A two story craftsman bungalow before painting, with weathered grey siding and peeling trim

The same bungalow after painting, in deep sage green with cream trim and an oxblood front door

BEFOREAFTER DRAG THE LINE EXAMPLE

Serving the Bay AreaPainting contractors

Prep you cannot see. A finish you cannot miss.

Interior and exterior painting, cabinets, wood staining and floor coatings for homes and businesses across the Bay Area. Licensed and bonded, and scheduled properly.

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Free written estimate at your property. No obligation, no sales pitch.

CSLB #1096136C-33BONDED $25,000SE HABLA ESPANOL

LicenceCSLB #1096136

C-33 Painting and Decorating. Current and active. Look it up at cslb.ca.gov.

BondLicensed and bonded

$25,000 contractor bond with American Contractors Indemnity.

ScopeHomes and commercial

Single rooms, full exteriors, multi unit turnovers and commercial floors.

PriceIn writing, before we start

We come to you, measure it properly, and put the scope on paper.

Our work

Twenty photos, all ours. Filter by type, tap any photo to see it full size.

Finished work, and the prep behind it.

Every photo here is a real Resendiz job, finished or in progress. No stock photos and no other company's portfolio. The white Victorian is also the first real pair in before and after further down.

A San Francisco Victorian painted white with black trim and a black garage door — Victorian exterior. White body, black trim, sash and garage door.

A two story home painted grey blue with white trim and a black garage door — Two story exterior. Grey blue body, white trim, black garage door.

A large Mediterranean style stucco home with stone accents and a tile roof — Mediterranean stucco. Body, eaves and the entry columns.

A two story home painted warm grey with a deep blue front door at dusk — Two story exterior. Warm grey body, white trim, blue front door.

A modern home with white walls and a glass and wood panelled garage door — Modern exterior. Clean white walls against the wood and glass door.

The rear elevation of a two story home repainted in taupe with white trim — Rear elevation. Full two story repaint, taupe body and white trim.

A newly built home in white board and batten siding with black window trim — New build exterior. Board and batten in white, black window trim.

A stucco home with an arched entry, freshly painted in warm cream — Stucco exterior with an arched entry. Body, trim and garage.

A detached backyard studio painted blue with white trim and a cedar bracket — Detached studio. Blue body, white trim, red cedar bracket.

Our standard

What happens before the first coat goes on is what decides whether it lasts.

The part of the job you never see is the part that lasts.

Anyone can roll paint on a wall. What separates a job that holds for a decade from one that fails in a season happens before the first coat goes on. These three steps happen on every job, in this order.

01 / PREP

Wash, scrape, patch, prime

Surfaces get cleaned and sound before anything else. Bare spots are primed, holes and cracks are filled, and failing paint comes off rather than getting painted over.

02 / PROTECT

Mask it like it is our house

Floors covered, fixtures papered, tape lines run properly. The photos below are ours, and they are the ones most painters would never bother to take.

03 / FINISH

Two coats, then we walk it with you

Full coats, not a stretched single pass. At the end we walk the job with you and fix the list before we pack up, not after you call.

The owners

Who you are dealing with, and who is on the ladder.

Valente and Angel Resendiz in Resendiz Painting shirts, in front of the work truck — **Valente Resendiz**, owner and licence holder
**Angel Resendiz**, estimates and scheduling

The people who price the job are the people on the ladder.

Resendiz Painting is run by the two people in this photo. Valente holds the licence and runs every job on site. Angel handles the estimates and the schedule. When you call, you get one of them, and the crew that shows up is theirs, not a sub crew hired for the week.

Licensed and bonded under CSLB #1096136. Based in San Jose, working across the Bay Area.

What we do

Each card is set in a finish we have actually put on a house in the gallery above.

Paint, stain and coatings. Inside, outside and commercial.

InteriorCrisp white

Interior painting

Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and stairwells. Furniture covered, floors papered, edges cut clean. We leave the room ready to live in, not ready for another contractor.

ExteriorWarm taupe

Exterior painting

Stucco, siding, trim, fascia, eaves and garage doors. Wash first, scrape and prime the bare spots, then two coats. Skipping the prep is why the last one failed.

