Cary · Painting since 2016
Interior and exterior painting for Cary and the Triangle. We wash, fill, sand, caulk and prime before a drop of color goes on, so the finish still looks sharp in year ten.
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What we paint
Whether it's a single accent wall or a two-story exterior, you get the same prep, the same crew and a quote that lists every coat.
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors. Furniture moved, floors covered with canvas, lines cut by hand. Rooms reopen every evening.
Get a quote 02Wash, scrape, sand, caulk and spot-prime bare wood, then two coats rated for Carolina sun. Stucco, siding, fascia and eaves.
Get a quote 03Doors come off, get labeled and are sprayed in our shop. Boxes are degreased, bond-primed and finished in place. New kitchen, no demo.
Get a quote 04Baseboards, casings, built-ins, stair rails and front doors in a hard enamel that wipes clean and never sticks shut.
Get a quote 05Anchor holes, doorknob dents, water stains and cracked corners, taped, textured to match and primed so the patch disappears.
Get a quote 06An hour with Hannah and big painted sample boards, viewed in morning and evening light. The fee is credited to your job.
Book a consultThe Linen & Line palette
Color is where most projects stall. Start with the six we reach for most in Carolina light. Pick a surface, tap a color, then bring your favorites to a walk-through.
1 Choose a surface
2 Tap a color
The greige that doesn't turn pink at sunset. Sits happily next to oak floors and the warm afternoon light we get out here.
Best forLiving rooms, hallways, open plans
LRV is light reflectance: 0 is black, 100 is pure white. Screens vary, so we always bring painted boards.
Our prep standard
On a typical room, most of our hours happen before the first finish coat. It's the part most painters skip, and it's the reason our work still looks crisp a decade later.
12 of 12 prep steps included in every Linen & Line quote
Furniture to the center, canvas on floors, hardware and switch plates bagged and labeled by room.
Degreaser in kitchens and baths. Paint bonds to clean walls, and peels off greasy ones.
Two passes of filler, because the first one always shrinks.
Corner and ceiling cracks get repaired properly, not buried under caulk that splits next summer.
Walls pole-sanded, trim sanded between coats, so nothing feels gritty under your hand.
HEPA vacuum and tack cloth, so sanding grit doesn't end up trapped in your finish.
Trim to wall, casing to wall, the tops of baseboards. The gaps you see from across the room.
Unprimed patches "flash" through as dull spots. Every repair gets primer first.
Homes built before 1978 are tested, and contained and cleaned to EPA lead-safe rules.
A steady brush where wall meets ceiling. No tape bleed, no wavy edges.
Not one coat "with good coverage". Two, with proper dry time between them.
You mark anything you see with blue tape. We fix every piece before we pack up.
Recent work
A few recent jobs from around Wake and Raleigh counties. Tap any photo to see it larger.
Finished · CaryAbout the owner
Hannah Brooks started Linen & Line in 2016 with one van, a ladder rack and a habit of re-caulking trim that other crews had already called finished. Ten years and 820-plus projects later, she still walks every estimate herself and signs off on every room before the tape comes down.
The crew is small on purpose. The same painters show up every morning, they're employees rather than day labor, and every one of them is trained on our 12-point prep standard before they pick up a brush.
“Anyone can roll a wall. The job is the line where the wall meets the ceiling, and the hour of prep nobody ever sees.”
How it works
You'll always know who's coming, what they're doing that day and what it costs. Most interiors wrap in under a week.
Hannah visits, measures, looks closely at every surface and talks color. About 45 minutes, always free.
Texted to you within 48 hours. Every room, repair and coat listed with its own price.
We protect, wash, repair, sand, caulk and prime. Usually half the job or more.
Lines cut by hand, rooms reopened each evening, a photo update every afternoon.
You tag anything you see. We fix it all before the final invoice goes out.
Reviews
Sample reviews, written for this demo site.
“Hannah walked every room with us and talked us out of a gray I would have hated by February. The Carolina Oat she suggested is perfect with our floors. Crew was here at 8 sharp every day.”
“Cabinets look factory sprayed. Every door and hinge was labeled, and we could use the kitchen every night.”
“Our 1940s house had decades of paint on the window trim. They tested for lead first, stripped the worst sills, and the windows actually open again.”
“Clean lines, zero drips, no mess. Exactly what the name promises.”
“We got three quotes. Linen & Line wasn't the cheapest, but it was the only one that listed the prep line by line. Two summers later it still looks new.”
“Patched about a dozen anchor holes and a doorknob dent before we listed the house. Our agent couldn't find a single one.”
“The color consult alone was worth it. She brought big painted boards instead of tiny chips, and we looked at them morning, noon and night before deciding.”
“Two-story exterior with a lot of trim. Washed, scraped, caulked, primed the bare wood, two coats. The neighbors keep asking who did it.”
“Hannah texted a photo update at the end of every day, so I never had to leave work to check in.”
“Striped nursery wall done in one day with the low-odor paint we asked for. Baby was sleeping in there two nights later.”
“Front door and shutters in a deep navy. Three coats on the door, sanded between each one. It looks like glass.”
“Fair price, on schedule, and they came back a month later to touch up a spot I dinged moving a dresser. No charge, no fuss.”
Service area
We work out of Cary and cover Wake County and the west side of Raleigh. Most walk-throughs happen within the week, and the crew is on site by 8:00 AM.
Just outside the list? Call anyway. We take whole-house exteriors a little further out.
Questions
Still wondering about something?
(919) 555-0110Mon–Fri, 8 AM to 5 PMMost single rooms take a day. A whole floor of a typical Cary home is two to four days. Your quote lists the days per room, and we reopen rooms every evening so you can live normally.
No. We move furniture to the middle of the room, cover it, take down and label switch plates and hardware, and put everything back. We just ask you to pack away small breakables and anything sentimental.
Premium 100% acrylic lines from the major manufacturers, chosen per surface: scrubbable matte or eggshell for walls, hard enamel for trim and cabinets, and low-odor, low-VOC options for bedrooms and nurseries. The exact product is named in your quote.
Not for us. Our crew is lead-safe certified. We test, contain and clean up the way federal rules require, which plenty of painters quietly skip.
A 10% deposit holds your dates. The balance is due after the blue-tape walk-through, once you've signed off on every room. We take cards, checks and bank transfer.
Every job carries a two-year written workmanship warranty. If paint peels, blisters or cracks because of our prep or application, we come back and make it right.
Book
Pick a time that suits you. Hannah comes out, looks at every surface, talks color and texts you a written, line-item quote within 48 hours.
Rather talk it through? Call (919) 555-0110
Linen & Line Painting · Cary, NC
Free walk-through, a written line-item quote in 48 hours and a two-year warranty on every job.