Lighthouse Woodworks

Sixty-four Google ratings, all averaging five stars, and one object keeps coming up: a table. Lighthouse Woodworks builds custom furniture out of a shop at 175 William F McClellan Hwy in East Boston — farm tables, dining tables, benches, barstools, beds and dressers, made to order rather than pulled off a showroom floor. Its BBB profile dates the LLC to April 2017, names Lucas Jablonski as owner, and counts six employees. The through-line in what customers write is the process, not the sales pitch. People describe going to the shop, choosing the wood and the style in person, and staying in the loop while the piece was built. A 2022 reviewer had white oak salvaged from a Kentucky barn turned into a farmhouse table after visiting the East Boston woodshop. A 2021 customer ordered two dining tables for two different houses and said the shop held both pieces while their construction ran late. Back in 2017, a homeowner had a built-in entry bench redone after another contractor's version missed, and an old piece of cherry cut into three shelves. Service after delivery shows up too: a 2021 buyer of a reclaimed-wood table found a hole in the top, and the shop sent a woodworker out to repair it. Two practical things to settle before ordering. Time: a 2021 customer's custom table took roughly two and a half months, and that buyer's point was that the timeframe had been quoted upfront — ask for the same number in writing. Finish: the same reviewer's one criticism was that the table was finished on top but not underneath, so confirm what surfaces get sealed. Houzz puts a typical job in the $1,000-10,000 range, which tracks with one-off custom pieces rather than volume work. The written history is real but aging. Twenty-two reviews across four sources run from 2017 to 2024, with the Houzz set clustered in 2017-2018 and the newest written comment from March 2024 — the platform averages stay at 5.0 on both Google and Houzz, and the BBB page carries an A+ grade while noting the company is not BBB accredited, with no complaints or government actions listed. That is a consistent record, just not a current one. If you want a specific dining table, bar, or built-in built from wood you picked out, this is a shop set up for exactly that conversation. Nail down the delivery window and the finish spec before you put money down.