Creative Woodcraft Building & Remodeling

Half the calls to Creative Woodcraft are for one built thing — a fireplace mantel, a mudroom bench, a wall of shelving. The other half hand over a bare basement slab or a bathroom about to come down to the studs. Both halves come back naming the same person: Mike Fandetti, listed on the company's Houzz profile as its owner. The shop works out of Easton, and its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration is active in the company's own name. On Houzz it describes itself as family-owned and locally owned, and that profile also lists a Construction Supervisor number, CS116429 — the directory's listing, not something confirmed against the state registry here. The written history runs 2022 through 2026: 31 reviews, 5 stars from 23 Google ratings and 5.0 from 15 on Houzz, five of them arriving in the last six months. Basements are the through-line. A June 2026 customer had one remodeled and singled out the crew arriving early each morning and cleaning up before leaving; a 2022 reviewer described a concrete slab turned into a finished, usable floor of the house. Bathrooms run a close second. In May 2026 a homeowner had one pulled to the studs, and a June 2023 review counted two layers of ceiling and three layers of flooring coming out on day one, with the finished room back inside seven working days. The custom woodwork the name points at is still very much in the mix — a December 2025 mantel job grew into a whole fireplace rebuild, and a 2022 customer listed built-in seating, cabinet installation and a mantel in a single project. The largest job on file is a 2024 renovation of a two-family house — five bedrooms, three baths, two kitchens. The owners, a week out from their first baby, credited the progress photos and being kept in the loop while they couldn't be on site. Speed of reply is the other thing customers keep raising: a 2023 reviewer said questions came back within the hour, and a September 2025 customer got a quote promptly and the job done in two days. Two things worth doing before you book. Every one of the 31 reviews is five stars, with no critical account anywhere across four years, so ask for a reference on a project the size and shape of yours rather than taking the run as read. And if a Construction Supervisor licence matters for your permit, ask to see the number directly — the one published is Houzz's listing. For a built-in, a mantel, or a basement or bathroom taken down and rebuilt around Easton, this is a reasonable call. Pin the scope and the schedule down in writing first.