Residential & Commercial
Painting Services in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

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Your Professional Painter in Duxbury, MA since 1998:

Residential painting in Duxbury, Mass.:

Duxbury’s rich history is reflected in the beautiful coastal and inland homes we paint.  Duxbury customers tend to live in colonial and cape-style homes, but we’ve painted some Duxbury contemporaries, ranches, and Tudor-style homes too.

Whether your home is a historic date-boarded house or your home is brand new, we’re experienced in painting your Duxbury home.

Commercial painting in Duxbury, Ma:

We even have a separate Commercial Painting Department if your Duxbury business, condominium community, office, or shop needs painting.  Our commercial painters can work at night or on the weekend at no extra charge to ensure your Duxbury business stays open

Duxbury High School graduation signs lined up around Duxbury high school
In 2023, we donated the senior class graduation signs to Duxbury High School Seniors – look how cute they are!  We’re signed up to donate the same signs to the 2024 class too!and productive during the painting.

Over the years, we’ve painted for dozens of Duxbury businesses, including Duxbury Dental, Cottons, Duxbury Bay Maritime School, Bayside Marina and Bay Farm Condominiums.

Read below for some Duxbury-specific ideas and tips for painting, staining, and maintenance.

Giving Back to the Duxbury Community:

We do a lot of painting and carpentry in Duxbury and feel it’s important to give back to the Duxbury community.  Because of this, we have donated thousands of dollars to Duxbury community organizations since 1998, including Duxbury Bay Maritime School, Duxbury Student Union, Duxbury schools, Duxbury Youth Baseball, Duxbury Free Library, and the Duxbury Education Foundation, Berrybrook Preschool, Bay Farm Montessori School, Duxbury Sailing Team, the Duxbury Habitat for Humanity home, Duxbury Music Promoters and Crossroads.

Do you need a raffle prize or silent auction donation for your Duxbury non-profit? Just email [email protected], and we’ll respond with a gift certificate you can raffle off or sell.


Scroll down to see our Duxbury-specific house painting tips, including paint and stain products we recommend for Duxbury’s coastal climate.

 

Duxbury church painted by certapro painters
Pilgrim Church in Duxbury has had us paint for them numerous times!

Choosing colors for your Duxbury, MA Exterior:

Our exterior color consultant can help you choose colors that blend with the historic homes on Washington Street or stand out in the many cul-de-sacs of newer “builder-beige colored” homes you see in neighborhoods in Duxbury. Look at some popular Duxbury exterior paint colors in our house colors of the South Shore guide.  Kate, our color specialist and designer, is a Duxbury resident and has worked with dozens of Duxbury families to choose interior and exterior paint colors – this is a free service to all our customers and makes a huge difference in the outcome of the project.

Painting historic homes in Duxbury is our specialty.

We’ve painted many date-boarded exteriors in Duxbury and are experienced in working to restore them to their original, historical color, even if the current color is faded and tired-looking.

We’ve worked with the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society to ensure the color of your Duxbury exterior is 100% historically accurate and developed our color fan deck called “Colors of the South Shore.”

Take a drive along Washington Street or around Stanish Shore to see some authentic historic colors. Snap some photos, and if you’d like, we’ll drive the homes and match the paint for you.

If your home was built before 1978, as many are, it might contain lead paint, and we are EPA lead certified to work on your home safely.  Massachusetts law states that if a home has lead paint, the contractor is lead-certified to work on it.


We donate and support many Duxbury organizations, including Duxbury Schools, Crossroads, Duxbury Bay Maritime School, and the Duxbury Student Union.

Duxbury schools logo

Proudly supporting Duxbury schools & Duxbury Education Foundation in dozens of ways for years.

Crossroads Logo

Proud sponsors of Crossroads in Duxbury and the great work they do.

Duxbury Bay Maritime School Logo

We're proud sponsors of the Duxbury Bay Maritime School.

Duxbury student union logo

Proud to have donated the paint for the interior of the Duxbury Student Union.

Duxbury exterior painting tips:

Harsh weather and salt air: Because Duxbury sits right on the Atlantic coast, salt air and coastal storms are an issue that can wear away at your Duxbury home’s exterior, even if you live more inland towards Pembroke or Kingston. Because of Duxbury’s climate, we use painting and staining products specifically to help combat the wear and tear on your Duxbury home’s exterior. We suggest painting your Duxbury exterior every 6-8 years to help protect the wood. Often the only thing that’s needed is a “maintenance coat” every few years to protect the original paint job and freshen up the wood on the exterior.

