Friend Or Faux Painting

Friend or Faux Painting is a Medford decorative-finish and mural painting business that owner Tony Champa says has served the Greater Boston design community since 1986. The clearest look at its work comes from local press rather than customer reviews. In a 2026 Boston Globe feature, Tony Champa is credited with hand-painting a checkerboard pattern onto the original wood floorboards of a renovated home, in Benjamin Moore's Brickyard Red and Manchester Tan — the designer credited on the piece, Martinez, said the team "worked hard to achieve the right angle and scale." A separate credit in a 2017 North Shore Magazine piece names the business as the painter on another decorative job. Neither is a customer review, so there isn't a broader body of homeowner feedback to draw on here — what's on record are a couple of specific, named jobs rather than a review history. The company's own site says it brings 30 years of experience to color selection, decorative finishes and murals, and its BBB profile separately lists 34 years in business at the Medford address (the BBB figure and the site's own claim of starting in 1986 don't quite line up on the exact founding date, though both point to a long-running operation). The BBB profile carries no accreditation and no customer star rating either way. For a straightforward repaint, this isn't the obvious call — the record here is about custom, decorative work: faux finishes, murals, hand-painted floor patterns. Anyone considering a project like that is better served asking to see photos of comparable past work, since there's no customer review trail to check instead.