House painters in Ottawa & GatineauYour rooms painted on schedule, and the house left clean.

We serve homeowners and businesses across the Ottawa and Gatineau region, on both the Ontario and Quebec sides of the river. Our painting services reach Kanata, Stittsville, Nepean, Barrhaven, Riverside South, Findlay Creek, Greely, Gloucester and Orleans on the Ontario side, and Gatineau, Hull and Aylmer on the Quebec side.

If you are near Ottawa and not sure whether we reach you, just ask when you request your estimate. We cover all of Barrhaven, from Half Moon Bay and Stonebridge to Old Barrhaven. We provide residential painting in Kanata for homeowners across the neighborhood.

Request a free estimate through the form on this site or call us directly. Tell us the rooms or surfaces, the rough size, and the condition, and a few photos help us quote faster. We give you a clear scope and a real price before any work starts, with no obligation.

HomeStars' Ottawa painting cost guide, built from 603 verified homeowner reviews with costs as of October 2020, averages interior jobs at $2,224, exterior jobs at $2,728 and a full house at $7,555. The reported jobs behind those averages ran from $100 to $27,000, a spread wide enough that the averages say more about the market than about any one house.

For current rates, HomeStars' 2026 Canadian guide puts painters at $40 to $80 an hour and a single room at $400 to $800, and says most companies add a minimum project fee of $1,000 to $2,000. None of these is an Ottawa Luxe Painting price. Yours comes from your actual rooms, in a free written estimate.

Ask to see the prep in writing, not just the paint. A quote that names the washing, filling, sanding, caulking and priming is one you can compare; a room count and a single total is not. Ask when exterior work would be scheduled, because Ottawa's reliable window runs from late spring through early fall and a coat applied in November is a coat that may not cure.

And ask what changes on an older home. Health Canada says a house built before 1960 probably contains lead-based paint, and one built between 1960 and 1990 may have it on the exterior, so the answer should be lead-safe work practices rather than an orbital sander.

Ottawa Luxe Painting answers all three in a free written estimate, itemized line by line, so you can hold it against any other painting company's number.

Yes. We paint interiors and exteriors for homes and commercial spaces. That includes related work like cabinet refinishing, trim and crown molding, drywall repair, siding, and power washing. Interior painting runs all year, because indoors your heating sets the temperature. Fall and winter are often the easiest months to book an interior job, since exterior work slows down.

In winter the house is sealed up, so a fan and a cracked window for a few hours after each coat clear the paint smell. Exterior work in Ottawa is planned around the season so the coating cures properly before the cold sets in.

Yes. A condo or apartment repaint is interior work, but the building is shared and the unit is usually lived in while we paint, so it runs differently from a house. Tell us whether the condo board or property manager needs notice and what the building rules are, and we schedule around both.

We cover floors and furniture and keep the unit tidy day to day. The walls are often the easy part: in a building from the late 1990s on they are usually modern drywall under a thin builder coat, so the job is patching, priming and a washable finish.

We work with quality interior and exterior products suited to each surface and to Ottawa's freeze and thaw cycle. We are happy to discuss brands and finishes during your estimate. That way the result matches both your space and how the room is actually used. If you have a colour or product in mind, bring it to the conversation.

You get a realistic timeline in writing with your estimate, worked out from the size and condition of the actual space rather than a guess. Most interior rooms move quickly once the prep is done. Exterior work is scheduled inside Ottawa's reliable window, roughly late spring through early fall, when temperatures hold comfortably above about 10C and surfaces are dry, because paint needs mild dry conditions to cure properly.

That window is short and it books up, so an exterior estimate is worth requesting early. For commercial spaces that stay open while we work, we schedule around your operating hours. Jobs are booked Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 6 PM, and inquiries are answered 24/7.

Yes, and the dates that matter in Canada are Health Canada's, not the American 1978 one. A home built before 1960 probably contains lead-based paint, one built between 1960 and 1990 may contain it on the exterior and in smaller amounts inside, and one built after 1990 should not.

Disturbing paint that old calls for lead-safe practices: proper containment, careful sanding, and thorough clean-up. That is a method we follow, not a certification we hold.

For exterior work, the reliable window in Ottawa runs from late spring through early fall. Temperatures need to stay comfortably above about 10C, with dry surfaces. Paint needs mild, dry conditions to cure properly. Exterior projects are planned around the weather and finished before the cold sets in.

Interior painting runs year-round. Because the outdoor season is short and books up quickly, it is worth requesting an exterior estimate early. That way you get the window you want.

Ottawa Luxe Painting is a local painting company serving Ottawa and Gatineau. We paint interiors and exteriors, and we do the cabinet refinishing, drywall repair, ceiling repair and power washing that go with a repaint. Ask any painter you are comparing to name the prep on the quote, give the dates for exterior work, and say what changes on an older home.

Ours is a free written estimate, itemized line by line.

HomeStars' 2026 Canadian guide puts interior walls at $2 to $4 a square foot of wall area and a standard room at $400 to $800, and says a full interior on a 1,500 to 2,000 sq ft home takes 40 to 80 hours of crew time.

It does not give one price for the whole house, because painters price the wall area, the prep and what is included, such as trim, ceilings and doors. Those are market figures, not an Ottawa Luxe Painting price. Yours comes from your own rooms, in a free written estimate.

RenoQuotes, updated 2026-05-26, puts a residential painter in Canada at $350 to $600 a day, and $650 to $900 per painter per day on commercial or regulated jobs. HomeStars puts painters at $40 to $80 an hour.

A written quote for the whole job is easier to compare than a day rate, because it fixes the hours as well as the rate. These are market figures, not an Ottawa Luxe Painting price.

Doing it yourself saves the labour, and you pay for it in time. RenoCalc's 2026 Canadian guide says a professional crew paints a typical 3-bedroom home in 3 to 5 days, and a homeowner takes roughly double.

HomeStars counts 40 to 80 hours of crew time for the full interior of a 1,500 to 2,000 sq ft house, and puts 30 to 50 per cent of the time on site into prep: the filling, sanding, caulking and priming that decide how long the finish lasts. We give a free written estimate, so you can set a real figure against the days the job would take you.

Most of them trace back to prep. A patch that looks flat and sanded but shows as a pale ghost under the paint was never primed. A brown water stain that comes back through a fresh white coat was painted over with ordinary latex instead of being sealed first.

Paint that peels or fails within a season was often applied onto a damp surface, or in the cold, before it could cure. Ask what the quote says about washing, filling, sanding, caulking and priming before you hire anyone.