Lasky Homesmith Services

Lasky Homesmith Services is a father-son operation based in Brookline, the kind of outfit homeowners call when a job is too fiddly to DIY but too small to interest a full remodel crew. The company says Jeff founded it in 2001 after leaving a career in technical sales and software engineering to return to the carpentry trade he learned from his father, and that his son Alex joined full-time in 2017; it describes itself as family-owned and operated. It's listed as a member of the Brookline Chamber of Commerce and says it covers towns from Cambridge and Belmont out to Natick and Lexington. The jobs people actually praise them for are the fiddly ones other contractors wave off — old doors and windows, custom carpentry, cabinet and furniture repair. On Google, the business holds a 5-star average across 17 ratings, and its two most recent reviews back that up with specifics instead of just stars: in June, a customer credited Jeff with disassembling and reassembling a broken antique oak pedestal table, building a new railing down to the basement, fixing a garden gate, and mounting a TV, saying they'd use the company again without hesitation. In April, a Brookline homeowner described Jeff and Alex installing french doors in an old Victorian "where there is not one level surface or plumb wall," calling the pair meticulous, diligent, and creative. That pattern isn't new — across the full run of 17 ratings stretching back to 2024, the praise has stayed consistent, and no complaint turns up on Google or anywhere else checked. Worth knowing going in: this isn't a general contractor for a gut renovation. The company's own description centers on handyman work and small home-improvement projects — windows and doors, carpentry, cabinets, storage — not coordinating a multi-trade remodel. Call them for the jobs that are hard to get anyone to show up for — a stuck sash window, a wobbly antique, a door that won't hang right in a hundred-year-old frame — and confirm your project fits that scale before booking.