Share John and Tabor Design Build were featured in today’s North Potomac-Darnestown Patch. The article highlights John’s 3-story addition to his Darnestown, MD home. We are very excited to share details of this project with the local community. Click here to r …
Share In the midst of the holidays, you are reminded of last year’s plans to renovate your home. The kitchen addition to give your family and guests more space to connect during the holiday festivities, was never built. The basement renovation that will add bedrooms for …
Share It is that time of year again! Time to gather up gifts for children that depend on your efforts to experience the holidays. Please bring your new, unwrapped toys to our office and we will take care of the rest. Also, please consider bigger children when buying your gi …
Share Tabor Design Build is extremely passionate about the Veteran community. Over the years we have extended our design build services to wounded Veterans returning home. Whether our efforts were to increase accessibility, or a Veterans overall level of comfort, we are h …
Share Having been a remodeler for over 30 years, I have seen tremendous changes in the industry. As new technology is developed I research and implement its use in our projects. This month I had the honor of being asked to participate in a summit meeting of Dow Building Sol …
Share Energy Leaders Today, a publication dedicated to making the construction and remodeling industries “green”, featured us in it’s magazine this quarter. Tabor Design Build was recognized as an industry leader for it’s green remodeling and charita …
Share I have said many times that the hardest part of my job as a professional remodeling contractor is estimating accurately. Remodeling contractors are not magicians and we don’t have magic pricing wands. The profession of remodeling entails so many facets of construc …
Share On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Tabor Design Build president, John Tabor, is going to Missouri for a DOW Building Products conference called the ‘Vision Voyage’. The conference will bring together builders from across the country to discuss ways to mak …
Share You’ve lived in your home for years. You have witnessed your child’s first steps in the living room, baked cookies with your children in the kitchen, and played countless games of catch in the backyard during family time. These memories, along with count …
Share Just last week I took you inside of the Tabor 3-story addition and this is what it looked like: Now the drywall has been hung and the space is starting to look like an actual home. After hanging the drywall it was taped, blocked, scrapped, skimmed and sanded smoo …
Share Over a dozen inspections down and just two more to go. Things are moving along nicely. John’s three-story addition passed its most recent inspection just last week. The “close-in” inspection checks to make sure structural framing, plumbing, gas, …
Share Nothing like enjoying the weather, eating barbeque, socializing and calling it work! While John was away at a Remodelers Advantage Conference last week, Peggy Card (our in house designer) and I joined TW Perry for a wonderful cookout. On top of being able to enjoy some …
Share John Tabor, president of Tabor Design Build, was featured in an article in Remodeling magazine this month! For those of your following our blog regularly, you are up to speed on the 3-story addition being done at John’s home. Remodeling magazine picked up the stor …
Share Swimming anyone? How about a dip in a bubbly hot tub? Well, the pool is set and the space for the hot tub has been insulated this week at the Tabor addition! If you have been following my blog updates, you were able to see the beginning stages of the pool’s instal …
Share The Tabor Team installed an endless pool at the Tabor Addition! See the video of the work in progress using the link below. Who knows, you may want an endless pool installed during your next remodeling project. Endless Pool Installation (Tabor Design Build)
Share Tabor Design Build recently worked with a family to correct a bit of a dysfunctionality they ‘inherited’ with the purchase of their Bethesda home. The homes in this area were built in the 40s and 50s, and not with the modern family in mind. Like so many fami …
Share I make it a point to stay current with remodeling news and trends. After all, how else could I provide beneficial information to potential clients attracted to our blog? Today, while scanning and reading remodeling and home improvement forums, I came across a post …
Share Commuting from the Upper Marlboro area to Rockville everyday has conditioned me to the increased likelihood of running into a traffic nightmare. Once in the Montgomery County area, I am quite comfortable assuming I wont have many traffic delays. Boy was I wrong. Not onl …
Share You have thought about it a million times; you want to remodel a room or rooms in your home. You need more space in the kitchen for the recipes you’ve been dying to try. You would love to extend your dining room area to enjoy more family dinners/events. You have e …
Share The Tabor team had a wonderful time at the Montgomery County Community Home Show this past weekend. It was refreshing to connect face-to-face with the individuals and families in and around Montgomery County. As expected, people came with interesting project ideas, lots …
Share When you read the title of this post, you may have thought the subject matter of our blog had changed. Instead of updates about the Tabor addition, you had somehow stumbled upon a site showcasing recently released horror films. Rest assured you are in the right place, a …
Share The great thing about trends is that you can set them! I read an interesting article from CBS Money Watch this week discussing remodeling trends for 2011, and this ideal was reaffirmed. Homeowners around the nation are setting trends by becoming more proactive in the r …
Share Tabor Design Build will be at the Montgomery County Community Home Show this upcoming weekend! We are eager to meet with you and your families to discuss your remodeling needs. Bring your questions, concerns and imaginations. The Universities at Shady Grove Conferenc …
Share In her normal Monday morning routine, Peggy Card, Tabor Design Build design consultant, scanned the weekends emails. Meeting confirmations, reminders and spam all in their place. Just as Peggy determined nothing was out of the ordinary, she reads, Congratulations …
Share This week we began the well drilling process for the three geo-thermal lines necessary to heat and cool the addition and the rest of the home. Drillers arrived on Monday and began to drill 473 feet into the ground. About 60 feet deep, we hit rock, which is typical in th …
Share The addition is finally under a roof just in time for the biggest snow storm we’ve had this year. Pella windows (www.pella.com) have been hung and sealed, helping to keep the cold weather outdoors. The choice to use these low energy windows was wise considerin …
Share Framing is still going well for my three-story addition. The first and second level walls and floors are set. When the Tabor team began the process of setting the roof trusses, we found that the trusses were not lining up properly with the existing roof. If we used thes …
Share Life is filled with numerous decisions and equally as many reasons not to make them. How true this is within the remodeling industry. The thing I hear from my clients most often; “We haven’t decided to move forward,” followed by a reason why. In recent …
Share I spend a great deal of time trying to understand my clients. What is important to them? How do they rationalize, strategize and ultimately make decisions about remodeling? What reasons serve as roadblocks in the space between conception and completion? I seek t …
Share Tabor Design Build, Inc. is honored to have one of their project photographs chosen for the cover of the “AARP Guide to Revitalizing Your Home”. The book, written by Rosemary Bakker, details creating beautiful living in your home for the second half of you …
Share Used to be if you wanted an addition, you hired an Architect. For a large fee they create your plans to include everything you wish for. You put it out to bid with three contractors. From there several things can happen; 1. You find a contractor with a great price but a …
Share Spring is here again. What a wonderful time of year. All the beautifully colored blossoms are out. This is my favorite time of year. It’s the perfect time to start enjoying the outdoors with a new deck or screened porch. We’d would love to help you m …
