The Shields Painting Difference: Perfection with Every Brush Stroke
Many painting companies in Florida rely on flashy marketing and big promises to try and attract new clients. But when it comes time to work, they fall short of their promises. This is often due to a lack of experience, qualified painters, and a drive to overachieve. At Shields Painting, we do things a little differently than other painting companies in Citrus County. We believe that a professional paint job should be as close to perfect as possible. Our goal is to leave you 100% satisfied, whether we're touching up an old residential paint job or performing a complex commercial project. It might sound simple, but we achieve that goal through honesty, hard work, beautiful results, and reasonable pricing.
As a family-owned and operated painting company in Citrus Hills, FL, we strive to provide personalized, professional, and friendly service. Shields Painting has been in business since 1968 for a good reason. Whenever possible, we go the extra mile to make sure our customers are happy. Unlike some of our competition, we want to know all about your house or business painting project: your vision, your preferences, your challenges, and your goals. When we understand your needs, we can present you with a fantastic final product - one that you're proud to show off to friends and neighbors.
At Shields Painting, we combine our extensive experience with time-tested, meticulous painting processes, resulting in the highest quality painting results around. As a painting contractor in Citrus County, we can take on a variety of residential, commercial, and industrial projects in Florida.
A few of our most popular painting services include:
- Interior Painting
- Exterior Painting
- Residential Painting
- Commercial Painting
- Cabinet Painting
- Ceiling Painting
- Fence Painting
- Sign Painting
- MUCH More!
Our commercial, industrial, and residential painting contractors take the proper steps to protect your property and belongings while we work. Our team will clean up after ourselves, so your property is left clean and free of debris when we're done. After all, we think there's only one way to do a job, and that's the right way.
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Your Go-To House Painting Company in Citrus Hills, FL
Your home is a haven of relaxation and solitude. It is uniquely you - a place where you can express who you are through style and design. Whether you need interior touch-ups for your crown molding or a new exterior coat of paint, hiring a reliable painting contractor is the best way to get quality results.
At Shields Painting, we know how important it is to have a home that highlights your tastes and personality. That's why we offer an extensive array of residential painting services in Citrus County. As tempting as it might be to try a DIY paint job, without the proper skills and experience, there is a good chance that the results will turn out less than satisfactory.
High-quality painting requires skill, experience, and patience. If you're a homeowner who needs residential painting services but doesn't have the time, patience, or skills to handle the job, look no further than Shields Painting. We offer accuracy, precision, and longevity with each paint job we perform. Our customers choose Shields Painting for their home because they receive:
- Free Quotes with Detailed Project Breakdowns
- Affordable Pricing
- Expert Painting Contractors
- High-Quality Paint Products
- Combo of Traditional and Modern Techniques
- Well-Maintained Tools
- Unmatched Craftsmanship
- Friendly, Personalized Service
- Good Old-Fashioned Hard Work!
The majority of our house painting services come in two forms: interior and exterior.
Interior Residential Painting
As an interior painting contractor with decades of experience, our expert technicians have developed an interior painting process that maximizes quality and emphasizes customer satisfaction. We understand that interior painting goes beyond aesthetics. It protects your ceilings and walls and helps you sustain a healthier place to live for your family. When only the finest craftsmanship will do inside your home, Shields Painting is here for you.
Our seasoned team of painting experts and craftsmen is dedicated to respecting your space and providing you with the look and feel you're craving inside your home. Whether you bought a new house and want to make it your own or need minor touch-ups but have no time, Shields Painting is ready to tackle the job, no matter how small or large.
Unlike some painting companies, our interior house painters take the time to get the details right, every time. For instance, color is only one aspect of your interior paint job. The paint sheen or finish is just as important. Certain finishes are better for living rooms and bedrooms than in kitchens and bathrooms. We'll help you find the right finish and paint colors for your home, so you don't have to worry about touch-ups or repainting.
