Old and new Arvada
Arvada's historic core around Olde Town has bungalows, foursquares and early-20th-century homes with plaster walls and original trim. Surrounding neighborhoods filled in with 1950s–1970s ranches and tri-levels. Northwest Arvada — Ralston Valley, Leyden Rock, Candelas and nearby — is newer, with 1990s two-stories and recent construction full of builder-grade flat paint and white or gray everything.
That means two very different kinds of projects. Older homes need careful prep and often lead-safe practices. Newer homes are mostly about design: giving a builder-standard house a point of view, specifying better finishes than the original contractor did, and choosing a trim and ceiling strategy that works across open floor plans.
Color for open floor plans
New Arvada homes tend to have open kitchen, dining and living spaces with tall ceilings and large windows. In those layouts, every wall can be seen from somewhere else, so colors need to relate to each other. We usually set one main wall color for the open core, then use the bedrooms, office, powder room and stairwell for more personality.
Light in Arvada is classic Front Range: intense and cool at midday, with west-facing rooms warming up at sunset. Flat builder paint shows every fingerprint, so we'll typically recommend upgrading to a washable matte or eggshell on walls and a harder enamel on trim and doors.
Popular Arvada projects
Here's what Arvada homeowners ask us for most:
- Builder-white or builder-gray to a designed palette
- Upgrading flat builder paint to washable finishes
- Olde Town bungalow interiors with plaster repair
- Nurseries, kids' rooms and home offices
- Stairwells and two-story foyers
How a Arvada project works with us
Every job starts with the $499 Paint Plan: a 60-minute walkthrough with a Matterport 3D scan, a measured floor plan, a room-by-room color plan with sheens and trim, mockups on photos of your own rooms, and a fixed-price quote. The fee is credited in full if you book the paint job. Prefer to skip the design step? Ask for a free painting quote instead, or read about our interior painting service.
Nearby, we also paint in Wheat Ridge and Golden. Selling soon? See pre-listing painting.