The Gallaghers: the house before, and in Obsidian Monolith
The Gallaghers saw their home in 11 complete schemes before a can was opened. Drag the slider: on the left, the house as it stood; on the right, the scheme they kept.
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About a hundred homes behind one gate, close together, with canyon light by day and city lights after dark. The Gallaghers walked their house through both before choosing a color.
The Gallaghers saw their Newport Beach home
in all 11 color schemes. These 4 are a quick preview.
VIP Home Painting serves Belsomet, the guard-gated community of roughly 100 homes in Anaheim Hills, CA. Built in 1993 on standard residential parcels with canyon, mountain and city-light views, Belsomet homes are now three decades on from their original finish. We repaint exteriors, interiors and kitchen cabinets using Sherwin-Williams Emerald and Duration systems applied with professional Graco and Titan airless equipment, and every project begins with a complimentary consultation in which your actual home is rendered in each candidate palette. Exterior work starts at $4.75 per square foot of paintable surface, itemized line by line, backed by a 2-Year Warranty. Call (949) 418-6461.
The ending first: the Gallaghers’ Newport Beach house in Obsidian Monolith, with LED Slot Sconce lighting and Board & Batten accents. A dark scheme is the hardest one to imagine from a chip — and the one that most needs to be seen whole, by day and after dark, before it goes on.
Belsomet is around a hundred homes behind the gate, on Bridgewood Drive and the courts and circles off it, with parcels close together and canyon and city-light views.
The Gallaghers wanted something bolder than the house had ever been, and that is exactly what made them wait.
Three worries stood in the way. A dark color might look heavy beside the house next door. It might read one way by canyon light and another under the lights after dark. And if it was wrong, the fix would be the whole job, in front of every neighbor on the street.
On a street this close, each of those worries is reasonable. What they needed was a way to see the bold version on their own house before committing to it.
Belsomet is small — around a hundred homes behind the gate, on Bridgewood Drive and the courts and circles off it — and the parcels sit close together. On a street like that a repaint is not a private decision, and it is judged in more light than most.
Canyon and mountain light moves across the front of the house through the day, and the neighbors see it from a few yards away rather than from across a lawn. A color that looked quiet indoors can read loud beside the house next door.
When the city lights come on below, the house is seen by its own fixtures instead. A color is being judged across a much wider range of conditions than on a flat inland street, and a chip chosen indoors was never tested in any of them.
The Gallaghers did the same walk at their own Newport Beach house: the front at midday, then again under their own fixtures after dark. Two very different houses — which is why the lighting mattered as much as the color when they sat down with our design team.
Pick a direction and tap through the palettes — the home repaints itself in real time. Our design team does the same with the front of your house, at no cost, before anything is scheduled.
The Gallaghers made four decisions, not one — color, lighting, texture and the garage door. Each one changed how the last one looked. Make all four on their house, before you make them on yours.
Pick a style direction, then a palette — your home re-paints itself in real time.
Color is only half of what the street sees after dark.
Fixtures change how a facade reads at night, which is why lighting is the next decision here rather than an afterthought on the invoice.
From minimalist LED slots to wrought-iron lanterns — tap each fixture to see it glowing on your home.
Texture decides how the color behaves.
The same pigment on smooth stucco and on cedar shake is not the same color in your light. That is precisely what a sample board cannot tell you.
Cedar shake, board & batten, or stacked stone — premium material additions layered onto your home.
The last decisions are the ones the street sees first.
A garage door faces the road more squarely than any wall does, and it is the piece most homeowners leave to chance.
Glass-panel garage doors and natural stone for a true luxury transformation.
You have just repainted a Newport Beach estate. Send us the front of your home and our design team renders it in your three closest palettes — the same way you just saw.
What you get back


The same house, in each of your three closest palettes.
Add your photo in the form. Renders first, itemized estimate after — no obligation.
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No mystery products, no shortcuts. This is the exact system we bring to every Belsomet project — in writing, on every itemized estimate.
Five colors that look deliberate beside the house next door, by canyon light and under your own fixtures. Each is shown as a set of three, with a trim and an accent beside it.
The definitive luxury white — soft, warm, and the most-requested estate body color across Orange County.
Shown as the body, with Pure White SW 7005 trim and Iron Ore SW 7069 accent.
A grounded warm gray for bodies and garage doors that holds its color in bright Southern California light.
Shown as the body, with Alabaster SW 7008 trim and Iron Ore SW 7069 accent.
The modern deep charcoal — front doors, shutters, ironwork, and full accent volumes.
Shown as the body, with Alabaster SW 7008 trim and Urbane Bronze SW 7048 accent.
A cool white with a slight gray undertone — Sherwin-Williams' own description — which suits canyon light better than a creamy white does.
Shown as the body, with Alabaster SW 7008 trim and Iron Ore SW 7069 accent.
A mid neutral that gives a 1993 house some definition without fighting the view behind it.
Shown as the body, with Alabaster SW 7008 trim and Iron Ore SW 7069 accent.
Every palette here is rendered on your own home before you choose it — you approve a color you have already seen on the house, not a sample.
A hundred homes. Everyone sees the result.
On a community this size a repaint resets the standard for the street. We render the front of your house first so the decision is made by looking rather than imagining.
Parcels are close together and overspray is a real risk.
Masking and shielding to the property line, neighboring cars, walls and planting protected, and spray work scheduled around wind rather than against it.
Thirty years of hairline stucco cracking.
Every crack opened, filled and floated to match the existing texture, and bonding primer anywhere the original coating has chalked or failed. That is what the finish actually rests on.
A 30-minute in-home consultation, then our design team renders your Belsomet home in each candidate palette through our complimentary Custom Visualization Service — before anything is scheduled.
We prepare the complete color submission package for Belsomet runs under a community association. We prepare the design review package as part of the project, working from your association's current guidelines rather than assumptions. — swatches, product data sheets, and a callout for each side of the house — so approval never stalls your project.
Pressure wash, stucco repair floated to match texture, sanding, and bonding primer. Landscaping and hardscape are masked and wrapped before a single gallon is opened.
Sherwin-Williams Emerald applied with Graco and Titan airless equipment at the full thickness the manufacturer specifies, back-rolled on stucco, with hand-cut lines at every transition.
Raking-light inspection of every side of the house, touch-ups before you ask, and a signed walkthrough — backed by our 2-Year Warranty, no questions asked.
The 2-Year Warranty covers labor and materials and is printed on the itemized estimate you sign. On a Belsomet house three decades on from its original finish, the work it relies on is listed beside it: every hairline crack opened, filled and floated to match the texture, bonding primer wherever the old coating has chalked, and two coats of Sherwin-Williams Emerald or Duration. If something covered fails within the warranty period, VIP Home Painting comes back and puts it right.
VIP Home Painting is based in Anaheim and paints across the hillside communities above Santa Ana Canyon. From Belsomet, the neighboring communities we paint are one click away, along with our exterior, interior and kitchen cabinet painting pages.
P.S. — The Gallaghers walked their house by day and after dark, settled the lighting, and then saw 11 complete color schemes on the house before anyone opened a can.
In Belsomet the whole street sees the result. One photo of the front of your house is all the consultation asks, and it is complimentary, with the itemized estimate included.