Some of the exact paints we use on homes in Duxbury and other coastal towns:

For exterior trim:  Sherwin Williams Resilience

For wood clapboards:  Sherwin Williams Woodscapes solid or semi-solid stain

Duxbury homes should be painted every 5-7 years with a maintenance coat applied at year 3 for added protection. Because deck and porch floors tend to be more susceptible to foot traffic abuse, we recommend maintaining your Duxbury deck or porch floors every 2 years to protect them.

Rotted wood shingles, trim, and clapboards are of particular concern for Duxbury exterior homes. Because of our harsh winters, coastal storm damage, and salt air are so harsh in Duxbury, wood rot is common on Duxbury homes. If you see rotted wood on your home’s exterior, replace it as soon as possible because you don’t want water to get inside the wood, and cause further damage to the substrate underneath your home’s wood.

PVC vs. Wood replacement boards – We have carpenters on staff to replace rotted wood on your Duxbury home before we paint. We often replace rotted wood boards with PVC Composite materials so the rotting does not occur again in that area. While PVC tends to be a more expensive material, knowing you won’t have to replace the board again saves money in the long run. We also don’t have to replace ALL of your (non-rotted) trim with PVC, so replacing a board here and there with PVC will not break the bank.

For example, trim that skims the ground often rots first and replacing those boards with PVC is a way to prevent future rot on your Duxbury home. With that said, we can replace rotted wood with PVC or wood, depending on your budget and the time frame you plan to live in your home. Duxbury residents who are moving sooner rather than later tend to choose wood over PVC because it’s less expensive. When PVC is added to wood trim in a few areas, it is 100% paintable and blends right into your home amongst the other wood trim. Look at this article we wrote on rotted wood replacement for more answers.

Cedar Shingle Maintenance: Cedar shingles are durable and impact-resistant, making them popular in Duxbury. Cedar shingles often cover whole homes or, at the very least, one or two sides of Duxbury exteriors. Many Duxbury residents prefer to let their shingles “gray” over time, and you’ll see this “Nantucket” look throughout town. Other residents prefer to coat their shingles with a semi-solid or solid stain to protect them and keep them from graying.

Either way, we are experienced in cedar shingle replacement, maintenance, power washing, and staining. Because cedar shingles tend to grow mold and mildew, you may see some black color on your shingles or behind them. Power washing with a mold-killing detergent will wash off the growth, but if your shingles are damp or shady, the mold or mildew will grow back. We recommend trimming trees to reduce shade and help slow mildew growth on your shingles.

Brick homes in Duxbury:  Brick is not as prominent in Duxbury as in other towns, but if your Duxbury home has a brick or partial brick exterior, we can paint your brick home.  As you drive around Duxbury, it’s common to see homes that have wood clapboards on the second floor and brick on the first floor.  We’ve had great success painting the brick the same color as the clapboards to reduce the visual overload and even out the look of these homes.

close view of painted soffits and window trim
A Duxbury brick home painted ivory with hunter-green trim.

Painting Projects in Duxbury, MA

See below for examples of painting projects we completed in Duxbury recently:

Exterior Staining Project

Exterior Staining Project

Cedar Shingles Stained

Tinkertown Exterior Painting Project

Tinkertown Exterior Painting Project

A Tinkertown Home we painted

Cottons in Duxbury

Cottons in Duxbury

Cottons Exterior Painting

Exterior Painting to Cape Cod Home

Exterior Painting to Cape Cod Home

Cape Cods are a Duxbury staple!

Exterior Painting and Color Change

Exterior Painting and Color Change

A Duxbury Federal Colonial we painted in 2020

Duxbury Exterior Colonial Home Painting

Duxbury Exterior Colonial Home Painting

Duxbury, MA

Duxbury Bay Maritime School Painting

Duxbury Bay Maritime School Painting

DBMS Interior Painting

Duxbury Dental, Bay Road Duxbury

Duxbury Dental, Bay Road Duxbury

Duxbury Dental is a longtime Client of CertaPro

Duxbury Bay Maritime School Interior Ballroom

Duxbury Bay Maritime School Interior Ballroom

DBMS Ballroom - interior painting

Duxbury Student Union interior painting

Duxbury Student Union interior painting

Interior painting to DSU - we also donated 100% of the paint for the project to thank them for all they do for Duxbury students

Interior painting

Interior painting

Exterior painting and color consultation

Exterior painting and color consultation

Duxbury, MA

Exterior painting - Duxbury Colonial

Exterior painting - Duxbury Colonial

White exterior colonial homes like this one are very common in Duxbury.

