Chic' Painting & Design

We are very disappointed in her performance. She actually became my family?s headache: very negative, no effective communication, dispute with everybody around her. She was prepaid but quitted without complete the job. She still owes us around $300 labor and $250 painting material cost. She had problem in mood control. We hired her on Dec 18th, 2015, she performed OK at the very beginning, answered questions and gave us a fair quote. However, when she started the painting job, she became very inpatient, no any efficient communication at all. Every time we asked a question, she said she will take care of the problem and asked us to leave her alone. The excuse I heard from her quit often is you don?t have the knowledge on painting process. She also kept on saying she had personal problem. I don?t know what her personal problem is but I did notice that whenever she got prepayment, she was happy for a couple days. Misleading. Angela told us she could fix some drywall issues with $200 charge. So, I decided to terminate the contract with my drywall plastering contractor. However, a couple days later, Angela told me she could not fix the issue, instead she could help hire a plastering professional to fix the drywall issue that costs us $2,600. We had no choice but hire the professional Angela recommended. The plastering professionals she found for us did OK work with some minor issues unsolved. Angela promised us that she will guarantee they will come back to fix it later or she will fix the problems by herself and ask us to make the final payment to the plastering professionals. The fact is when we need the plastering professionals to fix the problem, they never came back and Angela did not fix the problem neither before she quitted the job. Low efficiency. She might be a skilled painter but could not put paint on the wall quickly and on time. One example, she spent three hours to prime three doors for one side only. Even the trim contractor she found for us could not stand with Angela?s low efficient working style. Very often she offered to start work at 7:30 am but never show up till 11:00 am. No integrality. The second payment $550 including paint material (around $250). She got the payment on Feb 22, 2016 but did not buy most of the necessary paints before quitting her job on Feb 28, 2016. According to the painter I hired after Angela Hunt, she only complete 35% painting work with the 66% pre-payment. Unprofessional. She initiated a bickering by shaking all dusts on my floor carpet in living room before quitting her job on Feb 28, 2016.

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Angela is very meticulous about how she does her job. Her quote was very competitive and when I first gave a job to do the upstairs and the main floor, and a schedule what was somewhat demanding, she got a helper to finish the job on time. I like what she did so much that I got her to do the basement as well. The entire house including the garage was done by her and i can not say enough about her quality job. House looks great! Thanks Angela.

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I found Angie on this list and called. We set up a time for her to come walk though my house and give an estimate. She communicated with me a couple of times leading up to her walk through and arrived when she said she would. She was nice and seemed professional. This was on a Wednesday in the middle of June and she said she'd have an estimate to me by the end of that week or beginning of next. It is now the beginning of August and I've heard nothing. Not a phone call, text, email...Nothing. I guess she didn't want the job, but professionalism would dictate that you at least communicate. This wasn't a small job either -- was looking to paint the entire inside of my house and possibly cabinets and countertops. All I can say is...wow. Definitely not the customer service I was expecting from a supposedly reputable company/individual on Angie's List. C'est la vie. Her loss, not mine. I am using Don Carvey painting and he's been wonderful and extremely responsive.

