The Client
Stone Way Apartments is a 70-unit affordable housing building managed by Bellwether Housing in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. Stone Way Apartments is one of dozens of properties Bellwether operates across King County.
Managing a portfolio as large as Bellwether’s means every contractor relationship gets tested eventually by a difficult job site, a supply chain failure, a resident complication, or a spec that requires more than a standard paint crew can deliver. Lisa Hawkins has overseen enough capital projects to know which contractors hold up under pressure and which ones don’t.
All Covered has been in that portfolio for years. Stone Way is part of why.
The Specification
Before a paint can be selected, someone has to specify it. For Stone Way, that someone was Bellwether’s building engineer.
The spec came back: Tnemec.
Most painting contractors have never encountered Tnemec. It’s not on the shelf at any paint store. It’s a specialty industrial and architectural coating brand used on bridges, water treatment facilities, food processing plants, and high-demand commercial buildings applications, where standard paint simply isn’t engineered to perform.
For stucco specifically, Tnemec’s architectural masonry coatings are designed to conform to the substrate without altering its texture or vapor transmission, while providing color stability and long-term durability that outlasts commodity products. The engineer’s recommendation wasn’t arbitrary. Stucco is porous, moves with temperature, and needs a coating that doesn’t just sit on top, it needs to integrate with the surface.
We sourced the product, placed a special order, and added buffer stock to avoid running short mid-project.
The Colors
Stone Way’s exterior repaint wasn’t just a maintenance project. It was a visual redesign.
The building features a multi-color scheme with a distinctive lime green that anchors the corner façade. Getting the color placement right required deliberate planning, which surfaces carry which colors, where the transitions fall, how the breaks read from the street.
The result is a building that registers differently from a block away than it did before. That kind of work requires painters who are paying attention, not just covering square footage.
The Relationship Continues
Stone Way was not our only Bellwether project, and it wasn’t the last. When a different Bellwether property needed repainting, we were the call they made. Bellwether knows we’ll source what they spec. They know we’ll hold steady when supply chains fail. They know we’ll handle whatever shows up on the job site.
That’s why they keep calling.
Meg P.
I needed a ceiling skim coated to cover thick 70's texturing. It's a horrible job. I know because I've done it in other parts of the house. They gave me a terrific estimate much less than other places.
Rich was very friendly and nice and listened to my concerns about my rescue birds and the sanding.
They came when they said they would and the person doing the actual work was Nain and he was so conscientious. He was very worried about not getting it perfect because of trying to keep the sanding to a minimum. I was the one that had to say it was done. He would have kept at it. It was a hard job to cover that texturing without sanding!
The ceiling looks great, the birds are healthy, they were friendly, they threw in the priming for no extra cost, and the estimate was exactly the final price.
Isaac O.
we tend to be a little detail oriented and had a 1200 sq ft. condo that needed to have trim and walls painted. We hired All Covered for the 3rd time to do this (we had painting done at our previous home as well), and much as they did for our previous home they executed the job extremely well. The staff is amazing, clean, and meticulous. It is a pleasure to work with them, and a pleasure to experience a space with well painted walls and trim.
we will be hiring them again for more trim work.
