Three Houses on One Street: Our Sunnymead Way Repaints in Saanich

This summer we wrapped up our third exterior repaint on Sunnymead Way, a quiet street in Saanich. Nobody there found us through an ad. The first job led to the second, the second led to the third, and two more neighbours have already booked us for next year.

That's how painting work actually spreads. A crew is on the street for a week or two. People walk past, watch how the prep goes, see the sheeting come off, and ask the owner what it cost and whether we were easy to have around. The answers travel further than anything we could write about ourselves. Here's what those three jobs looked like.

The two-storey that went from brown to grey

The first thing you noticed about this one was the brown. Brown siding, brown garage door, brown trim over a red-brick base. Solid house, dated colours. The owners wanted it brought forward without losing the brick.

We kept the brick untouched and flipped everything painted: a soft grey-blue on the siding, crisp white on the trim and the garage door. Same house, completely different decade. The backyard shed got the matching treatment, because nothing undoes a fresh exterior faster than a tired outbuilding sitting right behind it.

The mid-century rancher that went red

Further along the street sits a mid-century rancher under a stand of old oaks, board-and-batten siding stepping down a slope. When we first saw it, the green paint had faded until the whole house read flat.

The owners went the other way entirely: a deep red with near-black eaves and clean white window frames. On a house with this much roofline, that contrast does the work. It's the kind of colour choice people slow down for, and on this street, they did.

The patio wall nobody wanted to sit beside

The third project was smaller: a patio-facing wall where the old clapboard had weathered chalky and grey. It's the wall you look at every time you sit outside, which is exactly why it grates.

New coat: a soft sage green with the black trim repainted sharp. The white door and window frames stayed. Small job, big difference to the hours the owners actually spend out there.

How a street becomes a client

There's no trick to this, but there is a reason it works. Painting is a trade where the neighbours can audit everything: how we mask, how we handle plants and fences, whether the site is tidy at the end of the day, what the house looks like two winters later. We wrote up what that day-to-day care involves in our exterior prep checklist.

Doing several houses on one street also just works better. We know how the weather moves across it, where the sun sits in the afternoon, what the substrate is like from one build era to the next. The estimates get sharper and the schedule gets tighter.

We've been painting Victoria and Saanich homes for over twenty years, WorkSafeBC registered since 2005, fully insured, with a written 3-year warranty on our work. If your street hasn't met us yet, request a free quote or call (250) 385-0478. We're happy to point you to a street where you can go ask about us in person.

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