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StoneCastle Design & Build is an Arlington design-build firm run by Jamie Waters, focused on kitchen, bathroom and basement renovations. Its Houzz page shows a 5.0 average across four reviews spanning more than a decade, from 2014 to 2025. Several reviewers came back more than once — a 2025 review described multiple kitchen and bathroom projects done together from 2018 through 2024, praising Jamie's creative, lower-cost fixes for tricky problems. In a 2020 review, a homeowner with a house over 50 years old credited him with a thorough, accurate proposal and singled out a specific suggestion — adding backsplash tile behind a bathroom mirror — that improved the result for only a small added cost. An older review, from 2015, described a kitchen and bathroom renovation finished within budget and close to the promised timeline. The four reviews on file span over a decade on Houzz — worth asking for a couple of current references directly before committing to a larger project. For a kitchen, bathroom or basement remodel where problem-solving on an older home matters, the reviews here — spread out but consistently detailed — make a solid case.
Typical Greater Boston range for this kind of work, from regional averages — not a quote from Stonecastle Design & Build, Inc.. Use it to sanity-check bids, then get the real number in writing.
Upgrades beyond the standard like-for-like swap included in the base scope.
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$27,500 – $45,000
Typical bathroom remodel around $36,300
Jamie and his team did multiple home improvement projects including Kitchen and Bathroom for us over the years from 2018-2024. He is a very creative and personable contractor, has excellent lighting solutions ideas and comes up with creative lower cost options for sticky issues. I highly recommend the StoneCastle Design & Build Team.
Jamie Waters of StoneCastle was the contractor that Dream Kitchen recommended for us. We loved working with Jamie. Our house is 50+ years old and he was great at resolving issues involved with working with an older house. His proposal was very thorough and accurate. Any change in price was documented with reason and rational. Most of the time it was extra work that was requested by us. He provided wonderful suggestions that resulted in much better outcome at a minimal increase in cost. One example of many great suggestions was adding back splash tiles behind the mirror of our bathroom with a back light which is controlled by a motion sensor. It really increased the wow factor of the bathroom and it also allowed us to avoid turning on full lighting in the middle of the night. He even met us at the store (Roma Tile) and helped us pick out our back splash for our kitchen and suggested installing a pot filler which we use all the time. The cost was very minimal since plumbing was already available at the location.
Highly competent contractor who is very dedicated to his work. Creative thinker and comes up with very clever ideas for solving problems or issues faced on the job. He is always looking for ways to improvise and do things better.Worked on our kitchen and bathroom renovations. Has a great and reliable team. Work is impeccable and completed the project within the agreed upon budget and within a week or two of promised timeline. We have received endless compliments on his work.
This contractor was Excellent. He had reative and thoughtful solutions to a basement remodel. Workers were pleasant and accommodating. We love our new space!
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Tile craftsmanship5.0
Brings finish samples on site and reworks plans5.0
Clients returning for 10 and 20 years5.0
Detailed craftsmanship5.0