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House Painters in Aliso Viejo, CA

Newer stucco, two layers of approval, and a community association with a view on your paint color.

Painting Aliso Viejo Homes for Over 20 Years

Aliso Viejo is the youngest city in Orange County and one of the most tightly governed. Nearly the whole city sits under the Aliso Viejo Community Association, which enforces the CC&Rs covering paint colors and exterior appearance. On top of that, most condo and townhome communities have an association of their own.

Which means the question here is rarely whether the house needs painting. It is whether the color you want is going to be approved, and by whom.

The housing itself is straightforward by comparison. Most of it went up between the 1980s and the 2000s, it is almost entirely stucco, and it has not had time to accumulate the layers of failing paint you find in Costa Mesa or the wood rot you find in Laguna. The original stucco is now twenty to forty years old, so early hairline cracking is showing up, but the prep is generally lighter than the older cities.

Full Exterior repaint of a residential single story home in Huntington Beach, CA

Getting a Color Through AVCA

Check which approvals apply to you

If you are in a detached home, you are likely dealing with the master association. If you are in a condo or townhome, your own association may handle the exterior entirely, in which case the paint is not your decision or your bill. Worth establishing before you plan anything, because it changes the whole conversation.

Repainting the same color is the easy path

Where a house is being refreshed rather than changed, staying with the existing scheme usually avoids a submission altogether. If you want a change, expect to submit and expect it to take time.

What we give you for the submission

Product spec sheets, our license and insurance details, and photographs of a test patch on your actual wall in morning and afternoon light. A chip held up in the garage is not what the wall looks like in August, and committees have turned down colors that would have been fine because the sample did not represent them.

If you are on the board rather than in the house

Our HOA and property management page covers multi-building work: insurance certificates naming the association, documented scope, and phasing with dates you can put into a resident notice.

Where Aliso Viejo Money Actually Goes

In a lot of this city the association maintains the exterior, so what a homeowner actually spends is inside. That is where we do most of our Aliso Viejo work.

Twenty to forty year old homes are at the point where the original builder finishes look it. Flat builder-grade paint marks and will not wash. Kitchens from the 1990s and 2000s have cabinets that are structurally fine and visually dated. We do full interior repaints, cabinet refinishing with a sprayed lacquer finish, and trim and molding.

None of it needs a committee. Interiors are yours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A: For a color change, almost certainly. Nearly the whole city falls under the Aliso Viejo Community Association, which enforces CC&Rs covering paint colors, and your own condo or townhome association may add a second layer. Repainting the existing color is usually much simpler.
A: It depends on your association. In many Aliso Viejo communities the exterior is maintained for you, which means your spend goes inside instead. Check your CC&Rs before budgeting for an exterior you may not be responsible for.
A: Generally 7 to 10 years. You are far enough back from the water that salt is not the main issue, so UV on the south and west elevations is what drives the timing.
A: On twenty to forty year old stucco, yes. They should be cut out, patched and texture-matched before painting rather than coated over. It is a smaller job here than in the older cities, but it still needs doing properly.
A: Yes. We provide the spec sheets, license and insurance details, and test-patch photographs. You submit as the homeowner, but we give you everything that goes in it.

Aliso Viejo Communities We Work In

Glenwood, Vantis, Westridge, Audubon, California Landing, Canyon Villas, Sea Country, Pacific Ridge and the condo and townhome communities throughout the city.

If your community is not on that list, call anyway. We cover the whole city, along with neighbouring Mission Viejo, Laguna Beach and the rest of Orange County. Our price guide has current ranges.

Contact Us ​

Tell us whether you are dealing with the master association, your own, or neither, and we will work to it. Free written estimate, given on the spot.

Call (714) 330-4040. Someone answers 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

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