“We launched a huge project - completely gutting and rebuilding an 1803 Park Street brownstone - hoping that we’d end up with what we envisioned.
After 15,000 man hours of work, coordinating adding a roof deck, jacking up the home to properly support it with steel beams in the cellar, finishing every square inch of the 6 floors, we reached that goal. We ended with a gem of construction containing the latest of everything. Bathed in gorgeous colors with random wide pine floors stained a glistening black, with each of the 22 rooms and hallways and 8 sets of refinished staircases a testament to careful planning, execution, and finish, we had a masterpiece.
We entrusted this project, after due diligence in checking others and then interviewing every reference provided, to Rick Romano of Papi and Romano Builders. It proved to be one of the best choices ever made in our life.
Rick shepherded fourteen months of fastidiously planned and executed work. He teamed with the best electrician and best plumber in the area to make the home not only a restored visual success, but a technologically and system-oriented marvel. Through it all was Rick Romano’s hallmark: quiet, always discerning, always making sure the extra inch was taken to end up with the best solution possible, insisting that everything be done right.
We learned the reason for the old adage “you get you pay for”. No shortcuts, no materials on the cheap, that extra coat of paint where others wouldn’t, those hours of extra work to insure a completely rebuilt 200 year old roof. Or the handmade mahogany front door made of about 50 pieces of wood to perfectly fit a 200 year old door frame. And the collecting of all the corner blocks on all the windows on all the floors in the home to make sure the second floor elegant salons had originals. The list is pages long.
Above it all, the honesty and dedication of a very warm family man with the right values stood out. We learned to trust Rick Romano as a family member. He keeps his word, and does what he does right. We would never even consider another builder for any project of any kind other than Rick Romano.”
