Painters Etcetera

Painters Etcetera is a Sudbury painting outfit whose reviews keep circling back to one thing: they get called for the tricky old houses. A 2025 review described painting an 1811 farmhouse; a 2022 review, a 1749 saltbox with 273-year-old trim; a 2023 review, a 1720 house whose owners say they've used the company since 1981 — all cases of plaster ceilings or wainscotting that had gone decades without attention. The company says it was started in Sudbury in 1972 by Kevin Moynihan, and that his son Ryan, who joined in 1999, now runs it. The track record runs deep — 34 Google reviews from 2022 through mid-2026, averaging 4.9★ — and a good share of them are repeat customers rather than one-time hires: several reviews mention calling the same crew for 10, 20, even 25 years running, for both interior and exterior work. The painters named most often — Ryan, Gina, Erik, and Julian — get singled out for being easy to schedule with and careful about cleanup; more than one review describes them moving furniture and putting everything back rather than leaving a homeowner to do it. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active, and its BBB profile carries an A+ grade. One late-2025 review is worth knowing about: a customer having a full kitchen, half-bath and laundry-room renovation painted found paint splatters left on countertops, appliances, cabinets and tile grout, with cut lines described as rushed and the kitchen sink used to rinse brushes — even though the same reviewer found project lead Gina communicative throughout. It's the one real crack in an otherwise clean run, and it landed on a bigger, multi-room job rather than a standard repaint. For a straightforward interior or exterior repaint — especially on an older home where careful prep and clean cut-lines matter — the history here is strong. On a larger multi-room renovation, it's worth confirming upfront who's supervising day to day and how surfaces near the work will be protected.