The people who built our home did not prime the drywall before they put the wallpaper up. I told Angie this when she came to look at the project. I explained to her my experience in taking the wallpaper off and explained the walls were not primed and the first layer of drywall paper came off when I attempted to remove the wallpaper in the bathroom. Angie seemed confident she could get the wallpaper off without ruining the drywall, so we hired her. She also seemed pretty reasonably priced with the work I knew she was going to have to do to get the wallpaper off. There were only two walls that needed wallpaper removed and only half of each wall had wallpaper. The ceilings are vaulted and there were only a few repairs needed to be made, but nothing out of the ordinary. The bathroom had been painted three years ago and I just didn't like the color. The bathroom is not large and the painting was done properly so there was no prep work to be done in the bathroom and there were only three spots Angie wanted to replace w/ paintable caulk. Monday, Angie called before she arrived. She showed up at 9:30 am and found her ladder was not in her van b/c her son had borrowed it. I didn't think anything of it. I figured kids and I laughed it off. She worked 5 1/2 hours that day and did not remove all the wallpaper. The wallpaper did what I knew it would do - it was not primed underneath and the drywall paper came right off with the wallpaper. Angie told me not to worry and explained she would remove it the best should could and prime the walls with an oil based paint. She would then sand the rough spots, skim coat and then assess. If worse came to worse she would add sand to the paint to cover up the imperfections. I really didn't want sand in the paint, but thought it'll all work out. Tuesday she didn't show until 10:00 am. She still had no ladder and also forgot paint rollers. My husband gave her several packs of rollers. Angie got the rest of the paper down, put the first coat of paint on in the bathroom walls and left for another job, we assume. She showed back up around 4pm and put the oil based primer on the bedroom walls, which only took her an hour in half. She said she would be back at 10AM Wednesday, if not earlier. Wednesday she didn't arrive until Noon, which we're assuming is b/c she went to another job in the morning. She spent time cleaning the mud off her ladder, sanding the primer she had put on the walls and skim coated. She worked approximately 3 hours before she ran out of skim coating for the walls. Huh?! Angie told my husband she doesn't skim coat all that often but had a friend who could help her with the job the next day. Her plan was to have him do the skim coating while she finished sanding the primer and getting the second coat of paint on in the bathroom. She planned on having her friend help her paint the ceiling. Thursday she arrived with her friend at 9:30. The second coat of paint went on in the bathroom. The skim coating was completed and sanded. They also spent time cleaning up. The skim coating went well and the prep Angie did paid off b/c the walls turned out very smooth and I could not tell there had been a problem with the wallpaper removal. They also primed the skim coat several hours after applying it. No paint had been put on the bedroom ceiling by this point, but Angie felt she would be done Friday. My husband was very close to firing her and just finishing the job himself. Friday, Angie arrived around 9:45 am. She did a lot of cleaning and only got part of the ceiling painted and part of the paint on the bedroom walls. She told me she was embarrassed that the job was not done b/c she honestly thought she would get more done the day before, but her help was no help and wouldn't paint the ceiling. She also said one corner was not drying fast enough b/c a bigger repair had to be done. Now in her defense, I understand b/c there was almost a half an inch gap in the corner, so a lot of mud had to be put in that corner to repair it. She also said she was not happy with her help and had never worked with him before and thought he was a better skimmer. Before she left for the day I had pointed out a place that had a slight imperfection in the bathroom, but I told her not to worry b/c the switch cover will cover it up. I told her twice not to worry. I also looked at part of the caulking near a window and it really angered me at the job she did. I did point it out and she said she was going to make it look pretty with a coat of paint. She left around 7:00 pm and again apologized saying she didn't realize this job was going to take so long. She worked a total of eight hours Friday. We inspected the work and found she had left clumps of skim coating on the bathroom wall, not even close to the switch where the imperfection was. Clumps. I'm talking the size of a quarter. And this is on freshly painted walls. My husband and I both wondered, why is she creating more work for herself? Especially knowing she is way behind. My husband was not happy when she left and we both decided Saturday would be her last day of work in our house whether the job was done or not. I had taken one day off of work and my husband had taken three days off of work, which ended up being a waste when the person doing work for you is only working five hours one day and three hours the next. Saturday Angie showed up at 9:30 am and worked until 1:30 pm and took a lunch break. I went up to inspect and I still was not happy with the caulking. My husband agreed. I bit my tongue b/c I realized she needed to put a second coat of paint on. She had attempted to match the caulk color with the color of our wood sided wall. I wish she had asked before she had made that decision b/c I would have opted for clear caulk instead of colored caulk. Angie came back around 3:15 pm. Before she came back from her lunch break I received an email from her asking that we consider giving her an extra $200.00 for the extra time she spent, the extra supplies and her "skill set." She admitted the job took longer than she thought and she won't demand the money and will honor the original bid b/c that was the right thing to do, but was just kindly asking us to consider giving her the extra money. Before Angie left on Saturday I pointed out the caulking and she offered to fix it. I declined. She felt the caulk in the bathroom turned out the way it did because of the previous caulking job. I also asked her how many hours she believed she put into the job to ask for an extra $200.00. She replied about 30 hours. My husband and I agreed that was pretty close to the amount she worked. She was very apologetic and never demanded anything. I would say she was very humble and I could tell she was embarrassed. I decided to pay her the extra $200.00 b/c I knew the difficult job she had getting that wallpaper down and making the walls look smooth. She did accomplish that and I am happy with that work. My husband is not a happy customer though. In looking around, she got paint on the carpet and on the part of the walls that were not to be painted. I also noticed she left paint cans on my good bedroom furniture and did not cover anything when she painted. She cleaned the best she could, but I understand when you're sanding it's a mess. Three weeks later I'm still finding paint on curtain rods and my good furniture. I realize Angie is trying to run a small business and make a go at it. I'm more than willing to support people like that. I also like to be very supportive of women in the trades b/c I know they have a hard road to go in being taken seriously. I will also give Angie the benefit of the doubt b/c I knew this was going to be a difficult job, but she felt she could do it and get it done in a week. Unfortunately Angie seemed very unorganized with her time management and equipment. First impressions mean everything - so you don't show to a job without a ladder, rollers and skim coating. I would also assume you would tell your client when you're going to show up and if it's going to be at Noon why you're not showing up until then, especially when you're attempting to meet a deadline. She honestly seemed very distracted, out of sorts and nervous through-out the project and there were a few times I wondered if she really knew what she was doing. I would have been more impressed if after the first day she had admitted she bit more off than she could chew and this was probably going to take longer than she anticipated if we want the job done right. Also, when running a business you better know who you're asking to assist you b/c their work reflects on yours. You don't tell a client that you've never worked with this person and admit he wasn't a very good skim coater. Luckily the walls are smooth and you can't tell there was a problem - so that turned out. Long and short, I'm not happy with the caulking or the painting. I suspect I will be repainting in a few months. I'm also not happy with the clean up work with removing paint in places where it did not belong - my furniture, carpet, curtain rods and she did not tape around the doors...so when we put our molding back up we can see splotches of paint where I will not have to go over w/ turpentine to clean the mess up. The walls are smooth, so if anything good came out of the experience is that the ugly wallpaper is gone and the walls are smooth. Unfortunately, we aren't impressed with Angie's time management skills and painting skills and we won't be hiring her again. We also will not recommend her to our friends or family. I

