Interior Painting in Kennesaw, GA
Repaints, drywall repair and the cosmetic work that goes with them. A lot of our painting happens between tenants, on a deadline, but we do it for homeowners the same way — walls patched properly before anything gets rolled, edges cut by hand, and the room put back the way we found it.
Free on-site estimate, and an itemized written quote — materials and labor priced separately — before any work starts.
What interior painting costs in this market
Metro Atlanta 2026 rates, so you can judge any quote you are handed — ours included:
• Walls only: $2 to $6 per square foot
• Walls, trim and ceilings together: around $4.70 per square foot
The average interior job around Atlanta lands at about $2,021, with most falling between $964 and $3,079. By home size, a 1,000 sq ft interior runs $2,000 to $6,000 and a 2,500 sq ft interior runs $5,000 to $15,000.
Priced separately, because they are separate work: smooth ceilings $1.50 to $3.50 per square foot, trim and baseboards $1.50 to $4.00 per linear foot, accent walls $3 to $7, hard-to-reach areas such as stairwells and vaulted ceilings $4 to $8.
Prep is its own line and it is the honest one: sanding and patching runs $0.50 to $0.75 per square foot, wallpaper removal about $3, popcorn ceiling removal $1 to $2, and a typical drywall repair around $600.
That five-times spread between the bottom and top of the per-square-foot range is almost all prep and access. It is also where cheap quotes come from — not from cheaper labor, but from skipping the patching.
Where the cheap quote comes from
You will get a number lower than ours. Here is usually what is behind it.
No prep. Nail holes, dents and old patches painted straight over. It looks fine on the walkthrough and looks wrong in raking afternoon light for the next five years.
One coat over a color change. Going lighter over a dark wall in one coat leaves it patchy. Going over any strong color needs primer first, and primer is the line that gets deleted to win a bid.
Contractor-grade paint at builder spread rates. Cheaper paint covers less, so it needs more coats to look right — which the quote did not include.
Trim included in the wall price. Trim is slow, detailed work. If a quote does not name trim separately, check whether it is in there at all.
What is included
• Furniture moved to the center and covered; floors covered
• Nail holes, dents and cracks filled, sanded and spot-primed
• Drywall repair and replacement where it is needed, quoted as its own line
• Primer where the color change or the surface calls for it
• Two coats as standard, cut in by hand at ceilings and trim
• Outlet and switch plates off and back on, not painted around
• Cleaned up daily, and the waste leaves with us
Painting between tenants
If this is a rental turnover, the painting is rarely the whole job and it is rarely the thing on the critical path. What matters is the order.
We run turnovers as one schedule: haul out whatever was left, then repairs and drywall, then paint, then floors, then the outside work while the paint cures. Doing it as one sequence instead of six separate handoffs is usually the difference between relisting in a week and relisting in three.
The empty days usually cost more than the work
Most turnover budgets count the work. The work is the smaller half.
Northpoint Asset Management, an Atlanta property manager, publishes the arithmetic. A unit here sits empty 30 to 45 days on average, which is $2,000 to $3,500 of rent nobody collects. The make-ready itself runs roughly $1,100 to $3,300 — cleaning $200 to $400, paint $400 to $800, carpet cleaned or replaced $300 to $1,500, minor repairs $200 to $600. Their conservative total is $3,500 to $6,500 per turnover. Those are their published figures, not our prices.
Read it twice and the point falls out. The days the unit sits dark cost about what all of the work costs. So the number that decides your turnover is not what the painting quote says — it is how many days pass before somebody is paying rent again.
That is why we run a turnover as one sequence rather than a list of trades: cleanout, then repairs and drywall, then paint, then floors, then the outside work while the paint cures. Six contractors means six schedules, and the gaps between them are lost rent that never appears on anybody’s invoice.
We quote the work itemized in writing and we work to your lease date rather than our calendar. How we work with landlords and investors →
If it has to be done before the holidays, this is when to call
Not because our calendar is full. It is not, and a painter who tells you in September that it is filling up is guessing at you. It is because yours is.
Work out the days first. A straightforward bedroom is a day including prep. A room with heavy patching, a color change that needs primer, or trim and ceilings included runs longer, and the number of days goes in the quote rather than being discovered halfway through. Three bedrooms with the trim and ceilings is a week of the house being worked in, not a weekend.
Then add the part before the days. Somebody has to come and look, the quote has to be written and read, and there is a gap between saying yes and a crew being free. That is the half people leave out of the arithmetic, and it is usually the longer one.
October is the easy month. Late November is not. In October you can leave the windows open and let a freshly painted bedroom air out on its own, which is the cheapest way there is to get the smell out of a room. By the end of November that means open windows on a cold morning with the heat running, and nobody does that for two days. The same job in the same house is simply more disruptive later — and by then the house has people coming to it, the furniture is where it has to stay, and a room being out of use for two days stops being a small thing.
If it is a rental, the date is not yours either. Leases around here commonly start on the first of November and the first of December. That puts the walkthrough and the quote in October and the work in the weeks before the month turns, which is earlier than most owners expect when they start thinking about it.
None of this is a reason to rush the decision. It is a reason to get the number now, so that when you do decide, deciding is the only thing left to do. The estimate is free and it is itemized in writing.
Questions we get asked
Do you supply the paint?
Either way. If we supply it, it is a separate line on the quote so you can see exactly what the material cost is. If you want a specific brand or color matched, tell us before we quote.
How long does a room take?
A straightforward bedroom is a day including prep. A room with heavy patching, a color change needing primer, or trim and ceilings included runs longer, and we put the number of days in the quote.
Can you paint over wallpaper?
Technically yes and we would rather not. Paint puts moisture into the paste and seams start lifting later. Removal is about $3 a square foot and it is the right call almost every time.
Do you do popcorn ceilings?
Yes, $1 to $2 a square foot to remove. One caution worth stating plainly: popcorn ceilings in homes built before roughly 1980 can contain asbestos, and that needs testing before anyone scrapes anything. We will not remove one from a house of that age without a test.
Do you do exterior painting too?
No. Interior work is what we do — repaints, drywall, flooring and rental turnovers. We would rather tell you that than take an exterior job to fill a week.
Free estimate, itemized in writing
We come and look, free, and price prep, walls, trim and ceilings on separate lines so you can see what you are paying for. Serving Kennesaw, Acworth, Marietta, Woodstock, Canton, Powder Springs and Dallas — full service area.
Call or text (470) 332-3398.
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