Douglas County · Highlands Ranch, CO
Highlands Ranch is the master-planned community north of Castle Rock — tens of thousands of homes built mostly between the 1980s and 2000s. It's family-friendly, deeply suburban, and has more finishable basements per square mile than just about anywhere in the metro.
Drywall in Highlands Ranch
Two requests dominate here: finishing basements in homes that have been ready for it for a decade, and matching texture on repairs in homes old enough to have settled but not old enough to have plaster. We handle both daily — and finish the work with the texture and paint blend that makes a 30-year-old wall look intentional, not patched. That paint blend is the difference, and it comes through Wild Fox Painting.
What we do in Highlands Ranch
Not a menu — what we're asked for here, and what's different about doing it here.
Neighborhoods We Cover
Different builders, different decades, different textures — and it shows in what the drywall needs. Here's what we see most.
The original early-'80s neighborhoods. Popcorn ceilings, decades of settling cracks, hand-applied textures on older repairs, and basements still open.
Late '80s and '90s two-stories. Orange-peel texture to match, corner cracks, and one of the densest concentrations of finishable basements in town.
'90s builder homes. Nail pops and seam cracks, light knockdown to match, and basement finishes.
Late '90s into the 2000s. First and second rounds of settling cracks, builder knockdown to match, and basements framed for finishing.
Newer semi-custom homes, gated. Vaulted rooms with long seams, Level 5 smooth finishes where the design calls for it, and basements finished to the standard of the rest of the house.
2000s homes in the south end. Nail pops as the framing dries, first cracks, and open basements.
Also: Highland Walk · Gleneagles Village. Don't see yours? We almost certainly serve it — call and we'll confirm.
From the Blog
How the work is actually done, from the crew that serves Highlands Ranch.
Getting started
From the first photo you send to the last coat of paint, here's what working with us looks like — built around your home, not our schedule.
Two minutes online or one phone call. A few photos are usually enough to scope a repair; we come see bigger projects in person. Reply within 24 hours, no obligation.
What we'll hang, tape and texture, the finish level, how the texture will be matched, and how long it takes — in writing, before anything starts.
Plastic on the doorways, floors and furniture covered, and sanding kept under control. The rest of the house stays livable while the room is under way.
The person who scoped your job stays your point of contact. Hang, tape, finish, and a texture rebuilt by hand to match what's already on the wall.
Our sister team at Wild Fox Painting primes and repaints so the repair disappears. Two specialty teams, one coordinated handoff: one estimate, one schedule, one point of contact.
Right Around the Corner
Highlands Ranch is right next door to our Littleton base — quick scheduling, easy access for estimates.
A Few Local Questions
A lot of it. Highlands Ranch has one of the highest concentrations of unfinished basements in the metro — thousands of homes built from the '80s through the 2000s were sold with the downstairs left open. We hang, tape, texture, and finish that space to a paint-ready surface, matching the wall texture from your main floor so the finished basement reads like it was always part of the house.
Yes. Most Highlands Ranch homes from that era were finished in orange-peel or a light knockdown, and some of the original ceilings still carry popcorn. We match whichever texture your home was built with so an added wall or a repair blends in, then our sister team at Wild Fox Painting repaints the area so the patch disappears entirely. Two specialty teams, one coordinated handoff.
Usually it's normal settling. Homes here are now decades old and sit on Front Range clay soils that move seasonally, so hairline cracks reappear at door and window corners and along seams. We repair them with tape and joint compound so the fix flexes with the house instead of cracking straight back through a paint-only patch.
Yes — it's a common request in the older Northridge and Eastridge neighborhoods. We contain the room with plastic, scrape the popcorn, repair anything underneath, and refinish the ceiling smooth or in a modern texture while controlling the dust throughout. It's one of the fastest ways to bring a '90s Highlands Ranch home up to date.
Ready When You Are
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