Star Painting

Star Painting is a Medford, MA family operation built almost entirely on repeat and referred work — reviewers on Google, Angi, and HomeAdvisor from 2015 through 2026 keep coming back to the same name, Renato Santos, and the same habits: careful prep, daily cleanup, and painting jobs that turn into carpentry fixes along the way. The track record runs deep for a painter. One Cambridge client called the price reasonable and the process clearly explained; a West Roxbury homeowner, in a 2023 review, described Renato's crew power washing, scraping, and painting an entire exterior — trim, windows, doors — and called the result fantastic. Several reviewers describe hiring Renato's team on more than one house over multiple years, citing his eye for detail and useful suggestions when a call wasn't obvious. In a 2017 review, a homeowner needed a sloppy paint-and-caulk job on a bead-board porch redone and called the crew patient with a picky client. The one blemish on the record is small and dated: in a 2015 review of a kitchen repaint, a homeowner praised the finished walls and ceiling but noted the crew scratched the linoleum floor while moving a refrigerator. Star Painting also does more than paint. The website lists carpentry and kitchen renovation work alongside painting, and a couple of reviews back that up — one client added carpentry repairs mid-job on Renato's own suggestion, another mentions repairs along the way during a repaint. BBB gives the business an A+ underlying rating, though the company isn't BBB-accredited, and BBB's own profile lists Renato Santos as a sole proprietor with 26 years in business — a somewhat longer figure than the roughly 17-20 years the website and other directories cite, but all point the same direction: a long-running, one-owner operation. For an interior or exterior repaint, especially one that might need a little carpentry along the way, the record here is about as consistent as painting reviews get — years of five-star ratings across three separate platforms with almost nothing negative in between. Because it's a sole proprietorship, it's worth asking directly about crew size and scheduling for a larger job, and, given the one dated complaint, about how the crew protects flooring and appliances while working.