Painters in Aurora typically charge about $2.00 to $3.00 per square foot to paint walls, and closer to $4.70 per square foot once you add ceilings, trim, and doors. For a full interior repaint, most homes in Old Aurora Village, Aurora Estates, and the newer subdivisions land between $3,500 and $8,000, with larger estate properties running $8,000 to $15,000 or more. A typical exterior runs $4,500 to $12,000. Those numbers are before HST, and they assume premium paint, real prep, and two full coats. The exact figure depends on ceiling height, the amount of trim, and the condition of the surfaces I find when I walk the home.
I have been painting homes in this community for two decades, and Aurora residents don't want the cheapest painter, they want the right one. Every job is backed by WSIB-covered crews, a $2M liability certificate I hand you before any work starts, and a tiered warranty: lifetime on interior work, three years on exterior, and five years on cabinets. We hold a 5/5 Google rating built over 20+ years of work across this area.
The housing here covers a wide range. There are estate homes with 20-foot ceilings and custom millwork in the Hills of St Andrew, heritage properties with original plaster near Old Aurora Village on Yonge and Wellington, and newer family subdivisions with open layouts in Bayview Wellington and Stronach. Each type needs different prep and a different approach, and the painter has to know the difference.
What makes Aurora homes distinctive
Aurora's housing stock comes from decades of growth and heritage protection, which shapes how we approach every project.
Old Aurora Village, around Yonge Street and Wellington Street, has older character homes and protected heritage properties. Many of these Victorians and turn-of-the-century builds sit within the Heritage Conservation District, which means original plaster walls, real wood trim, and in some cases heritage paint colour restrictions. The plaster cracks along settled stress lines, aged trim is often oil-based and needs bonding primer, and door and window frames may be built on the original foundations which means they have settled and warped over time. These homes have accumulated 100+ years of history, which means more prep work and surfaces that rarely sit flat or perfectly square.
Aurora Estates and the Hills of St Andrew hold the newer larger properties. These are two-storey and three-storey detached homes built from the 1990s through the 2010s, many with tall ceilings, extensive interior trim, and open main-floor layouts. Baseboards, crown moulding, coffered ceilings, and wainscotting are common. They take patience and a steady hand, because rushing prep or skimping on coverage shows on every wall.
Bayview Wellington and Stronach sit in the newer family subdivision zone, with a mix of brick and siding exteriors and standard to generous layouts. Many of these homes are hitting the 15 to 20 year mark, which means it is time for a proper repaint. The original builder-grade paint has thinned and faded, and the surfaces need fresh primer and quality topcoats.
Aurora Grove has established properties from a mix of eras. Access and lot grading vary throughout Aurora, so staging and protection need to be planned before a brush comes out.
What painting an Aurora home is really like
Painting in Aurora splits into different jobs depending on where your home sits and what year it was built. The heritage core near Old Aurora Village takes patience and repair. The newer estates in Aurora Estates and the Hills of St Andrew need reach and a plan for getting at the high stuff safely. Knowing which one I am standing in changes the whole quote.
On the older homes around Old Aurora Village and Yonge Street, the work starts with prep, not paint. Original plaster cracks along stress lines, old oil trim needs a proper bonding primer so the new water-based coat sticks, and settled door and window frames mean caulk lines that have to be cut and redone by hand. I budget more prep hours on a century home than I do on a build twice its square footage, and I tell homeowners that upfront so the quote makes sense. Rushing a heritage interior is how you end up with peeling trim by the next winter. If a home sits within the Heritage Conservation District, I also check paint colour restrictions before recommending a shade, because you may not be able to choose the colour you want. It is not a limitation for the painter, it is a protection for the community's character.
The newer detached estates are a different job. A two-storey foyer with an open staircase and a 19-foot wall is common in Aurora Estates and the Hills of St Andrew, and those walls hold a lot of paint. The square footage hides above your eyeline, so a room that feels normal at floor level can hold half again the paint you would guess. Reaching it safely means scaffold or tall extension ladders over a stairwell, sometimes a custom setup, and that is labour, not just a taller stick. I would rather build the platform properly than have someone over-reaching above hardwood or tile.
