Garber's Home Improvement

Count the reviews and eleven of them are about the same thing: a shed. Paul Garber builds them custom out of Medford — an office shed matched to the house in September 2024, one raised in sub-20-degree weather in December 2025, another put up that November while its owner's honey bees were active all week. His Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #209200, is active on the state registry. The 2026 shed customers all circle the same thing: he tells you what is happening. They describe check-ins about timelines, a walk through the build process before it started, and location and colour confirmed before anything was set. One June 2026 customer had the shed finished earlier than anticipated; a May 2026 customer, who came to him through Urban Sheds, called him methodical and neat. Sheds are not all of it. In April 2026 a customer posted before-and-after photos of a full bathroom renovation and mentioned the windows he had installed the year before; a November 2024 reviewer credits window replacement. A September 2024 customer had tiling, drywalling and painting done punctually and at a reasonable price, and another that month had a yard restored, down to buying and spreading the mulch. The older reviews come from somewhere else. Two customers writing in 2023 place him in New York — one calls him the best builder and carpenter in the state after a 500-square-foot back deck and a two-story front porch he built by himself, another the best home and exterior contractor in upstate New York and Pennsylvania. A third, that May, owns a historic home in Hammondsport and calls him their go-to for exterior maintenance. Same hands, different state: if you want to walk a finished job, ask which ones are near you. For a custom shed, a deck, or a small build where one person does the whole thing, Garber's is a straightforward call — its site lists Medford, Somerville and Arlington as the area it covers. Because it is owner-operated, ask early how your job fits his calendar, and settle the placement, colour and finish up front the way his shed customers describe doing.