First Nick Painting Company

First Nick Painting Company traces back to the early 1980s, when Nicolaos Kritikos Sr., a Greek immigrant, started painting houses in Somerville. The business is still family-run — his sons Kosta and Nicolaos Jr. took over in 2016 — but the company's own site now describes it as a commercial painting and architectural millwork contractor based in Burlington, having moved on from the residential painting the business was built on. That shift is worth noting, because everything else on file still points to residential work. BBB has the business at its original Somerville address doing residential and commercial painting and carpentry, and the only substantive review anywhere — on Angi — was for a home painting job and was positive, though it dates back to 2014. Beyond that, there isn't much to judge them on. Google shows three ratings averaging 3.7 stars and Angi shows a single 5-star rating; nothing more recent has surfaced on either. That's a thin and dated picture for a business that says it's been operating for decades. Anyone considering them for a home paint job should ask directly whether they still take on residential work, given the site's current commercial focus, and confirm which office — Somerville or the Burlington headquarters — would actually handle it. The company isn't BBB accredited, though BBB has no complaints against it either.