Exterior work splits the same way. Many Aurora homes wear brick on the lower storey with stucco above, or stucco detailing around windows and gables. Brick and stucco are not the same paint job. Stucco is porous and thirsty, it needs the right masonry-friendly product and often a sealing coat, and it shows colour warmer than the brick it sits beside. I sample both surfaces in daylight before I commit, because a colour that looks right on the brick can drift on the stucco above it. Get that wrong and the front of the house reads patchy from the curb.
Aurora sits at a higher elevation and the air cools fast in the evening, with morning dew lingering later into the season, so I schedule exterior coats around the dry window rather than push paint onto a surface that will not cure. The same damp window holds true just up Yonge, where I work with Newmarket painters clients on the heritage homes around historic Main Street. The Magna International headquarters and the Aurora Heritage Centre are local landmarks. Homeowners here pay attention to how the street reads, and so do I.
Why Old Aurora prices differently from the east side
Aurora holds two distinct kinds of house and the boundary is roughly Yonge Street. West and central, around Town Park, Wellington Street, and the older Regency Acres streets, you find genuine nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century homes alongside 1950s and 1960s stock. East, through Bayview Wellington and the newer subdivisions, almost everything is 1990s onward.
The heritage homes are priced on repair. Original plaster cracks along its stress lines rather than randomly, old trim is frequently oil-based and needs a bonding primer before any modern coat will hold, and door and window frames that have settled over a century leave caulk lines that must be cut out and rebuilt rather than topped up. That work happens before the first coat and it is the majority of the labour.
The newer east-side homes are priced on volume and access. Open main floors, two-storey entries, and tall uninterrupted wall runs hold far more paintable area than the room count implies, and a good share of it is above safe ladder height. Neither house is harder than the other. They are simply expensive in different places, and a quote that does not say which is not a quote you can compare.
Tips for painting an Aurora home
Around Town Park and Old Aurora, budget prep before colour. On a century home the prep is the job. A quote that spends its detail on paint brands and says little about repair has the emphasis backwards.
Test heritage trim before recoating. Oil-based trim under a fresh latex coat without a bonding primer is the classic Aurora peeling call, and it usually shows up the first winter.
East of Bayview, price the entry and the stairwell explicitly. Tall foyers need scaffold or a stair platform. That setup is what lets a painter carry a wet edge across the full wall instead of working in sections that dry at different rates and leave banding.
Sample large, and sample high. Light 12 feet up a stairwell is not the light at eye level. Two big samples on the actual wall, viewed morning and evening, will save you a repaint.
How long an Aurora paint job should last
With correct primer and genuine prep, 8 to 12 years is the honest exterior expectation. In Aurora the newer east-side homes sit comfortably in that band. The heritage properties nearer Yonge and Town Park usually come in shorter, because original wood substrates move with the seasons in a way modern cladding does not. Knowing that up front is better than being surprised by it in year six.
Interior work lasts well beyond a decade where surfaces were prepared properly, with trim and doors the first to show wear. The interior painting price breakdown and exterior pricing breakdown give the full pricing picture, and the contractor screening questions is worth reading before you take quotes.
What we do in Aurora
Interior painting
From a single room to a full estate repaint, we handle it. We do a lot of Aurora homes with high ceilings, open staircases, and extensive crown moulding. The open main floors common in the Aurora Estates and Hills of St Andrew builds mean one colour often runs across the foyer, kitchen, and great room without a break, so I plan the cut lines and the order of rooms carefully to keep the finish even across all that connected wall. On the older Old Aurora Village homes I budget extra time to repair plaster and prime aged trim before any colour goes on. For heritage-protected properties I check the approved colour palette and work within those boundaries.
Interior painting in Aurora typically runs $3,500 to $6,500 for a standard 3-bedroom home, before HST. Estate properties with high ceilings and more rooms generally fall in the $8,000 to $15,000 range. We give you a firm number after walking through your home.
our Aurora interior painting service
Exterior painting
Aurora exteriors have to hold up through our winters. We do complete prep, including power washing, scraping, caulking, and priming, before a single coat of finish goes on. We use weather-resistant products rated for Ontario's freeze-thaw cycles. Because so many homes here pair brick with stucco, I match the product to the surface, a breathable masonry-grade coating for the stucco and the correct prep for the brick, and I sample colours on both before committing. Aurora sits at elevation and morning dew lingers, so I schedule exterior coats around the dry window rather than push paint onto a surface that will not cure.
