Shawme Hill Corp Builders & Renovations

Two 1950s one-bedroom cottages joined into a single modern beach home. An outdated single-story house rebuilt into a 2.5-story home. A build sitting in a flood zone, carried from permitting through finish. Those are the jobs clients write up about Shawme Hill — the cottage conversion in an August 2020 Houzz review, the 2.5-story rebuild in December 2023, the flood-zone build in March 2026. The company is a Sandwich design-build general contractor working across Cape Cod and the South Shore on custom homes, whole-house renovations, additions and ADUs; it says it has been doing that for more than 24 years and that Kevin Hamlin owns and leads it. Its Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #184694, is active on the state registry. Kevin is named in most of the accounts, from 2016 through March 2026 — available for consultation through a March 2023 bathroom renovation, and working alongside his son Ian on a kitchen in a December 2018 review. The crew gets named too: Mike and Ian on an August 2026 kitchen, Matt and Mike leveling a shower space and prepping walls in March 2023, Ian and John on finish carpentry in March 2026. Two accounts speak to schedule and budget. A July 2022 kitchen remodel that covered all the plumbing, electrical and cabinet work came in on time and in budget, and a June 2017 client said both segments of their project landed on schedule and on budget. Two 2017 clients described the company staying responsive through a four-week permit wait and cabinet measurements that came back wrong from the kitchen designer. People also come back: one June 2017 Houzz reviewer had used the company for a kitchen and then a bathroom, and another that month said they had been a client for years. Three cautions sit in the same history. A December 2023 client in Sandwich said the remodel ended up costing a bit more than they thought, while calling the experience positive. A 2017 BuildZoom reviewer said the first contact was pleasant and professional, but the bid that was promised never came. And a 2016 Angi reviewer left half a star and a single line: get everything in writing, every detail. Most of this written history is older, the bulk of it posted between 2016 and 2020. The newest accounts are the August 2026 kitchen, the March 2026 flood-zone build, and a November 2025 renovation of a 50-plus-year-old beach cottage taken through design, permitting, demo, construction and finish work. For a gut renovation or a new build on the Cape where the permitting and an old structure are the hard part, this is a design-build outfit whose clients hire it twice. Before signing, get the scope, the allowances and every change order in writing, and settle how cost increases get approved while the work is running.