Florence, Kentucky · Painting Contractor
NKY Home Service paints homes and businesses across Florence and Boone County — interiors, exteriors, trim, doors and commercial spaces. The same background-checked crew that walks your house and writes your estimate is the crew that shows up on day one. No subcontractors, ever.
Most Florence homes we walk into were finished by a builder in a hurry — one thin coat of flat builder white over unsanded drywall, trim that was sprayed before the doors were hung, and nail pops nobody filled. A repaint is the first chance those walls have had to be done properly.
We prep before we paint: fill and sand nail pops and seams, caulk the gaps where trim meets wall, spot-prime every patch and stain, and mask floors and furniture before a brush comes out. Then two full coats, cut in by hand.
Interior work we take on in Florence: whole-home repaints, single rooms, ceilings, trim and baseboards, interior doors, stairwells and two-story foyers, basements and finished bonus rooms.
Everything gets moved back and the site gets cleaned at the end of each day, not just at the end of the job.
Florence is mostly vinyl and brick, which means the exterior work here is rarely the whole house — it is the trim, soffit and fascia, shutters, garage and front doors, porch columns, railings and decks. Those are the surfaces that take the weather, and they are what makes a house look tired from the street.
Northern Kentucky is hard on exterior paint in a specific way: humid summers, a freeze-thaw cycle that runs through most of the winter, and south and west elevations that fade years before the rest of the house. We wash the surface first, scrape and sand anything failing, prime bare wood, replace failed caulk rather than painting over it, and use exterior-grade coatings rated for this climate.
We also paint vinyl siding, which many painters will not touch. It has to be cleaned properly and coated in a vinyl-safe color that will not absorb enough heat to warp the panel — done right, it is a fraction of the cost of replacing siding.
Florence carries most of Boone County’s commercial square footage — the Houston Road and Mall Road corridors, the US-42 and Dixie Highway strips, and the warehouse and office parks out toward the airport. We paint offices, retail units, restaurants, medical and dental suites, common areas and apartment turnovers.
The constraint on commercial work is almost never the painting. It is working around the hours you are open. We schedule evenings, weekends and phased sections so your doors stay open, and we keep the work area contained and signed while we are in it.
For property managers and landlords: we do unit turnovers on a fixed scope and a fixed date, which is usually what stands between a vacancy and a signed lease.
There are national franchises working this market and there are crews that will quote you cheap over the phone. Here is what is different about us.
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"I highly recommend NKY Home Service! The toilet in my guest bathroom broke right before I was hosting a baby shower and Chris was able to fit me into his schedule and get it fixed. He was super nice and very affordable!"
Casey D.
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"We contacted NKY Home Service to help us with a couple of touchup/patching spots on our walls. Our new home settled and there was a significant crack in the seam that couldn't be covered with paint alone. Chris, the friendliest person I've ever met, came and repaired the spots easily and quickly. He was timely and incredibly reasonable. I can't recommend this contractor enough."
Tara W.
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"Very knowledgeable, professional, and affordable."
Seth W.
It depends on square footage, ceiling height, how much prep the surfaces need, and how many colors you want. A single room is a different conversation from a whole-home repaint, and an exterior with failing caulk and bare wood takes far more prep than one that was painted five years ago. We give you a free written estimate that itemizes the prep and the coats so you can see exactly what you are paying for, and we will tell you honestly if part of the job is not worth doing yet.
Yes. A lot of Florence subdivisions require architectural or color approval before an exterior repaint, and it catches people out. We will pull the exact color codes and put together what your HOA needs to see so you are not guessing or repainting twice. Start the approval before you schedule the work — it is usually the longest part of the timeline.
Yes, and it is one of the better value jobs in Florence. The two rules are that the siding has to be genuinely clean first, and the color has to be a vinyl-safe formulation. Go darker than the siding was rated for and the panels absorb enough heat to warp. We stay inside the safe range, which still gives you far more color options than most people expect.
A single room is usually a day. A whole-home interior repaint typically runs three to five working days depending on size and how much trim is involved. Exterior trim, soffit and fascia on a standard Florence two-story is commonly two to four days, weather permitting. Your written estimate gives you a specific window, not a range we quietly extend later.
Late spring through early fall is the reliable window. Modern exterior coatings will cure down to about 35°F, but the bigger issue here is humidity and dew — paint applied late in the day in August can still be wet when the dew falls. We schedule exterior work around the forecast rather than pushing a job into weather that will cost you the finish.
No. Not for overflow, not in the busy season, not ever. This is the single biggest difference between us and the franchise operations working this market, and it is the reason the quality is consistent from job to job. The person who quotes your house is on site doing the work.
Painting is what most people call us for first, but we handle the rest of the exterior maintenance too — which usually means one crew you already trust instead of four you have to vet.
Siding, driveways, walkways, patios and decks. Also the first step before any exterior repaint.
Pressure washing in Northern KentuckyClearing and flushing gutters and downspouts before the fall backs them up and the water finds your fascia.
Gutter cleaning in Northern KentuckyDrywall, trim carpentry, wood rot repair and the smaller fixes that need doing before paint goes on.
Remodeling and repairsOur full painting service across Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties.
All painting servicesWe also serve Union, Burlington, Hebron, Walton, Erlanger, Independence, Covington, Newport, Fort Mitchell, Fort Thomas, Edgewood, Villa Hills, Crestview Hills, Cold Spring, Alexandria, Park Hills and Taylor Mill.
Tell us what you are thinking about and we will come look at it. The estimate is free, it is written down, and there is no pressure attached to it.