$6500 to paint 1400 sq ft house in Raleigh, NC?

[Ray Brown]

Just curious is this a fair estimate? High? Blowing smoke (no way it can be done for this price)?

• Remove the popcorn ceiling, patch, prime, and paint white. All trim, base, and doors we will prep, prime, and paint white. 
• Remove wallpaper, prep, prime, and paint to the color of your liking.
• In this price we are including the paint and whatever is needed to prep. 

[David Robertson]

There's a lot more than just "paint" in this estimate it appears.  Here's a few reasons I don't think $6k is unreasonable:

• Removing a popcorn ceiling and retexturing is generally about a $1/sf by itself (1,400sf x $1.00/sf) = ~$1,400
• Removing wallpaper can be labor intensive and can require additional wall prep.  If there is wallpaper throughout the house this could easily be a thousand dollars or more.
• Painting all trim, base and doors is very labor intensive work.  If the existing trim and doors have a high gloss lacquer coating the painter will likely need to sand and prep all of the woodwork.

If you were just painting walls and ceilings and touching up trim I would expect to pay around $3,000, but with the additional $1,400 for ceiling retexturing, and $1,000+ for wallpaper removal and additional labor to sand and prep all woodwork the $6k quote doesn't seem too unreasonable.

The only way to know if the quote is high is to get 2 other quotes from other painting contractors for comparison.