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Interior and exterior house painting in Kenner, from Rivertown to Laketown, with preparation written into the scope. Every job starts with a free written estimate at the property.
Kenner · Jefferson ParishWhat you get
The same four things on every Kenner job, from a single hallway to the whole outside of a house near Laketown.
We walk the property, then put scope, preparation, product and price in one document.
Washing, scraping, filling and priming are line items, not favors done if there is time.
Covered in Louisiana, on homes and on commercial property, and we will show you the paper.
Beds and floors covered, paths swept, and the drop sheets leave with us.
Why people call
Six reasons owners call us, several of them tied to a city that sits in a floodplain beside a brackish lake.
Most of Kenner sits in a floodplain, and a wall that has been wet needs sealing before it needs color.
Laketown fronts Lake Pontchartrain, which the USGS describes as shallow and brackish, taking saltwater from the Gulf. Exposed trim on that side works harder.
When work on a building reaches half its fair market value, the city requires the finished floor to meet the same elevation rule as new construction. A raised or rebuilt house arrives needing a full finish.
The 1991 to 2020 National Weather Service normals at the New Orleans International Airport station in Kenner list 63.35 inches a year, which is what an exterior coat in this part of Louisiana has to survive.
Suburban growth followed the airport and then Interstate 10 in the 1970s, and those interiors are on their third or fourth color by now.
Repainting the doors and keeping the boxes changes the room without moving a pipe.
What we paint
Six residential services and five for commercial painting, available anywhere in Kenner, including Rivertown and Laketown.
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors, painted room by room.
Siding, trim and porches, washed and primed before the finish.
Doors off, degreased and primed, then refitted where they came from.
The painting side of a remodel, sequenced around the other trades.
Siding, driveways and patios, at a pressure the surface can take.
Commercial work runs on the same footprint, phased around your opening hours.
Color and finish chosen around your brand, applied after hours so desks stay in use.
Hard-wearing coatings for high-traffic walls, floors and locker areas.
Low-odor systems and calm palettes for clinical and patient-facing spaces.
Scheduled into term breaks so classrooms come back ready to use.
Facades, walkways and parking lots washed down before any coating goes on.
On the job
Exteriors that face the lake, interiors that have been wet, and the glass above a shop front.
On the ground
Three things about Kenner that change the scope before we price it.
The city sits mostly inside a floodplain, and all development needs a permit to build, fill or do other work regardless of location. Painting is finish work, but a raise or a rebuild around it is not, so we plan around your permit dates.
Once improvements reach half the building's fair market value, the finished floor has to meet the new-build elevation. Houses arriving from that work need the full sequence, not a refresh.
Homes built before 1978 may contain lead paint, and the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule sets how those surfaces are disturbed.
When to book
Three signs that the exterior is due, and one that a door needs sanding.
Blisters that appear on one elevation only usually mean moisture behind the coat rather than a bad can of paint.
A brown line weeping from a fastener or a rail needs the metal treated before any finish goes over it.
Dark speckling on a north wall washes off, and washing is the step that decides whether the new coat holds.
Old coats built up on an edge stop a door from closing cleanly, and that is a sanding job, not a carpentry one.
Local
Four reasons owners here choose a contractor from the parishes over one from across the lake.
Crews working these parishes year round know what humidity and wind-driven rain do to a coat.
The people who walk the property are the people on the ladder, not a call center.
We are close enough that snagging something after the job is a short drive, not a claim.
504-380-9862 reaches the people doing the work, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.
How it runs
Four steps, with the order and the products agreed in writing first.
Call or send the form. We agree a time and confirm it before we come.
We look at the actual surfaces, inside or out, and note what needs repair.
Scope, preparation, product and price, in writing. No verbal numbers.
Washing, repairs and priming first, then the finish coats.
Planning
Three things to settle before the crew arrives in Kenner.
If the property is midway through elevation or reconstruction work, the painting sequence follows the permit, not the other way around.
Front doors and shutters take the most weather and the most attention, so they are worth choosing separately from the walls.
We confirm exterior days against the forecast, because a coat caught by rain has to come back off.
About the area
What Kenner is, in the words of the city, the parish and the Census Bureau.
Kenner sits on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish, the part of the parish generally north of the Mississippi River. The parish counts Kenner and Harahan as the two incorporated cities on the East Bank.
The city reports an estimated population of 66,411 residents. It describes itself as the sixth largest city in Louisiana.
Census Bureau QuickFacts lists Kenner with a land area of 14.9 square miles.
Around town
Four places in Kenner, from the museums in Rivertown to the lakefront.
Rivertown is a 12 block historic district along the Mississippi River holding museums, theaters, restaurants and shops. It hosts cultural festivals through the year.
