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From the Grapevine, Southlake, and Colleyville luxury triangle to Flower Mound and Keller master-planned homes, Coppell and Lewisville family neighborhoods, historic downtown Grapevine and Roanoke, and North Richland Hills, Hurst, Euless, and Bedford Mid-Cities repaints, our Southlake crew handles the full painting scope: interior, exterior, cabinets, decks, fences, and specialty finishes. Every project is built around DFW Metroplex realities: North Texas UV, expansive Blackland Prairie clay soil that shifts and cracks stucco and trim, spring hail alley storms, February freeze-thaw damage (Winter Storm Uri), and tornado-season wind events.

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That 1 Painter Southlake is owned and operated by Troy Francis, serving Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, and the broader DFW Metroplex with local crews and a 3-year written warranty. Every estimate is reviewed by ownership, no call centers, and our services cover interior painting, exterior painting, cabinet refinishing, and specialty finishes across Northeast Tarrant County.
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That 1 Painter Southlake is a locally owned and operated painting company led by TROY FRANCIS, serving Southlake and surrounding communities with licensed and insured crews and a 3-year transferable warranty.

That 1 Painter Southlake paints homes and businesses across Southlake, Colleyville, Grapevine, Keller, Trophy Club, Westlake, and the surrounding Northeast Tarrant communities, where long summer UV and North Texas clay-soil movement demand ARC-coordinated approvals and elastomeric-grade prep.
Southlake anchors our Northeast Tarrant territory with custom estates in Timarron, executive homes throughout the Carroll ISD footprint, and newer Hardie two-stories in growing subdivisions. Long summer UV, hard-water sprinkler overspray, and clay-soil expansion drive both chalking on south-facing elevations and hairline cracking on trim and stucco.
Our Southlake crew handles ARC-coordinated color approvals, mildew-treated primer systems, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, museum-quality cabinet refinishing on custom homes, and interior refreshes across whole-home projects. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Arlington spans from prewar bungalows near the entertainment district to 1960s and 1970s brick ranches across the north side and newer Hardie infill along the SH-360 corridor. North Texas UV and clay-soil movement drive both chalking on south elevations and caulk failure on trim seams.
Our Arlington scope includes mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Bedford sits in the mid-cities corridor with a housing mix of 1970s and 1980s brick ranches, mid-century split-levels, and newer Hardie two-stories in infill developments. North Texas UV and clay-soil expansion drive both chalking on south walls and hairline cracking on trim.
Our Bedford crew handles mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Colleyville sits between Southlake and Hurst with custom estates on wooded lots, executive brick ranches, and newer Hardie two-stories in gated subdivisions. Long summer UV and clay-soil movement drive both chalking on south elevations and cracking on stucco and trim.
Our Colleyville scope includes ARC-coordinated color approvals, mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, museum-quality cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Dallas neighborhoods we serve from Southlake include Preston Hollow, North Dallas, and Lake Highlands, where the housing mix runs from mid-century modern estates to 1960s and 1970s brick ranches and newer Hardie infill. North Texas UV and clay-soil expansion drive both chalking on south elevations and hairline cracking on trim.
Our Dallas scope from Southlake includes mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Euless sits in the mid-cities with a mix of 1970s and 1980s brick ranches, mid-century split-levels, and newer Hardie two-stories in infill developments. North Texas UV and clay-soil expansion drive both chalking on south walls and hairline cracking on trim.
Our Euless scope includes mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Fort Worth neighborhoods we serve from Southlake include North Fort Worth, the Alliance corridor, and the Keller-fringe subdivisions, where the housing mix runs from postwar brick ranches to newer Hardie two-stories on infill lots. North Texas UV and clay-soil expansion drive both chalking on south elevations and caulk failure on trim.
Our Fort Worth scope from Southlake includes mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Grapevine sits between Southlake and DFW Airport with a historic Main Street downtown, prewar bungalows on the surrounding blocks, and newer Hardie two-stories near Grapevine Lake. Long summer UV, lake humidity, and clay-soil movement drive both chalking and cracking on exterior walls and trim.
