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Interior Painting Ottawa & Gatineau
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and cabinets, painted room by room with the prep that makes the finish last. A free written estimate, on both sides of the river.
Who does interior painting in Ottawa? Ottawa Luxe Painting does, across Ottawa and Gatineau: walls, ceilings, trim, doors and cabinets, painted room by room, all year round. Call (613) 799-5057 or request a free written estimate.
Interior painting in Ottawa and Gatineau covers walls, ceilings, trim, doors and cabinets, and the prep that decides how long they look right. We work room by room, protect your floors and furniture, patch and sand first, then apply even coats with sharp cut lines. Every job starts with a free written estimate.
Why Choose Ottawa Luxe Painting
- Locally Owned: Ottawa and Gatineau crew painting homes since 2015.
- Year-Round Interior Work: We paint interiors in every season, room by room.
- Careful Prep: We mask and cover, patch and sand, caulk gaps, and prime before colour.
- Clean Job Sites: We contain dust and protect floors and furniture.
- Written Estimate: Every job starts with a free, no-obligation, itemized written estimate.
- Final Walkthrough: At the walkthrough we fix anything the owner flags and leave the space cleaner than we found it.
What Our Ottawa Clients Say
We hired Ottawa Luxe Painting for interior house painting and couldn't be happier. The team was punctual, professional, and the walls look amazing. They helped us pick the perfect color and finished on time. Highly recommend!
Fantastic experience from quote to completion. The painters were respectful, professional, and very tidy. They went above and beyond to fix some drywall before painting. I'll definitely call them again.
What interior painting covers
An interior job is rarely only walls. The usual scope, from a single room to the whole house:
- Walls, in living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and hallways, including feature and accent walls
- Ceilings, including repair and texture removal before they are painted
- Trim, baseboards, crown moulding and doors
- Cabinets, refinished or repainted
- Drywall patching, sanding and priming before any colour goes on
The pages below go into the details of each part of the job. For the whole house, inside and out, see our full house painting overview. If the outside is next, we also paint exteriors in Ottawa.
Photos from our jobs
Rooms from our own job photos, including a before and after.
Why prep decides the result
Colour is the part you see. Prep is the part that decides how long you see it. We mask and cover, patch and sand, caulk the gaps and prime before the topcoat, so lines stay straight and coverage stays even.
Some walls need more than sanding. Cracked seams and nail pops are drywall repair, and a ceiling stained by a leak needs ceiling repair before it is painted.
Older Ottawa homes add another layer. The Glebe, Westboro and Centretown are largely plaster over lath, while suburban stock from the 1960s on is drywall, often with a stipple ceiling. Each takes different prep.
What does interior painting cost in Ottawa?
Interior cost comes down to the size of the space, the ceiling height, the condition of the surfaces, the number of coats a colour change needs, and whether trim, ceilings, doors and closets are in scope. Because those vary so much house to house, we do not publish a flat rate. We give you an itemized written estimate after we see the home.
As a market benchmark, HomeStars puts a full interior repaint on a 1,500 to 2,000 sq ft home at roughly $2,000 to $5,000, and a 2,500 to 3,500 sq ft home closer to $4,000 to $8,000.
Interior walls on their own run about $2 to $4 per square foot. These are HomeStars’ figures, not our rates. The sources and how the numbers break down are in our Ottawa house painting cost guide.
How an interior job runs
Free estimate
Tell us about the space and we set up a no-obligation visit or quote. You get a clear scope and a real number, not a guess.
Prep and protection
We mask, cover, sand, patch, and prime. Prep is the step that decides whether a finish lasts, so we do not skip it.
Clean application
Cut lines stay sharp, coverage stays even, and the right product goes on the right surface for an Ottawa climate.
Walkthrough
We walk the job with you, fix anything you flag, and leave the space cleaner than we found it.
What to ask interior painters in Ottawa before you sign
Four questions worth putting to any interior painting company, including us. Put the same four to every set of interior painters you get a quote from, and compare the answers rather than the totals.
Which rooms and surfaces are in the price?
Walls are the obvious part. Ceilings, trim, doors and closets change the number, so a quote that does not say which of them are included is one you cannot compare. Ask for the rooms and the surfaces in each room, written down.
What does the prep line actually list?
Patching holes and cracks, sanding, caulking gaps and priming. If prep is one vague line, the number is a paint price rather than an interior price. Prep is the step that decides whether a finish lasts.
How do you protect the house while you work?
Floors and furniture should be covered, dust contained, and the job taken room by room so you can keep living in the home. Ask how that works in your layout, not in general.
What changes with a deep colour change?
Going from a dark wall to a pale one, or the reverse, usually needs an extra coat. A quote that assumes two coats everywhere may not hold. Ask what the colour plan does to the coat count.
Tell us about the rooms and we will give you a free written estimate, itemized so you can see what drives the number.
Interior painting in Ottawa: common questions
HomeStars puts a full interior repaint on a 1,500 to 2,000 sq ft home at roughly $2,000 to $5,000, and a 2,500 to 3,500 sq ft home closer to $4,000 to $8,000, with interior walls on their own about $2 to $4 per square foot.
Those are market figures, not our rates. Your number depends on the size of the space, ceiling height, the condition of the surfaces and how many coats a colour change needs. We give you an itemized written estimate after we see the home.
HomeStars puts a standard bedroom of 120 to 150 sq ft of floor, which takes in a 12x12 room at 144 sq ft, at $400 to $800 to paint. That range is for walls only, two coats and 8 ft ceilings, and it is a Canadian market figure from HomeStars' painting cost guide, updated 2026-08-21, not our rate.
Adding the ceiling, the trim and the doors, or a deep colour change that needs an extra coat, moves the number. We price your room after we see it, in a free written estimate.
HomeStars puts a full interior on a 1,500 to 2,000 sq ft house at 40 to 80 hours of crew time. The number of days depends on the size of the crew and on how much prep the walls and ceilings need. We give you a realistic timeline in writing with your estimate, and we keep you updated as the work progresses.
Almost never. We work room by room so you can keep living in your home. We contain dust and protect your floors and furniture as we go. For larger interior projects we plan the order of rooms with you, so the disruption to your day stays small.
Yes. Interior painting runs year-round in Ottawa, unlike exterior work, which waits for warm, dry weather. The cold months are a good time to repaint the inside of a house, because the exterior season is short and books up first.
For the inside of a house, any month. Indoors your heating sets the conditions, so interior painting runs all year in Ottawa. The outside is the part with a season: the reliable exterior window runs from late spring through early fall, when temperatures hold above about 10C and surfaces are dry.
So if you are planning both, book the interior for the colder months and keep the warm weeks for the exterior.
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and cabinets, from a single feature wall to a full interior repaint. Before colour goes on we handle the prep: drywall patching, ceiling repair, popcorn or stipple texture removal and wallpaper removal when they are in the way.
Yes. Health Canada's guidance is that a home built before 1960 probably contains lead-based paint, and that one built between 1960 and 1990 may. On original coatings that old we work without dry power sanding or heat guns, keep the area contained and clean up carefully. That is a method we follow, not a certification we hold.
Yes. We work on both sides of the river, across Ottawa and Gatineau, including Hull and Aylmer. Every project starts with a free, no-obligation written estimate, so you know the real scope for your address before anything is booked.
Related services and areas
We paint interiors throughout the region, on both sides of the river: Kanata and Stittsville in the west, Orleans and Gloucester in the east, Nepean, Barrhaven, Riverside South, Findlay Creek and Greely to the south, and Gatineau, Hull and Aylmer across the river.