Duxbury Exterior Painting

Duxbury Exterior Painting

Exterior painting project we completed for a customer in Duxbury.

Exterior Painting Red Shed in Duxbury

Exterior Painting Red Shed in Duxbury

We love the look of this red shed completed for a homeowner in Duxbury.

Exterior painting Shingled Home

Exterior painting Shingled Home

Duxbury, MA

Cedar Shingle Washing and Staining

Cedar Shingle Washing and Staining

Duxbury, MA

Painted brick home in Duxbury

Painted brick home in Duxbury

Duxbury, MA

Stained contemporary home

Stained contemporary home

Duxbury, MA

Home with beautiful rounded farmer's porch

Home with beautiful rounded farmer's porch

Duxbury, MA

Pilgrim Church Duxbury

Pilgrim Church Duxbury

Duxbury, MA

What a great experience! Your men were very accommodating and very personable. They kept me updated and would leave at the end of the day without leaving debris or ladders tucked away! Thank you CertaPro!

- Barbara S. | Duxbury, MA

Barbara S. | Duxbury, MA

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Painting your Duxbury interior:

Duxbury residents love to entertain, and their homes tend to reflect this fact!

Open-floor plan homes that are popular in the newer and renovated homes throughout Duxbury often require a single palette of colors that blend and don’t compete with each other, as you move throughout the open space.  In open-floor plan homes it’s important to think about seeing the color of an adjacent room from the room you are in, and making sure the colors “flow” and blend nicely together.  Open floor plan color palettes are tricky, but Kate, our designer is an expert in helping your open floor plan look cohesive and not choppy.  Working with Kate in your home is a free-service for all of our customers!

The interiors of older homes in Duxbury tend to have nicely sanctioned and delineated rooms with very specific uses (dining, reading, cooking). Because older homes tend to have walls and doors marking the transition from one room to the next, painting colors to suit the room’s use and feel, without as much thought to the rest of the downstairs’ color scheme is perfectly acceptable. For example, we’ve painted a TV room in a relaxing crimson and simultaneously painted a forest green study right next to it. Rooms in homes without open floor plans can handle different paint colors because the doors and walls separate the rooms so well.

Our color consultant lives in Duxbury and can work with you to choose colors that work with your current furnishings and match the “feel” you are trying to create in your home. A free, in-home consultation with our designer is included in every paint job we sell, so go ahead and pull out those Pinterest pictures for her!

If you have any questions about painting your Duxbury or South Shore home, please email us at [email protected]. Even if you’re not hiring us to paint your home, we’re happy to answer you questions to help your DIY project go smoothly.

Kitchen in open floor plan home

The painting services we offer in Duxbury

See below for our full list of services offered in Duxbury. Click any of the services below for more information.

Check out our Brick Painting and Staining

Brick Painting and Staining

We paint and stain exterior or interior brick surfaces. The decision to paint your brick is not easily reversible, so we'll help you decide if painting over your brick is the right decision for you. Most often, painting brick makes homes look & feel less "industrial" and more, well, like a home.

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Check out our Color Consultation (Complimentary!)

Color Consultation (Complimentary!)

Our designer Kate will work with you to choose wall colors that coordinate with your current furnishings and exterior colors that make your home stand out from your neighbor's. In-home color consulting is a complimentary service to all of our customers.

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Check out our Interior Carpentry and Molding Installation Services

Interior Carpentry and Molding Installation Services

We install crown and dental moldings, wainscot, and other decorative interior moldings to give your home a polished look. We can even install "picture framing" beneath a chair rail to give the look of expensive molding at a fraction of the cost.

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Check out our Deck & Fence Painting and Staining

Deck & Fence Painting and Staining

We offer a variety of interior and exterior home painting and staining services for your deck, porch and fence. Mahogany decks found in our area are our specialty and need specific products to stay beautiful and protected from the South Shore and Boston climate.

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Check out our Drywall, plaster, and horsehair plaster repair

Drywall, plaster, and horsehair plaster repair

We can prepare and repair your drywall, plaster, and horsehair plaster walls before painting them. Whether your walls have water damage or if they have holes and dents that need patching and sanding, we'll create a smooth surface before we paint.

