One Stop Painting & Renovating

Jeff Cohen has run One Stop Painting & Renovating out of Plymouth since 1986, and the company says it's grown into a crew of 30 to 40 in-house painters and carpenters who don't subcontract the work. House painting is the core of it — interior, exterior, and commercial — with cabinet refinishing, carpentry, power washing, and gutter cleaning filling out the rest, and its stated territory covers Plymouth, Duxbury, Kingston, and Marshfield. The last six months of Google reviews read like an extension of a much longer streak: six five-star reviews, zero negative. In February, one customer had kitchen cabinet doors sanded and repainted and singled out Brian for doing extra caulking at no charge; the next day, another had walls, ceilings, and trim redone across most of a first floor plus six new doors installed, crediting Jay, Aiden, Mark, and Jeff by name. A January job combined carpentry with painting — trim removed and replaced on a house that turned out to need more work than first scoped — with the crew praised for being upfront about the added cost and time. That's consistent with the longer history: 44 reviews dating back to 2021 across six sources, a 4.9-star average on Google (86 ratings), a perfect 5.0 on Houzz (19 ratings), and an active Massachusetts home-improvement contractor license. Its BBB page tells a slightly different story. The company has been accredited there since 1994 and carries an A+ grade, but the one review visible on that page shows real friction — the owner responding pointedly to a customer's complaint rather than smoothing it over. It's the only sour note anywhere in the record, and worth raising directly before signing a contract, especially since the same crew has handled scope changes gracefully elsewhere. For a full repaint, cabinet refinishing, or a paint job that turns into some carpentry along the way, this is a 40-year-old, still owner-run operation with a deep bench of specifically-named crew rather than a rotating cast of subs. Get the scope and any potential add-on work in writing before the crew starts, and ask how a disagreement like the one on BBB would get handled if something doesn't go to plan.