Our Grapevine crew handles historic-brick prep, mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Haltom City sits northeast of Fort Worth with a housing mix of postwar brick ranches, mid-century wood-sided cottages, and newer Hardie infill. North Texas UV and clay-soil movement drive both chalking and caulk failure on exterior walls and trim.
Our Haltom City scope includes mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Hurst sits in the mid-cities with a housing mix of 1970s and 1980s brick ranches, mid-century split-levels, and newer Hardie two-stories. North Texas UV and clay-soil expansion drive both chalking on south walls and hairline cracking on trim seams.
Our Hurst crew handles mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Keller sits west of Southlake with custom estates in Hidden Lakes, executive brick two-stories, and newer Hardie infill in growing subdivisions. Long summer UV and clay-soil movement drive both chalking on south elevations and cracking on stucco and trim.
Our Keller scope includes ARC-coordinated color approvals, mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, museum-quality cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
North Richland Hills sits in the mid-cities with a housing mix of 1970s and 1980s brick ranches, mid-century split-levels, and newer Hardie two-stories in growing subdivisions. North Texas UV and clay-soil movement drive both chalking on south walls and cracking on trim.
Our North Richland Hills crew handles mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, cabinet refinishing, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Roanoke sits north of Southlake along State Highway 114 with a small historic downtown and a residential mix of newer Hardie two-stories in surrounding subdivisions and executive homes on wooded acreage. Long summer UV and clay-soil movement drive both chalking and cracking on exterior walls.
Our Roanoke scope includes ARC-coordinated color approvals, mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, and interior refreshes. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Trophy Club sits north of Southlake along State Highway 114 with custom estates around the country club, executive brick two-stories in The Highlands, and newer Hardie infill in gated subdivisions. Long summer UV, hard-water sprinkler overspray, and clay-soil movement drive both chalking on south elevations and hairline cracking on stucco and trim across nearly every exterior we scope here.
Our Trophy Club crew handles ARC-coordinated color approvals, mildew-treated primer systems, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, museum-quality cabinet refinishing on custom homes, and interior refreshes across whole-home projects. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
Westlake sits directly west of Southlake and is anchored by luxury custom estates in Vaquero and Terra Bella, plus executive homes on large wooded lots throughout the town. Long summer UV, hard-water sprinkler overspray, and clay-soil expansion drive both chalking on south-facing elevations and hairline cracking on stucco and trim on nearly every home here.
Our Westlake scope includes strict ARC-coordinated color approvals, mildew-treated primers, UV-resistant acrylic topcoats, museum-quality cabinet refinishing on custom homes, and interior refreshes tuned to estate-scale layouts. Every project is backed by our 3-year transferable warranty.
A look at the craftsmanship we bring to homes and businesses across Southlake. From full-home interior repaints and kitchen cabinet refinishing to exterior siding, stucco, and trim work, every painting project in Southlake 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 Southlake trust us to deliver.

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Painting pricing in Southlake reflects three DFW Metroplex realities: North Texas UV and extreme summer heat that fade exterior films on west-facing and south-facing walls, expansive Blackland Prairie clay soil that opens hairline stress cracks in stucco and painted trim, and the prep workload required by spring hail season, tornado-driven wind events, and February freeze-thaw cracking (Winter Storm Uri). This 2026 guide shows real numbers from real Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, and Keller jobs.
* All prices include materials, labor, and prep. Based on 2026 Southlake averages.

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Interior painting is the fastest way to reset how a Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, Flower Mound, Coppell, or Roanoke home reads without touching the floor plan, and interior painting is the busiest scope our crews run across Northeast Tarrant County. Interior painting covers walls, ceilings, trim, doors, closets, and cabinet interiors, and every interior painting job we run in Southlake starts with real prep so the interior painting film has a clean, sound surface to bond to. Homeowners searching for painters in Southlake or painters in Grapevine for interior painting typically want two upgrades at once: an updated palette and a scrubbable interior painting finish that survives North Texas summer heat, the hairline settlement cracks that come with Blackland Prairie clay soils, and daily wear from family life across Southlake, Colleyville, and Keller.
