DiNapoli Painting

DiNapoli Painting is a Reading outfit built around one person doing the work personally — Gary DiNapoli walks every job himself, from the first estimate through the final walkthrough, and it shows in how consistent the specifics are across hundreds of accounts. The company has 219 reviews on file dating to 2021, a 4.9-star average across 354 Google ratings, a 5.0 average on Houzz, an A+ Better Business Bureau grade, and an active Massachusetts home improvement contractor license. Prep and follow-through are the recurring theme. One recent review describes DiNapoli's crew securing and renailing replacement woodwork that another contractor had installed poorly, before ever touching a brush to it; another has the team sanding, priming, and applying two coats on a house, deck, and shed exterior, leaving nothing behind at the end of each day — not even a water bottle. A repeat customer notes the staging area gets swept clean daily. In a 2025 review, a homeowner described the crew replacing rotted trim before painting the rest of the exterior, calling the crew respectful and thorough; another 2025 review describes hiring Gary in Melrose specifically because of his reviews, and being impressed that he noticed small details on the very first walk-around. Cabinets and pre-sale prep come up often too. One recent review describes cabinets and a kitchen ceiling repainted together with a smooth finish and careful prep, and another has 30-year-old cabinets described as looking brand new. Several homeowners hire Gary specifically before listing a house — one recent review describes him patching and repairing walls ahead of a sale and painting the deck and front stairs to boost curb appeal, and another describes rooms painted quickly to get a house market-ready, with added outdoor work worked in along the way. A 2025 review describes wallpaper removal alongside a full repaint that the customer called a stunning transformation. Repeat business is common enough that one recent reviewer specifically calls out having used the company multiple times with consistently outstanding results. The one sour note in the record is a 2023 review from someone who never actually hired the company — a dispute over getting a quote from photos alone and a curt email exchange when a written contract was requested, which left the reviewer feeling dismissed. It predates the vast majority of the record and isn't about any completed work. For a Reading-area homeowner weighing a full repaint, a cabinet refresh, or pre-sale touch-ups, this is one of the more thoroughly and consistently documented painting operations in the area.