Swan Painting and Decorating

Nine Google reviews since 2023, and every single one is five stars — an unusually clean record for a painting company of any size. Swan Decor (doing business as Swan Painting and Decorating) is run by owner Stephen Foley, originally from Ireland, who says he's spent 15 years painting homes and businesses around Boston, Newton, and Wellesley — residential and commercial interior and exterior painting, cabinet restoration, and deck staining and maintenance. The reviews keep returning to two things: tidiness and pace. Customers describe Stephen and his painter Fernando finishing rooms, full apartments, and whole-house repaints on schedule and leaving the site clean at the end of every day. A specific niche shows up more than once: cabinet and kitchen repainting. One customer chose to have their kitchen cabinets repainted instead of installing a new kitchen and called it way more cost effective, while another hired Swan Decor after a bad prior renovation experience specifically to repair and repaint stained kitchen woodwork, and a third had three rooms plus kitchen cabinets done in an August 2026 job described as meticulous. At least one job came through a friend's referral, suggesting the same handful of customers keep recommending the crew to people they know. There's nothing negative anywhere in the record — no complaints about pricing, scheduling, or quality across any of the nine reviews, which cover jobs from Allston to Milton and date back to 2023. The tradeoff is volume: nine reviews over about three years is a workable but modest sample for a business that says it's been at this for 15 years, so it's worth confirming current lead times and scheduling directly rather than assuming the same pace reviewers describe still holds. Swan Decor is a reasonable call for an interior repaint, a cabinet refinishing job in place of a full kitchen remodel, or a smaller commercial repaint — exactly the kind of work its reviewers keep hiring it back for. Get a written estimate and confirm current availability before booking.