Nick Lemire Custom Woodworks

Six windows in a Cambridge house hadn't been tended to in decades and needed a lot of work. A homeowner writing in September 2026 said they came back clean and new-looking. That job is the center of what Nick Lemire does: he runs Nick Lemire Custom Woodworks out of Chelmsford, and the company describes its work as restoration and preservation carpentry, finish carpentry and custom woodwork — cabinets, built-ins, windows, doors, stairs and furniture — around Chelmsford, Cambridge, Jamaica Plain, Boxford and Andover. Windows are what most people call him for: eight of the 19 reviews on his Google page are about them. In April 2023 a homeowner with non-functioning windows in every room wrote that he fixed them all — the draftiness gone, the windows opening smoothly, the storm latches no longer sticking. A Chelsea homeowner in a Queen Victorian had windows mechanically restored and rehung, per a December 2025 review, and a customer writing in August 2025 said Lemire and his associate had restored their old windows over the years, making them more energy efficient and functional. The same care for original material shows up elsewhere in an old house. A November 2025 review came from a homeowner with a house over 150 years old who wanted the original front door kept rather than replaced; Lemire preserved and reinstalled it. In a May 2023 review, a customer described a 100-year-old attic renovation — a custom railing, custom glass doors, wood stain mixed to match the old work, and more routine carpentry alongside it. And in December 2022 a congregation in North Andover had him reconfigure the pulpit and the front of the sanctuary of their 1836 Meeting House, working with volunteers and other trades. There is a furniture and cabinet side too. He built two FSC mahogany nightstands, each with a drawer, a stationary shelf and a pullout shelf, for a customer writing in January 2024 who said he kept to his time estimate and the price was reasonable. A June 2024 review describes a custom storage cabinet counter designed for a kitchen; another that same month came from homeowners who had swapped a gas cooktop for induction and needed a custom piece because their cabinet drawer style is no longer manufactured. One thing to settle before booking: his Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #205368, is expired on the state registry — ask him where it stands, whatever the size of the job. If you have old windows that stick, a door worth saving, or a piece that has to match woodwork nobody makes anymore, that is the work customers keep describing here; get the scope and the timeline in writing, the way the homeowners who praised his time estimates did.