Free color consultation · Golden Isles
Choose your colors on the wall, not from a two-inch chip
We bring the fan decks, brush out full-size samples in real paint on the surfaces you're painting, and leave you with a written color schedule listing every color, sheen and placement. Free with your estimate, interior or exterior.
- Locally owned since 1986
- 50+ employees
- Licensed & insured
- Benjamin Moore & Sherwin-Williams
- Brunswick · St. Simons · Sea Island · Jekyll
Interior, exterior, cabinets, trim and stain. No consultation fee, no sample charge, and no obligation to book the project.
Book your consultation
Request your free color consultation and estimate
Takes about a minute. Tell us which rooms or surfaces you're considering, and if you already have colors in mind, name them. We can usually bring those and sample them the same day.
No fee for the consultation. No charge for the samples. No obligation to book the painting.
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What the consultation actually includes
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 you're painting 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. Getting it right 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. Our crew works from it so nothing gets substituted, and you keep it for touch-ups years from now.
How it works
From "I have no idea" to a color schedule
Four steps, and how fast it moves depends on how far along you already are. Tell us the colors you're considering when you request the consultation and we can often sample them the same day. The samples stay on your wall as long as you need them.
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Walkthrough
We go room by room or elevation by elevation. What's staying and what's changing, how each space gets used, which direction the windows face, and whether this is a full-time home, a second home or a rental. Bring any inspiration photos you've saved. They tell us more about what you want than a color name does.
About 30–45 minutes -
Narrow it to two or three per surface
We work from Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams fan decks, check light reflectance values so a color isn't fighting the room, and set the relationships between walls, trim, ceilings and doors. In open-plan spaces we plan the flow between connected rooms at the same time so the house reads as one scheme.
Same visit -
Samples go on the wall
If you already know which colors you're weighing and tell us when you reach out, we bring them with us and brush them out the same day. If you're starting from scratch, we pick up the colors after the walkthrough and come back to sample them. Either way it's full size, two coats, in the places that matter, and in the sheen the surface will actually be painted in, because a satin and a flat of the same color are not the same color to your eye. Then you live with them.
Same day if you've told us the colors, otherwise a return visit -
Color schedule, then the estimate
You get the written schedule, and the estimate is built directly from it, so the number you're looking at matches the colors you picked and the number of coats they need. If you're getting other bids, the schedule is yours to keep either way.
With your written estimate
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 repaints, 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 before we commit to a full refinish.
Exterior siding & stucco
Body colors 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, faux and decorative finishes, and wallpaper coordination.
Commercial & multi-property
Offices, rentals, HOA and property management work, 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.
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
Questions people ask
Color consultation FAQs
Is the color consultation really free?
Yes. The consultation, the fan decks and the on-wall samples are included at no charge with your free written estimate. There's no consultation fee, no sample charge, and no obligation to book the painting afterward. Many color consultants in 2026 charge $150 to $500 for the same walkthrough, often credited back only if you hire them.
Which paint brands do you sample from?
Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams. We don't use builder-grade lines. 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. That's deliberate. Ten small patches make the decision harder, not easier, because each one is being judged against the patch beside it instead of against the room. We'd rather narrow the field with you first and 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. 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, so that's where the on-wall sample earns its place.
Do you do this for exteriors too?
Yes, and exteriors are where it matters most, because a full repaint is the more expensive mistake. Exterior color is set by what you're not changing: roof shingles, brick, stone, pavers, window and gutter colors. We start from those fixed elements, then sample body, trim, shutter and door colors on the elevation itself.
Can you help with cabinets, stain colors and specialty finishes?
Yes. Cabinet color and sheen get sampled on a door or drawer front. Stain gets sampled on your own boards, since the same stain reads differently on pine, cedar and older weathered wood. Feature walls, color-drenched rooms and decorative finishes are all part of the same walkthrough.
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 that sits between warm and cool. 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 we're checking when we put it on the wall.
I'm not there full time. Can you still do this?
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 you the schedule to approve before anything is ordered. You'll be 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 deadline attached to them, and we'd much rather come back and put up a fourth option than paint a whole house in a color you talked yourself into. Deciding to repaint is the expensive part of getting it wrong. Taking another week is not.
Stop guessing
See it on your wall before you commit
Book the free consultation and we'll bring the decks out, sample the finalists, and put your colors in writing. Interior, exterior, cabinets or stain.