Some of our most popular interior house painting services include:
- Ceiling Painting
- Popcorn Ceiling Removal
- Living Room Painting
- Bathroom Painting
- Basement Painting
- Color Consultations
- More
Cabinet Painting
Citrus County cabinet painting deserves its own section on this page because it requires more time, skill, and quality paint than most sections of your home. If your home's cabinets are built into its woodwork, replacing them can be obnoxiously expensive. Compared to the cost of installing new cabinets, painting your kitchen cabinets is much more affordable.
At Shields Painting, we specialize in transforming old cabinets into new, gorgeous features that are just as usable as they are beautiful. Each step of our cabinet painting process is meticulous and thorough. And we'll take care of the entire job, from cleaning, prep, and sanding to priming, painting, and reassembly. This unique service lets you enjoy a brand-new look in your kitchen without having to go into debt by replacing your cabinets.
Whether your cabinets are new, but you want to change their color or you'd like to transition wood cabinets to a painted finish, Shields Painting has the expertise and experience to give you a new look you'll love.
Exterior Residential Painting
Your home - it's a place that not only keeps your belongings safe. It protects your family and loved ones, too. It's one of your largest investments, and like anything else of value, it should be protected. However, Florida weather can take a toll on your home's structure and paint, lowering your home's value and even putting your family at risk.
While it's true that a beautiful exterior affects your house's value, it shouldn't take thousands of remodeling dollars to make a positive change to your home. There's a fine line between reasonable pricing and top-quality painting, and that sweet spot is what Shields Painting aims for. If you want to transform how your friends and neighbors see your home, never underestimate the power of a professional paint job.
Our exterior residential painting services are designed to boost curb appeal, give your home a fresh look, and help it stand up to Florida's unique weather. But we provide more than that. When you hire Shields Painting for your outdoor painting project, you will enjoy peace of mind in knowing that your home is in truly capable hands. Our goal is to exceed your expectations and help bring out the best in your property, whether you need to re-stain your deck or remove old, peeling paint from your siding.
If you're on the hunt for the very best exterior painting contractor in Citrus Hills, FL, look no further than Shields Painting.
Some of our most popular exterior house painting services include:
- Vinyl Siding Painting
- Deck Painting and Staining
- Stucco Exterior Painting
- Wood Exterior Painting
- Porch Painting and Staining
- Soffit Painting
- Fascia Painting
- Window Painting
- Front Door Painting
- Thorough Painting Prep
- More
The Premier Commercial Painting Company in Citrus Hills, FL
When it comes to first impressions, your businesses' appearance plays an important role. Your commercial property's paint job factors into its overall aesthetics. A great-looking, well-maintained paint job can mean the difference between a customer walking in your storefront and passing by. Conversely, an old, worn-out commercial paint job can send the wrong message to prospective customers. If you can't take the time to keep up your property's appearance, why would a customer spend their hard-earned money on your products?
The same goes for your businesses' interior paint. Would you want to do business with a company that has peeling paint or unsightly crown molding? At Shield's Painting, our goal is to create a beautiful environment that your customers and employees will love inside and out. When you work with our business painters, you can rest easy knowing we treat your business like it were our own. We always clean up after ourselves and know that operations cannot come to a halt just because we're painting. As such, we'll work with your busy schedule to ensure the job gets done right the first time without disrupting your day-to-day commitments.
With decades of commercial painting experience, we know the demands of a commercial painting project necessitate a disciplined and focused approach from the start. Our team of business painters is committed to delivering quality, on-time results on every project, every time - no excuses
We offer professional business painting services to a variety of building types, including:
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Industrial Painting
A high level of care and finesse are required to effectively paint an industrial property. At Shields Painting, we know that industrial paint jobs involve much more than aesthetics. That's why our industrial services are customized to your specifications, using industrial-grade materials that stand up to heavy-duty operations.
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Retail Store Painting
Our commercial painters apply effective, yet appealing interior and exterior paint that stand up to the daily rigors of busy retail environments.
