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What painting costs, explained

Each guide answers one question, cites where its numbers came from, and says plainly where the data runs out.

Interior Painting Cost Per Square Foot: What the Number Actually Means

Interior painting runs about $3 per square foot of living space for walls, $4 with ceilings. Here is why published rates disagree by 10x, and why per-square-foot pricing can check a quote but cannot produce one.