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Peter Buzzelle Custom Carpentry is a Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts renovation contractor whose customers repeatedly describe careful workmanship, clear communication, and practical problem-solving. The company presents itself as family-owned, serving the Boston area since 2010, with carpentry, home remodeling, additions, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, windows, and related renovation work at the center of its offering. Six Houzz reviews from 2024 and 2025 are uniformly five-star. Homeowners describe bathroom remodeling, window repairs and replacement, custom work, decks, and other home projects; one 2025 reviewer specifically praised a mahogany beadboard porch ceiling, deck stairs and handrails, and the crew's communication. Other reviews mention detailed bathroom work, repairs that avoided unnecessary expense, and projects completed within budgets and quotes. There is useful scale behind the praise: Houzz shows six reviews and eight projects, Thumbtack reports 4.9 from 10 ratings and 21 project/media items, and BuildZoom lists 36 permitted projects and a BuildZoom score of 99. BuildZoom lists a Massachusetts home-improvement license as active, while also displaying an inactive Residential Builder/Building Contractor license under number 81861; confirm the current status and which registration applies to your project before signing. This looks like a good fit for homeowners planning a detailed renovation or custom carpentry job, especially older-home work where coordination and finish details matter. Ask for a written scope, schedule, and license confirmation, and request references for the specific kind of work you need.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Peter Buzzelle Custom Carpentry. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
A typical single-level deck is 12×16 — about 200 sq ft.
Estimated range
$7,750 – $14,500
Typical carpentry project around $11,100
“Peter and his crew have completed numerous jobs on our home and some rental units of ours over the last few years. The communication with Peter is has always been clear and his crew's workmanship is top notch.”
Peter and his crew have completed numerous jobs on our home and some rental units of ours over the last few years. The communication with Peter is has always been clear and his crew's workmanship is top notch. He has made some suggestions during the jobs that were very helpful, particularly when choosing materials and getting the best bang for our buck. For example, he suggested a mahogany beadboard ceiling in our covered porch when we had planned on just having a plastered ceiling. It turned out beautiful, with rich golden-brown tones, and it didn't cost that much more than a basic white ceiling. He also attended to some details on our deck that made it really pop, including stairs and handrails that look amazing and are rock-solid. We trust Peter and his crew with our home.
Peter and his team were excellent! Their attention to detail and communication were perfect. If something wasn't quite right, they went above and beyond to make sure everything turned out great. Our dog even loved them so you know they are good people. We love the bathroom we ended up with and would not hesitate to work with them again. Highly recommend!
Peter is the most ethical contractor I have experienced. I had other estimates for fixing windows that insisted there was a lot to be repaired. Peter came, looked at the windows, did simple repairs, and told me that what I was quoted was unnecessary and did not charge since what was required to repair the windows was simple. Only an honorable person would do what he did. He is exactly the type of contractor anyone should have working on their home.
I had Peter do some custom work on my house and it came out beautiful! He and his crew are top notch, very professional and excellent at communication. I added some extra work for them which they also finished in a timely basis and I get so many compliments on it. I'm looking forward to doing more projects with him in the future.
Peter and his crew have done a number of excellent jobs at my house. Their best work was the remodeling of our two bathrooms. Very professional, stuck to budgets and quotes and did an excellent job. This was an older job but we also hired them for a few other smaller repair jobs and a much larger window replacement job (we replaced them all). Peter is the first person we call when we have a project that needs doing.
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