Escalona painting

Escalona Painting, run by Adrian Escalona out of Lynn, has collected 58 Google ratings and never dipped below five stars. Five straight years of reviews — 2021 through this summer — describe the same crew showing up, working through the job, and leaving the place cleaner than they found it. Painting is the core of the work, interior and exterior alike, but the record keeps circling back to jobs that go past a coat of paint: drywall hanging and mud-and-tape work, plaster repair (one customer got a same-day quote and the fix two days later), a chair rail installed alongside a repainted kitchen, wainscoting, and an 800-square-foot attic finished start to finish with insulation and trim. A licensed home inspector who hired the crew for an old historical home's exterior wrote that the prep work and paint quality held up to a professional eye. What repeats across the years is a habit of doing more than asked: fixing a fence, gate and gutter holes while painting a house, rehanging cabinets a homeowner had planned to do themselves, hand-sanding an old ipe deck back to a like-new finish. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active. The one blemish in five years of reviews is small — a 2025 customer specified a matte paint finish and got eggshell instead, calling it "not a huge deal" but worth flagging for anyone particular about sheen. Escalona is the call for a homeowner who wants a painting job handled along with whatever else comes up around it — a repair, a piece of trim, a stuck cabinet — rather than a crew that shows up, paints, and leaves. Confirm the finish (matte vs. eggshell) in writing before work starts, and expect a team, not a solo operator, since the reviews describe Adrian working alongside a regular crew.