most still have their original interior woodwork, plaster walls and hardwood. Plaster is the recurring theme: hairline cracking at corners and ceilings is normal in buildings of this age, and painting over it without repairing it is why the same cracks reappear within a year. We patch and stabilize first, then paint.
Lakeview also has one of the densest concentrations of 1920s courtyard buildings in the city, most now condo associations or rental portfolios — which means two kinds of client on the same block: individual owners painting interiors, and boards and managers repainting hallways, lobbies, stairwells and unit doors on a cycle. We do both. Around Southport and Roscoe Village the single-family rehabs are newer inside, with taller ceilings and a tighter finish standard, and cabinet refinishing comes up constantly because the cabinetry is sound and simply dated.
Property types we work on in Lakeview
Vintage two-flats and three-flats
1920s courtyard apartment buildings
Sheridan Road condo high-rises
Southport single-family rehabs
Bars, restaurants and retail
Our Services
Services available in Lakeview
Everything below is available throughout Lakeview and the surrounding area.
Yes. Vintage units are most of what we paint here. The work that matters in a 1920s building is plaster repair and trim preparation. We stabilize cracked plaster and prepare original woodwork before painting, which is the difference between a finish that holds and one that shows the same cracks next winter.
Yes. We handle hallways, lobbies, stairwells, unit doors and scheduled repaint cycles, and we carry general liability and workers’ compensation with certificates naming the association and management company as additional insured.
Yes. Access and parking near the ballpark are genuinely different on game days, so we schedule material deliveries and crew arrival around the calendar rather than ignoring it.