03
Small Business Painting
Do you own a restaurant franchise? Have a small "mom and pop" location that needs a fresh coat of paint? Shields Painting has the resources and reliability to efficiently get the job done the first time. That way, you can focus on serving your customers, not having your business repainted.
04
Healthcare Location Painting
From walk-in clinics to long-term care facilities, Shields Painting is sensitive to your patients' needs. We know you must protect your patient's privacy while maintaining productivity. Our approach to healthcare location painting centers around your schedule to avoid disruptions in care.
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Apartment Complex Painting
Erase signs of wear and make your apartment complex or multi-family building a more desirable place to live with a stunning, professional paint job.
Florida's Most Trusted Painting Contractor
Shields Painting has been in the business since 1968. In a world where so much has changed, we are proud to uphold the ideals that make us successful: hard, honest work, getting the job done right, and excellent customer service. Providing you with trustworthy, quality work will always take priority over rushing through a project to serve the next customer. That is just not the way we choose to do business.
As professionals dedicated to perfection, we strive to provide a unique painting experience for every customer - one that focuses on their needs and desires instead of our own. Whether you need residential painting for your home or commercial painting for your business, we encourage you to reach out today to speak with our customer service team. Whether you have big ideas about a new paint project or need our expertise and guidance, we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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Latest News in Citrus Hills, FL
County breaks ground on C.R.491 extension
Michael Bateshttps://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/county-breaks-ground-on-c-r-491-extension/article_0ad07b96-3888-5545-a6ae-36047f9f622b.html
A road-widening project that has been discussed for years is finally getting off the ground.The groundbreaking for the next phase of the County Road 491 widening took place Monday morning.Michael D. Bates is a staff writer with the Citrus County Chronicle and can be reached at mbates@chronicleonline.com.Reporter Sign up for our Email Newsletter For ...
A road-widening project that has been discussed for years is finally getting off the ground.
The groundbreaking for the next phase of the County Road 491 widening took place Monday morning.
Michael D. Bates is a staff writer with the Citrus County Chronicle and can be reached at mbates@chronicleonline.com.
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Road dispute gets personal between landowner, Citrus County Commissioner Holly Davis
Mike Wrighthttps://floridapolitics.com/archives/636246-road-dispute-gets-personal-between-landowner-citrus-county-commissioner-holly-davis/
Few likely know about Inverness Villages 4 outside of Citrus County.In many ways the 600-home development is like every other one dotting the Florida landscape, with one glaring exception: unpaved public roads. The roads aren’t just dirt, they’re notorious for turning into muddy bogs in the summer storms. With no street drainage, each cloudburst brings the potent...
Few likely know about Inverness Villages 4 outside of Citrus County.
In many ways the 600-home development is like every other one dotting the Florida landscape, with one glaring exception: unpaved public roads. The roads aren’t just dirt, they’re notorious for turning into muddy bogs in the summer storms. With no street drainage, each cloudburst brings the potential of rainwater creeping into houses.
The original developer is long gone. In its place is a single landowner, Anton Van Usen, who sells lots. An associated company, Van Der Valk Construction, builds the homes.
Residents have implored Citrus County Commissioners to step in with paved roads. The county, particularly Commissioner Holly Davis, accuses Van Usen of being a “bad actor” for leading customers to believe the county will pave the roads when officials have no plans to do so without homeowners paying for them.
The county in April placed a moratorium on new building permits in Inverness Villages 4 to stop Van Usen from selling more lots until the roads and drainage issue is settled.
Van Usen, for his part, called Davis a “pathological liar” and said he’s done nothing wrong.
Inverness Villages 4 is a decadeslong headache for Citrus County.
Platted in the 1970s, the developer gave the county $143,600 as a bond toward construction of the roads. While that money was eventually used as a part of a special assessment to pave some streets in the neighborhood, the remaining dirt roads are considered “public,” though not publicly maintained.
