The first thing you need to know about interior renovation is that it is by far more cost-effective than building a room addition. We’ve worked with clients who called on us to design an addition because they thought they needed more room in their house. After further investigation, it turned out that what they needed was “breathing room” inside the...
Learn MoreThe Promise of the Design Build Remodeling Experience Sometimes prospective clients will start a conversation by telling us they’ve decided they only want to work with a design build firm. The return question from us is “what made you decide that?” It is not uncommon to find that interest in a design build only approach has been prompted by a prior...
Learn MoreWhat To Do With All That Water Montgomery County has issued rules about rain water management as relates to residential remodeling–especially for projects involving home additions. If the design plan shows an addition exceeds 400 square feet, the architect has to produce a rain water management plan for the property. Chevy Chase Village takes a more strict...
Learn MoreHome remodeling, that is. The design process tends to be very exciting and pleasurable throughout. There’s almost always some jitters as we gingerly make our way through final pricing. Then comes a big surge of relief and renewed excitement when we arrive on day one to prepare the site for demolition and construction. You wouldn’t expect this but some...
Learn MoreKitchen Work Centers We have talked about the kitchen work triangle and how it effectively makes or breaks a kitchen design. If the geometry is off, the kitchen -no matter how beautiful it looks- will not work successfully. Sometimes clients refer to this problem as a “dysfunctional layout.” This has all to do with the location of work centers (aka task...
Learn MoreThe Washington DC area is home to a big, busy interior design community. It makes sense that residential design and renovation are big business here because the DC market itself is constantly changing–and design and renovation are all about change. Whether the work is built on riveting simplicity or genre-bending extravagance, the effect of change achieved by...
Learn MoreApplying a painted glass overlay is now an established alternative to tile backsplash as an accent in the modern kitchen color palette. We are seeing more of this type of finish as our Washington DC clientele baby-steps toward the contemporary design style in kitchen and baths. The glass back splash fits that contemporary style quite well, particularly when the client...
Learn MoreOur 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 have spent years developing a way of working together that is lively and efficient. The team is particularly attuned to the needs and requirements of its Washington DC metro area clientele....
Learn MoreThe modern kitchen layout has developed along side the concept of a modern kitchen–which emphasizes an open plan. Instead of the kitchen being a smallish, isolated room (it used to be a separate building entirely) it is now the hub of family life. The modern kitchen is expected to perform with much more versatility than that humble food prep and storage room of...
Learn MoreModern Kitchen Floor Plans Modern kitchen layouts are referenced by the shape they make when viewed on a floor plan. The most popular kitchen configurations are the L, U and G-shapes. We will take a look at those in a future post. Two other types of kitchen layout, less frequently requested but worthy of mention because of their extraordinary efficiency, are the...
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