Painting in Oxnard, CA

Oxnard, Port Hueneme, El Rio, Camarillo and Santa Paula

• Downtown Oxnard
• La Colonia
• South Oxnard
• North Oxnard
• Channel Islands Harbor
• Oxnard Shores
• College Park
• River Ridge
• Port Hueneme
• El Rio
• Camarillo
• Santa Paula

Homes in Oxnard

Oxnard grew from farmland and the Henry T. Oxnard sugar beet factory (1899–1959). Its historic district, listed on the National Register in 1999, runs along F and G Streets and is mostly homes built before 1925: Craftsman, Mission and Spanish Revival, Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival. Heritage Square downtown keeps restored Victorian and Craftsman houses.

El Rio, just north of Oxnard, had a postwar subdivision of more than 500 homes built in 1954. Santa Paula’s Main Street area has some of Ventura County’s oldest Victorian and Craftsman homes, and Camarillo grew from the Camarillo family ranch.

Exterior changes in the Henry T. Oxnard Historic District go through the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board, which issues a Certificate of Appropriateness. If your home is in the district, check with the county before changing colours.

Climate and coatings

Oxnard and Port Hueneme have a mild Mediterranean climate, with onshore breezes that keep summers cool. The marine layer brings fog and low cloud to the coast, most often in spring. Benjamin Moore advises painting only when the surface is more than 5 °F above the dew point, so on foggy mornings painting waits until the wall is dry.

Damp walls that get little sun grow mildew. Sherwin-Williams advises washing it off, rinsing and letting the wall dry before painting, because paint over mildew lets it grow through.

Santa Ana winds are strong, very dry offshore winds, mostly in autumn, and wind damage is common in the Santa Clara River basin in Ventura County. Hot, dry wind makes latex paint dry too fast (Dunn-Edwards).