Van Usen, president of DT Villages Eleven LLC, became owner of 370 of the development’s 600 lots in 2006 after foreclosing on a $5.1 million loan to the original developer.
He sued the county over the 1970s agreement, saying the bond obligated the county to pave the roads. A judge in 2016 disagreed, and the tug-of-war between Van Usen and the county continues over who is responsible for the streets.
Residents last year started pressuring Citrus County Commissioners, and Davis in particular, to hold Van Usen accountable for continuing to sell lots for houses on sugar-sand roads.
The county responded with an April moratorium on new home permits in Inverness Villages 4 in an attempt to stop Van Usen from selling lots that could potentially be needed for drainage on a road project.
State environmental regulators have also threatened Van Usen and Van Der Valk Construction with fines for potential violations, including for disturbing gopher tortoises.
Meanwhile, lot owners wanting to build houses are stuck in limbo as the county does not want to lift the moratorium until after the road issue is settled.
One owner sent an email to the county, copied to Van Usen, saying his construction loan for a new home in Inverness Villages 4 is at risk because he can’t get a building permit.
Van Usen cast the blame with Davis.
“Holly Davis is a pathological liar who is not interested in your issue at all,” he wrote. “The fact that Citrus County does not want to maintain their roads is their choice.”
Davis said it’s Van Usen who is untruthful.
“You have a developer, Van Usen, who bought a bankrupt development, claims he’s ‘just a lot owner’ to get around the rules about providing roads and drainage, and starts selling lots, often sight unseen, some to foreign buyers, and many to domestic buyers looking for a great deal on their forever retirement home,” she said.
“These are people’s life savings at risk, their dream home vision turning into a dangerous, flooding, washed-out mess with no school bus and only intermittent mail service.”
The county is in the process of studying the costs of paving the remaining roads, which would be borne by homeowners through a municipal services benefit unit, or MSBU, assessment. County officials expect to have that estimate by early October.
Early morning storms leave path of damage from Tampa Bay into north Florida. No injuries reported
NBC 6 South Floridahttps://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/possible-tornado-leaves-path-of-destruction-from-tampa-bay-into-north-florida/3131319/
A storm system that moved across parts of Florida early Thursday left a path of damage to cars, houses and businesses, authorities said.Police in Clearwater, which is on Florida's Gulf Coast near Tampa, said in a social media post that no injuries were reported when two possible tornadoes touched down around 2 a.m. Thursday. Photos shared by the agency showed gutters from a home that pierced the windshield of a car.”We were very fortunate,” Jevon Graham, the Clearwater Fire and Rescue division chief for emergency ma...
A storm system that moved across parts of Florida early Thursday left a path of damage to cars, houses and businesses, authorities said.
Police in Clearwater, which is on Florida's Gulf Coast near Tampa, said in a social media post that no injuries were reported when two possible tornadoes touched down around 2 a.m. Thursday. Photos shared by the agency showed gutters from a home that pierced the windshield of a car.
”We were very fortunate,” Jevon Graham, the Clearwater Fire and Rescue division chief for emergency management, told the Tampa Bay Times. “Nobody lost their life which is great, but there is considerable damage to some of the houses.”
The winds toppled trees and blew portions of roofs off some mobile homes and businesses in Pinellas County before moving north. In Citrus County, officials canceled public school classes for the day.
“The west side of Citrus County has experienced significant damage from an unconfirmed tornado(s) which hit the area overnight,” school officials said in a Facebook post shortly after 6 a.m. Thursday.
Deputies were directing traffic Thursday morning due to multiple road closures caused by the storm, the Citrus County Sheriff's Office said on social media. A portion of U.S Highway 19, which is a major thoroughfare through the mostly rural county, was closed due to storm damage.
Photos posted by the sheriff's office showed debris on roads, local flooding and damage to mobile homes.
The damage wasn't limited to the Gulf Coast side of Florida. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said a tornado was reported Thursday morning in a section of Palm Coast, which is some 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Jacksonville, on the state's Atlantic Coast.
