Newport, Kentucky · Painting Contractor
NKY Home Service paints homes and businesses across Newport, from the Victorian streets of the East Row to the newer property near the river. 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.
Newport has one of the largest intact Victorian neighbourhoods in the country, and the interiors match: plaster walls, high ceilings, deep bay windows, pocket doors, staircases with more spindles than a modern house has doors. It is beautiful work to paint and it is slow work to paint properly.
The mistakes we get called in to fix are nearly always prep. Plaster cracks skimmed instead of cut out and bedded, so they telegraph through within a year. Century-old trim coated without cutting back the build-up, so every profile looks soft and the lines wander. Radiators and pipework painted around rather than removed from the equation.
We do whole-home repaints, single rooms, ceilings, stairwells and tall halls, original trim, doors and windows, and finished basements. Floors and furniture get masked first, and the site is cleaned at the end of each day rather than the end of the week.
Most of Newport predates 1978 by a wide margin, which puts lead paint squarely on the table. It is not a reason to avoid the work, it is a reason to do the prep properly: the hazard comes from scraping and sanding without containment, not from paint sitting undisturbed. We will raise it before the quote rather than after.
The other Newport reality is detail. These houses carry ornate wood cornices, window hoods, brackets, porch posts and spindlework, and that detail is where exterior paint fails first because it holds water. Getting eight or ten years out of a repaint here is about how carefully the failed caulk is cut out, how much bare wood gets primed, and how much rotten trim gets repaired or replaced before anything is coated.
Access matters too. Tall, narrow facades close to the street need proper staging, not a ladder and good intentions.
Newport runs from riverfront entertainment and restaurants through older storefronts to a large stock of rental and multi-family property. We paint retail units, restaurants and bars, offices, common areas, stairwells and apartment turnovers.
The constraint is your trading hours, not the painting. We schedule evenings, weekends and phased sections so you stay open, and keep the work area contained and signed while we are in it.
For landlords and property managers: 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 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.
More than the same square footage in a newer suburb, for real reasons. Victorian-era homes have taller ceilings, far more trim detail, plaster that needs proper repair, and often lead-safe containment on the exterior. That is all prep, and prep is the job. We give you a free written estimate that itemizes it so you can see what you are paying for and decide what to do now and what can wait.
Yes. Historic districts commonly have guidance on exterior colours and sometimes on materials and methods. The mistake is finding out after the scaffold is up. Tell us when we come out and we will pull the exact colour codes and put together what the review needs to see, so you are not guessing or repainting twice. Start that before you schedule the work, because approval is usually the longest part of the timeline.
Potentially quite a lot. Homes of that age may have lead paint under later coats, and the hazard comes from disturbing it, scraping, sanding, heat, rather than from it sitting there. It changes how the work area is contained, how debris is handled, and what the job costs. Tell us the age of the house up front and we will walk you through it honestly.
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 work on an older house runs longer than a newer one because the prep is the real job. Your written estimate gives you a specific window, not a range we quietly extend later.
Late spring through early fall is the reliable window in Northern Kentucky. Modern exterior coatings will cure down to around 35F, but humidity and dew matter more here than temperature, and paint applied late on an August afternoon can still be wet when the dew falls. We schedule 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 paint in Bellevue, Dayton, Fort Thomas, Cold Spring, Covington, Alexandria, Highland Heights and Wilder.
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.