Big Dog Painting

Big Dog Painting is a Stoneham crew whose specialty announces itself across hundreds of reviews: dated, wood-tone kitchen cabinets repainted or refinished into what customers repeatedly call a "brand new kitchen." That throughline sits inside a bigger operation — carpentry (custom cabinetry, replicated molding, rebuilt porches), full interior and exterior repaints, and jobs for condo associations and small businesses. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration (#196727) is active. Google shows a 4.9★ average from 230 ratings, and the written record runs deep — 206 reviews dating back to 2021, with 16 more in just the last six months, none negative. Historic homes are a recurring theme: a 2025 review describes restoring an 1840s home's front porch and full exterior while preserving its original character, and another from the same year details painting a 140-year-old home's kitchen and two-story hallway. Carpentry threads through many jobs — a carpenter named Tim shows up repeatedly building custom cabinetry, matching molding, and fabricating an access door; other reviews describe replicated window sills and rebuilt trim. The company has also worked institutional jobs, including a 2026 low-VOC repaint of an art museum gallery timed around an exhibition. Two accounts stand out. A November 2025 reviewer said the company cancelled a scheduled estimate specifically because the customer wouldn't take down a negative review about slow response time — worth asking about directly, since it speaks to how the company handles criticism, not just one job. A second reviewer called a 2018 interior job 'one of the best we've had with a painting crew,' then described a markedly worse 2020 exterior repaint that the company subcontracted to a different crew — a reminder that quality here isn't guaranteed to be uniform across every job, especially where work gets subbed out. A 2026 Reddit recommendation echoed a milder version of the same theme: praised the paint job itself but said scheduling was stressful, with no firm start date given at signing. For a kitchen cabinet refresh, a historic-home repaint, or carpentry alongside painting, the volume and consistency of detailed praise here is hard to match locally — just get a firm start date in writing, and ask how the company handles subcontracted crews if the job is a large exterior repaint.