The job file

Finished work from Mera's own crew, from the siding to the tile.

This is the file on the jobs Christian Mera and his crew have finished for homes and businesses across NJ and the tri-state area. Every photograph here is our own work. We left customer names and town labels off the pictures, because the house belongs to its owner and the paint on the wall is what you came to see.

The file runs from the outside in: exteriors first, then porches and decks, kitchens and cabinets, wallpaper, trim and ceilings, tile, and commercial rooms. Prep comes last, because plastic sheeting and masking tape are most of what makes a finish look clean, and after more than 20 years that is the part customers see least and notice most.

Yellow Victorian house with a red Mera Painting yard sign standing on the lawn — Cover sheet: the red yard sign on a finished lawn. Licensed, bonded and EPA lead-safe certified.

Exteriors

Siding, shingle, stucco, trim and brick, painted from the first scrape to the last coat. Several of these were photographed mid-job, with ladders up and windows taped, because the masking is where an exterior is won. Planning one? Read how an exterior job runs.

Gray shingle turret house mid-job with ladders up and the windows masked with blue tape

Shingle Victorian with two turrets and a porch, exterior work in progress

Finished yellow Italianate Victorian with a teal panel and white brackets

Red shingle house with a stone front, a red door and gray trim

Side of a shingle house with a blue tarp laid down for exterior prep

House corner with freshly painted red siding beside gray stucco

Gray clapboard siding beside a brick chimney with dark trim

Paint never adheres perfectly to a dirty surface. We encourage customers to power wash the house and have the gutters cleaned before we start, and our crew can handle both. On older homes the prep is lead-safe: HEPA vacuums, then wet wiping and wet mopping with plenty of rinse water.

White porch with red-stained steps and stained deck boards

Porch floor finished in a mahogany stain

Yellow Victorian porch ceiling and columns finished in teal and white trim

Porch wall with black shutters above a stained porch floor

Exterior stair painted red-orange with a white rail

Arched wood front door with a stained finish

Kitchens & cabinets

Refinishing and reglazing keep the cabinets you already have. Gray with white counters, white built-ins set into a brick arch, a clean white run along a kitchen wall. Cabinet refinishing and reglazing.

Refinished white built-in cabinetry set inside a brick arch

Refinished gray kitchen cabinets with white counters

Gray refinished kitchen with an island and upper cabinets

Refinished white kitchen cabinet run along a wall

Gray cabinets with a microwave cabinet above a white counter

Same cabinets. New life.

Wallpaper

Paper hung with the seams matched and the white trim and chair rail left sharp. We install and remove wallpaper, and we build custom walls and decals too. More on wallpaper and custom walls.

Patterned wallpaper hung above white trim in a finished room

Patterned wallpaper hung beside crisp white trim

Patterned wallpaper meeting a white chair rail

Trim, ceilings & interiors

Entries, halls, coffered and tray ceilings, built-ins, stair rails and a finished basement. Trim and ceilings are slow work: the crown, the medallion and the cut line at the ceiling show in every photo that matters. Carpentry and molding repairs sit with our home improvement work.

Grand entry with a marble floor and an iron stair rail

Two-storey foyer with an iron balcony rail and columns

Ceiling medallion in an octagonal tray ceiling

Coffered ceiling over a charcoal-gray room

Long gray hallway with white trim and a wood floor

Hall with crown molding and gray walls, paint buckets on the floor

Finished basement with pale walls above a dark wood floor

Second view of the finished basement, dark wood floor and pale walls

Tile

New tile in three forms: a gray plank-look floor, a bath surround, and a dark shower with a mosaic band. Tile work belongs to the carpentry and home improvement side of the crew, alongside kitchens, bathrooms and basements.

Floor, surround, shower.

Commercial

A training room with fresh two-tone walls. Commercial work covers offices, schools and retail, warehouses with epoxy paint systems, parking garages, venues, religious buildings and apartment buildings. Call the commercial line at 973-232-5663, or read about commercial painting.

Offices, schools, warehouses and venues.

Prep

Plastic sheeting, masking, drop cloths and a painter working down a corridor. These frames show the work you do not see at the end, and it is why the finished rooms above look clean. Lead-safe practice is part of it: we prepare the space before the work starts and follow a specific cleaning protocol after.

Commercial room covered in plastic while painters mask the walls

Yellow commercial corridor with drop cloths on the floor

Commercial hallway with a painter seen from behind

Room draped in plastic sheeting during prep

Another room covered in plastic ahead of painting

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