Bargersville & Center Grove, Indiana

House painters in Bargersville and Center Grove.

Cardinal Fine Painting is a family business run by Brian Perry, based in Franklin and working the west side of Johnson County regularly. Interior and exterior repaints, decks, and pressure washing — 35+ years of it.

Local knowledge


A recent job out this way.

Bargersville and Center Grove area exterior repaint with blue-gray siding and white trim over brick
Bargersville / Center Grove — siding, trim, columns and garage doors. Blue-gray body with crisp white trim over brick.

This is the classic Center Grove–area setup: brick across the front, painted siding in the gables and around the entry, and a lot of white trim doing the visual work. The trim is what people notice, and it's also what fails first — south and west exposures cook, and the paint on fascia and column wraps starts to chalk and open up years before the siding does.

What the houses out here need.

Bargersville and the Center Grove corridor have been building steadily for two decades, which means a huge share of homes are hitting their first real repaint window right now. Builder-grade exterior paint typically starts giving up somewhere around year eight to twelve, and out here it tends to show up in the same few places: the gable siding above the garage, the fascia and soffit on the sunny side, column wraps, shutters, gable vents, and the garage door frame.

Lots are also bigger and more open than in town. That's nice to look at and hard on paint — less tree cover means more direct sun and more wind-driven rain hitting the west face of the house. We spend more time on the west and south elevations for a reason.

The older properties scattered through the area are a different animal: real wood siding, wood trim, occasionally a farmhouse with layers of history on it. Those need scraping, spot priming, and caulk work before anything else happens. We'd rather spend an extra day on prep than come back in three years.

What we do.

  • Full exterior repaints — siding, trim, soffits, fascia, porch columns, shutters, garage doors and entry doors.
  • Trim-only exterior packages — for brick homes where only the painted surfaces are due. Big visual change, smaller number.
  • Interior painting — including the two-story entries and cathedral great rooms that are everywhere out here. We have the equipment and we're not nervous about height.
  • Deck staining and refinishing.
  • Pressure washing and window cleaning.

See it first


See the color on your own house first.

Picking an exterior color off a two-inch paint chip is a guess. We built a free color visualizer that takes a photo of your actual Bargersville home and shows you what it looks like repainted — siding, trim, front door, shutters. Try a dozen combinations before anyone opens a can.

No account, no email, no cost. Use it, screenshot what you like, and bring it to the estimate.

Try the color visualizer →

Why us


How we work.

Small family crew

Brian is on the job, not just on the estimate. No subcontractors you've never met.

Prep first

Wash, scrape, prime, caulk. The coating is the easy part and the last part.

Quality materials

Cheap paint is the expensive option. We use products that actually hold through Indiana freeze-thaw.

Clean site

Landscaping covered, plants protected, everything picked up at the end of each day.

What people say


Thirty years of word of mouth.

We've never really advertised. This is why.

★★★★★

If there were more stars to give I would give a 10! I can't say enough positive words for Brian. He is always on time, great communicator and a perfectionist with his painting. That is hard to find in today's world and you will want Brian to paint your whole house!

Betsy S.
★★★★★

Brian and his crew did an excellent job on our exterior house painting. Extremely thorough throughout and great communication. Thanks Brian!

Joe V.

Service area


Nearby towns we cover.

We work across Johnson County and just past the line. If you don't see your town, call anyway — odds are we're already close.

Get on the schedule.

We book up, and we'd rather tell you that honestly than rush your job. Call or text and we'll come look at it.

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