IMS Woodworking INC

IMS Woodworking is a small finish-carpentry shop on Marathon Street in Arlington, built around kitchen finish work, custom cabinetry, planned furniture, stairs and handrails, walk-in closets, and room-addition trim. Its own site talks up years of local experience, but it can't quite agree with itself on the number — one page says 10 years, another says 15, and a count of over 100 completed projects shows up without a founding date attached to any of it. On Google, it carries a perfect 5.0 average across 12 ratings, and the eleven customer reviews collected in 2024 back that up: an unusually one-sided run of praise gathered across a few different sources, several reviewers naming Jim and his crew directly and describing a smooth, well-communicated process from quote to finish. A dozen-plus ratings all landing at five stars is a real pattern, even for a shop this size. The one loose thread worth pulling before calling is that tenure question — the site's own numbers for how long it has been operating don't match each other, so it is worth asking directly rather than taking either figure at face value. For an Arlington-area homeowner planning cabinetry, trim, closets, or a staircase, this reads as a small crew with a clean and consistent rating history. The thing to nail down first is how long they have actually been doing it, since the company cannot seem to settle on an answer itself.