Gaby's Carpentry

Eighty-six ratings averaging a flat 5.0, and when you read what people actually wrote, the same object keeps turning up: a cabinet. A custom library. A bookcase for a bedroom. A dry bar. A pantry. Kitchen cabinets fitted to an existing island. Gaby's Carpentry, working out of Walpole, is the shop people call when a piece of woodwork has to fit one specific wall in one specific house. What comes through the reviews is that Gaby does the work himself. A client writing in 2022, who had built custom furniture in his own younger days, called him "a consummate craftsman and finish carpenter" and noted he does all the work personally — then described the more useful part: the pantry shelf heights came out wrong, and when he raised it, Gaby was back at the house inside 48 hours to redo them. The jobs get bigger than cabinets. In a 2023 review a homeowner with an old house where nothing was level described new baseboard, door and window trim through several upstairs rooms, fitted around every out-of-square wall and floor. Another 2023 client said he coordinated the painting and recommended the electrician, working more like a general contractor than a carpenter on that kitchen. A 2024 reviewer described a gut kitchen expansion — down to studs and subfloor — phased so the family kept using the kitchen most of the way through. A deck, in 2026. Five more five-star reviews have landed in the last six months, so this is a current, working shop, not a history. Two things to settle before booking. His Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, number 141969, is expired on the state registry — worth raising directly, because whole-room remodeling of the kind described above is exactly the work that registration covers. And the same 2022 client who praised him flagged how the deal was struck: everything on a handshake, no formal quote, no paperwork beyond the drawings the client's own designer supplied, a price range rather than a number, and a final bill that landed at the top of that range. One more thing worth knowing: all 86 ratings sit inside a single directory family, since Angi and HomeAdvisor publish the same set. Deep as it is, it's one platform's view. For built-ins, cabinetry, trim or a deck done carefully by the same person who quoted it, he's a strong call — just get the scope, the price and the registration status on paper first.