Living Colors Painting

Jeff Millar has run Living Colors Painting out of Shrewsbury since 1990 — interior and exterior painting for homes and businesses, cabinet refinishing, and decks, porches and fences, with a two-year workmanship guarantee on what the crews do. People come back to them. One customer has had the house painted three times since building it in 1995, and in 2025 had exterior damage from a falling tree limb repaired and repainted as well. Another had three interior jobs done inside a single month in the spring of 2026 while preparing a house for sale. A customer writing in October 2024 said the company had been painting for them and for their parents for years. The jobs often start well before the paint. A homeowner having a 24-by-50 ranch done in July 2025 had the house power washed first, the carpenter out about a week later to fix and replace rotten wood, and the painting crew roughly two weeks after that. A June 2023 exterior and deck job needed a large amount of repair beforehand and brought three separate crews — construction, interior painters and exterior painters. In January 2025 an interior job covered every ceiling, wall and trim piece, including oak kitchen cabinets and trim that had been stained and sealed with polyurethane. The care taken on site comes up in the detail. A May 2025 customer described the crew working around the plant beds and power washing the front sidewalk while they prepped the house; a September 2025 customer said the staff were clean and quiet and that neighbours paid compliments afterwards. Susan takes the booking, Jeff does the consultation, and Marc, Juan and Scott turn up by name in the accounts. One recent account runs hard the other way. A customer writing in May 2026, who had hired the company before, described a significantly negative experience and said that since their last job the company had switched to subcontractors with no experience, and that the owner did not seem to care about the quality of the result. Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration 167926 is confirmed active in the company's own name. For an interior repaint, a cabinet refinish, or an exterior that needs washing and carpentry before the first coat anywhere from Shrewsbury out to Marlborough, this is a strong call; ask who will actually be on your job — the company's own painters or a subcontracted crew — and how the two-year workmanship guarantee gets claimed if something goes wrong.