Painting a brick house costs $1.50 to $4.50 per square foot or $2,600 to $7,700 for a 2,000 SF home. Mineral-based paints cost the most but last the longest and maintain the brick's breathability to prevent deterioration. Painting raw brick requires a primer coat. Brick staining costs $1 to $4 per square foot and changes the brick's color with dye while allowing it to remain breathable. The cost to brick a house is $8 to $18 per square foot for siding too damaged for painting.
A wrong paint color scheme, on the other hand, can really cheapen and distract from your very expensive kitchen, date your brand new flooring, or make even the most elaborate Victorian exterior look boring, bland and blah.

• New work or repair? If a remodeling contractor leaves smoothly finished drywall, prep work is eliminated, and the painting can begin. Where walls or siding need a lot of scraping, spackling and sanding, the same-size project can take twice as long.
You will also want to ensure that you paint at a period when there are no major fluctuations of temperature from day to night. Major temperature fluctuations cause the paint to react and thus prevent it from curing properly. This means you will have unevenly painted surfaces with peels and cracks.