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Check out our EPA Lead Certified

EPA Lead Certified

At CertaPro Painters® of the South Shore and Boston we are EPA Lead Certified. This means that if we are performing a renovation, repair or painting project that disturbs lead-based paint in your home, we use certified renovators who are trained by EPA-approved training providers and follow lead-safe work practices.

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Check out our Epoxy Finishes to your concrete floor

Epoxy Finishes to your concrete floor

Epoxy coatings help your garage, and basement floors seem polished and more “finished.” By locking in the concrete dust that gets kicked up when people drive or walk on concrete, these coatings can keep the rest of your home cleaner as well.

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Check out our Exterior House Painting and Staining

Exterior House Painting and Staining

We paint & stain homes of all kinds - wood, stucco, brick, and aluminum or vinyl siding. We have years of experience painting in the Boston climate, and specify the paint or stain formula that's right for your home's body, trim, shutters, windows & doors.

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Check out our Interior Painting

Interior Painting

We can paint your interior walls, baseboard, trim, and doors, and moldings. Our (free) interior color consultant can work with you in your home to choose colors you love and that work with your current furnishings.

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Check out our Kitchen Cabinet Painting

Kitchen Cabinet Painting

Painting outdated kitchen cabinets makes your home instantly more modern and provides a huge "boost" to the feel of your entire home. Our complimentary in-home designer will sample cabinet colors that look great with your current kitchen counters.

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Check out our Popcorn Ceiling Removal

Popcorn Ceiling Removal

While popcorn ceilings had their time on top trends lists, they are rarely seen in modern homes. Removing a popcorn ceiling yourself can be extremely difficult. The crew at CertaPro Painters® of the South Shore and Bostonis trained to remove popcorn ceilings in an effective way that will leave your ceilings feeling fresh. Because popcorn ceilings trap dirt and dust, this is a popular project for allergy sufferers!

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Check out our Power Washing

Power Washing

Power washing is an important first step in painting the exterior of your home's surface. CertaPro Painters® of the South Shore and Boston can power wash your home to remove mold, mildew, oil, salt, and old paint so your new paint or stain lasts longer in our harsh New England climate.

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Check out our Shingle Maintenance and Staining

Shingle Maintenance and Staining

Cedar shingles are a staple of New England and require occasional power washing & staining to keep them beautiful & protected. We also specialize in staining cedar shingles so they reach that fantastic "Nantucket Gray" color more quickly.

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Check out our Stucco Repairs and Painting

Stucco Repairs and Painting

It’s important to maintain the stucco or EIFS (also known as synthetic stucco) that covers your home. CertaPro Painters is knowledgeable in both repairs and painting related to stucco and EIFS, and will educate you in determining the best approach to repairing and painting your stucco home.

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Check out our Carpentry & Wood Repair

Carpentry & Wood Repair

With so much wood on exteriors in our area, about 60% of our painting projects start with wood repair. No need to coordinate an outside carpenter to repair rotted wood, clapboards, trim, deck boards, & replace shingles. We can also add polish to your interior with wainscot, dental & crown molding, baseboard & door casings.

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Check out our Vinyl and Aluminum Siding Painting

Vinyl and Aluminum Siding Painting

CertaPro Painters’ painting teams use products designed to adhere to aluminum and vinyl. Since the surface of aluminum and vinyl is more stable than wood, the paint finish holds up well when painted. This is a great and cost-effective option if your vinyl or aluminium siding is chalking or faded.

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Great job. Nice, polite people. I've hired them a few times.

- Priscilla P. | Duxbury, MA

Priscilla P. | Duxbury, MA

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Choosing a “Duxbury Painter” for your home.

student union duxbury ma glass window
We donated the paint for the interior refresh of the Duxbury Student Union

Finding the best contractor among all South Shore painting contractors saves you valuable time and money in the long run. Choosing from all the South Shore painting companies may seem a little daunting at first. If so, evaluate them all based on the below key points.

Three reasons Duxbury loves CertaPro Painters:

  • Company Reputation: CertaPro Painters is your most trusted and referred local painter. Since you are already here, read our reviews.
  • Written Proposal: CertaPro Painters provides detailed, customized written proposals that spell out all of the details of your project in words and photos. We also back our work with a written warranty.
  • Professionalism: CertaPro Painters delivers what we promise on time and budget.

Hiring the best painting contractor makes all the difference to the final result of your Duxbury home. We deliver beautiful finishes and a smooth, positive customer experience.

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