Building Painting Services in NYC

Paint is one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to transform a unit or building — and one of the most visible indicators of whether a property is well-maintained. Fresh Start Facility Services provides professional interior painting services for residential and commercial buildings throughout New York City, working directly with property managers, landlords, building owners, and real estate investors who need quality work done efficiently, on schedule, and with minimal disruption to building operations.

We understand the rhythm of property management. Unit turns need to happen fast. Common areas need to be painted without disrupting residents. Hallways require coordination with building staff. We’ve done this across hundreds of NYC buildings — we fit into your workflow, not the other way around.

What We Do

Fresh Start provides a full range of building painting services for NYC residential and commercial properties:

• Unit Turnover Painting: Fast, professional interior painting for vacant apartments between tenancies. We paint walls, ceilings, trim, and doors — proper prep, clean lines, consistent finish. The goal is a unit that looks fresh, photographs well, and helps you rent faster. We work quickly to minimize vacancy time without cutting corners on quality.
• Common Area Painting: Hallways, lobbies, stairwells, laundry rooms, and other common areas refreshed on a schedule that minimizes disruption to building residents. Common area paint condition is one of the first things tenants and prospective tenants notice about a building’s management quality.
• Full Building Repaints: Coordinated multi-unit and full-building painting projects — planned and executed to work around your residents’ schedules and building operations. We handle the sequencing, the prep, and the cleanup. You get a refreshed building without the management headache.
• Commercial Interior Painting: Office spaces, retail storefronts, medical offices, and commercial lobbies. We schedule around business hours — nights, weekends, phased by section — so your tenants and their customers aren’t disrupted.
• Spot Repairs & Touch-Ups: Patching holes, repairing damaged drywall, fixing scuffs and scrapes from tenant move-outs, and touching up paint throughout a building as part of ongoing maintenance. Small things that make the building look cared for between full repaints.
• Ceiling & Trim Work: Clean ceiling lines and properly painted trim are what separate a professional paint job from an amateur one. We don’t skip the prep or rush the edges — the finish reflects on your property.
• Primer & Problem Surfaces: Water-stained ceilings, smoke-damaged walls, surfaces with heavy previous coatings — we use the right primer and preparation for the surface condition. A paint job that covers the problem properly lasts; one that doesn’t shows up again in six months.

Painting as Part of Unit Turnover

For most property managers, painting is one step in a sequence: cleanout, cleaning, paint, carpet, repairs — then list. The problem with coordinating multiple vendors is that each one creates a scheduling dependency, and delays compound. A painter who books a week out holds up the carpet cleaner; the carpet cleaner holds up the photographer; the photographer holds up the listing.

Because Fresh Start handles cleanouts, deep cleaning, carpet cleaning, and painting, we can often complete the full turnover sequence without the hand-offs that cause delays. One call, one vendor, one coordinated timeline. Property managers who use Fresh Start for turnover work consistently get units back on the market faster.

Why Fresh Start?

• Speed without sacrificing quality: We work fast because we know vacancy is expensive — but we don’t skip prep or leave sloppy edges. A proper paint job means less callback work and a unit that holds up through the next tenancy.
• Property management experience: We’ve painted hundreds of NYC apartments, hallways, and commercial spaces. We know the logistics of working in occupied buildings, the NYC rules around paint products and lead disclosure, and what property managers actually need from a painting vendor.
• Minimal disruption: We protect floors, cover furniture when working in occupied spaces, clean up completely after each session, and don’t leave a building in disarray at the end of the day.
• Consistent results: You shouldn’t have to inspect every unit to make sure it was done right. We maintain consistent quality standards across jobs so you can trust the outcome without micromanaging the work.
• Full-service convenience: Painting is often one piece of a larger scope. Fresh Start handles cleanouts, trash outs, deep cleaning, carpet cleaning, and floor refinishing — so your unit turn can be a single coordinated project rather than four separate vendor relationships.
• Insured and compliant: We carry the liability coverage required for painting work in NYC residential and commercial buildings, and we follow NYC lead paint regulations for pre-1978 buildings.

Service Areas

Fresh Start provides building painting services throughout New York City and surrounding areas:

• Manhattan — all neighborhoods
• Brooklyn — all neighborhoods
• Queens — all neighborhoods
• The Bronx — all neighborhoods
• Staten Island — all neighborhoods
• Nassau County & Long Island

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to paint a standard NYC apartment?
A typical one-bedroom apartment takes one to two days depending on condition, prep required, and number of coats. Studios can often be completed in a single day. We’ll give you a realistic timeline when we assess the unit — and we stick to it.

Do you handle lead paint prep for older NYC buildings?
Yes. Many NYC residential buildings were built before 1978 and may contain lead paint. We follow NYC Local Law 1 and EPA RRP guidelines for work in pre-1978 buildings, including proper containment, notification, and cleanup procedures.

Can you paint common areas without disrupting residents?
Yes. We schedule common area work to minimize impact — phasing by floor, working during lower-traffic hours, keeping hallways passable throughout the job. We communicate with building management so residents know what to expect.

What paint products do you use?
We use professional-grade interior paints appropriate for the surface and application — typically Benjamin Moore or Sherwin-Williams products for residential and commercial work. We match existing paint when needed and can work with any specification your building requires.

Can you handle a full building repaint across multiple units?
Yes. We regularly execute coordinated multi-unit and full-building painting projects for property management companies. We’ll work with you to build a schedule that makes sense for the building and your residents, and we manage the sequencing so it runs smoothly.

Do you also handle drywall repairs before painting?
Yes. Patching holes, fixing screw pops, repairing water damage, and addressing surface issues before painting is part of our process — not an add-on you have to coordinate separately.

Get a Quote for Your Building

Whether you need a single unit painted for turnover or a full building refresh, Fresh Start Facility Services is ready to help. We make painting the easy part of property management — fast scheduling, quality work, and a vendor you can actually count on.

Call us at 844-Fresh-10 or email info@fsfsmaint.com. We serve all five NYC boroughs, Nassau County, and Long Island.