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| Wanamaker Hardware carries the best paint (California). It is a longstanding family business. It is listed here first because it is my favorite paint and hardware store. |
Wanamaker Hardware
1298 Massachusetts Ave. Arlington 781-643-1900 |
| City Paint specializes in the painting trade. Most of the paint sold in Cambridge is sold at these stores. They carry Benjamin Moore paints. The Ben Moore Regal Premium line is very good paint; the Aura line, not so much. |
City Paint & Supply
1149 Cambridge St. in Inman Square 617-547-2419 and 2564 Mass. Ave. 617-547-7290 Cambridge |
| Dickson Brothers has been in the middle of Harvard Square since 1943. |
Dickson Bros. Hardware
26 Brattle St. in Harvard Square Cambridge 617-876-6760 |
| H.D. Chasen is a hard hardware (not paint) store. I have never seen a customer there who didn't look like he ate nails for breakfast. Most of their goods would be dangerous in most hands. However, if you really need a buffing wheel and some jewelers' rouge to make brass look like gold... |
H.D.Chasen
40 Lake St. Somerville 617-666-9090 |
| H.W. Paint & Decorating carries Benjamin Moore. |
H.W. Foote Paint & Decorating
420 Western Avenue Brighton 617-782-8040 |
| Inman Square Hardware is a another family-run business. They carry necessities like parting beads and light globes that strictly paint stores often do not. |
Inman Square Hardware
1337 Cambridge Street in Inman Square Cambridge 617-491-3405 |
| Johnson Paint is the toniest paint store around, and it's on the toniest boutique street in New England. You have to park in Rhode Island. Sometimes, it's just necessary; they're experts, and they've got everything. |
Johnson Paint
355 Newbury St. Boston 617-536-4065 |
| Pill Hardware used to be my first choice long, long ago when I lived in Central Square and the Pill family still owned it. Indeed, I did painting on the Pill family home. |
Pill Hardware
743 Mass. Ave. in Central Square Cambridge 617-876-8310 |
| Rockler Woodworking, formerly Woodworkers Store and now part of a twenty-five-store chain, is where to find some of the best wood stains and esoteric carpentry tools. |
Rockler Woodworking
2154 Mass. Ave. near Rindge Ave. Cambridge 617-497-1136 |
| Sherwin-Williams Paints, like City Paint, is a store all about paint. |
Sherwin-Williams Paints
73 First St. Cambridge 617-661-0379 |
| Tags Hardware also carries California Paints, along with hardware and housewares. |
Tags Hardware
29 White St (in Porter Square Shopping Center) Cambridge 617-868-7711 |
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