As a painting company in Southlake running interior painting across the Grapevine, Southlake, and Colleyville luxury triangle, Keller and Flower Mound master-planned homes, Coppell and Lewisville family neighborhoods, historic downtown Grapevine and Roanoke stock, and Mid-Cities Hurst, Euless, Bedford, and North Richland Hills repaints, we treat interior painting material selection as a real decision. Which interior painting sheen hides hairline settlement cracks over expansive North Texas clay, which interior painting product survives a busy Keller kitchen with DFW airport dust infiltration, and which interior painting primer locks down water-stained drywall after a freeze-thaw pipe event like Winter Storm Uri are questions we answer before the crew shows up.
If you are comparing interior painting bids from painters in Southlake or house painters in Grapevine, ask each of them about interior painting warranty terms, interior painting prep sequence, and how the interior painting crew protects hardwood, tile, and stone floors day to day. Every serious interior painting outfit across Northeast Tarrant County should have plain answers to all three. See our interior painting page for full interior painting scope and pricing across Southlake.
Exterior painting in Southlake has to hold up to intense North Texas UV that fades exterior films on west-facing and south-facing walls, especially on open Keller, Flower Mound, and Coppell lots without mature tree cover. It also has to survive spring hail alley storms that hammer the DFW Metroplex and pit siding across Grapevine and Colleyville, extreme summer heat pushing 100 degrees for weeks that softens exterior films, tornado-season wind events that drive rain sideways under fascia and eaves, and February freeze-thaw cracking that opens hairline stress cracks in stucco and painted trim across Southlake and Roanoke. Exterior painting product choice is the whole conversation. A painting company in Southlake that takes exterior painting seriously specifies a heat-reflective, fade-resistant acrylic-elastomeric exterior painting system with inorganic pigments and a masonry-breathable resin so the exterior painting film sheds moisture and resists UV chalking rather than blistering off HardiePlank, brick, or stucco.
Our exterior painting scope typically includes a full pressure wash, a mineral-stain and mildew assessment on north and east elevations, spot scraping of any failing exterior painting layers, HardiePlank, stucco, brick, and painted-wood sound-substrate checks, feathered sanding, spot primer on bare substrate, full caulk of siding seams and window returns, elastomeric bridging on hairline stucco and clay-shift cracks, and two coats of exterior painting-grade paint. That exterior painting sequence is the same whether we are painting a Southlake two-story, a Grapevine HOA repaint, a Colleyville custom, a Keller master-planned home, or a Flower Mound Lakeside repaint. Painters across Northeast Tarrant County 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 Southlake or house painters in Grapevine 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 chalk and fail inside two North 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 is the single biggest visual change a homeowner in Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, or Flower Mound can buy without a full kitchen remodel, and cabinet painting demand across Northeast Tarrant County 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 DFW dust or airport ramp grit landing in the wet film. Cabinet painting projects like this are why homeowners call a painting company in Southlake 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 Southlake family kitchen, a Colleyville island run, or a Keller custom. As a painting company in Southlake 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 North Texas summers and spring hail season, when exterior painting windows tighten around storm activity.
House painters across Northeast Tarrant County 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 Southlake 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.
There are a lot of painters in Southlake and painters in Grapevine to choose from, so the practical question is how to sort serious painters across Northeast Tarrant County 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: Southlake and Colleyville luxury customs, Grapevine historic downtown stock, Keller and Flower Mound master-planned two-stories, Coppell and Lewisville family homes, Roanoke new builds, or Mid-Cities Hurst, Euless, Bedford, and North Richland Hills repaints, not stock photos pulled from a supplier catalog.
As house painters in Southlake ourselves, we tell homeowners to ask three questions of anyone bidding: what is the exact prep sequence (including clay-shift crack bridging and hail-damage assessment), what specific paint product is going on the walls, and who from the company is on site day to day. Painters across Northeast Tarrant County who dodge those questions are hoping you will not notice the answer later. A painting company in Southlake or Grapevine that answers plainly is worth a second meeting. Historic downtown Grapevine and older Fort Worth and Dallas stock inside the service area is largely pre-1978, so every serious outfit should be EPA RRP certified and comfortable running plastic containment and HEPA-vac cleanup.
