House Painting in East Texas, TX

Your House Painting Toolbox

Living room after painting, sage green walls
Living room before painting, neutral tones
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We Paint Everything

Our East Texas, TX crews paint everything: walls, ceilings, trim, doors, cabinets, exteriors, decks, and commercial interiors. We work across Arp, Big Sandy, and Bullard with the durability standards required by the East Texas Piney Woods climate: humid subtropical summers, pine pollen, spring hail, and remnants of Gulf hurricanes.

Freshly painted interior living room with bright walls and clean trim work

Interior Painting

Transform your living spaces with flawless color and finish.

Interior Painting
Exterior house painting project with crisp siding and updated curb appeal

Exterior Painting

Curb appeal that lasts. Expert coatings for every climate.

Exterior Painting
Commercial painting project in a polished business interior

Commercial Painting

Professional-grade finishes that elevate your business space.

Commercial Painting
Kitchen cabinet painting project with a smooth factory-style finish

Cabinet Painting

Refresh your kitchen with a smooth, factory-quality finish.

Cabinet Painting
Limewash finish adding texture and depth to painted masonry

Limewash

Authentic European lime-based finishes for timeless texture and depth.

Limewash
Painted brick exterior with a durable updated finish

Brick Painting

Breathe new life into brick with lasting, beautiful color.

Brick Painting

Trusted Paint Partners

Sherwin-Williams
Benjamin Moore
Behr
PPG
Romabio
Dylan Walker, locally owned and operated That 1 Painter East Texas franchise owner

We're Locally Owned

That 1 Painter East Texas is owned and operated by Dylan Walker, serving Arp, Big Sandy, and Bullard with our crews and a 3-year written warranty. Every estimate is reviewed by ownership, no call centers.

Your painting project means as much to us as it does to you. We're licensed and insured, and our promise is simple: we'll be your best house guests, treating your place with the utmost care and leaving it even more pristine than when we arrived.

Locally Owned Professional Painting Company in East Texas, Texas

That 1 Painter East Texas is a locally owned and operated painting company led by Dylan Walker, serving East Texas and surrounding communities with licensed and insured crews and a 3-year transferable warranty.

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Areas Served

That 1 Painter East Texas serves homeowners and businesses across Arp, Big Sandy, Bullard, and the broader Texas region with a local crew, local pricing, and a written 3-year warranty.

Contact Info

(903) 226-8859


Kilgore, TX 00000

Hours
Mon–Sun
12 AM – 11:59 PM

Areas served by That 1 Painter East Texas

  • Arp, TX, ZIP 75684
  • Big Sandy, TX, ZIP 75757
  • Bullard, TX, ZIP 75771
  • Diana, TX, ZIP 75750
  • Flint, TX, ZIP 75604
  • Gilmer, TX, ZIP 75755, 75762
  • Gladewater, TX, ZIP 75704
  • Henderson, TX, ZIP 75693, 75792
  • Jacksonville, TX, ZIP 75789
  • Kilgore, TX, ZIP 75703
  • Lindale, TX, ZIP 75601
  • Longview, TX, ZIP 75702, 75706, 75707, 75708, 75709
  • Ore City, TX, ZIP 75766
  • Overton, TX, ZIP 75691
  • Tatum, TX, ZIP 75701
  • Troup, TX, ZIP 75791
  • Tyler, TX, ZIP 75602, 75603, 75605, 75640, 75644, 75645, 75647, 75654, 75662
  • White Oak, TX, ZIP 75705
  • Whitehouse, TX, ZIP 75683
  • Winona, TX, ZIP 75652

Recent East Texas Painting Projects

A look at the craftsmanship we bring to homes and businesses across East Texas. From full-home interior repaints and kitchen cabinet refinishing to exterior siding, stucco, and trim work, every painting project in East Texas is prepped, primed, and finished by licensed, insured local painters. Browse recent residential and commercial painting projects to see the color matching, surface prep, and clean lines homeowners across East Texas trust us to deliver.

Mediterranean Stone & Stucco Exterior in East Texas by That 1 Painter

Professional exterior painting project in East Texas by That 1 Painter
Exterior Painting

White Kitchen Cabinet Refresh in East Texas by That 1 Painter

Professional cabinet & interior painting project in East Texas by That 1 Painter
Cabinet & Interior Painting

Craftsman Sage & Cedar Exterior in East Texas by That 1 Painter

Professional exterior painting project in East Texas by That 1 Painter
Exterior Painting

Bright Entry Hall Refresh in East Texas by That 1 Painter

Professional interior painting project in East Texas by That 1 Painter
Interior Painting

French Country Brick Exterior in East Texas by That 1 Painter

Professional exterior painting project in East Texas by That 1 Painter
Exterior Painting

Open Kitchen & Living Refresh in East Texas by That 1 Painter

Professional interior painting project in East Texas by That 1 Painter
Interior Painting

That 1 Painter East Texas Portfolio

  • Mediterranean Stone & Stucco Exterior
  • White Kitchen Cabinet Refresh
  • Craftsman Sage & Cedar Exterior
  • Bright Entry Hall Refresh
  • French Country Brick Exterior
  • Open Kitchen & Living Refresh
Paint It Forward

Every year, our East Texas team teams up with franchise owners across the country to gift complete paint transformations to deserving families, small businesses, and non-profits. It's our way of giving back to the community that's given us so much, one home, one story, one fresh coat at a time.