CabinetsSprayed navy

Cabinets and built-ins

Degrease, sand, bonding primer, sprayed finish. It is the cheapest way to make a kitchen look new, and the easiest one to do badly.

StainingCedar

Wood staining and refinishing

Decks, fences, pergolas, front doors and interior trim. Washed and brightened first, then stained in the transparency you actually want.

FloorsEpoxy grey

Floor coatings

Garage, warehouse and shop floors. Ground, patched and coated in the right order so it bonds instead of peeling up in a month.

CommercialCharcoal

Commercial and multi unit

Offices, units and turnovers. We work around your schedule, including nights and weekends, and you get one number to call.

In their words

A public review, quoted as written.

He is very good value for money and worked with me to understand my requirements and completed the work on time.

SUMA R. / HIRED FOR INTERIOR, THEN REHIRED FOR EXTERIOR / VIA ANGI, APRIL 2023

Want to hear it from someone who hired us? Ask, and we will put you in touch with a customer whose job looked like yours.

In twenty seconds

The short version, for anyone who scrolls faster than they read.

ILLUSTRATION

Prep first. Protect everything you are not painting. Two full coats. Then walk the job with you before we pack up. That is the whole method, and it is why our work still looks right years later.

Where we work

A mobile crew based in San Jose. No showroom, no office rent.

We come to you, right across the Bay.

Working the South Bay, the Peninsula and the East Bay. No showroom and no office rent, which is part of why the number looks the way it does.

South Bay

San Jose
Santa Clara
Sunnyvale
Campbell
Cupertino
Milpitas
Los Gatos
Saratoga

Peninsula and SF

San Francisco
Mountain View
Palo Alto
Menlo Park
Redwood City
San Mateo
Belmont
Burlingame

East Bay

Fremont
Newark
Union City
Hayward
Pleasanton
Dublin

Not on the list? Ask. If it is a reasonable drive from San Jose, we will come out and look at it.

Straight answers

The questions people ask before they call.

Are you actually licensed?

Yes. CSLB license #1096136, classification C-33, Painting and Decorating, current and active, held by Valente Resendiz Murillo, with a $25,000 contractor bond. Look the number up yourself at cslb.ca.gov before you hire anybody, including us.

Who actually does the work?

Our own painters. We do not hand your job to a rotating sub crew, and the person who prices the work is the person running it on site. You will know who is coming before they arrive.

Is the estimate really free?

Yes, and it is a real estimate, not a sales appointment. We come out, measure, talk through what you want, and give you a written price. If you want to think about it, think about it. Nobody is going to sit at your kitchen table waiting for a signature.

What does a job cost?

It depends on the surface, the size and how much prep it needs, which is why we price every job on site and put the number in writing. A single room, a full exterior and a set of cabinets are three very different jobs. You get a real price for yours, not a range that moves later, and the estimate is free.

How long does it take?

The prep decides that more than the painting does. When we measure the job we give you a start date and a finish date in writing, and if anything moves you hear it from us before you notice it yourself.

Do I have to move my furniture?

No. We move what needs moving, cover what stays, and put it back. Floors get covered before anything gets opened. If something is fragile or valuable, point it out on the walkthrough and we will work around it.

Do you do commercial work?

Yes. Offices, retail, multi unit turnovers and shop floors. We schedule around your hours, including nights and weekends, so the work does not cost you trading time.

Do you speak Spanish?

Yes. Si, hablamos espanol. Call or text either way.

What paint do you use?

The right product for the surface and the exposure, not one brand for everything. Exterior stucco, interior trim, a kitchen cabinet and a garage floor each want a different primer and finish, and your written estimate names exactly what is going on your walls. If you have a brand you trust, tell us and we will work with it.

Before and after

The only honest way to show a paint job is the same view twice.

Drag the line and watch the room change.

Pull any slider across. The line is where the old coat stops and the new one starts.

The first pair is one of ours, a San Francisco Victorian photographed the day we took it on and the day we finished. The rest show what the slider does across the kinds of work we take on, from cabinets to garage floors, and the finished jobs are in the gallery above.