Stone Mountain, DeKalb County
House painting in Stone Mountain village and beyond
Old wood siding and porches are the common thread in the village below the mountain. Prep on that wood, done by hand, decides how long the paint lasts.
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Updated October 2026
Short answer
Stone Mountain, first called New Gibraltar, had the railroad by 1845 and grew on granite. Its historic district has Queen Anne houses from the 1880s to 1910s, bungalows and Craftsman homes, and exterior alterations there need a Certificate of Appropriateness, so check with the city before changing materials or painting surfaces that were never painted.
Homes in Stone Mountain
Queen Anne cottages, bungalows and granite
The town below the mountain developed in the 1830s around Andrew Johnson's land, first under the name New Gibraltar. The railroad reached it by 1845, and by 1860 there were 164 households within the city limits. Granite became the mainstay of the local economy, and the 650-foot dome above town is the largest exposed mass of granite in the world.
The city's design guidelines list the houses that came with later growth: Queen Anne houses from the 1880s to 1910s, bungalows from 1900 to the 1930s and Craftsman homes from the 1910s to 1930s. Houses of those styles were built with wood siding, porches and trim that hold paint only as long as the wood under them stays dry.
A seven-member Historic Preservation Commission, created in 1996, reviews exterior alterations in the local historic district. Its guidelines say surfaces that were historically unpainted should generally stay that way, call paint removal inappropriate on historically painted surfaces unless the coating has failed, and favor hand scraping, hand sanding and heat, with chemical strippers used only where necessary. Citywide, 49.8% of housing units are owner-occupied, so rentals are part of the picture too.
Work we do here
Painting jobs that suit Stone Mountain houses
Wood & Fiber Cement Siding Painting
Old wood lap siding hand scraped and sanded, primed on bare spots and repainted.
Porch & Patio Painting
Porch floors, ceilings, posts and steps on village cottages and bungalows.
Exterior Trim, Soffit & Fascia Painting
Brackets, eaves and window casing repaired where needed and brushed by hand.
Wood Rot Repair Before Painting
Rotted sills, porch boards and column bases replaced with matching profiles before paint.
Rental Turnover Painting
Patch and repaint between tenants in the city's rental houses and units.
Metal Railing & Handrail Painting
Rusted iron porch and step railings cleaned to sound metal and repainted.
Scheduling
Getting a Stone Mountain job on the schedule
Start with the address when you call our Tucker office. If the house is in the local historic district and the project changes materials or paints something that was never painted, check with the city's preservation staff before we set exterior dates. Interior work can be booked as soon as we have walked the house with you.
Questions
Painting questions from Stone Mountain
The city's guidelines say surfaces that were historically unpainted should generally remain unpainted, so talk to the preservation staff first. A protective coating may be allowed where the material needs it.
By hand scraping and sanding, with heat where it helps, which is the approach the city's guidelines favor. We take off loose and failed paint, keep the sound layers and prime bare wood before the finish coats.
Yes. Turnover repaints, patching and trim touchups between tenants are part of the work, and they are scheduled around the move-out date you give us.
The guidelines treat substitute siding such as vinyl case by case, and they rule out aluminum siding over historic materials. Repainting the original wood is usually the simpler path.
Ready when you are
Painting an older Stone Mountain house?
Let us know whether the house is in the historic district and what needs paint. We answer the phone 24/7 and will set the walk-through.