Painters & Remodelers in Alpharetta, GA
Alpharetta was a small crossroads town and the old Milton County seat until the 1980s, when the farmland around it filled with planned subdivisions in about two decades. So most of the work here is on houses from the 1980s and 90s that are on their second or third round of updates: kitchens and baths last touched around the mid-2000s, basements stubbed for a bath and never finished, and siding and trim painted over several times. Downtown adds a small set of much older homes, and Avalon and City Center brought a wave of new townhomes and condos.
Alpharetta homes, and what they need
The bulk of Alpharetta's houses went up between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. Windward, the Mobil-developed lake community that began selling in 1983, is the clearest example: 44 neighborhoods in a variety of styles around Lake Windward, many on sloped lots with full daylight basements, some still unfinished and stubbed for a bath. Fronts tend to be brick or stone, with hardboard, cedar or early fiber-cement lap on the sides and rear, and some later homes in the area were clad in synthetic or three-coat stucco. Older still is Alpharetta Estates, built roughly 1972 to 1982 on large wooded lots near downtown, where the ranches carry four or five decades of wear. Downtown keeps a handful of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century homes, from Greek Revival to the 1912 Queen Anne Mansell House, with clapboard and old plaster. The newest stock is the townhome and condo infill around Avalon and City Center, where the work is mostly interior: paint, flooring and finish upgrades.
What we do in Alpharetta
- Interior Painting
- Exterior Painting
- Cabinet Painting & Refinishing
- Deck & Fence Staining
- Commercial Painting
- Drywall Repair & Patching
- Kitchen Remodeling
- Bathroom Remodeling
- Basement Finishing
- Deck & Porch Building
- Siding Replacement
- Flooring Installation
Neighborhoods we work in
- Windward
- The Spinnakers at Windward
- Alpharetta Estates
- Downtown Alpharetta
- Avalon
Around town
Avalon · Wills Park · Big Creek Greenway · Ameris Bank Amphitheatre · Mansell House and Gardens
Fulton County · population 66,921
Recent work from our crews
Who runs the job
Every Alpharetta project has a supervisor on site who manages it day to day: the schedule, the crews, the quality checks and your questions. When something needs putting right, a run in the trim or a strip of caulk, the supervisor is the person who sees it and gets it fixed.
The crews are specialists. Painters paint and renovation crews remodel, so the person doing each part of your job does that work every day. The estimate is done by someone who knows Fulton County housing and prices the repair a house like yours needs before anything else happens.
What customers say
5.0 across 44 Google reviews. Verbatim from named reviewers, shortened only where marked …
“His crew and him, helped me and the family get our home painted and repairs that look like new. … He ended up replacing trim and sills around my home.”
Exterior repaint, trim and sills
“This time it was a deck project as well as a full front door replacement. … Most importantly if there is something that is not to your liking, he will make it right. Not the norm in the contractor world.”
Deck and front door replacement
“WS Painting and Dan James the owner is one of the best companies I’ve ever worked with. He is true to his word. He does amazing work. He always finishes when he says he’s going to finish. I would use Dan on all my projects in the future.”
Want a real number for your Alpharetta job?
The only way to price it honestly is to see it. We come out, walk the job and put it in writing — free, and with no obligation to book.
Call and we answer 24/7. Forms sent during the day get a call back the same day.
Working in Alpharetta — the questions we get
- Do you actually work in Alpharetta, or just list it?
- We work in Alpharetta. It sits inside the 30-mile area around Sandy Springs that we have worked since the business started, including Windward, The Spinnakers at Windward, Alpharetta Estates.
- What kind of work comes up most in Alpharetta?
- The bulk of Alpharetta's houses went up between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. Windward, the Mobil-developed lake community that began selling in 1983, is the clearest example: 44 neighborhoods in a variety of styles around Lake Windward, many on sloped lots with full daylight basements, some still unfinished and stubbed for a bath. Fronts tend to be brick or stone, with hardboard, cedar or early fiber-cement lap on the sides and rear, and some later homes in the area were clad in synthetic or three-coat stucco. Older still is Alpharetta Estates, built roughly 1972 to 1982 on large wooded lots near downtown, where the ranches carry four or five decades of wear. Downtown keeps a handful of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century homes, from Greek Revival to the 1912 Queen Anne Mansell House, with clapboard and old plaster. The newest stock is the townhome and condo infill around Avalon and City Center, where the work is mostly interior: paint, flooring and finish upgrades.
- Is there a call-out charge to come and quote?
- No. We come out to Alpharetta, walk the property and put a written estimate together at no cost and with no obligation.
- How quickly can you get to a job in Alpharetta?
- Call (470) 419-0922 and we will give you a real date rather than a guess. Exterior work books out fastest in spring and early fall; interior work is usually quicker to slot in.
- Do you handle both the painting and the remodeling?
- Yes. Painting and remodeling are handled by separate specialist crews, scheduled by one company, with an on-site supervisor managing the project. In a Alpharetta home that means the repairs, the remodel and the paint happen in the right order without you coordinating a second contractor.
Advice for Alpharetta homeowners
- Is hiring professional painters worth it? An honest take It depends on the job, not on whether you can hold a brush. Here is where paying for it pays off, and the jobs you should keep for yourself.
- Painting a pre-1978 house: what lead-era coatings change Why the age of the house changes the prep, not the paint — and what to ask before anyone starts sanding.
- Questions to ask a painter before you hire The questions that sort one painter from another are about prep, because prep is where corners get cut and it is invisible once the paint is on.
- Choosing paint sheen by how the room gets used Sheen is a durability decision before it is a style one. Here is how to match flat, eggshell, satin and semi-gloss to the job each room does.
We also work nearby
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(470) 419-0922