Genghis the Painter - Hardware Stores |
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| Masse's is where I buy most of my paint (California) and supplies. The Masse family has owned and operated the store for over a hundred years, and they've gotten good at it. The people behind the counter are intelligent and helpful. (Try to find that at Home Depot!) And they've got ancient, unfinished maple floors, so the place is irresistible to me. |
Masse Hardware
(click for hours) 249 Walden St. at the corner of Sherman St. Cambridge 617-876-3463 |
| Dickson Brothers also employs salt-of-the-earth types, and it's the only place in Cambridge to get Pratt & Lambert paint. They also carry California. However, since it's in the middle of Harvard Square and parking is tough, it's not an easy place to pick up a case of paint. I don't get there as often as I'd like. Their trade is oriented more toward the foot-traffic of homemaking than the car and truck-traffic of home-maintenance. |
Dickson Bros. Hardware
26 Brattle St. in Harvard Square Cambridge 617-876-6760 |
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CLOSED FOR BUSINESS
Mills has really good prices on roller sleeves and some other sundries. Mike, who is usually behind the counter, umpires softball games in the evening, so one can get supplies and whine about the Red Sox at the same time.
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Mills Hardware
1030 Cambridge St. in Inman Square Cambridge 617-547-9500 |
| City Paint specializes in the painting trade. Most of the paint sold in Cambridge is sold at these stores. They carry both California and Benjamin Moore paints. |
City Paint & Supply
1149 Cambridge St. in Inman Square 617-547-2419 and 2564 Mass. Ave. 617-547-7290 Cambridge |
| 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. 617-497-1136 Cambridge |
| 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 |
| And, finally, there's H.D.Chasen, a hard hardware 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 |
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