Laketown is Kenner's lakeside area on Lake Pontchartrain, used for fishing, boating, walking and events. The Pontchartrain Center and Treasure Chest Casino sit there.
Heritage Park recreates a historical village with reproductions of turn of the century structures, among them a packing shed, an ice house, a 1930s era gas station and a replica of St. Mary's Church, Kenner's first Catholic church. The grounds include landscaped walkways, a pond and a bridge.
LaSalle's Landing sits at the southern end of Williams Boulevard at the foot of the levee, on the site believed to be where the French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, came ashore. It carries ten national flags, a monarch butterfly waystation garden and a multi mile bike and walking path on top of the levee.
Next door
Who Kenner shares the East Bank with, and which side of the river they are on.
Metairie is an unincorporated area and the largest community in Jefferson Parish, taking in almost all of East Jefferson Parish. The parish groups it with Kenner on the East Bank, generally north of the Mississippi River.
Harahan is the other incorporated city on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish. Kenner and Harahan are the only two municipalities the parish lists for that side of the river.
River Ridge is one of the smaller unincorporated areas of Jefferson Parish. It sits on the East Bank alongside Jefferson and Metairie.
We drive New Orleans and nine parish cities for a free walk-through. Tell us the address and we will say plainly whether yours is inside it.
Worth knowing
Four things about Kenner that explain how the city grew.
Early maps marked the area Cannes Brulee, French for burnt canes, after explorers saw natives burning cane to drive out wild game. The name predates the Kenner name by more than a century.
The town map was finished on March 2, 1855, a date the city calls Kenner's birthday, and Kenner was first incorporated on April 1, 1873. That charter was later given up, so Kenner was incorporated again as a village on December 13, 1913, and was classified as a city in 1952.
A streetcar line ran between Orleans and Kenner from 1915 to 1931.
A bronze statue at LaSalle's Landing marks the 1870 World Heavyweight Prizefight Championship, which was held in Kenner.
Getting around
Buses, the airport, and the road links people actually use here.
The airport, known by the code MSY, is situated in Kenner and is operated by the New Orleans Aviation Board. Its terminal opened in 2019 with 35 gates, and the airport handled more than 13.2 million passengers in 2024.
The single bus E201 Kenner Loop took about one hour and 20 minutes to complete, so on July 26, 2026 it was split into the E201 Kenner Loop and a new E9 Williams Boulevard route. Dividing the loop cut waits to roughly 40 minutes.
Fixed route bus service no longer runs along East and West Loyola Drive between Joe Yenni Boulevard and West Esplanade Avenue. That area is covered instead by a Lyft on demand curb to curb zone called Moving Kenner.
The state transportation department rebuilt the Interstate 10 and Loyola Drive interchange in Kenner as a diverging diamond, the first to open in Louisiana, as part of a 125.6 million dollar project begun in 2020. The work added Interstate 10 auxiliary lanes between Williams and Loyola and two flyover ramps connecting the airport directly to Interstate 10.
Service areas
The eight other parish cities on our list, and New Orleans itself.
Inside New Orleans itself we work across the Garden District, Uptown, Carrollton, Mid-City, Lakeview, Gentilly, Bywater, Marigny, Treme, the Irish Channel and Algiers, on everything from Creole cottages and shotgun doubles to new-build and commercial property.
Questions
What Kenner homeowners ask before the first visit.
Yes. Our painters work across the whole of Kenner, inside and out, and on commercial property on the same footprint.
Not the painting itself, but it changes the order of work. Most of Kenner is in a floodplain, so if the property is being raised or rebuilt, the finish follows that work rather than running alongside it.
Yes. Lake Pontchartrain carries salt in from the Gulf, so exposed elevations on that side are washed and primed with that in mind.
Yes. Doors come off, get degreased, sanded, and primed, then go back where they came from. Repainting is the cheapest real change you can make to a kitchen.
Yes. The city describes Rivertown as a historic district, so tell us at the walk-through if the property sits inside it. We will ask the city what applies before anything is agreed on.
Yes. We walk the property, look at the actual surfaces, and put scope, preparation, product and price in writing, with no obligation to book.
Yes, in Louisiana, and the cover applies to commercial jobs as well as homes. Ask us for proof before you sign anything.
9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Calling on 504-380-9862 is the quickest way to get a walk-through booked, and the form reaches us outside those hours.
Free estimate
Send the form and we will call to arrange a walk-through. If you would rather talk it through now, the phone is quicker.
We call to agree a time that suits you, and confirm it before the visit.
We walk the property, look at the actual surfaces and talk through color.
You get scope, preparation, product and price in writing, with no obligation.
Serving New Orleans, Metairie, Kenner, Covington, Mandeville, Madisonville, Abita Springs, Hammond, LaPlace and St Rose.
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