Couples Painting Business Continues To Grow

thestarpress.com:

A team now in more ways than one, Lydia and Chris run Underwood’s Fine Finishes.

A single mom in between jobs, Lydia (Kaderly) Underwood hardly seemed the type to open a business a few short years ago.

But she did.

“My dad encouraged me,” said Lydia, who subsequently found a partner for her specialty painting business — and a husband, Chris.

Lydia and her daughter, Chelsea, now 17, had moved into an affordable home in downtown Eaton to keep Chelsea enrolled in Delaware Community Schools. Chris and his boys, Gregory, 14, and Joshua, 11, had moved from Connersville to Muncie.

The couple met at church and married mid-winter 31⁄2 years ago while Lydia’s fledgling business was seasonally slack.

Now, they say they have yet to find a job they would not tackle, small or large.

That includes every room in a 3-story, 10,000-square-foot home near Indianapolis, and the exterior of a two-story, 7,000-square-foot home.

“As the business grew, we bought a 19-foot extension ladder — then a 40-foot ladder,” Lydia said.

Chris, who does most of the ladder work, might also build scaffolding or rent lifts.
And they say they throw in color consultations, a bonus other painters don’t bother to include.