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When space is getting tight in your home -- whether it’s in Arlington, Cleveland Park, Rockville, or anywhere in between – an addition is one of the first solutions that comes to ...

We frequently get this question from homeowners: How can we repurpose existing space in our home to create an office without having to build an addition? It seemed on the surface ...

You get up in the morning and head to a bathroom you share with too many other family members – no surprise, someone has beat you to it. The familiar wait begins. You’ve been ...

Sometimes a prospective client will ask, "What's the cost per square foot for building a home addition?" When most people ask this question, they simply want to get some idea in ...

Will more square footage make my addition more valuable? Let me take you back to a time when we all felt the need for more room. In the late 20th Century, families who had grown ...

Selecting details that bring your kitchen design theme to life As you scroll through pictures on Instagram, Pinterest, and Houzz to imagine your kitchen renovation, did you ever ...

Remember your first apartment, with the fluorescent ring light — or if you were lucky a few straight fluorescent lights in the middle of the kitchen — that never quite stopped ...

Like many young couples who work and live downtown, Amy Feagles and Geoff Dietz looked to the inner ring suburbs when it was time to start a family. They purchased a house in ...

Downsizing to a smaller home doesn’t have to be complicated, but it’s never as simple as you imagine. And while it took some doing to get to the final goal, Marie Duellman and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When young men returned from military service after WW2, homes couldn’t be built fast enough around Washington, DC and around the country. More and more families were looking for ...

When it comes to adding livable space to your home, the most logical places to turn are the basement and the attic. In two previous posts, we looked at the return on the ...

When adding new livable space in a home, the first place many people turn to is the basement. A basement can be a great choice because it does not involve adding additional ...

When is it a good idea to follow through with those renovation projects you’ve been thinking about? Let’s take a look at why it might be a good idea to finish off some of those ...

It’s time for an addition to your home, but there are a lot of factors to weigh. Two big considerations: how long will you be there to enjoy this home addition, and how will it ...

The condo market in the metro DC region is multi-faceted, to say the least. Here is another in our series on experts in residential real estate, and especially the condominium ...

Condo living is an increasingly popular option for homebuyers here in the DC metro area. Having lived and worked here for 40 plus years, I’ve found that the way to assist people ...

A home renovation in a condominium (or co-op) property is not like renovating a single family home. And there is more to it than simply the difference between interior only and ...

It’s an empty nest! The house is finally all yours again. Your youngest child got the hint when they found you measuring the dimensions of what had, up to this point, clearly been ...

There is an undeniable sense of place, a charm, and specificity that you often feel in a well-maintained older home. On the other hand, older homes often were built for different ...

Is your first-floor layout everything you want it to be? Maybe that long, narrow entryway is really starting to bother you. And you love having a first-floor laundry room, but ...

The decision has been made. You are selling your home and purchasing a new one here in the metropolitan Washington DC area. The whole family is excited about the new chapter that ...

If you live in the Cleveland Park DC neighborhood and are considering a major home renovation project, you may have the opportunity to transform the way it feels to move through ...

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 ...

If you live in Washington, DC, or its close-in suburbs in Maryland and Virginia, your house is probably old. And if you’re looking to buy? You’ll be looking at old houses. ...

Smart Homes, the Internet of Things, Home Automation—all of these terms are the new vernacular for the place you call home. Smart home technology is no longer a futuristic vision. ...

Susan Liss wasn’t thinking about future resale when she hired Gilday Renovations to design and build a two-story addition to her home in Chevy Chase after husband passed away. She ...

In this second installment of our quest to find out what makes an interior designer tick, we’ve approached the top winners for residential interior design in this year’s awards ...

Home renovations can drive you insane. There’s no denying it. It’s often a painfully chaotic process.

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 ...

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. ...

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 of ...

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 ...

Make Your Kitchen Feel Bigger & Function Better: Interior Renovation & Reconfiguration This happens a lot in metropolitan Washington, DC. We encounter older homes with ...

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 ...

If you live in Chevy Chase and you are planning to build an addition to your home, you will also have to plan a "home" for all the rainwater that the new addition is going to ...

Home remodeling, can be a bit of an emotional roller coaster even when all goes according to plan. We get that. The design process is exciting and gets the creative juices ...

Smaller and Bigger When working in an older condominium home during a condo renovation we encounter many of the same problems we find when remodeling an older single family ...

This Washington DC home remodeling project is a great example of how carefully selected design elements can transform an interior. The program here is to renovate the interior of ...

Should you move or should you stay? Should you invest in a home renovation or move to new house? This question comes up frequently when we discuss major renovations and additions ...

In 2009 Gilday Renovations made the switch and became a 100% wind powered remodeling company. Perhaps you have seen banners flying at Maryland retail businesses -particularly ...

Not only do they produce great works, Gilday Renovations carpenters look great doing it! In the photo: Taking a break from making magic in Washington DC: David Wilson, Jon ...