Estate work in the Rio Secco enclaves and hillside custom homes.
Seven Hills spreads across the lower McCullough slopes around the Rio Secco Golf Club, and its most substantial homes sit in the gated enclaves along the course — semi-custom and custom estates from the 1990s and 2000s with dramatic double-height entries, tall stairwell walls, and formal rooms finished expensively in the Tuscan taste of the day. Repainting those interiors well is partly an access problem (proper interior scaffold for twenty-foot walls, not a leaning ladder) and partly a prep problem, because the era's faux finishes and glazes need to be sanded and primed out honestly before today's calmer palettes go on.
The two-story great rooms here are where our feature-ceiling and two-tone experience earns its keep: a grounded treatment keeps all that vertical drywall from reading as blank, and the dividing lines get set with lasers and cut by hand at height.
Exteriors in the gated Seven Hills enclaves answer to community review, and many of the homes' south-facing stucco elevations have taken twenty-plus years of high-desert sun. We scope crack repair and elevation-specific coatings up front, and handle color documentation for the association where an owner wants a scheme change rather than a match. Owners farther up the slope in Anthem Country Club see the same sun damage at an even higher elevation.
Curved staircases with iron or wood balustrades are standard in these 1990s and 2000s estates, and they sit exactly where the tallest wall is. We build interior scaffold and plank systems that bear on protected treads and landings, never on the railing, so the stair hall can be painted top to bottom without scuffing the handrail or the stone below. Access details like this are part of our interior finishes work.
A two-story great room often looks better with the upper volume or ceiling in a deeper or warmer tone than the walls. Where that dividing line sits matters: aligned with a ledge, a window head, or a ceiling break it looks intentional; floating at random it looks like a mistake. We mark it with a laser, review it with you, and then cut it by hand at height.
Many Seven Hills homes still carry decorative paint finishes from the original owners: sponged dining rooms, rag-rolled powder baths, stenciled borders in the kitchen. Those layers are thick and uneven, so we sand them down, prime to seal any oil-based glazes, and skim where the texture would telegraph. The result is a wall ready for a calmer palette, not one that hints at the old pattern.
After twenty-plus summers, south elevations here typically show map cracking around windows and at control joints. Painting over it hides the cracks for a few months. We open and fill structural hairlines with elastomeric patch, re-texture to match the surrounding finish, and use a high-build coating where the wall needs it. The estate exterior page lists the full prep scope.
Course-facing lots in the gated enclaves put the back patio, covered loggia and rear walls on display to every passing golfer. Patio-cover beams and the underside of overhangs collect dust and bird nesting, and stray balls leave small pocks in stucco. We clean, patch and repaint those surfaces as part of the rear elevation so the side the course sees matches the street side. Send us a few photos to start.
Tell us about the home and the finishes involved — we'll coordinate the rest.
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