Great Harbors Home Services is a residential design-build renovation firm based in East Falmouth, working across Falmouth, Mashpee and the mid-Cape. Owner Joshua Carajanes launched it in 2023 after buying and renovating his late grandmother's house in 2020, and named the company for the neighborhood where that first renovation happened. He runs projects directly. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor licence, #209370, is verified active in the state registry, where Great Harbors Home Services LLC is the holder of record.
The work customers describe is broad for a small shop: full kitchen and bathroom remodels, deck builds, siding and window replacement, basement finishing and finish carpentry. A reviewer this year described a complete deck rebuild that Josh also helped design, saying he did exactly what he said he would do. A July 2025 reviewer listed a project spanning a kitchen and bath remodel, master bedroom updates, an electrical upgrade, siding replacement, door and window replacement and structural corrections, and called the pricing fair and the work finished on time. Other 2025 reviews describe two bathrooms renovated at once, an unfinished basement turned into finished living space, a fascia board replaced alongside decorative living-room beams, shingle replacement at a Plymouth home, and a first-time-homeowner kitchen done in two phases.
Communication is the thread running through almost every account: reviewers repeatedly say he explains options, gives clear estimates, flags issues as they come up, and schedules inspections and meetings in advance. Several describe him as a repeat contractor for their house. One December 2025 reviewer wrote that after enduring a botched construction job for almost a year, Great Harbors came over, agreed to fix the mistakes, and gave a reasonable estimate.
The main thing to weigh is how young the company is. It was established in 2023, and every review on file dates from 2025 or 2026 — a strong, consistent record, but a short one, with 21 reviews on Google and three on Houzz. BuildZoom shows only one permitted project in the past two years (a $16,800 roof replacement in Buzzards Bay in June 2024); the older Shorewood Drive and Joyce Street permits on that page predate the company's formation. Several projects involved trades outside general carpentry — plumbing, electrical, and a gas fireplace — handled by subcontractors, so it is worth asking who will hold the licence for those parts of your job. The Houzz profile lists licence number CS119-233; that is the directory's own listing, separate from the registry-verified HIC number.
Great Harbors suits a Cape homeowner who wants one person planning, pricing and running a mid-sized remodel and values being kept informed — and who is comfortable hiring a contractor whose public record, while unanimously positive, is only a couple of years deep.