Catchlight Painting describes itself as passionate about painting, and their portfolio shows the (inspiring) proof.
Anyone who has ever attempted to paint a stair with ornate balustrade will marvel at some of the fine residential painting that these guys do! We’re talking renovation here, so I’d have to guess it was hand-painted on site, not disassembled? Either way, wow!
In fact, the painting portfolio has so many lovely residential jobs — heavy on the upscale neighbourhoods of the greater Boston area, like Beacon Hill, so posh that even I have heard of them! — it’s hard to choose a favourite.
But I was most enchanted by the old farmhouse kitchen in Sudbury, Massachusetts: “updated but in keeping with the period style” as witnessed by the vertical beadboard that clads the kitchen island.
Clearly, these people are expert painters… and Nigel Costolloe, the owner of Catchlight, Inc., knows his stuff. He’s been a member of the PDCA (Painting and Decorating Contractors of America) for years, and his company just earned its accreditation with that organization — quite prestigious!
It’s too bad that the CatchLight blog (which is, actually, the part of their site that I’ve been asked to review) has only been active since February. I wish there was more reading material there — because what I see on the blog is certainly worthwhile, starting with the most recent post on Redecorating With Color.
More important for potential customers, however, it provides an amount of detailed company background information — the kind of things that you really do want to know before you hire any kind of contractor — 
like their security and drug-testing policy on employees, for example and even (how clever of them to think of this!) a reassuring bit about the use of portable toilets for employees out on the job site…
A bit of blogger-to-painter advice for Catchlight —
Please, don’t let this blog fall idle, as company blogs often do — you’re onto a rather good balance between general interest and customer communication… 
The article on low-VOC ‘green paint’ products, for example, will interest a great many people, from potential customers to DIY painters. It’ll be interesting to see what pops up next!
The sense I get, from the overall tone of this site, is this — here’s a painting company with the pride in craftsmanship one all-too-seldom sees these days.
Catchlight comes across as a truly professional painting company that makes an effort to see the project clearly from the homeowner’s point of view, and to respect as a home the house that they are painting… I only wish that the same could be said of every contractor in the painting business!
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