Great Plains Painting LLC

If you’re considering re-siding your home in Overland Park or Kansas City and you’re talking with us, we’re going to strongly recommend you consider James Hardie’s ColorPlus siding solution. Find out why this is the best option here: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/james-hardie-colorplus-s/

Last week we began discussing James Hardie Fiber Cement siding and it’s benefits for use in the Overland Park and Kansas City areas. This week, we’ll look at the various designs, styles, and looks you can achieve with Hardie siding: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/james-hardie-fiber-cemen/

We've been writing a lot about exterior painting in Overland Park over the last couple of months. While we do more exterior painting than anything else, that's not all we do. We also install James Hardie fiber cement siding products in Overland Park and Kansas City. If you're interested in James Hardie siding and would like a free estimate or to discuss your options, give us a call! https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/james-hardie-siding-over/

Usually exterior painting projects we complete include an accent color on the front door. Choosing the correct color for your personal aesthetic and that will either nicely contrast, or subtly complement the colors you've chosen for your home is no easy feat. There are a vast number of options. Let's take a look at a few and perhaps provide a framework for how to make a decision about front door color: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/what-color-do-i-paint-my/

We do a lot of wood rot repair on exterior painting projects in Overland Park and Kansas City. We’ve done everything from replacing a couple of rotted trim boards to entire walls of siding. Having replaced thousands of feet of trim over the years, we’ve developed some opinions on the materials available based on our experience. Let’s take a look at some of their pros and cons: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/wood-rot-repair-overland/

At Great Plains Painting, we’ve seen white body with black trim become popular over the last 2 or 3 years in Overland Park and Kansas City. And for good reason. The white is a classic, timeless color and black trim sharpens up the look adding a bit of modernity to the aesthetic of a house. This week we encountered a situation where a customer wished to swap the colors on their Overland Park house from dark browns and greens to white and black. When going white over a dark color, there are a few things to consider. Let’s take a look at those so if you’re thinking of painting your house white, you’ll know what the "gotchas" are. https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/painting-my-house-white-/

The last 3 or 4 weeks we wrote about what we feel is required and recommended prep work before any exterior painting for houses in Overland Park and Kansas City. The point we’ve been subtly (or not so subtly) hinting at is that prep work is REALLY important, which you can read more about in our latest post here: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/house-painting-in-overla/ Or if you have specific questions about a painting project, please give us a call, schedule an estimate with us, or if you’re getting an estimate pick our estimator’s brain about what it is that you want.

As painters, we see a lot of peeling paint on Kansas City and Overland Park homes. We've been writing about prep work for painting homes these last weeks, and we'll continue this week by exploring peeling paint, some reasons it can happen, and how we address it on our projects. Check it out! https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/peeling-paint-overland-p/

This is week two of a series on how we approach our prep work for homes in Overland Park and Kansas City. Last week we talked about Tiger Striping and this week we’ll talk about caulking. Check it out! https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/caulking-and-exterior-pa/

In our experience, exterior painting companies approach prep work (or lack thereof) in different ways. Properly preparing a house for paint is a crucial step, if not THE crucial step in the process of painting a house. Here you can read what we do to ensure the paint we apply lasts as long as it possibly can: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/prep-work-for-exterior-p/

There are a few considerations to make when painting your Overland Park or Kansas City home that can maximize your paint's life and resist fading the longest. Check them out here in our latest post: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/what-to-do-about-fading-/

Our latest post gives you an idea of how we think about the spray and backroll method and provides you with useful information as you are evaluating quotes from painters. Talk to our estimator if you think backrolling might be necessary on your project and we’ll happily offer our recommendations and customize the bid to get you what you want. https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/spray-backroll-overland-/

When we’re estimating a project in Overland Park, sometimes people ask the question: Are you doing two coats? Here’s everything you need to know about one coat vs two coats: https://greatplainspaintingkc.com/1-coat-versus-2-coats-ov/