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Painting Cost in East Texas 2026 Guide

Honest pricing for East Texas homeowners, built from current 2026 job data across Arp, Big Sandy, and Bullard. Every line below reflects real Texas conditions: intense UV, extreme summer heat, and sudden storm fronts, scaffolding access, and product specs that actually last.

Project Type
Low
High
Average
Interior (per sq ft)
$2.25
$4.50
$3.15
Exterior (per sq ft)
$1.90
$3.75
$2.65
Cabinet Refinishing
$3,200
$7,500
$4,800
Single Room
$450
$1,100
$725
Whole-Home Interior
$4,800
$14,000
$8,200
Whole-Home Exterior
$3,500
$11,500
$5,800

* All prices include materials, labor, and prep. Based on 2026 East Texas averages.

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Our 3-Year Warranty

Your peace of mind, at the top of mind with our three-year transferable warranty. Covers the painting job, even if you sell the house.

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The Complete East Texas Painting Guide

Everything East Texas homeowners should know before hiring a painter, services, seasonal timing, colors, HOA rules, and how to get the most value from your project. Written by the That 1 Painter East Texas team.

Our East Texas Painting Services

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Paint Reviews, Advice & Expert Tips

Honest product reviews, pro painting techniques, and helpful articles from professional painters who do this every day.

What Is the Best Paint Sheen for Interior Walls?

Choosing between flat, eggshell, satin, and semi-gloss depends on the room's traffic, lighting, and function. Professional painters break down when to use each sheen for the best results.

SuperPaint vs Cashmere: Which Sherwin-Williams Paint Is Better?

Both are popular mid-tier Sherwin-Williams paints, but they perform differently on walls, trim, and cabinets. See how professional painters compare coverage, feel, and durability.

Is Behr Premium Plus a Good Paint for Homeowners?

Behr Premium Plus is one of the most affordable paints at Home Depot. Professional painters test its coverage, durability, and finish quality to see if it's worth the price.

What Are the Pros and Cons of Behr Urethane Paint?

Behr Urethane Alkyd is a hybrid paint that combines oil-based durability with water-based cleanup. See how it performs on trim, cabinets, and doors in a real-world test.

Is Behr Dynasty the Most Durable Paint You Can Buy?

Behr Dynasty claims to be their most durable, stain-repellent paint. Professional painters put it to the test on walls and high-traffic areas to see if the claims hold up.

Is Sherwin-Williams Gallery Series Worth the Premium Price?

The Gallery Series is Sherwin-Williams' newest premium line. Professional painters review its unique properties and explain why it may not be the best choice for beginners.

Frequently Asked Questions

Clear answers about pricing, timelines, services, warranty coverage, and working with That 1 Painter.

Your Trusted, Local Painters for Residential and Commercial in East Texas

Interior Painting for Tyler, Longview, and East Texas Homes

Interior painting is the fastest way to reset how a Tyler, Longview, or Kilgore home reads without touching the floor plan, and interior painting is the busiest scope our crews run across East Texas. Interior painting covers walls, ceilings, trim, doors, closets, and cabinet interiors, and every interior painting job we run in East Texas starts with real prep so the interior painting film has a clean, sound surface to bond to. Homeowners searching for painters in Tyler or painters in Longview for interior painting typically want two upgrades at once: an updated palette and a scrubbable interior painting finish that holds up through humid Piney Woods summers, pine-pollen season, and the winter cold snaps that pass through East Texas each January.

As a painting company in Tyler running interior painting across Tyler historic and rose-district homes, downtown Kilgore and Longview stock, Jacksonville and Henderson mid-century ranches, Lindale and Whitehouse new-build subdivisions, Gladewater and Gilmer farmhouses, and rural properties out toward Arp, Big Sandy, Bullard, Diana, Flint, Ore City, Overton, Tatum, Troup, White Oak, and Winona, we treat interior painting material selection as a real decision. Which interior painting sheen hides drywall movement, which interior painting product survives a busy Tyler or Longview kitchen, and which interior painting primer locks down oil-based trim in an older Kilgore or Jacksonville home are questions we answer before the crew shows up.