Did a great job and will definitely use her services in the future! She was able to do the job in only one day, so we did not have to work around her while she was working.

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They were really good. Let me know right away they couldn’t service my area. She called me a few times to follow up.

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Angela's work is awesome. Anytime I need something painted, I am going to contact her. The painting was flawless. I have an old house with old walls, which are not the easiest to paint. She had to go around several windows and trim. I wish I would have known about her when I painted some of my other rooms.

Even though she is a very good painter I am done with her services. I declined to pay her more after she hired a helper and was disrespectful to me and expected me to pay more than the bid. Because she was always squeezing other jobs and came late too many times and put me off and only once stayed all day I have terminated any future business. This was door and trim paint and took WEEKS. Still isn't done because she refused to come back to do touch up, fix door she didn't put back correctly, and slopped paint on the wall due to rushing, and didn't put back a door knob. The refuse to return to finish because I wouldn't pay more for the wrap. This is a shame because she is a good painter and very knowledgeable, but needs to coordinate better and finish before she expects people to be put on hold all the time. I wish her business to be successful and if a customer can tolerate the numerous delays she would be fine. I was dozens times patient than most people would be Had other jobs for her (now will be someone else) to do but it's over.

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It went very well. She always said what she was doing and what needed to be done yet. If for any reason Angela was going to be a little late or had an appointment she always let us know. i thought Angela was very professional.

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Angela, was prompt, professional and courteous is all dealings. Excellent attention to details...I am completely satisfied with the work she did for me!

she put scent in the paint w/out consulting me. made other decisions w/out consulting me. she was used to new construction, and as a result didnt keep track of hardware she removed. misplaced hardware. couldnt remember how to reinstall shades. painted over holes and couldnt remember where to place hardware. got paint on leather furniture. used my stepstool, putty knife, box cutter, electric screwdriver, paint roller frame, paper towels, etc. messy. still discovering paint on things. said her friends had written reviews. said it would take her four days but she wasnt finished after five. she seemed distracted. overall, the job appears to be above average. i would recommend her for new construction. i was impressed w/ her prep work. she was pleasant and knowledgable. she had some good ideas.

Was desperately in need of my living space updated. I am defiantly challenged in the area of decorating, so i needed a lot of help in that department. I gave her full control in the designing process. Angela was very knowledgeable and absolutely wonder in creating colors and textures that suited my taste and my decor in my home. I also needed some spaces of my home reorganized and coordinated, She more than willing to take on the task and did a great job at communicating with me throughout the process. I will be hiring Angela to finish the rest of the rooms that need attention. I will be recommending her all family, friends and foe.

She gave us the marble looking countertops just as we asked for, and returned as needed to make certain the job was done to her high and exacting standards. She worked on a few projects in an dingy bathroom and made it look just fantastic. She scheduled her work around our availability to be home and was very clean, courteous, and positive about the whole project. She offered helpful suggestions and did great work. I will likely hire her again for my future painting needs.

Overall the process was easier than expected. Angie's painting skills are excellent & creative. We will highly recommend her to our family & friends.

We first hired Angela to paint one bedroom, to make sure we liked her work. She was on time, was good about protecting the furniture and carpet, and did a great job. We had her come back and paint the other two bedrooms, and she also helped put up new window blinds in each bedroom. We plan to have her come back in the Spring to remove wallpaper and paint our family room.

Angela came to my home was very knowledgeable on paint choices. She was prompt in starting work.