Remodeling Contractor in Kennett Square, PA

Kennett Square is the Mushroom Capital of the World, the borough behind a big share of the mushrooms grown in this country, and the town wears the title with a straight face and an annual festival. It is also one of the prettiest boroughs in Chester County: a lively State Street, Longwood Gardens a few minutes up Route 1, and streets of brick twins, Victorians and foursquares that have been kept with obvious pride. The market reflects it, buyers compete for these blocks, and owners renovate with resale value and street presence both in mind. Houses like these age well when they are maintained and age loudly when they are not. Our job in Kennett Square is usually the maintained kind: owners who love the house, want it brought current, and want the character to survive the process.

Inside, the work starts with bathrooms and walls. Borough bathrooms from the early 1900s were added into houses that never planned for them, and our bathroom remodels correct what a century of improvisation left behind: undersized drains, floors framed for a lighter era, and ventilation that consists of a window painted shut. We rebuild from structure up, then finish to the level these houses deserve. Where the layout allows it, we swap cramped tubs for proper walk in showers. The walls themselves are plaster, and our plaster and drywall work saves them where they are sound: patching, skim coating and squaring up a hundred years of settling into paint ready surfaces. Gutting original plaster is sometimes necessary and often not, and the difference is thousands of dollars, so we inspect before we prescribe. Old trim stays wherever it can. It is usually better wood than anything at the lumberyard today.

Outside, Kennett Square is a porch town. Front porches face the sidewalk here and get used, which means steps, decking, posts and railings all earn their wear. Our porch restoration work rebuilds soft steps, replaces failed boards, refinishes what the sun has beaten flat and installs railings that meet code without looking like a highway guardrail. It is the kind of project that changes the whole face of a house for sensible money. Kennett Square sits about 55 minutes from our shop, the farthest stop on our list, and we are honest about what that means: we group southern Chester County projects together, and very small single visit jobs may be better served locally. For full projects, the drive is our cost, not yours, and the estimate is free. We think the town is worth it.