A standard Aurora exterior runs $4,500 to $7,500 before HST. Estate homes with more trim and complex rooflines run higher. Trim-only refreshes start around $2,500.
Aurora exterior house painting
Professional door painting
Freshly painted doors give you a lot of visual change for a small cost. A clean front door does a lot for curb appeal, and fresh interior doors make the whole house feel finished. We sand, prime, and apply two coats of durable trim paint for a smooth finish.
Front door painting runs $200 to $450 depending on size and material. Interior door packages for a full home typically run $1,200 to $3,000, before HST.
Cabinet painting
Instead of spending $25,000 to $40,000 on new cabinets, a refinish gets you a new look for a fraction of that. We clean, sand, prime, and apply two coats of a durable finish. Aurora cabinet painting typically runs $3,500 to $7,500 before HST, depending on kitchen size, and it carries our five-year cabinet warranty.
Aurora kitchen cabinet refinishing
How we quote in Aurora
I do the estimate myself, in person, and on a heritage home that means assessing substrate and trim rather than measuring square footage and multiplying. You get a fixed written price, not a range. Crews are WSIB-covered, the $2M liability certificate comes to you before work starts, and the warranty is lifetime interior, three years exterior, five on cabinets, in writing. Terms are on the our workmanship warranty.
The painter interview checklist sets out what to ask. For an Old Aurora home, the most revealing question is how many hours the quote allocates to prep before any paint is opened.
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Pricing
Interior painting in Aurora runs about $2.00 to $3.00 per square foot for walls, and closer to $4.70 per square foot with ceilings, trim, and doors. Most homeowners spend $3,500 to $8,000 for a full interior repaint. Exterior painting runs $4,500 to $12,000 depending on home size. Door painting starts at $200 per door. Cabinet painting runs $3,500 to $7,500 per kitchen. All figures are before HST, and they include premium paint and two full coats. I give you an exact written price after seeing your home, with no surprises.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Interior painting in Aurora runs about **$2.00 to $3.00 per square foot** for walls, and closer to **$4.70 per square foot** once ceilings, trim, and doors are included. A standard home typically lands at **$3,500 to $8,000**. Larger estate properties in Aurora Estates or the Hills of St Andrew can run **$8,000 to $15,000+**. Prices are before HST.
Exterior painting for Aurora homes ranges from **$4,500 to $12,000** before HST, depending on home size, height, and siding material. Estate homes with extensive trim, multiple storeys, and mixed materials sit at the higher end. Trim-only refreshes start around **$2,500**.
Front door painting runs **$200 to $450** per door depending on size, material, and whether we remove it for shop-quality finishing. Interior doors cost **$150 to $300** each. A full-home door package (8 to 12 doors) typically runs **$1,200 to $3,000** before HST.
Kitchen cabinet painting costs **$3,500 to $7,500** in Aurora before HST. Large custom kitchens common in estate homes can run up to **$9,000**. Still a fraction of the **$20,000 to $40,000** you would spend on replacement.
Yes. We serve all Aurora neighbourhoods including Aurora Estates, the Hills of St Andrew, Old Aurora Village, Bayview Wellington, Stronach, and Aurora Grove. We have painted heritage properties, family homes, luxury estate properties, townhomes, and condos across the entire community.
A standard 3-bedroom interior takes **2 to 4 days**. Larger estate properties typically take **5 to 8 days**. Exterior projects run **3 to 6 days** depending on size and weather. We always give you a clear timeline upfront and stick to it.
Yes. I personally come to your home, walk through the project, and give you an honest written quote with no obligation. No high-pressure sales, just straightforward pricing from someone who has been doing this for 20+ years.
The larger detached homes built between the 1990s and 2010s in Aurora Estates, the Hills of St Andrew, and Bayview Wellington often have two-storey foyers, high ceilings, and open-plan main floors. Those tall, uninterrupted walls hold far more square footage than they look, so they take more paint, scaffold or extension ladders, and extra labour to reach safely. That is why a big-room estate runs higher than a same-bedroom older home.
Yes. Many Aurora homes in and around Old Aurora Village are heritage-protected or older plaster construction, and they need special handling. Original plaster cracks differently than drywall, old trim may be oil-based and needs bonding primer, and protected properties may have heritage paint colour restrictions. I assess the surfaces and the protection status before quoting, so you know exactly what we are planning to do.