Full Circle Homes is a Plympton, Massachusetts design-and-build firm co-owned by interior designer Jenny Macdonald and general contractor Mike Lemieux, and it is unusual in this directory for how much of its record is public reporting rather than customer reviews. The company's own site describes remodeling and restoring antique homes as its primary focus, alongside additions, new builds and newer-home remodels, with construction across Southern Massachusetts, the South Shore and Cape Cod. It self-reports about a decade in business and more than 100 antique and newer homes designed and remodeled.
The couple are best known publicly for the HGTV series "Houses With History". CBS Boston reported in September 2021 that Macdonald and Lemieux, owners of Full Circle Homes, were about to star in the series, and the Boston Globe described them in January 2022 as owners of the Plympton-based renovation business. A February 2020 CBS piece noted they had left finance jobs in Boston's Financial District to restore antique homes.
The most useful evidence for a homeowner is the work reporting, not the television. Cape News reported in April 2022 that a Sandwich review team scored the Full Circle Homes proposal for the Deacon Eldred house at a cumulative average of 3.79 against 2.2 and 1.47 for the two rival submissions — a competitive municipal RFP the firm won on evaluated merit. A December 2024 Plympton-Halifax-Kingston Express account of moving the old Plympton Almshouse describes Macdonald and Lemieux taking the project on and hiring Gordon Building Movers to relocate the house. A February 2022 piece in the same paper reported the pair had by then refurbished eight Plympton homes, the oldest built in 1707. In September 2025 turnto10 quoted Lemieux saying the owners of a 300-year-old Dartmouth house "reached out to myself and my wife Jenn, and our company Full Circle Homes, to do a full restoration on this property". A 2023 fun107 story quoted a Fairhaven homeowner saying they were not eager to appear on television but "we wanted to work with Full Circle Homes".
Credentials check out on the state registry: Massachusetts HIC registration 205464 is registry-verified active and held by Michael Lemieux, the firm's general contractor. BuildZoom separately lists six licence numbers for the business and its permit table shows nine residential projects over three years across Falmouth, Hingham, Marshfield, North Attleboro, Harwich, Milton, Norwell and Pembroke, typical permit value around $30,000 and topping out near $117,500 — smaller and more varied than the whole-house restorations the press coverage highlights.
What is missing is customer testimony. Neither BuildZoom nor Houzz carries a single review, and no platform publishes a star rating, so nothing here speaks to communication, budget discipline, change orders or finish quality from a client's point of view. The firm is also filed under three different names across its own listings — Full Circle Homes, Full Circle Homes LLC and Full Circle Construction LLC — so check which entity your contract names. If you own an antique South Shore or Cape home and want a builder with a documented restoration record, this is a serious candidate; ask for direct client references, a written scope, and confirm the licence numbers with the state before signing.