Singarella Painting

The name that keeps coming up in reviews of Singarella Painting isn't the company's — it's Paul's, and usually his family's alongside it. This is a Winthrop painting outfit that people hire once and then keep calling: one customer writing in 2022 said Singarella had been painting the exterior of their house for years before they brought them inside. The work described is painting plus the fussy prep that comes with old Boston-area housing stock. That same 2022 review described repairing seriously cracking horsehair plaster walls and ceilings in a Whittemore-built home; another from earlier that year credited them with handling calcimine ceilings in a living and dining room, which is the kind of surface that ruins an ordinary paint job. A 2022 customer listed three bedrooms and a mudroom; a 2024 one said the colors were matched carefully and the job came in on budget. Price and process come up as often as the finish. In a 2021 review a homeowner said Paul quoted well below the other bids they'd collected and then stuck to the number, made suggestions when a color wasn't reading right, kept the doors closed around their dogs, and brought the garbage cans in on the way out. A 2022 reviewer put it more plainly: the work landed inside the time and budget promised, with repairs done first. What tempers this is depth and freshness. Google shows 5 stars across 15 ratings and HomeAdvisor's page counts 6 reviews and 186 photos, but the written accounts number six and run 2021 to 2024 — a consistent history, not a current one. Nothing negative appears anywhere in it. If you have interior or exterior work on an older Winthrop-area house, especially plaster or ceilings that need repair before paint, this is a sensible call. Ask for a recent reference and get the quote in writing — every reviewer who mentioned price said theirs held.