Ridgeline
Mountain home with a freshly painted charcoal exterior and crisp white trim at golden hour

Truckee & North Lake Tahoe

Painters who finish when they said they would

Interior, exterior, cabinets, and decks, done with crisp lines and a written line-item estimate you get in one business day. Family run in Truckee since 2009.

4.9 · 164 reviews Painting Truckee-Tahoe since 2009 Read reviews
“The estimate listed every surface and every coat. The final invoice matched it to the dollar. That never happens.”
Rob T. · Truckee

Why Ridgeline

Straight lines, honest timelines.

Two things go wrong with painters up here. The bid is a vague number that grows halfway through, and the crew disappears for a week in the middle of your job. We built this company around fixing both.

Every estimate is line-itemed by surface, coat, and product. Every job gets a start date and a crew lead's name in writing. And nothing gets invoiced until you've walked it with us and you're happy.

The Ridgeline Promise

We don't ask for final payment until you've walked the job with us and you're happy. If something isn't right, we fix it before we cash the check.

Extreme close-up of a crisp paint line where a charcoal wall meets bright white trim

What we paint

Four things, done properly

Painter cutting in a crisp edge along ceiling trim in a bright mountain home

Interior Painting

Walls, ceilings, trim, and doors done with crisp cut lines and floors you'd eat off when we leave.

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Painter rolling deep charcoal paint onto the wood siding of a mountain home

Exterior Painting

Finishes chosen for Tahoe winters, applied in the window that actually lets them cure.

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Kitchen cabinets refinished in soft sage green with brushed brass hardware

Cabinet Refinishing

A sprayed factory-grade finish on the cabinets you already own, for a fraction of replacement.

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Painter applying rich warm stain to mountain-home deck boards with a wide brush

Deck & Fence Staining

Stripping, sanding, and staining that brings gray weathered wood back to life.

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The work

Same house. Same deck. Same wall.

Painting is easy to photograph well and hard to fake. These are single jobs, stopped halfway or shot from the same spot twice.

Mountain home exterior weathered and faded next to the same house freshly painted charcoal with white trim Before After
Full exterior repaint, Glenshire
Deck half weathered gray and half freshly stained rich brown with a sharp dividing line Before After
Deck stain, stopped mid-job
Interior wall half dated beige and half freshly painted warm white with a sharp vertical line Before After
Interior repaint, one wall, one roller pass

How we work

  1. 1

    Walk it with you

    We look at the actual surfaces, talk through color, and flag the prep nobody else mentions.

  2. 2

    Written line-item estimate

    Every surface, coat, and product listed. One business day, no fine print, no vague lump sum.

  3. 3

    Start date in writing

    You get a date and a crew lead's name. We show up on it, and we tell you the moment anything changes.

  4. 4

    Walk it again before you pay

    Punch list together, fixes handled, then the invoice. That order, every time.

Commercial

HOAs, businesses, and resorts

Association repaints that a board can vote on in one meeting. Restaurants and offices painted overnight so you never close. Lodge exteriors scheduled backward from opening weekend.

  • HOAs & multi-unit. Bid packets a board can actually vote on.
  • Businesses & offices. Painted around your hours, not through them.
  • Resorts & lodges. Built for a five-month construction window.
Mountain condominium complex with freshly painted siding and trim in coordinated earth tones

Word of mouth, in writing

What neighbors say when the tape comes off

★★★★★

Interior Painting
“They masked more carefully than I would have in my own house. Not one drop anywhere, and the trim lines are razor sharp.”
Katie R. · Tahoe Donner

★★★★★

Interior Painting
“The estimate listed every surface and every coat. The final invoice matched it to the dollar. That never happens.”
Rob T. · Truckee

★★★★★

Exterior Painting
“Third painter we've hired on this house and the first one whose work still looks new after four winters.”
Doug M. · Glenshire
Owner of Ridgeline Painting standing in a bright, freshly painted mountain-home interior

The crew

Same people, job after job

We're a small shop on purpose. No rotating day-labor crews, no subcontracted mystery painters. The people who show up at your house are the people who have been here for years, and they're the reason our work looks the same on job number four hundred as it did on job number four.

You'll meet your crew lead at the estimate. You'll have their name before we start, and you'll see them every day until it's done.

Serving Truckee, Tahoe Donner, Glenshire, Martis Camp, Tahoe City, Kings Beach, Incline Village, and Northstar.

Get a written estimate in one business day

We walk the job with you, list every surface and coat, and put a start date in writing. No pressure, no vague lump sum.

4.9 · 164 reviews Painting Truckee-Tahoe since 2009 Read reviews