West Side Jersey City is where the city finally gives you a front yard, a porch, and a house you can walk all the way around — and that changes how you paint it. This guide covers the neighborhood's single-family housing stock, from West Bergen–East Lincoln Park historic streets to later brick and siding houses, plus curb-appeal color combinations, prep for brick, wood, vinyl, and aluminum, NJ weather windows, and the lead rules that matter on pre-1978 homes.
Greenville Home Painting Guide for Jersey City’s South Side
Greenville is Jersey City's south side — brick two-families, Colonials, and Capes on quiet, tree-lined blocks, a world away from the downtown high-rises. This guide covers what those houses are made of, when to paint them, the lead-paint rule every landlord here needs to know, and the colors that actually suit the neighborhood.
Bergen-Lafayette House Painting: Color Ideas for Brick Rowhouses
Bergen-Lafayette's brick rowhouses don't need a whole new look — they need the right call on paint vs. stain vs. leaving the brick alone, and colors that respect the street. Here's how we think through it, block by block.
The Heights Home Painting Guide: Victorians with a View
Jersey City Heights sits a hundred feet above the river on the Palisades, with Victorian homes that get more sun, more wind, and more views than anything downtown. Here's how that changes the paint job — from exterior color schemes that respect the Victorian bones to the NJ weather window and the lead-paint rules that govern every rental.
Van Vorst Park Painting: Colors for 19th-Century Brownstones and Rowhouses
The park went in first — graded and planted in 1835, with the townhouses growing up around it over the next forty years. Painting here is equal parts preservation and color sense: check the district paperwork, respect what the masonry actually is, and pick colors that belong on 1860s architecture.
Hamilton Park House Painting Guide for Historic Jersey City Homes
The streets around Hamilton Park read like a museum of 19th-century Jersey City — three-story rowhouses above high basements, high stoops, cast-iron verandahs — and painting here is half craftsmanship, half historic-district paperwork. Here's the order of operations: HPC approvals, substrate prep, lead testing, then color.
Paulus Hook Brownstone Painting: Historic Interiors, Modern Colors
Paulus Hook's 19th-century brownstones have some of Jersey City's best bones — plaster walls, carved millwork, marble mantels — and some of its trickiest paint jobs. Here's how we approach historic interiors with modern colors, from the HPC paperwork nobody warns you about to the plaster prep that makes or breaks the finish.