Suwanee, Georgia · Serving Metro Atlanta
The prep work is the paint job.
Twenty-four years painting homes across Gwinnett, Forsyth and Fulton — washed, dried and fully prepped, with a written scope naming the product, before the first coat goes on.
About Trademark Design
One owner. One crew. Twenty-four years.
Charles Craig has been painting Metro Atlanta for twenty-four years — residential and commercial, interior and exterior — and he is on the job himself, not dispatching a subcontractor he has never met and turning up at the end for a signature.
They keep the site tidy every evening and treat a lived-in house like somebody still has to live in it — clean-cut and courteous whether it is a single room, a full exterior repaint, or an office block scheduled around your hours. The standard does not move.
Interior paintingExterior paintingWood repair Deck & fencePressure washing
Services
What we do, and do properly.
Most of what fails on a repaint fails underneath it. We handle the surface before the colour, on every job we take.
Interior Painting
Walls, ceilings, trim and doors. Floors and furniture protected.
Exterior Painting
Siding, brick, stucco, trim and shutters — washed, prepped, primed.
Cabinet Painting
Kitchen and bath cabinetry degreased, sanded and finished.
Wood Repair
Soft fascia, trim and casings cut out and replaced before priming.
Pressure Washing
Siding, concrete, driveways and decks. A service on its own.
Deck & Fence Staining
Stripped, washed, boards replaced where needed, then sealed.
Commercial Painting
Offices, retail and multi-unit, scheduled around your hours.
Concrete Coatings
Garage floors, basements and patios cleaned, etched and stained.
What you can expect
Six reasons the estimate is the easy part.
The things homeowners actually worry about when they let a contractor into the house, answered before you have to ask.
Charles walks the property himself and leaves a written scope naming the prep, the repairs and the exact product. No sales representative, no financing pitch, and nothing to sign on the spot.
Prep, repairs and the products going on the house are named in writing before the first drop cloth comes out — nothing gets decided once the crew is already there.
Any board that gets patched or replaced is sanded and primed before it ever sees a finish coat. Paint over bare or unprimed wood is the first thing to fail.
A crew that washes on Monday and paints on Tuesday is sealing water under your finish. We stop for two days on every exterior, which costs us time and is the single reason the coat lasts.
Soft fascia, trim, casings and soffit are found during prep and cut out before priming. You see every board before it is replaced, and it appears on the written scope rather than as a surprise mid-job.
Charles walks the finished job with you, writes down whatever you find, and works the list. The site is tidied at the end of every day in the meantime — plantings, walkways and windows covered before anything is opened.
Our work
Recent projects.
Real houses, real crews, photographed on the job rather than bought from a stock library.
Two-level deck restoration
Stripped, washed and left to dry before boards were replaced and the whole structure — rails, lattice, stairs and posts — was stained and sealed.
- Service
- Deck staining
- Scope
- Rails, lattice, stairs, posts
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Privacy fence, sprayed and back-brushed
Weathered timber washed and left to dry, then sprayed and immediately back-brushed by hand so the stain is driven into the grain rather than sitting on it.
- Service
- Fence staining
- Method
- Spray + back-brush
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Siding, trim and shutters
Full exterior wash, whole-house prep and a repaint carried across siding, soffit, fascia, trim and shutters — not only the elevations that show from the street.
- Service
- Exterior repaint
- Scope
- Siding, soffit, trim, shutters
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Multi-unit exterior
A run of adjoining units painted to one consistent standard, scheduled so residents kept access to their own doors throughout.
- Service
- Commercial exterior
- Scope
- Trim, cornices, shutters
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Covered porch and stair rails
Tongue-and-groove ceiling, posts and stair rails stained to one tone, with the underside of the deck finished to the same standard as the surface above it.
- Service
- Exterior staining
- Scope
- Ceiling, posts, rails, stairs
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Home office repaint
Walls cut in by hand against the baseboard, casing and window returns, with the built-in and hardwood floor masked and protected throughout.
- Service
- Interior painting
- Scope
- Walls, trim, casings
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Bay-window living room
Walls, ceiling and every run of trim taken in one visit, with the bay's three window returns and the mitred casings cut in by hand rather than taped.
- Service
- Interior painting
- Scope
- Walls, ceiling, trim, casings
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Siding, columns and shutters
Mixed brick and siding elevation repainted, with porch columns, window trim and shutters carried through in the same visit.
- Service
- Exterior repaint
- Scope
- Siding, columns, trim, shutters
- Location
- Metro Atlanta
Untreated
Stained & sealed
One photograph, taken mid-job. Same fence, same afternoon, same light — the only honest way to show a finish next to what it replaced.
Our process
Six steps. Two of them are just waiting.
Charles described the job start to finish. This is it, unabridged.
Pressure wash
Chalk, mildew and pollen come off the whole exterior now, or they get sealed under your finish coat.
Let it dry — two full days
Nothing is touched for two days, because paint over damp siding traps the water underneath it.
Prep the entire house
Scraping, sanding and caulking across every elevation, not only the ones that show from the street.
Replace the rotten wood
Soft fascia, trim, casings and soffit are cut out and replaced with new material, and you see every board before it goes.
Prime
Every bare and repaired surface is primed, because a finish coat is not a primer whatever the can says.
Paint, then walk it together
Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore goes on, then Charles walks the house with you and works your list before the final invoice.
Two of the six steps are waiting. That is the part competitors skip.
Reviews
Read them where they were written.
Twenty-four years of work, mostly by referral.
We would rather send you to read what homeowners wrote in their own words than reprint a sentence of it here. Charles's listings are public — go and look.
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Questions
Before you call.
Charles walks the property himself, usually inside an hour, and leaves you a written scope naming the preparation, any wood repairs and the exact product. It is free, there is no sales representative, and there is nothing to sign on the spot.
Most houses run about a week, and two of those days are the drying period after the pressure wash when nobody is on site. Wood repairs and the amount of prep a house needs move that number more than square footage does — your written estimate gives you the schedule up front.
Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore. Which line goes on your house depends on the surface and the exposure, and it is named on your written estimate before work starts.
Yes, and we find it during prep rather than painting over it. Soft fascia, trim, casings and soffit are cut out and replaced with new material before priming. You see every board before it is replaced.
Not for the working days. Charles asks that you are there for the initial walkthrough and again for the final one, so you can point at anything you want changed while the crew is still on site.
Service areas
Three counties, covered properly.
Staying inside Metro Atlanta is how the same crew is on your house every day instead of driving across the state to reach it.
Gwinnett County
Suwanee · Duluth · Buford · Lawrenceville · Sugar Hill · Dacula
Forsyth County
Cumming · Vickery · Lake Lanier · South Forsyth
Fulton County
Alpharetta · Milton · Johns Creek · Roswell · Sandy Springs
Holiday Lighting · Now booking 2026
The same standard, in December.
Rooflines, trees and driveways — designed to your home's own architecture, installed, maintained through the season, then taken down and stored. The same crew that paints the house in June hangs the lights in December.
Free estimate
Tell us about the house.
Charles walks the property himself and writes the estimate on site.
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- A reply within one business day
- Photos help Charles arrive already knowing the job
- A written scope with prep, repairs and product named
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Charles will call you within one business day. If it is urgent, reach him at 770-271-1612.