Exterior Trim & Brick Painting in Dallas – University Heights

This exterior painting project in the University Heights neighborhood of Dallas, TX combined a routine color refresh of the home’s eaves, siding, garage, and dormers with something less common: brick painting – on one side of the home features a mix of stone and brick. The crew matched every surface to the home’s existing color scheme, sealed and primed the untouched brick, and replaced a worn section of trim along the way.

Project at a Glance

• Location: Dallas, TX
• Neighborhood: Devonshire
• Property Type: Two-Story Home — Brick, Siding & Stone Exterior
• Project Size: 2,192 Sq. Ft. of Siding & Brick Painted, Plus 325 Linear Ft. of Eaves
• Project Scope: Full exterior repaint of eaves, siding, garage, and dormers, plus brick painting on one side and trim repair on the back side.

The Challenge: Matching Paint Color Across Brick and Siding

The home’s eaves, siding, garage, and dormers had reached the point where their paint needed a refresh — the agreement called for matching colors “very similar to existing” across those surfaces, a straightforward maintenance repaint.

One elevation didn’t fit that pattern. The home’s right-side wall — 1,026 square feet of brick — had never been painted at all. Bringing it in line with the rest of the exterior meant treating it like new construction: sealing the masonry and applying a full prime coat before any color could go on, a different process than the simple repaint happening everywhere else on the house.

The Discovery: A Rear-Elevation Repair Surfaces During Prep

With the eaves, siding, and brick elevation scoped for paint, the crew also found a section of second-story trim and soffit on the back of the house that had deteriorated too far for paint alone to fix.

Painting over compromised fiber-cement doesn’t hold up, so the crew removed the damaged soffit cap and trim board and installed new HardiePanel Cedarmill and Hardie Trim in their place before any paint touched that section.

The Solution: Matching Colors Down to the Formula

For the surfaces getting a standard repaint — eaves, siding, garage, and dormers — the team used Benjamin Moore MoorGard® Exterior Low Lustre in Natural Linen (CC-090), plus computer color-matched formulas mixed to replicate the home’s existing accent and trim colors.

The newly primed brick elevation received the same masonry sealer used to prep it, followed by a coordinating coat so the once-bare brick reads as part of one continuous color scheme instead of a patch. Every seam and joint across the project was resealed with premium lifetime caulk before paint went on, with surface-specific primers used wherever the substrate called for it.

The Results: One Continuous Exterior, Backed by a 3-Year Warranty

With the brick side painted and matched to the rest of the house, the exterior now reads as one cohesive color scheme rather than a repainted majority and one untouched wall.

The completed work is backed by a 3-year Phillips workmanship warranty, alongside Benjamin Moore’s manufacturer limited lifetime warranty on the coatings used.

Before & After – Brick Painting, Siding Painting, and Trim Repair

Front view of home after painting.

Brick wall on side of home before painitng.

Brick wall on side of home after painting.

Materials Specification

Why Proper Preparation Matters

Paint only lasts as long as the surface underneath it is sound. On this project, that meant pressure washing every elevation with TSP, scraping and sanding any peeling paint, and resealing every seam and joint with premium lifetime caulk before any color went on. Brick painting requires an additional step: masonry sealer and a full prime coat, since that surface had never been painted before. Surface-specific primers were used elsewhere on the house wherever the substrate called for it, so the new paint had a stable base instead of sitting directly on bare or previously-peeling material.

Materials Selected for Long-Term Performance

The team used Benjamin Moore MoorGard Exterior Low Lustre and MoorLife Exterior Flat for this project, computer color-matched to the home’s existing scheme rather than a single stock formula — a step that let the crew bring the never-before-painted brick elevation into the same palette as the rest of the house instead of picking the closest available shade off the shelf.

The Phillips Approach

Every surface on this project — from the routine repaint areas to the brick elevation seeing its first coat of paint — got the same standard of prep: pressure washing, scraping, priming where needed, and resealing every seam before paint went on. Where prep work uncovered damaged trim and soffit on the back of the house, the crew replaced it with fiber-cement material instead of covering it with paint, so the repair holds as long as the new color does.

Coverage & Warranty

This project is backed by a 3-year Phillips workmanship warranty, plus Benjamin Moore’s manufacturer limited lifetime warranty on the coatings applied.

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