Maize Restoration & Remodeling

Maize Restoration & Remodeling is a Framingham design-build remodeler that MetroWest homeowners hire for whole-room and whole-floor projects — gut bathrooms, kitchens, additions, decks and restoration work — with its own designers, project managers and trades. Its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration, number 195865, is verified active with the state registry under the name Maize Restoration and Remodeling, Inc. The track record is deep: 69 reviews across eight sources from 2022 to 2026, 4.8 stars from 96 Google ratings and 4.2 from 22 on HomeAdvisor, with 29 reviews in the last six months alone. The detailed ones describe substantial scope — a wall removed between kitchen, dining and living room for an open plan; a fiberglass shower replaced with tile; a roof, insulation and PVC trim replaced after water damage; a deck rebuilt with new lighting and a grill gas line; a 1959 bathroom converted to a walk-in shower on a deadline before overseas guests arrived. The recurring criticism is not the carpentry — it is the running of the job. A homeowner posting in r/FraminghamMA in 2026 said the work was very good but warned in blunt terms about the project management. A 2025 three-star reviewer advised proceeding with caution because communication was inconsistent; a 2025 four-star reviewer praised the tradesmen but cited a lack of communication from the job foreman and a contract that was hard to understand; another in 2025 loved the finished house but described frustrations with how expectations were set and called the payment structure misleading. The hardest accounts are older and specific. A 2025 one-star reviewer said the company no-showed the pre-construction meeting after a $5,500 project evaluation fee and then switched the assigned contractor; a 2022 one-star reviewer said a six-week small bathroom ran six months and that demolition began with no dust containment; and a November 2025 HomeAdvisor reviewer, a self-described senior citizen, said a kitchen job stalled and a $2,100 deposit was kept. Maize is a credible pick for a homeowner who wants one firm to design and build a large project and who will insist on the process being nailed down in writing. Before signing, confirm what any evaluation or design fee buys and whether it is refundable, who your project manager will be and how they will report progress, the payment milestones tied to completed work, and the dust-protection plan for demolition.