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Buy a LIME Painting Franchise

LIME Painting is a residential and commercial painting, coatings and surface-restoration franchise positioned as a premium, high-end brand serving an affluent customer base. Founded in Denver in 2013 and franchising since 2018, it operates as a custom contracting service provider for luxury homes and businesses rather than a volume painter.

Beyond interior and exterior painting, LIME units handle cabinet refinishing, faux finishes, epoxy floor coatings, stucco, masonry, carpentry, drywall, gutter work and direct-to-metal coatings, giving owners multiple service lines from a single territory. Jobs are delivered through a managed crew and subcontractor model coordinated by the owner, with the franchisor’s proprietary LIMEWare platform used for estimating, scheduling and job management.

The brand runs a national network of territory-based franchises and built its identity around the core values of Love, Integrity, Mission and Excellence. Its positioning centres on higher-value, project-based work rather than competing on price across the broader painting market.

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Why buy a LIME Painting Franchise?

Buying a LIME Painting franchise offers entry to the premium end of a large, resilient home-services category. The brand’s high-end positioning is designed to support higher-value projects and a stronger average ticket than volume-led painters, which makes local lead quality, proposal conversion and customer experience central to a unit’s performance.

The model is home-based with low fixed overhead, and owners can run it owner-operator or build toward a more semi-absentee structure as crews and management mature. Multiple service lines beyond painting give a single territory several ways to grow, while corporate-managed marketing, a dedicated call centre handling sales appointments and the LIMEWare operating platform reduce the owner’s back-office burden. No prior painting experience is required to enter the system.

LIME Painting Franchise Costs & Information

Based on 2024 data reported in the 2025 FDD

  • Brand Profile

    • Year Founded

      2013

    • Franchising Since

      2018

    • New Startup Cost

      $126,700 – $277,075

    • Avg. Resale Price

      Contact us for details

  • Franchise Fees

    • Initial franchise Fee

      $60,000

      for new territories

    • Transfer Fee

      $10,000

      per Designated Territory assigned

    • Royalty Fee

      4–7%

      of Gross Sales

    • Marketing Fee

      2%

      of Gross Sales

  • Unit Performance

    • Total Units *

      92

    • New Units Opened *

      15

    • Units Transferred *

      11

    • Avg. Unit revenue *

      $1,006,246

    * Based on 2024 data reported in the 2025 FDD

LIME Painting – Additional  Information

  1. Training & Support

    New owners train through the LIME Elite Academy, which provides 80 hours of combined classroom and on-the-job training plus in-depth online review. Ongoing support includes the proprietary LIMEWare management platform, a subcontractor network, corporate assistance with estimates, and a dedicated call centre that books sales appointments. Marketing support spans co-op advertising, social media, SEO and loyalty programmes. Resale buyers should confirm what onboarding and LIMEWare access transfer to incoming ownership and whether existing crews and call-centre support carry over.

  2. Ideal Owner

    LIME Painting suits a sales-oriented, customer-facing operator comfortable selling premium services to an affluent clientele and managing projects to a high standard. No painting or construction background is required, though it helps; the owner's core work is local lead generation, proposal conversion, scheduling and coordinating crews and subcontractors to deliver quality, on-time results. Owners who are process-driven, detail-focused and confident managing both customer relationships and field teams tend to fit the model best.

  3. Recognition & Awards

    LIME Painting has ranked in Entrepreneur's Franchise 500 for five consecutive years, most recently in 2025, and has featured on Entrepreneur's Top New & Emerging, Top Home-Based & Mobile (#94 in 2023) and Top Low-Cost lists. Franchise Business Review named it a Top 200 Franchise for 2026, and it earned earlier business-excellence honours including Corporate LiveWire and Corporate Vision awards. The brand holds an A+ BBB rating and is EPA Lead-Safe certified. Resale buyers should weigh brand recognition alongside the specific territory's local reviews and referral reputation.

  4. Industry / Market

    LIME Painting operates in the US house-painting and decorating contractor market, valued at around $28 billion in 2025 (IBISWorld). Demand is driven by an aging housing stock, sustained home-renovation and remodelling spending, and new residential and commercial construction. The premium, custom end where LIME competes is tied to higher-income homeowners and discretionary upgrade spending, which can be more cyclical but also higher-margin. For resale buyers, local housing values, building age and the strength of a unit's affluent customer base shape demand more than national figures.

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