If you are comparing interior painting bids from painters in Tyler or house painters in Longview, ask each of them about interior painting warranty terms, interior painting prep sequence, and how the interior painting crew protects floors and furniture day to day. Every serious interior painting outfit across East Texas should have plain answers to all three. See our interior painting page for full interior painting scope and pricing across East Texas.

Exterior Painting for Piney Woods UV, Humidity, and Storm Bands

Exterior painting in East Texas has to hold up to intense Piney Woods UV that fades and chalks south and west elevations across Tyler, Longview, and Kilgore, humid subtropical summers that push mildew pressure under pine canopies, spring hail bands that pound siding and trim, and remnants of Gulf hurricanes tracking north with wind-driven rain through the Rusk, Smith, and Gregg county corridor. Exterior painting product choice is the whole conversation. A painting company in Tyler that takes exterior painting seriously specifies a 100 percent acrylic exterior painting product with a UV-stable resin system, mildew inhibitors built into the exterior painting film, and flexibility to ride out seasonal humidity swings.

Our exterior painting scope typically includes a full pressure wash, chalking and mildew assessment, spot scraping of any failing exterior painting layers, painted-wood, painted-brick, fiber-cement, and hardboard sound-substrate checks, feathered sanding, spot primer on bare substrate, full caulk of siding seams and window returns, and two coats of exterior painting-grade paint. That exterior painting sequence is the same whether we are painting a Tyler rose-district historic home, a Longview or Kilgore oil-boom bungalow, a Jacksonville or Henderson ranch, a Lindale or Whitehouse new build, or a farmhouse near Gilmer, Gladewater, Diana, or Winona. Painters across East Texas who skip any of those exterior painting steps are quoting a two-year paint job in a ten-year paint job wrapper.

If you are evaluating house painters in Tyler or house painters in Longview for exterior painting, look at how the exterior painting bid describes prep, not just the exterior painting product line. A clean exterior painting film applied over poor prep will mildew and peel inside two East Texas summers. Our exterior painting service documents the exterior painting prep sequence in detail, and every exterior painting job carries a 3-year transferable warranty.

Cabinet Painting in Tyler and Longview Kitchens

Cabinet painting is the single biggest visual change a homeowner in Tyler, Longview, or the outlying East Texas market can buy without a full kitchen remodel, and cabinet painting demand across the Piney Woods reflects that. Our cabinet painting scope typically covers cabinet boxes on-site plus cabinet doors and drawer fronts sprayed off-site in a controlled environment, so the cabinet painting finish flows out flat and cures without airborne pine pollen, dust, or humid summer moisture landing in the wet film. Cabinet painting projects like this are why homeowners call a painting company in Tyler instead of a general remodeler.

Cabinet painting product selection matters as much as cabinet painting prep. A real cabinet painting job uses a bonding primer, a cabinet-grade urethane-modified acrylic paint, and controlled drying conditions so the cabinet painting film cures hard enough to resist door-edge chipping under daily use in a busy Tyler, Longview, or Kilgore kitchen. As a painting company in Longview that runs cabinet painting jobs almost every week, we schedule cabinet painting so the kitchen is out of service only for the days doors and drawers are physically off. Cabinet painting is a natural indoor project for peak Piney Woods summers and storm season, when exterior painting windows tighten around afternoon rain cells.

House painters across East Texas quoting cabinet painting should walk you through cabinet painting cure times, cabinet painting warranty coverage, and cabinet painting color options with real drawdowns on your actual cabinet material. Cabinet painting is not a wall paint job with cabinets in the way, and any painting company across the Piney Woods that treats it that way is one to avoid for cabinet painting scopes. See our cabinet painting page for cabinet painting scope details and lead times.

Choosing Painters in Tyler and Longview

There are a lot of painters in Tyler and painters in Longview to choose from, so the practical question is how to sort serious painters across East Texas from casual ones. Any painting outfit you bid should carry general liability insurance, provide a written scope, and back the work with a real written warranty. They should also point at recent portfolio work in your specific corner of the market: Tyler historic and rose-district homes, downtown Kilgore and Longview oil-boom stock, Jacksonville and Henderson ranches, Lindale and Whitehouse new builds, Gladewater and Gilmer farmhouses, or rural properties out toward Arp, Big Sandy, Bullard, Flint, Ore City, Overton, Tatum, Troup, White Oak, and Winona, not stock photos pulled from a supplier catalog.

As house painters in Tyler ourselves, we tell homeowners to ask three questions of anyone bidding: what is the exact prep sequence, what specific paint product is going on the walls, and who from the company is on site day to day. Painters across East Texas who dodge those questions are hoping you will not notice the answer later. A painting company in Tyler that answers plainly is worth a second meeting. Pre-1978 lead paint on older Tyler, Kilgore, Longview, and Jacksonville homes adds another layer; every serious outfit should be EPA lead-safe certified for pre-1978 work.

