House Painters in Crystal Lake & the Northwest Suburbs

House Painting Company in Crystal Lake, IL and Surrounding Areas

Level Best Painting is a local house painting company run from Huntley, with our office in Crystal Lake. We paint homes in Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, Crystal Lake and the towns around them. Most of our work is repaints on lived-in houses, so we plan every job around the people who live there.

Every job starts the same way. We come out, look at the house with you and write up an itemized price. It names the surfaces, the prep, the number of coats and the paint brand and line. You can hold it up next to any other bid and see exactly what you're paying for.

Full-Service House Painting

One company for the whole house. Our crews handle the prep, the painting and the cleanup, and we stay on the job until the walk-through is done. If a wall needs patching or a ceiling has a water stain, we fix it as part of the same project instead of sending you off to find another trade.

• Interior walls, ceilings, trim and doors
• Exterior siding, trim, soffits, doors and shutters
• Kitchen and bathroom cabinet refinishing
• Deck, fence and pergola staining
• Drywall and plaster repair, finished through paint
• Help with colors and HOA approvals

Exterior House Painting

Illinois is hard on exterior paint. Freeze/thaw cycles open up caulk joints, water gets behind the paint and it starts to peel. So most of an exterior job is prep. We wash, scrape and sand failing paint back to a sound edge, spot-prime bare wood and re-caulk the joints before any color goes on.

We paint siding, trim, soffits, fascia, doors, shutters and garage doors. Vinyl, aluminum, cedar, fiber cement and brick each get the primer and paint that suit them. Exterior season here runs about May to early October, and the summer calendar fills up by spring.

Interior House Painting

Inside, the difference between a good job and a so-so one is at the edges. Straight cut lines at the ceiling. Caulked gaps at the baseboard. Patches that don't show through the new coat. That's where our crews spend their time. It's slow, careful work, and it's what you notice every time you walk into the room.

We cover floors and furniture, move what needs moving and put the room back together at the end of each day. Every surface gets two coats, with the sheen picked room by room. Interior work runs all year, and winter is a good time to get on the schedule.

Cabinet Painting

If your cabinet boxes are solid and you just don't like the color, painting them costs far less than new cabinets. We take the doors and drawer fronts off, label them, degrease and sand everything and put down a bonding primer. Then we spray a cabinet enamel, not wall paint.

The boxes get masked and finished in place with your counters, floors and appliances covered. Doors go back on after the finish has had time to cure, and we adjust them so they hang straight. Most kitchens take three to five working days.

Deck & Fence Staining

Decks here sit under snow for months and bake in humid summers. Stain that soaks into clean, open wood is what keeps the boards from going gray, cracking and rotting. We wash, brighten and sand before any stain goes on. Paint peels on a deck. Stain wears down slowly and is easy to keep up.

We stain decks, railings, stairs, fences, gates and pergolas. If we're painting the house the same season, we can do the deck and fence on the same setup. We'll also tell you straight if a board is rotted and needs to be replaced instead of stained.

Drywall Repair

Ice dams leave water stains on ceilings. Newer subdivisions settle and crack around doors and windows. Moves leave anchor holes all over the walls. We patch, tape, mud and sand those repairs, then match the texture around them. Plaster cracks in older homes get stabilized first so they don't open right back up.

Because we're painters, the repair doesn't stop at bare mud. We prime it and paint it so it blends into the wall. Small jobs are welcome, and a punch list of holes can usually be done in one visit plus a short trip back for paint.

Color Help & HOA Approvals

A lot of people put off painting because they can't settle on colors. We can help. We'll bring samples, look at them with you in your own light and talk through how the colors work together across the house. If you already have colors picked out, we write them on the estimate and that's that.

Many subdivisions in Huntley, Lake in the Hills and Algonquin have HOA rules about exterior colors. We can work from your association's approved palette and give you a color sheet to send to the board with your estimate. That way you're not waiting on approval after your start date is already set.

Your Free Consultation

1. 1

   Free Estimate

   We come out, look at the job with you, and you get a written, itemized price. No pressure.

2. 2

   Color Selection & Schedule

   Pick your colors. We can help if you want it. Then we set a start date and tell you who's coming.

3. 3

   Prep, Paint & Clean-Up

   Our crew covers your floors, furniture and landscaping, does the prep right, puts on two coats, and cleans up every day.

4. 4

   Final Walk-Through

   We walk the job with you before we call it done. If something isn't right, we fix it.

Why Choose Level Best Painting

We're a local company, not a franchise. The person who prices your job answers to you, not to a regional office. You get a written, itemized estimate, a start date and a crew that shows up when we said it would. If you call with a question in the middle of the job, you get a real answer.

We keep the job site clean every day and we don't leave until we've walked the work with you. If something isn't right at the walk-through, we fix it before we call the job done. The scope and the price are in writing before we start, so there are no surprises at the end.

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