Maryland Area Interior Designer/Contractor/Design-Build Firm for $150k Kitchen Reno

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi all! I am in Howard County in a beautiful historic home and looking to gut the kitchen and adjacent “breakfast area” and dining room (load bearing wall in between it and the kitchen) to make a large, fully renovated kitchen. The renovation will probably also result in some improvements made to the also-adjacent family room, to carry new wood floors throughout and upgrade the finishes to match the newly renovated rest of the floor. Maybe add a gas fireplace and built ins, if I get spendier. The kitchen opens up currently to a screened porch and the job may involve opening up that more and possibly some new windows and doors to this porch and another patio. May also choose to improve the exterior area right outside the screened porch and take the opportunity to improve/regrade the driveway. May consider changing out some original windows to new windows in other parts of the home.

Budget for all of this will be $150k+ (depending on what of that list we really do into other areas outside the interior areas that are the focal point, which I imagine would take it closer to $200k).

I really want to get an interior designer/contractor/design-build firm (and not sure which is best for me) that can do high end projects, though my house is 3500 sq feet and value is probably $1.something million. So we aren’t talking about a $2-$3m 6000 sq ft home. But I’m having trouble finding possible contractor names because most in HOCO and that my network might know really don’t do higher end jobs and their portfolio shows a mismatch for what I am wanting. I think I could get someone to come over from MOCO but just don’t know who would be the Goldie Lox fit for this level of a job.

Thanks for any feedback, advice or names!

https://www.3877.design/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Talk to Aidan Design, they are fabulous. https://aidandesign.com/

We just completed a kitchen Reno and had a great experience. The contractor they work with does wood floors and built ins very well at a good rate.

I agree what you are describing with load bearing walls and such might be more $200k range.

+1 Aidan. Great experience with them.

[Anonymous]

We did a medium-large kitchen at a moderate finish level with three new windows for about $100k, a few years ago. This was an old house also, of similar sq footage. No moving of walls (though the size of the window openings changed) and we didn’t touch anything beyond the kitchen. I just say this to give an idea of budget. Ours is nice but not high end.