That 1 Painter Southlake 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 Southlake or house painters in Grapevine, we would be glad to be one of the bids you compare against.
A real painting company in Southlake runs a full residential and light-commercial scope across Northeast Tarrant County and the broader DFW Metroplex: interior painting, exterior painting, cabinet painting, deck and fence staining, pressure washing, drywall repair, popcorn-ceiling removal, limewash and mineral finishes, wallpaper removal, and repair-and-maintenance touchup calls for HOAs and property managers across Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, Flower Mound, Coppell, Lewisville, Roanoke, and the Mid-Cities. Painters in Southlake who only run interior or only run exterior are fine at what they do, but a full painting company in Southlake is what you want when a project spans multiple scopes or multiple properties in the same portfolio.
Commercial painting is a real part of what a painting company in Southlake does day to day. Retail buildouts along Grapevine Mills and Southlake Town Square, office repaints in Colleyville and Keller, DFW-adjacent industrial and airport-service facilities, restaurant refresh cycles across Grapevine's Main Street, and multifamily corridor repaints across Bedford and North Richland Hills all run on after-hours and weekend schedules so the business does not go dark during a repaint. Our Southlake commercial division carries the insurance limits property managers require and provides COIs on request.
If you own a home or a business anywhere across Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, Flower Mound, Coppell, Lewisville, Roanoke, Bedford, Hurst, Euless, North Richland Hills, Haltom City, Arlington, Fort Worth, Dallas, Denton, or Lake Dallas, and you are looking for a serious painting company in Southlake, we would appreciate the chance to bid the work. See our free estimate page to schedule a walkthrough.
Painting costs in Southlake reflect real Northeast Tarrant County labor rates, real North Texas UV and clay-shift prep loads, real hail-season repair demand, and real product costs for a painting company in Southlake running a licensed and insured crew. Interior painting in Southlake averages $3.25 per square foot in 2026, exterior painting in Southlake averages $3.10 per square foot, and cabinet painting for a typical Southlake, Grapevine, or Colleyville kitchen runs $4,500 to $7,500 depending on box count and finish grade. Painters in Southlake quoting well under those numbers are usually cutting prep or product on interior painting or exterior painting scope, which shows up two summers later as chalking, cracking, or peeling.
As a painting company in Southlake we quote line-item interior painting and exterior painting scopes so homeowners across Grapevine, Colleyville, Keller, Flower Mound, Coppell, and Lewisville can see exactly what the interior painting or exterior painting number pays for: prep hours, product line, coat count, warranty term, and crew composition. That format also makes it easier to compare our Southlake bid to other painters in Southlake side by side without guessing what is in each interior painting or exterior painting number.
House painters in Southlake, painters in Grapevine, and painters in Colleyville who bid honestly are usually within 10 to 15 percent of each other on any given interior painting or exterior painting job. If one interior painting bid is 30 percent below the others, look at the exterior painting prep sequence and product line first, that is almost always where the missing dollars went. See our free estimate page for a full interior painting and exterior painting walkthrough on your property.
Deck and fence staining is a separate scope from exterior painting, and any painting company in Southlake should treat it that way. Deck boards and fence pickets across Southlake, Grapevine, Colleyville, and Keller take direct North Texas UV all summer, hail-driven surface pitting every spring, and freeze-thaw cycles every winter, so deck staining products need to penetrate the wood grain and flex with the boards, not lay on top like an exterior painting film. We use semi-transparent and solid-body deck stains rated for hot climates, with a full clean, sand, and brighten prep step before the first coat goes on any Southlake deck.
Fence staining across Northeast Tarrant County is the biggest exterior refresh dollar-for-dollar. A stained cedar or pine fence line across a Colleyville or Keller lot reads dramatically cleaner than a weathered gray one, and a solid-body fence stain buys another five to seven years of service life before the pickets need replacement. Our fence staining scope covers spray-and-back-brush application so stain reaches the joints and end grain where rot starts, not just the flat faces.
If your deck, fence, pergola, or exterior wood trim is weathered gray or shedding old stain, that is a deck staining or fence staining scope, not an exterior painting scope, and the two are priced differently. See our deck staining page and fence staining page for scope details and 2026 pricing across Southlake.