Meet the D'Franco Team
We are so glad you are trusting us with your interior home painting, wallpaper installations, and cabinet painting. It can be uncomfortable when having “strangers” in your house, so here you can see who you can expect. Meet the D’Franco team!!
Our Outstanding D'Franco Team
It can be hard to decide who you want in your home and Business.
“Who can I trust in my home with my home and family?”
You can start with this page of who is coming to your home or place of business.
- Every person (myself included) is subject to background checks and random drug screens
- Each person must pass our training program
We look for the right people that fit with our mission, vision and values, so they deliver results and quality.
Our goal is relationship vs transactions. You can hire almost anyone to paint for you. We are looking to partner with you- come back for touch ups, give you honest information, even if it means we can’t help you and point you to the person that can get you what you want or need.
We have a mission statement of helping you love the space you’re in that fits with our core value mission.
Demonstrating our FAITH in action by helping other people achieve their VISION for their home and business because we take OWNERSHIP of our actions to solve problems by FOCUSING on what we do best to deliver and AMAZING experience.
So- why D’Franco Painting & Wallpaper? It’s simple – we believe in why we do what we do, who we do it for, and enjoy what we do! Couple that with accountability and training and you get a unique experience.
We aim to exceed expectations bringing a touch of artistry to every project we undertake.
Meet Our Team
David & Daphne
Owners
Daphne and I enjoy the fact that we own a business where we can help others. It is because of our great employees and our customers that we can give back to the community. We enjoy seeing our employees grow as artisans and leaders of their homes. We hope in all we do you see how God is working through us to demonstrate his love, mercy and grace to us all.
Chad
Project Manager
Say Hello to Chad!! 2025 also marks his 5th year with Dfranco! We got him from a disaster management type company, so his experinnce with mold, drywall, paint, wallpaper, cabients, carpentry has been a HUGE asset to us these past 5 years. now our project manager- he works with customers, office manger and crews to make sure the jobs are on time and on budget with a 5 start experience as the goal.
Anthony
Team Lead for Paint and Wallpaper
Meet Anthony! We can hardly beiieve that 2025 is his 5th yyear anniversary! Anthony has been a huge part of our compnay the last 5 years- he has the most google reviews from customers, has taken inititive to not only learn cabinet painting but wallpaper installation as well! He wont tell you but he is quite the artisan. You can see his conctete creations at www.aluedesign.com, and he has an instagram at @alue.design. We. have several pieces in our house, they are truly unique and pices of art!
Nathan
Part time painter
You may know Nathan, you may not, Nathan, our 3rd oldest has worked for us off and on since he was 17, summers, holiday breaks, before coat guard and now on select days off from Mt. Prospect fire Dept.
Clarke
Estimator/Sales
Say Hi to Clarke!! Clarke is our newset Staff memeber to help you with estiamtes for you upccoming painting, wallpaper or cabinet projects. youcan schedule a time with him on our booking page https://dfrancowallpaper.com/contact-us/
Our Trusted and Vetted Sub Contractors
If you would have asked me 2 years ago if we would be using independent contractors- I would have scoffed to say the least.
But times change, and so must we in this rapidly evolving market of available workers. We Have struggled since Covid hit to keep enough people on staff and meet the demands of our customers. With much resistance on my part, we started vetting independent contractors to help us with painting.
I should have done this years ago, as we hindered ourselves and you- our customers, by restricting how long it took to get to the job sites, the time to have the work completed, and the ability to help more people. This has been a blessing for us, and look forward to showing the benefit and blessing to you as well by offering more options on how many people can be on a job site as well as helping us be more competitive.
So what are we doing? Is there a secret?
Yes- using the Golden rule and doing our best to treat other people as we would want to be treated. Even though these great people are independent contractors with their own tools, schedules, insurance etc., we treat them as part of our family of employee workers.
Each contractor is given the same work orders, expectations, materials that we have been using to build our brand. The still must follow the bullet points of what we say we will do. You can also rest assured that we still perform Local, State and Federal background checks, and make sure that each of our employees as well as front office staff are approving of the contractors before we sent them to your home or business.
We have handpicked each of them from a growing list of people wanting to work for D’Franco Painting and Wallpaper, selected for their passion and skill, complementing our artistic endeavors.
Jose
Part time painter
Meet Manual and his co worker Johnathan. He is a dedicated and hard worker who is proving himself every day as a blessing for us to have as part of our team of craftsmen!
Mark
Wallpaper installer
Our Newset Installer, Mark came to us as he is workingto build his own business but is looking to always learn more while spending time doing the work vs building a business. Mark is great!! we look forward to you getting to know him.
Carlos
Painter Extraordinaire!
Carlos used to be one of our Full Time Painters, and has since went on to start his own business! So great to see, so when we need some extra help and he is not as busy we can use him and his uncle as part of our dedicated crews to help with your painting needs.
Jesus!
What a great name for a painter!
How cool is this- Jesus is one of our other subs brother!! and another former employee!! So awesome to see our former employees to start their own business'!
Luis
Painter and More!
Say Hey!! We were able to hire Luis in 2023 year as as part of our expansion to hire more painters to help us keep us with the painting jobs we have. He wanted to keep painting houses, so here he is!! He is great at Exterior painting, and Interior Painting