3 Best Painters Near Hickory, NC Ranked by Chooz Score

When we ran our analysis, CertaPro Painters of Hickory/Catawba Valley/High Country had earned a Chooz Score of 87.1%. The company has been Accredited with the Better Business Bureau since 2008 and is registered with the North Carolina Secretary of State as Business Entity No. 1028180. It is a locally owned CertaPro franchise led by Phyllis and Harold Lloyd, serving Hickory, the Catawba Valley and the High Country, and it backs its work with a two-year warranty.

Across its review profiles, the company held over 280 Google reviews with a 4.9-star rating, along with 4.7 stars on Yelp across over 35 reviews and 100% recommended on Facebook across 15 reviews. The Google rating is high for a profile of that size, and the Yelp and Facebook profiles, though smaller, read in the same range.

When we analyzed Icarus Pro Painters, it held over 60 Google reviews with a 5.0-star rating, along with 92% recommended on Facebook. Almost all of that history sits on Google, with only a small Facebook presence and no listings on Yelp, Angi, or the other major review platforms.

The company earned a Chooz Score of 85.6%. It is a family-owned Charlotte painting company that specializes in kitchen cabinet refinishing and is registered in North Carolina as Business Entity No. 2004508. Its cabinet work is backed by a written two-year warranty covering peeling, blistering, and chipping, and the business is owner-operated by Bryan Perez.

What stands out about Passion Painters is how quickly the reputation came together. The last time we ran our Chooz Score analysis, the company held a 4.9-star rating across nearly 50 Google reviews, with nearly every one of them landing at five stars. That's a hard average to hold, and it earned Passion Painters a Chooz Score of 82%. The reviews come from all over the Asheville and Western North Carolina area, and the company stays visible beyond Google too, with an active presence on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. What you won't find is padding. Read them in order and the same words keep surfacing: professional, courteous, on time, clean.

Tony Sosa, the owner, comes out to walk the property himself before a brush ever touches a wall. His name shows up in review after review, not as a distant boss but as the person running the estimate, picking colors alongside customers, and checking that everyone's happy before the crew packs up. The Chooz Score's owner engagement indicators reflect it: the owner is personally named throughout the reviews and stays hands-on from first call to final coat. On out-of-town jobs, customers describe getting daily photos and progress reports from Tony directly. One homeowner didn't love the blue she'd picked for her bedroom, so Tony bought new paint and had the room redone, no argument. Passion Painters is a locally owned, registered NC business based in Swannanoa, and it shows in how personal the service feels.