Included with every D&D project
Choose your colors on the wall, not from a two-inch chip
Every painting project we take on includes a color consultation: full-size samples brushed out in real paint on your own walls, and a written color schedule listing every color, sheen and placement. Interior, exterior, cabinets and stain.
Estimates are free and carry no obligation. You don't need to have picked a color to get one.
- Locally owned since 1986
- 50+ employees
- Licensed & insured
- Benjamin Moore & Sherwin-Williams
- PCA & APPC member
Hiring an independent color consultant runs about $150 to $500. With D&D it's built into the work: a consultant's time, the sample pints, the return trip and the written schedule. Because it's included rather than billed, we're not counting the samples. If you want to see a fourth option, we'll put up a fourth option.
Start here
Request your free estimate
Takes about a minute. Tell us which rooms or surfaces you're considering. If you already have colors in mind, name them, since it helps us plan the consultation once your project is booked.
The estimate is free, written, and carries no obligation. Colors come later, with your project.
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Where the color work fits
Price first, colors second, on purpose
The most common thing that stalls a paint job is the color decision. So we take it off the critical path: you get a scope and a price without needing an answer, and the color work happens once your project is on the schedule, while there's still plenty of time to change your mind.
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Free estimate visit
An estimator walks the scope with you: surfaces, prep, any drywall or carpentry repairs that need to happen first, and how the work would be sequenced. We'll talk color direction while we're there, but nothing about the price depends on you having decided.
Free · No obligation -
You book the project
Scope and price are set and you're on the calendar. Colors are still open at this point, which is the part most people don't expect. Booking us doesn't lock you into anything you haven't chosen yet.
Your decision -
The color consultation
This is where the real work happens, and it's included. We inventory what's staying, check undertones and light reflectance, set the relationships between walls, trim, ceilings and doors, then brush the finalists onto your actual surfaces at full size in two coats, in the sheen they'll be painted in. Then you live with them for as long as you need.
Included · Before we start -
Color schedule, then the crew
You sign off on a written schedule listing brand, color name and number, sheen, placement and coat count. The crew paints from that document, so nothing gets substituted on the job, and you keep it for touch-ups years from now.
Before the first coat
What the consultation covers
Four things you leave with
Most people don't need more colors to look at. They need the field narrowed, the undertones checked against what they're keeping, and a decision they can stop second-guessing.
Full-size samples in the actual paint
Two coats, brushed out large, applied to the surface being painted instead of a card propped against the baseboard. Where the old color would skew the read, we block it out underneath first, so you're judging the new color and not a blend of both.
An undertone check against what's staying
Flooring, countertops, tile, cabinet finish, hardware, and outside the roof, brick, stone, window frames and pavers. The pink in a tile or the green in a granite is what turns a "safe" beige wrong, and it's the part a chip in the store can't tell you.
Sheen chosen surface by surface
Flat, eggshell, satin, semi-gloss. Sheen changes how deep the color reads, how much wall texture shows, and how the surface cleans later. It matters as much as the color, and it's the thing most people never get asked about.
A written color schedule
Brand, color name, color number, sheen, placement and coat count for every surface in the scope. It's the document your crew works from, and the one you'll want in hand the first time something needs a touch-up.
What we'll sample
Every surface we paint, we'll sample
If we can paint it, stain it or finish it, we can put a sample on it first.
Interior walls & ceilings
Single rooms through whole-house interior painting, including open-plan flow between connected spaces and stairwells.
Trim, doors & millwork
Baseboards, casing, crown, wainscot and interior doors, with the sheen matched to how much traffic they take.
Kitchen & bath cabinets
Sampled on a door or drawer front so you see the color over the existing finish. Same applies to furniture refinishing.
Exterior siding & stucco
Body colors for an exterior repaint sampled on the elevation itself, planned around the roof, brick, stone and window frames you aren't changing.
Shutters, front doors & porch ceilings
The accent decisions that carry the most curb appeal for the smallest share of the budget.
Decks, docks & exterior wood
Stain tone and opacity sampled on your boards, since the same stain reads differently on pine, cedar and older weathered wood.
Feature walls & specialty finishes
Accent walls, color-drenched rooms, wallpaper coordination and faux finishes.
Commercial & multi-property
Offices, rentals, HOA and commercial painting, with one documented schedule you can reuse across units.
Already have a designer?
We'll sample their specification, confirm sheens and coat counts, and stay in their lane. No competing opinions.
