April 7, 2022
Modern kitchen layout has developed alongside modern kitchen design — which today emphasizes an open plan concept. While many older homes in the metro DC area were built in the 1940s and 50s with the kitchen as a ...
September 23, 2021
Home Remodeling Surprises - What’s Behind the Walls? Living in an older home can be great. The architectural details you just can’t get in a newer home, the sense of history, the ...
July 21, 2021
When a Cleveland Park family needed a kitchen redesign, they chose a company that offered a design-build remodeling approach. With an architect, interior designer, and lead ...
May 6, 2021
Maybe you’ve heard that design-build is a good way to go for home remodeling, that it is smoother and more cost-effective. That’s true. Or maybe you are just starting to ...
June 23, 2020
You are thinking about a home renovation, maybe updating the kitchen and dramatically improving the flow and sightlines throughout your downstairs. You’ve been watching HGTV well ...
September 6, 2018
Thinking about renovating your kitchen, converting an attic for a home office, or in need of a home addition for a master suite or family room? If so, we have some advice about ...
November 10, 2014
Home renovations can drive you insane. There’s no denying it. It’s often a painfully chaotic process.
October 23, 2014
Face Your Fear of Home Remodeling You Live in Bethesda, Maryland and you’ve just begun to think about remodeling your home. Then the dark thoughts come. People dread the thought ...
June 26, 2014
Love It Or Level It? Sometimes the answer is obvious. Other times, you struggle. You love a house. You say it deserves to stand, though it looks one gust away from falling down. ...
December 30, 2013
Fix It Up or Tear It Down? This ambitious Chevy Chase, Maryland home remodeling project provides a great answer to the fundamental question many homeowners face. The renovation ...
December 17, 2013
When talking about the design build approach to Washington DC home remodeling, we usually focus on benefits to the homeowner. Interior designer Leslie Roosevelt sees a benefit to ...
December 9, 2013
A home addition involves major structural changes to the home. How do you find the right design build firm to plan your home addition? The photo (left) shows progress on a ...
November 19, 2013
Home Additions Are Still Good A Investment In Washington DC, home remodeling has evolved into a sophisticated and highly professionalized art--particularly for home additions. ...
November 14, 2013
Choose the Right Contractor for Your Home Remodeling Project--Or Else Sometimes we get calls from customers who haven't identified the correct type of home remodeling company to ...
May 16, 2013
Interior Renovation: When Better Space (Not More) Is the Solution The first thing you need to know about interior renovation is that it is usually more cost-effective than ...
May 15, 2013
A successful design build approach requires impeccable planning and project management. If you live in Rockville Maryland or another first ring suburb of Washington DC, your ...
May 18, 2012
Our integrated design build approach to home remodeling works because the design group, the build group and the project management group are all full-time Gilday employees. They ...
May 15, 2012
Design Build = Collaboration Continuing from the previous post ("Why Integrated Design Build Works") we explore further how an integrated design build approach to kitchen ...
May 12, 2012
Here is a perfect example of the high quality of collaboration that occurs daily in a truly integrated design build remodeling firm. Kitchen designer Ellen Gilday Witts and ...
May 10, 2012
A Classy Cleveland Park Victorian In the previous post (The Architect In Design Build Part One) we took a peek at design build architect Dan Morales' process as he prepared to ...
May 10, 2012
Just as an actor studies all aspects of a character in preparation for the role, an architect studies the architectural character of a home he is about to renovate. This is one of ...
May 7, 2012
The Great Outdoors -or- The Great After-Thought Gilday Renovations completed a two-story home addition to a Washington DC residence several years ago. We squeezed the budget in ...
May 3, 2012
We do that. When you are the client in a Gilday Renovations design build remodeling project, we stand by you. Why its that? Because our work and our client relationships are ...
April 27, 2012
Design Is the Heartbeat For Gilday Renovations, residential design build (in the Washington DC metro area) is about seamless integration of all resources, people and processes ...
April 18, 2012
Not As Bad As It Looks Only homeowners who have lived through an extensive home remodeling project know what it feels like to see the place where they live completely torn up. ...
April 17, 2012
Bathroom Remodeling: Can You Live With That? We often find ourselves correcting mistakes left behind by other remodeling companies--especially in a bathroom remodeling project. ...
April 16, 2012
Integrated Design Build We at Gilday Renovations have coined a term that describes our approach to design build remodeling. We call it integrated design build. That's because ...
April 6, 2012
A Design Build Approach to Kitchen Remodeling The Gilday Renovations design build approach to kitchen design and remodeling is all about details. Details, details, details run ...
April 3, 2012
McLean Whole House Renovation Our custom design build practice thrives in the Washington DC metropolitan area because there are so many generations of older homes here. As these ...
March 29, 2012
What's the Big Deal About Design Build Communication. That's what. In a complex renovation project, particularly when room additions are involved, stuff happens. When stuff ...
May 25, 2011
In the field of home remodeling, design build is a specialty. It is both a business model and a specific methodology. As a method, design build offers an ideal way to navigate ...