That 1 Painter East Texas competes on scope clarity, prep quality, and a 3-year transferable warranty that follows the paint, not the owner. If you are collecting bids from painters in Tyler or house painters in Longview, we would be glad to be one of the bids you compare against.

What a Painting Company in East Texas Actually Does

A real painting company in Tyler is more than a paint crew: it runs estimates, project management, materials logistics, color consultations, and warranty follow-up so the crew painting your house can focus on painting. That coordination is the difference between a painting company in Longview and a solo painter working out of a truck bed. It is also the difference between a paint job that lands on the promised week and a paint job that drifts a month past schedule when a July heat dome, a May hail band, or a tropical rain event sits over the Piney Woods for a week.

As a painting company across East Texas, our day starts with materials staging for the day's painting scope, drives out to active painting jobs across Arp, Big Sandy, Bullard, Diana, Flint, Gilmer, Gladewater, Henderson, Jacksonville, Kilgore, Lindale, Longview, Ore City, Overton, Tatum, Troup, Tyler, Whitehouse, White Oak, and Winona, and ends with paint punch-list walks with homeowners. A painting company in Tyler running this way keeps painting projects on schedule and keeps paint quality consistent from the first painting day to the last, even when the schedule wraps I-20, US 271, and Loop 323 traffic and East Texas storm-season weather delays. Homeowners feel that consistency in a lot of small ways: cleaner cut lines, tighter caulk joints, fewer callback punch items.

When you hire a painting company in Longview, you are hiring the coordination layer as much as the painting itself. A painting company across East Texas that quotes a painting scope should tell you what week your painting starts, what week it ends, and who owns the project through completion. If a painting company in Tyler cannot articulate what is included in the price on the bid, that is a signal to keep shopping.

How House Painters Handle Historic and Older Homes in East Texas

Historic homes across East Texas, Tyler rose-district and Azalea Trail homes, downtown Kilgore and Longview oil-boom bungalows, pre-war brick storefronts in downtown Jacksonville, Henderson, and Gilmer, and older wood-frame farmhouses along FM roads out to Diana, Big Sandy, Ore City, and Winona, need house painters in Tyler who understand plaster, painted-wood siding, painted brick, and how early paint layers move under fresh coats through a humid Piney Woods summer. House painters across East Texas who came up on Lindale or Whitehouse new-build repaints alone often underestimate how much prep an older Tyler or Kilgore home actually needs before the first drop of paint goes on the wall.

House painters in Tyler running a historic or older home job spend the first day on lead paint testing on any pre-1978 substrate, plaster repair before repainting, wood-siding scrape-and-sand prep, glazing repair on original divided-light windows, and containment for scrape-and-paint work outside. Skipping those steps produces a paint job that fails inside two East Texas summers and one hail season. As house painters in Longview with real time on the older streets around the Azalea District, downtown Kilgore, and downtown Longview, we treat prep as the paint job; the coats you see are the last five percent of the actual work.

If you own a historic or older home and are talking to house painters in Tyler or house painters in Longview, ask each bidder to walk your house and describe what they would do differently versus a 2020s Lindale or Whitehouse new build. The house painters across East Texas with a real answer are the ones to shortlist. Beyond historic and older homes, our crews also cover new-build repaints, HOA-driven exterior refreshes across Lindale, Whitehouse, and Bullard, and commercial interiors across downtown Tyler, Longview, and the I-20 corridor.

Color, Finish, and Booking Your East Texas Project

Color is where a lot of painting projects across East Texas stall, so the painters you hire should have a real color process. Ours starts with existing light in the room, existing floor and trim tones, and the direction the room faces, then we put real paint drawdowns on your actual walls before the crew mobilizes. A painting company in Tyler that hands you a fan deck and walks away will paint whatever you point at, which is not the same as helping you land the right color for the space, an especially real risk in a market where bright summer sun through pine canopy and low winter light across the Piney Woods change how a color reads across the year.

Finish selection is the other half. Flat or matte on ceilings, eggshell or matte on walls, satin or semi-gloss on trim, and a cabinet-grade product on cabinets, that mix reads intentional in a finished home across Tyler, Longview, Kilgore, and Jacksonville. Painters across East Texas who put one paint sheen everywhere are cutting corners on materials logistics, not doing you a favor. House painters across the Piney Woods that pair color and finish thoughtfully deliver a paint job that reads like a designer walked the space with them.

Booking a painting company in Tyler should be simple: a walk-through, a written scope, a written price, a start date, and a warranty. Exterior painting demand runs most of the year across East Texas, but the tightest scheduling windows are early spring and late fall outside peak humidity and hail season, so any painting company in Longview worth hiring is often booked several weeks out during peak exterior painting season. Interior painting flexes year-round, and cabinet painting we can usually schedule with less lead time. Request an estimate above and we will be out with a written scope you can compare against every other bid on your desk.