There were no injuries reported, “however, there is some significant damage in the area,” the sheriff’s office said on social media without providing additional details.
“Please use caution in the area,” the Flagler Sheriff's Office said.
Later in the day, the National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado had touched down in Palm Coast, destroying the roof of a home, flipping a minivan on its side and destroying several screened porches, fences and sheds.
Some tornado watches remained in effect Thursday morning across parts of central and north Florida.
Citrus ranks second in accidental deaths
Michael Bateshttps://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/citrus-ranks-second-in-accidental-deaths/article_17fe6ad5-e375-5c07-a5ef-a8f50f1f53ed.html
New Florida Department of Health (FDH) data shows Citrus is the second deadliest county in the state when it comes to accidental deaths.Residents in Marion County ranked the highest, with a rate of 91.9 deaths per 100,000 people.Michael D. Bates is a staff writer with the Citrus County Chronicle and can be reached at mbates@chronicleonline.com.TagsReporterFeatured Local Savings Sign up for our Email Newsletter ...
New Florida Department of Health (FDH) data shows Citrus is the second deadliest county in the state when it comes to accidental deaths.
Residents in Marion County ranked the highest, with a rate of 91.9 deaths per 100,000 people.
Michael D. Bates is a staff writer with the Citrus County Chronicle and can be reached at mbates@chronicleonline.
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Deputies shoot man who fired at them and set house on fire
STEVE STEINER Chronicle reporterhttps://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/house-fire-shots-fired-bring-emergency-units-to-floral-city/article_8c2eec6d-a8cf-5919-9e9b-49ae9072b5cd.html
At approximately 12:45 p.m. Friday, Citrus County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for service regarding a well-being check on a male subject who was acting erratically at a residence on East Trails End Road in Floral City. Upon arrival, deputies discovered that the situation had quickly escalated and the subject had multiple gas cans that he used to pour gasoline over the residence and yard. Citrus County Fire Rescue (CCFR) also responded to the incident due to the dangerous, life-threatening actions of the man. When unit...
At approximately 12:45 p.m. Friday, Citrus County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for service regarding a well-being check on a male subject who was acting erratically at a residence on East Trails End Road in Floral City. Upon arrival, deputies discovered that the situation had quickly escalated and the subject had multiple gas cans that he used to pour gasoline over the residence and yard. Citrus County Fire Rescue (CCFR) also responded to the incident due to the dangerous, life-threatening actions of the man. When units arrived on-scene, they made several attempts to talk to the subject, who began to light the gasoline on fire, setting the home on fire, as well. The man, who was armed, began to shoot at responding deputies, who fired back, striking him; no information was available at this time regarding his condition. No one with the CCSO or CCFR was reported injured. This incident is ongoing, and there were multiple agencies on-scene. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) will be investigating the officer-involved shooting. According to Sidney Hudson, a community relations specialist with the CCSO, as of 7 p.m., Citrus County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) officials remained the on-scene.
At approximately 12:45 p.m., Friday, Citrus County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a call for service regarding a well-being check on a male subject who was acting erratically at a residence on East Trails End Road in Floral City. Upon arrival, deputies discovered that the situation had quickly escalated and the subject had multiple gas cans that he used to pour gasoline over the residence and yard.
Citrus County Fire Rescue (CCFR) also responded to the incident due to the dangerous, life-threatening actions of the man. When units arrived on-scene, they made several attempts to talk to the subject, who began to light the gasoline on fire, setting the home on fire, as well.
The man, who was armed, began to shoot at responding deputies, who fired back, striking him; no information was available at this time regarding his condition. No one with the CCSO or CCFR was reported injured.
This incident is ongoing, and there were multiple agencies on-scene. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) will be investigating the officer-involved shooting.
According to Sidney Hudson, a community relations specialist with the CCSO, as of 7 p.m., Citrus County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) officials remained the on-scene.