by VMS Home Painting | 03/05/2026 | Exterior Painting
On Mary Ellen Drive in Charleston, a three-story house stands on a raised base among palms. The siding is a soft yellow-green, the railings on its stacked porches are white, and the enclosed ground level is a dark gray that anchors the tall shape. It is one of the...
by VMS Home Painting | 10/04/2026 | Exterior Painting
An exterior color scheme is a short list: one color for every part of the house that gets paint, picked to work with the parts that don’t. It deserves your attention before anything else in a repaint, because the colors may need approval, get ordered by name and...
by VMS Home Painting | 03/04/2026 | Exterior Painting
“How much does it cost to paint a house exterior?” is a lot like asking what a roof repair costs. The size of the house matters less than you would expect. What sets the number is the hours of washing, scraping, repairs and ladder work the house needs...
by VMS Home Painting | 10/03/2026 | Exterior Painting
“How long to wait after pressure washing before painting?” sits right in Google’s “People also ask” box for this topic, and it is the right question to start with. Washing is the easy part. Waiting for the house to dry is where paint jobs...
by VMS Home Painting | 03/03/2026 | Exterior Painting
In a review published on the VMS Home Painting homepage, a homeowner wrote that the crew put two coats on the exterior of their new home in about a day and a half, took the shutters off and covered the neighbors’ cars while they worked. That is the real...
by VMS Home Painting | 24/02/2026 | Exterior Painting
Paint does not stop rot. It hides it for a season, and the new coat usually fails first at that exact spot. Wood rot repair before painting follows a fixed order: stop the water that caused the decay, consolidate or replace the soft wood, let the area dry, then prime...