We do this across the Golden Isles, from St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Jekyll Island, Brunswick and Darien, for both residential and commercial properties.
From your neighbors
Homes like yours across the Golden Isles
Rated 4.9 out of 5 across 55 Google reviews
A great experience with our painters. Professional, respectful of our home, and detail-oriented throughout. They took time to prep the space properly, handled wall repairs smoothly, and the finish came out clean and even with crisp lines.
In my 40-plus years on St. Simons Island I've owned two houses with wood siding, both needing regular exterior painting, and I've used several painters over the years. D&D was by far the best job, high quality work.
Excellent from start to finish. They pressure washed and scraped the house before painting to remove debris and loose paint, and all exterior trim and fascia was painted. The crew was professional and on time each day, and cleaned up at the end of every workday.
Recent work
Colors we've put on Golden Isles homes
Every one of these started the same way: a scope, a price, and then a set of samples on the wall before a drop cloth came out.
Questions people ask
Color consultation FAQs
Is the color consultation an extra charge?
No. It's included in your painting project at no additional cost. That covers the consultant's time, the sample pints, the return trip and the written color schedule. Hiring an independent color consultant on your own typically runs $150 to $500, often credited back only if you go on to hire them.
The way it works with us: the estimate is free and carries no obligation, and the color consultation begins once your project is booked. Because it's built into the work rather than billed by the hour, we're not rationing it. If the third sample isn't right, we'll put up a fourth.
Can I get the color consultation before I decide on a painter?
The on-wall sampling starts once your project is scheduled, since each one involves a consultant's time, sample paint and a return trip to your home. But you're not on your own before that point. The estimate visit is free, and while we're there we're glad to talk through direction, brand, sheen and what your fixed finishes will and won't tolerate.
Most people find that's the right order anyway. You get a scope and a price without having to commit to a color, and then the color work happens with real time to sit with it.
Do I need to know my colors to get an estimate?
Not at all, and it won't slow anything down. The estimate is built from scope (surfaces, prep, repairs, access and coats), not from which color you land on. Plenty of our customers book with the color question still wide open. If a choice you make later affects the work, such as a deep color needing an extra coat or a tinted primer, we'll flag it before we start rather than after.
Which paint brands do you sample from?
Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams. If a designer, builder, architectural review board or HOA has already handed you a color, we'll sample that exact color and build the rest of the scheme around it rather than steering you somewhere else.
How many colors will you put on the wall?
Usually two or three per surface, and that's deliberate. Ten small patches make the decision harder, not easier, because each one gets judged against the patch beside it instead of against the room. We narrow the field with you first, then sample the real finalists at a size you can actually read.
Why not just use peel-and-stick samples or a visualizer app?
Both are useful for narrowing a long list, and if you've already used them, bring your shortlist to the estimate. What they can't show you is what two coats of that color does across a full wall, how it sits against your flooring and trim, or how the sheen changes it. Those are the three things that produce repaints.
Does this apply to exteriors too?
Yes, and exteriors are where it matters most, because a full repaint is the more expensive thing to get wrong. Exterior color is set by what you're not changing: roof shingles, brick, stone, pavers, and window and gutter colors. We start from those fixed elements, then sample body, trim, shutter and door colors on the elevation itself.
Should I use the 2026 color of the year?
Sherwin-Williams named Universal Khaki (SW 6150) for 2026, a warm mid-tone neutral with an earthy cast, and Benjamin Moore named Silhouette (AF-655), a deep brown. Both point to the same broader move toward warm, grounded colors and away from the cool grays of the last decade.
A trend color is a starting point, not a decision. Whether it works in your house depends on the undertones already in your floors, counters and cabinets, and on how much light the room gets. That's exactly what the on-wall sample settles.
I'm not there full time. Can this still work?
Yes. A good share of the homes we paint on St. Simons and Sea Island are second homes or rentals. We can apply the samples, photograph them, and send the color schedule for your approval before anything is ordered, so you're signing off on a documented list of colors, sheens and placements rather than a verbal description.
What if I still can't decide?
The samples stay up. There's no clock on them, and we'd far rather come back with another option than paint a whole house in a color you talked yourself into. If it means shifting your start date by a few days to get it right, we'll shift it.
Start with the easy part
Get the price. Decide the color later.
A free written estimate costs you nothing and doesn't require a single decision about color. Once your project is booked, the consultation and the on-wall samples come with it.