Chris Pressley, owner of PaintAsheville.com, has painting in his blood. He’s a fourth-generation painter — his great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all painters. Even his uncles were painters. Just 15 when he started painting for Queen Painting Co., his grandfather’s business in Biltmore Village, Chris says, “Painting was all I was around.”

Born and raised in Asheville, Chris has deep community roots. He learned his trade from “old timers” and split his time working with his grandfather and father, until he started his own residential painting company, Pressley Painting, later renamed Paint Asheville. Today Paint Asheville is known for its exceptional quality and meticulous interior and exterior painting of both commercial and residential buildings.

Chris believes his longtime experience gaining knowledge from multiple generations is what gives him an edge today. “Since there’s so much new construction today, other painters might not be familiar with how to rehab a house, how to deal with lead paint, how to glaze windows and how best to do restoration jobs,” Chris says.

Restoration is his favorite type of project because it involves multiple skill sets. He loves taking something that doesn’t look good and giving it an entirely new look. His wife, Crystal, works with him; he calls her “the artist.” Creativity, color consultations and customer service are her strengths. Paint Asheville offers free color consultations for all of their projects. Crystal captures a customer’s vision, by asking questions: “What do you see yourself surrounded with? What kind of character or personality do you want your space to have? What catches your eye when you’re out and about?”

Paint Asheville creates incredible house transformations, including the dramatic home makeover for Greg Caspers and Susan Slettedal, 519 Pinchot Drive. “The before-and-after is so amazing,” Crystal says.

Paint Asheville also offers an array of home-improvement services, including concrete coatings, staining and pressure washing.

“We do a lot of cabinet conversions,” Chris says. “We change the color or take a dark-stained cabinet and change the color. They get cabinet-grade product and finish. It is not a brush roll. It is all spray with the right primers.”

Paint Asheville has five team leaders who have worked with Chris for 15 years. He has seven crews. “We take pride in our work, and work well together,” Chris says. Paint Asheville’s hundreds of positive reviews are testament to the professionalism, high quality of products and service and the great attention to detail they give each new project. “Our customers are our family too,” Chris says.

Chris said he and his crews painted Historic Biltmore School, Ruth’s Chris Steak House (including the wine cabinets), and many homes in Biltmore Park, Biltmore Forest and The Ramble.

Each proposal is incredibly detailed and outlines exactly what Paint Asheville will do step by step. “We treat every project as if it was our project,” Crystal says. “We ask ourselves, ‘What would our expectations be if we were paying the bill?’”

Chris and Crystal stress that the heart of Paint Asheville is the people. “We care for people,” Chris says. “We make the experience about the homeowner and the home. When you take care of that, everything else falls into place.”

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"Crystal and Chris of Paint Asheville are professional, careful, friendly and are truly artists. We will use no one else."