Serving Huntingtown, Owings & all of Calvert County, MD
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Two trades · One crew · Huntingtown, MD
Desler Painting works out of Huntingtown and handles interior painting, exterior painting, and surface refinishing across Calvert County and the Owings area. Dale Miller has run the business for over thirty years, and the work stays residential. No handoffs between contractors, and one number to call.
Core services
Southern Maryland traditionally means Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties. Our own work stays close to the shop, concentrated in Calvert County from Owings down to Port Republic.
Start here if you are not sure how big the job really is. Our general painting service covers single rooms, whole interiors, and complete exteriors. Dale scopes it on site, so the quote matches the actual work.
Book this when the inside of the house looks tired but the walls are sound. Interior painting takes in ceilings, trim, doors, and cabinetry. Rooms get sequenced so the household keeps somewhere to sleep and eat.
Exterior repaints are weather jobs, so they get first call on the calendar. Exterior painting covers siding, soffits, trim, shutters, and porch rails. Late spring and early autumn hold the steadiest conditions on this peninsula.
This is the whole-house option, usually spread across several weeks. Residential painting suits owners repainting after a move or before a sale. We work room by room rather than asking you to empty the house.
Also offered
These are the services that carry a project the rest of the way back.
Refinishing
Choose this when the surface itself has to change, not just the color. Interior refinishing covers cabinet refinishing, trim stripping and deglossing, and light interior remodeling. Painting out 1980s oak properly means filling the grain and priming it, not two coats over the top.
How a job runs
Whichever service you need, the shape of the job is the same four steps.
Dale drives out to the house, whether it is off Route 4 in Sunderland or down a lane in Port Republic. He looks at the actual substrate, because 1980s hardboard and newer vinyl need different products.
Older homes get careful dust control and hand sanding. On newer Dunkirk and Prince Frederick builds the real work is caulking and priming new construction surfaces so the color holds.
Exterior work gets scheduled around humidity rolling off the Chesapeake, not just around rain. We stop early on damp afternoons, because a coat that cannot flash off will fail within a year.
You and Dale walk every room or elevation with a light before the truck leaves. Anything you point out gets fixed that day, rather than added to a punch list for later.
Services FAQ
The questions we get asked most about what we do and how it is billed.
Interior and exterior painting, whole-house residential painting, and interior refinishing — cabinet refinishing, trim stripping and light interior remodeling. The work stays residential.
Southern Maryland traditionally means Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties. Our own work stays close to the shop, concentrated in Calvert County from Owings down to Port Republic.
Describe the room or the elevation and we will tell you which trade it is. Call Desler Painting at (443) 684-4101 to set up a walkthrough anywhere in Calvert County. You can also send photos and project details through our contact page.
Desler Painting works out of Huntingtown, across Calvert County and the Owings area. Dale Miller has run the business for over thirty years, and the work stays residential.
Get started
Tell us what you are looking at — one room, a whole interior, or an exterior that has seen better winters. We serve Huntingtown, Owings and the surrounding Calvert County communities, and you will get a free estimate from the owner himself, not a salesperson.
(443) 684-4101Free estimates · Licensed & fully insured · Over thirty years in business
Tell us the rooms or the elevations and we will set up a walkthrough. Prefer to talk it through? Calling is faster.
