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Remodeling vs. Buying: Why Renovating Your Home Makes More Sense in Today’s Market.
Pros and Cons from Design-Build experts As a premium design and remodel specialist serving East Cobb, Roswell, and Sandy Springs, GreatHouse Design Build transforms homes into spaces of lasting beauty, function, and enjoyment. With over 20 years of experience, we...
Home Remodeling in East Cobb? Is Now the Right Time ?
If you’ve been on the fence about starting a home remodel, you’re not alone. Many homeowners are asking themselves whether now is the right time to invest in home remodeling in East Cobb. Between rising costs, inflation, and an unpredictable economy, it’s...
Princess Bunk Room – East Cobb
Client Goals: Finish the basement space to include a bedroom for accommodating family and friends for sleepovers and holiday fun. Timeless, fun decor was a must! Our Solution: We designed and built custom cabinetry to create unique sleeping spaces...
Climate-Controlled Bonus Room – Roswell
Client Goals: Repair mold and moisture damage and improve the climate control in this 500 square-foot, above-garage bonus room. Our Solution: We tore everything out down to the stud framing, then built it back up with moisture protection and both...
Boosting Colonial Curb Appeal – Marietta
Client Goals: Improve the house facade’s curb appeal. Our Solution: Overgrown shrubbery was pulled out to showcase new graded landscaping and stone-faced foundation. The tiny front stoop was enlarged to a wide, metal-roofed portico to frame the new...
Adding a Covered Porch Overlook – Roswell
Client Goals: Enclose an open deck area for more year-round, all-weather functionality. Our Solution: We roofed the porch with an outward facing-gable for a picturesque framed view of the yard. Adding a white tongue & groove vaulted ceiling keeps...
Creating a Master Suite Retreat – Roswell
Client Goals: Remodel the master suite in the lower level of the home in a contemporary style. Our Solution: This lower-level master suite got new flooring, a relaxing color scheme, awesome barn doors, and all-new plumbing and lighting. Barn doors...
Engineering an Open Plan – Roswell
Client Goals: Open up and update the first floor of the home Our Solution: We removed support columns to open up the space between the family room and the eating area, replacing the colums with a beam to maintain the structural integrity. The...
Vaulted Ceiling Screened-in Porch – Roswell
Client Goals: Enclose an underutilized 21’x15′ patio space to make it more functional year-round. Our Solution: The screenporch has a 14′ vaulted ceiling with skylights, 9′ high walls, and wide expanses of custom screening to enclose the space, keep...
The Outdoor Great Room – East Cobb
Client Goals: Remove existing back deck and install new screen porch with an attached deck. Our Solution: We replaced the back deck with this soaring screened porch, with a new attached deck. This expansive space provides a comfortable outdoor great...
Butcher Block Island Kitchen – East Cobb
Client Goal: A total renovation to change the floor plan and allow for an island, while making the flow better. Our Solution: We took out the peninsula floor plan and created a large butcher block island improve the efficiency, storage space ...
ADA Accessible Master Bath
Client Goals: To stay in the home they know and love, filled with photos of annual family reunions. They needed to make the first floor compliant with ADA standards (Americans with Disabilities Act) to accommodate a veteran who now needs...
Entertaining in Style – East Cobb
Client Goals: Finish several rooms in the basement area of the home in a traditional style. Our Solution: We created a pub area with stone bar and backbar, an office, a game room, a theater room, and a full bath. We finished the floor in an...
White Marble Master Bath – Roswell
Client Goals: Remodel the master bath for better integration of the shower, water closet, sitting area, and walk-in closet. Our Solution: We incorporated three separate spaces (bathroom, sitting area, and closet) by moving doorways and walls to make...
Eat-in Kitchen Remodel with Powder Room & Laundry Room
Client Goals: Make the kitchen bigger, and more usable, in a traditional style. Our Solution: The formerly small kitchen was expanded into space once taken up by a screened porch — which meant adding a structural beam extending into the new laundry...
Freestanding Tub for Luxe Bathroom – Roswell
Client Goals: Remodel two bathrooms (a basement guest bath and the master bath). Our Solution: The new master bath makes more dramatic use of the corner windows and skylight. Grey wood-plank tile brings emphasis to the white cabinetry,...
Rustic Kitchen Remodel with Barn Doors
Client Goals: Take out the old kitchen and open up the space to adjoining rooms, creating a more united style throughout. Our Solution: After demolishing the existing kitchen, we added new structural elements to reinforce the open spaces, creating a...
4 Upgrades for Your Covered Patio
The covered patio sits outside your daylight basement. It doesn’t have its own roof – it has a first-floor addition, or a porch, above it. So, lots of shade, lots of posts (holding up the addition). Depending upon the orientation of your house and side yard, you...
3 Tips for Keeping Warm In Winter and Cool in Summer
We tend to think about our house insulation in the winter, when the furnace keeps cycling on (or not), or when everyone’s bundled up in layers of sweatshirts and hats, whining. This is when we want insulation to act like a sub-zero sleeping bag, retaining our body...