Orcutt Painting and More Company

Two names keep coming up in the small pile of recent reviews for this Wakefield painting outfit — Sam and Marcos — and one 2025 customer credited them with picking the right shade of white and then explaining how to keep it clean with small kids in the house. That is the register this company works in: interior and exterior repaints where somebody stands in the room with you and talks through the choice. The company works out of Wakefield and, in its own words, covers Greater Boston and Middlesex County, listing towns from Cambridge and Somerville out to Middleton, Peabody and Marblehead. Beyond straight house painting it advertises ceiling and cabinet work, deck staining, wallpaper removal, drywall repair and pressure washing. How long it has been at this depends on which page you read. BBB files the business as Orcutt Painting Company, a corporation started in May 1992 — 34 years — with 11 employees and Rick Orcutt as president, and grades it A+ while stating plainly that it is not BBB accredited. The company's own site claims 'over 30 years in the industry' on one page and 'over 23 years' on another. Worth asking which is which, and who you will actually be dealing with: BBB names Rick Orcutt, the contact page names Marcos Silva, and reviewers name Sam. The written trail is thin for a business this old. Three Google reviews carry it — 5 stars in April 2026, March 2025 and May 2024 — and the eighteen testimonials on the company's own website are all dated 2017 to 2021 and are published by the business itself, not by a review platform. Nothing negative appears anywhere on file, which with three third-party reviews says less than it would with thirty. A reasonable call for interior repaints and cabinet or deck work around Wakefield and the towns north of Boston, particularly if you want the owner on site rather than a sales rep. Before booking, pin down the entity you are hiring — the BBB file lists 57 Emerson St and the website lists 998 Main St — and ask for recent local references, since most of the published praise is now five to nine years old.