Case study — Interior Painting

Interior Window Frame Painting — SE Calgary

Thirteen interior window casings and frames in this SE Calgary home, rolled — not sprayed — in two coats of Benjamin Moore Advance satin trim paint, with every edge masked and cut by hand. The same visit took care of the ceiling repairs: patched, texture-matched, primed and painted out.

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Kitchen and dining bay windows and garden door before painting in a Calgary home — Before — the kitchen and dining bay, frames in their original finish

Living room picture window before its casing was painted — Before — the living room picture window

Tall stairwell window before painting, seen from the stairs — Before — the tall stairwell window

Primary bedroom bay window and window seat before painting — Before — the primary bedroom bay window

Can of Zinsser B-I-N primer used to spot-prime the window frames — Prep — the spot-primer: Zinsser B-I-N, one coat on every frame

Bathroom window fully masked with painter’s tape and masking film during preparation — During — the glass masked with tape and film, the casing ready for primer

Tall window masked with green painter’s tape and the hardwood floor protected with paper — During — the tall window masked off, floors protected with paper

Finished bay windows with bright white casings after painting — Finished — the bay windows in fresh satin white

Finished front entry and bay windows with freshly painted white frames in SE Calgary — Finished — the entry and bay, thirteen frames in all

Finished tall stairwell window with a crisp white casing after painting — Finished — the same stairwell window, in crisp white

A focused trim project in SE Calgary: all 13 interior window casings and frames repainted, and the ceiling repairs patched and painted in the same visit — no full wall repaint, just the frames and the fixes, done properly.

The starting point

The casings were a dated cream that had gone flat and showed every year, and several ceilings carried repairs that needed to be patched and blended in properly — the kind of detail work that decides whether a room looks finished or almost finished.

The work

Every frame was sanded and cleaned first. Then came the protection: glass masked with tape and masking film, sills and floors covered. Nail holes and cracks were filled, and the gaps where trim meets wall caulked. Each frame was then primed with one coat of Zinsser B-I-N shellac-base primer, followed by two coats of Benjamin Moore Advance in a satin sheen, applied by brush and mini-roller. The tape was pulled while the final coat was still tacky, so every line came out crisp. The ceiling repairs were patched in drywall and plaster, texture-matched, primed and painted to disappear.

Result

Thirteen frames in a clean, bright satin white — the bay windows, the stairwell window and every bedroom read sharper against the walls, and the ceilings show no trace of the repairs.

This project is the living proof behind one of our most-asked questions — “Can you paint just my window frames?” Yes, and it is a regular part of our interior painting work: frames and trim on their own, prepped and finished the same way as a full repaint.

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