Antoniel Painting & Finish
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- Not rated by the BBB
Highlights
- Exterior prep — scraping, caulking and priming itemised by reviewers
- Fast whole-house jobs — full exterior scraped and painted in a week
- Clean sites — reviewers cite no scrapings or drips left behind
- Beyond painting — doors, siding and built steps described by customers
- Responsive to doubts — one customer's colour concern paused the job
- Contracted prep skipped — a large 2021 interior job described without woodwork priming
- Coat count disputed — 2023 account says one coat where two were agreed
- Post-job silence — same customer says calls and emails went unanswered
- Praise is dated — newest positive account on file is November 2020
- Platforms disagree sharply — 4.5 on Angi against 3.5 on Porch
- Licence unverified — Houzz lists a HIC registration with no number
Antoniel Painting & Finish is a family-run Winthrop outfit that started in paint and kept adding trades — wallpaper stripping, skim coating, carpentry, doors, siding, steps. Its Angi and HomeAdvisor pages both carry 4.5 from 193 reviews, but those are the same 193 counted twice; the two sites publish byte-identical profiles. What customers actually described, and they described it repeatedly, is speed and prep on exterior work. A homeowner writing in August 2019 said the crew hand-scraped an entire house, primed it and painted it inside about a week, and left no scrapings on the grass. Another, in July 2018, walked through a 60-year-old house scraped, caulked, primed, trimmed and sided — and said when she raised a doubt about the colour, they stopped and waited until she could see a painted section before continuing. A November 2019 customer itemised skim coat, caulk, ceiling re-secure, prime and paint on a badly prepped bedroom. Here is the part that matters most. Almost all of that praise is from 2018 to 2020. The only accounts written in the last five years are two negative ones, and they come from the same customer describing the same job. In a December 2021 review that homeowner said the interior of a house they paid roughly $30,000 for had gone up without the woodwork prep their contract specified, that the paint peeled off a door when a child removed a Post-it, that the ceiling was mixed off-contract with primer so the colour could not be matched for patching, and that calls and emails afterwards went unanswered. Writing again in August 2023 about the same job, they said only one of two contracted coats had gone on and that bubbles, cracks and peeling appeared within months. Two smaller complaints sit further back: a 2018 customer said the crew skipped the rod window areas and left two hours early, and another that same year described a ceiling patch that dried lumpy after a scheduling mix-up. The platforms also disagree sharply about this business. Angi and HomeAdvisor say 4.5 across 193; Porch says 3.5 across 14, and states outright that its figure is assembled from other sites' reviews; Houzz shows 5.0 from 3 but publishes no review text at all. Worth calling for exterior painting and prep-heavy jobs, where the specific, itemised praise is. Before signing, put surface prep, primer, coat count and exact paint colours in the contract in writing, and ask directly what happens if the finish fails inside the warranty period — that is precisely where the complaints landed.
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- 2.0Aug 1, 2023
Pros: The team successfully removed all the wallpaper and painted the majority of the interior within the agreed-upon time frame. Cons: Unfortunately, the quality of work was unsatisfactory, even for tasks that weren't time-sensitive. Several issues were observed: Painting over light switches. Overspreading the wall paint onto the crown moldings, which disrupted the clean line between the wall and the molding. Omitting the priming process on numerous woodworks. Despite our agreement for two coats of paint, only one coat was applied. Visible bubbles, cracks, and peelings became apparent just a few months after completion. Customer Service: My attempts to communicate have been met with silence; they consistently fail to respond to phone calls or emails. [Job cost stated: $25,000]
- 1.0Dec 1, 2021
They are horrible. They just want to take your money, do ****** work and disappear. I would strongest advice anyone from hiring them. We hired them around late 2018 to rip off old wall paper and paint the interior of our new house. We paid them about $30K for the project. Good: The projects consisted two parts. For part 1 which includes the main living areas we use, we asked them to complete it under 4 weeks. For part 2 there is no specific deadline, but still the quicker the better. They brought all the crews to our project trying to make both parts before the deadline. And they eventually indeed made it. Bad: Overall the quality was very poor. 1. Almost all the wood work (window frame, doors, floor moldings, etc.) were not prepped before painting, although it was stated explicitly in our contract that they should be. As a result, the paint did not bind well. The paint peeled off when my kid put and remove a Post-it Note on the door. 2. We asked them to paint the ceiling pure white. However, they blended the white paint with some off-white primers, claiming it would deliver a better result. We didn't find out they deviate from the contract term until the project was done. The blended the paint by themselves, so we could not reproduce the color if we want to patch a spot. 3. Again with the ceiling, the ceiling started to peel after 2 years. In the pictures those peeling spots are mostly not underneath a roof or a bathroom. We consulted with another pro painter (CertaPro) recently, and he asserts the peeling is not due to water damage, and he thinks it was due to poor preparation. Again, because we could not reproduce the ceiling color, we have to repaint the whole ceiling instead of patching the cracked spots. 4. Many small mistakes due to sloppiness or laziness such as painting over lights and power outlets, wall paints spilled on the ceilings, not painting the wall behind the heat radiator, and so on. Ugly: They ignored our emails and calls after the project, presumably to refuse fulfill the 5 year warranty. [Job cost stated: $30,000]
- 5.0Nov 1, 2020
Antoniel did interior painting in a few rooms in my house. I highly recommend him and his work. [Job cost stated: $1,600]
— Romeo L.View on HomeAdvisor ↗also on Angi ↗ - 5.0Oct 1, 2020
Antoniel did a great job on my house doing some interior pante .i really like his work. A +
— Marcos C.View on HomeAdvisor ↗also on Angi ↗ - 5.0Jan 1, 2020
Outstanding. Their overall work ethic was amazing and they cleaned up well after themselves after the job was done. They showed up promptly and if they ever had an issue showing up on time they would let me know in advance. They were excellent. I would highly recommend them to others.
— Marti G.View on HomeAdvisor ↗also on Angi ↗
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Added 48 new comments, established rating 3.5
- behind the score: Contracted prep skipped — a large 2021 interior job described without woodwork priming
What does house painting cost in Greater Boston?
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Antoniel Painting & Finish. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Finished floor area of the rooms in scope — not wall area.
Estimated range
$6,000 – $9,000
Typical painting project around $7,500