Painting one room in New Jersey starts at $495 in 2026 and most bedrooms land between $600 and $1,200. A whole interior runs about $6,000 to $15,000 depending on square footage, ceilings and trim, and a full exterior repaint is roughly $7,000 to $18,000. Cabinet painting is $3,500 to $7,000 for a typical kitchen.
Anybody can put color on a wall. What you're paying for is the plaster patched so it doesn't flash, the caulk line straight, the trim sanded, the siding scraped and primed, and the crew that masks your floors instead of your weekend.
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Painting one room in New Jersey starts at $495 in 2026 and most bedrooms land between $600 and $1,200. Typical price: $595 – $18K. Licensed & insured, written itemized price before work starts, no deposit, one dedicated crew. Serving all 21 New Jersey counties from Paramus. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free estimate.
What moves a room up its range: ceiling height, how much trim there is, how many colors, whether the walls need real patching, and whether anything has to be primed for stain or odor. We write all of it out as separate lines so you can see what you're buying.
| Job | Typical NJ price 2026 | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Bedroom, walls only | $495 – $900 | 1 day |
| Bedroom, walls, ceiling and trim | $800 – $1,600 | 1–2 days |
| Living room or two-story foyer | $1,200 – $3,500 | 2–3 days |
| Whole interior, 3-bed house | $6,000 – $15,000 | 1–2 weeks |
| Kitchen cabinets, sprayed | $3,500 – $7,000 | 4–6 days |
| Full exterior repaint | $7,000 – $18,000 | 1–2 weeks |
A huge share of North Jersey housing was built before 1978, and in Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Passaic counties most of it was. Anything painted before then can have lead in it, usually on window sashes, door casings, stair parts and exterior trim — the surfaces that get sanded and scraped.
So we work lead-safe on pre-1978 homes. That means containment plastic, no open-flame or high-speed dry sanding on suspect surfaces, HEPA vacuums, wet methods, and everything bagged and cleaned at the end of each day. It also means we don't blast a 1930s exterior with a sander and let the chips land in your yard where kids play.
If a surface tests positive and the scope is large, licensed abatement may be the right call instead of painting over it. We'll say so and coordinate it as part of the project rather than pretending we didn't see it.
Exterior paint wants surface temperatures above about 50 degrees and dropping no lower overnight, plus dry siding. In practice that's mid-April through mid-October here, with a good stretch in September and early October when the humidity finally breaks. Booking in February for a May start is how you get the crew you want.
Cedar shakes, clapboard, stucco and aluminum siding all take different products and different prep. Chalky aluminum needs a bonding primer or nothing sticks. Old cedar needs oil primer on bare spots. Stucco needs elastomeric or breathable masonry coating, not wall paint. Every one of those is named on your written scope.
If the siding is far enough gone that paint is just buying two years, we'll tell you — we do siding too, and we'd rather give you that number honestly than paint over the problem.
We walk every room or the whole exterior, note the repairs, count the doors and windows, and write an itemized price by area, with products and sheens named.
Protection down, furniture moved and covered, repairs and sanding done, primer where it's needed. Nothing gets painted the day the patching happens.
Two coats, cut and rolled or sprayed and back-rolled depending on the surface. Site swept and tools cleared at the end of every day — you get your house back each night.
We walk it with you with the lights on and the shades up, mark anything you see with tape, and fix it before you release final payment.
Paramus-based, painting inside and out across all 21 New Jersey counties. One or two rooms before a closing? That's a real job to us — call before noon and we're often there today.
Text photos of the rooms to (201) 676-3099 or email your room list to info@firstcallcontractingnj.com and we'll get you a written price by room.
typical fixed-price range — your exact number goes in writing after a free visit
How we beat the big chains: Franchise painting outfits sell a job, then hand it to a crew they found last month, and the difference between the two numbers is the whole business model. No franchise fees, no commissioned salesmen, no rented subcontractors — that's typically 15–30% under national-brand quotes for the same or better spec. Bring us any written quote and we'll match the scope line by line.
“They painted right over the water stain and it bled back through by the summer.”
“The crew sanded the old window trim on my 1930s house with a power sander and left dust all over the porch and the lawn.”
“One coat, thinned, and you can see the old color through it in the afternoon light.”
You found a crew that is actually near you. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus, in Bergen County, and our own licensed techs handle interior & exterior painting in all 21 New Jersey counties — no call center, no subcontractor sent from two states away. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies go to the nearest crew, 24/7.
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Call (201) 676-3099, text us a photo, or book a free in-home estimate — you get a written price before any work starts.
A standard bedroom with walls only starts at $495 and typically runs $600 to $1,200. Add the ceiling and the trim and it's $800 to $1,600. A two-story foyer or a big living room with lots of trim runs $1,200 to $3,500. Prices include prep, two coats and cleanup.
Inside, about $6,000 to $15,000 for a typical three-bedroom New Jersey home with walls, ceilings and trim. Outside, roughly $7,000 to $18,000 depending on siding type, height, how much scraping and priming it needs, and how much rotted trim has to be replaced first.
One day for a simple bedroom, two to three for a large room with trim and ceiling, one to two weeks for a whole interior. We work room by room in an occupied house so you always have somewhere to sleep and somewhere to eat.
Any house painted before 1978 can have lead, and most pre-war Bergen and Essex homes do somewhere. We use lead-safe practices on those homes — containment, wet methods, HEPA vacuums, daily cleanup. If a surface needs licensed abatement rather than repainting, we'll tell you and coordinate it.
Mid-April through mid-October, with September and early October usually the best stretch because the humidity drops. Paint needs surfaces above about 50 degrees and no overnight dew freeze. We schedule exteriors early in the year and hold your slot.
Yes. We move and cover furniture, protect floors, mask registers so dust doesn't travel, and sweep the site at the end of every workday. You also get a photo update text each workday, so you can see the progress even when you're not home.
If you're anywhere in New Jersey, yes. First Call Contracting is based in Paramus and handles interior & exterior painting across all 21 counties with our own licensed crew. Most of Bergen, Passaic, Hudson and Essex is 15 to 30 minutes from our shop, and emergencies are dispatched to the nearest crew 24/7. Call (201) 676-3099 or book a free in-home estimate.
Real prep · two coats of a named product · lead-safe on older homes · priced by the room in writing
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