Roofing & Exterior
The One Surface Every Visitor Touches. Make It Count.
A smooth, durable finish on your front door, frame, and entry with Sherwin-Williams coatings — the highest-impact square footage on the whole house and the fastest curb-appeal win there is.
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Signs to watch
Is this you?
Faded, chalky, or sun-baked door
A south- or west-facing entry takes brutal UV, and dark door colors fade fastest. When the finish goes flat and chalky, the whole front of the house reads tired — no matter how good the rest looks.
Peeling or worn spots around the handle and kick area
The door is the single most-touched surface on the house. Finish wears through at the handle, the push area, and the bottom rail first, and once it's open the wood or steel underneath starts taking weather.
You want a fresh look without a big project
A new door color is the cheapest, fastest change with an outsized effect on curb appeal. It's a day of work that makes the whole entry — and the listing photo — look deliberate.
Weather-swollen frame or sticking door
PNW damp swells wood frames and jambs, and a door that sticks or a frame with peeling paint is usually water finding bare wood. It wants sealing and a proper finish before the rot sets in.
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A smooth finish built for a high-wear surface
The entry is small square footage that everyone sees up close, so the finish has to survive both scrutiny and daily use. We use a Sherwin-Williams door-and-trim enamel that levels to a smooth, hard surface — one that shrugs off the fingerprints, scuffs, and hand oils a front door lives with. Prep is what makes it smooth: sanding the old finish, filling dings, priming bare wood or steel, and sealing the frame and threshold where weather gets in. Where it's practical we pull the door off its hinges to finish it flat and dust-free; otherwise we mask and finish it hung. The goal either way is factory-smooth, not brush marks.
The method
How we do it
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Assess the door, frame, and color
We check the door and frame for wear, swelling, and bare spots, confirm the material — wood, steel, or fiberglass all finish a little differently — and put your color choice up in real daylight, since a bold door color reads very differently in shade than on a swatch.
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Sand, prime, and seal
Sand the existing finish for grip, fill and smooth dings, prime any bare wood or steel, and seal the frame, jamb, and threshold. Where practical the door comes off to be finished flat, which is how you get a run-free, dust-free surface.
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Enamel coats and rehang
Smooth enamel applied at proper coverage, allowed to level and cure between coats, then the hardware and weatherstripping go back and we rehang and check the swing. Most entries are a short, high-impact job — not a week-long project.
Straight numbers
What refinishing an entry actually costs
It's a small job priced mostly on prep and finish quality, not size. What moves the number: the door's condition and how much sanding, filling, or bare-wood priming it needs, the material, whether we're doing just the door or the frame and surrounding trim too, and whether the door can come off the hinges for a flat finish. A sound door getting a color change is modest; one that's been weathering with a failing finish and a swollen frame takes more prep — and that's usually the one most worth doing before water gets in.
Where we do this work
Front Door & Entry Painting: straight answers
Why does a front door need special attention versus the rest of the trim?
Because it's the surface everyone sees closest and touches most. Brush marks, thin spots, and drips that would disappear on a wall are obvious on a door at arm's length, and the constant use wears finish faster. It gets a harder, self-leveling enamel and more careful prep for exactly that reason.
Can you match the door color to my trim or a color I have in mind?
Yes. Sherwin-Williams can match a huge range of colors, and we'll put your choice up on the actual door in daylight before committing — a bold entry color especially can look completely different in a shaded PNW doorway than it does on a chip.
Do you take the door off to paint it?
When it's practical, yes — finishing a door flat and off its hinges is how you get a smooth, run-free surface with no dust settling into wet paint. When taking it down isn't practical, we mask carefully and finish it hung, which still comes out clean; it just takes a steadier approach.
How long until I can close and use the door?
We time the coats so the door is usable the same day in most cases, but enamel keeps hardening for a while after it feels dry. We'll tell you how long to be gentle with it — closing a door onto weatherstripping before the finish has cured is the fastest way to mar a fresh coat.
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