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"Every member of the Kreative Barns team is an artist, from design to implementation all of their work was outstanding. The team completed a major renovation of our new house, three bathrooms, a kitchen and more. To a person, they were polite, respectful and attentive to our needs and expectations. Communication was excellent- timely and clear. Everyone worked hard to meet deadlines and stay on budget. Increased costs and delays were always discussed and we were always given choices about how to proceed. We recommend Konstantin and his crew without reservation."

"Our house was a 1955 ranch-style house with 3 bedrooms, one bath, kitchen, and living/dining room that we moved into in 1995. We had been looking to add a second bathroom and had originally worked with an architect from NH to do a modest front and rear bump out to give us more room to fit in a second bathroom. This architect had to withdraw from the job and recommended David Kinsella of TBC. David initially made some modest changes to the plan that made sense. After somefurther discussion, in which my wife and I raised the possibility of a larger scale project to modernize the style of the house, David developed a plan that essentially rebuilt the house except for our previously remodeled kitchen and original foundation. This new plan converted our house into modern design with a more open floor plan, completely new roof line, loft space, re-finished basement (and the second bathroom). David was able to fit this into an only slightly expanded footprint in order to comply with town regulations. Throughout the process, David kept our budget in mind and would typically present different price options for us to choose from to allow us to come up with a reasonable comprise between price with style. In addition TBC worked with the town to make sure our design stayed within our zoning and conservation restrictions.
After deciding to go ahead with the project, we interviewed several contractors and decided that TBC brought us the best value for our money and would also allow David to oversee the project as needed. We started the project in June 2011 and completed the project in May 2012. The project did take several months longer than expected, but did stay on budget. The major problem that occurred that delayed the project was that in the summer of 2011, the original subcontracted framers were being sent to other jobs by their boss even though TBC was told they would be coming to our job. Hence, instead of working full time on our job, they were working less than half time. Eventually TBC had to fire them and find a new contractor to step in. At the time we felt that TBC should have replaced them sooner, but perhaps this was difficult due to contractual obligations. (We also found this first group of framers were slobs who did not have much regard for the fact that we were still living in the house.) By the end of summer 2011, the house was not completely framed and roofed and number of rain storms (including hurricane Irene) slowed down progress further. In mid-October we were still living in the part of the house and we agreed at this point that we would move out to allow for a more efficient work flow. From this point construction generally proceeded ahead, except for a few delays do to weather and scheduling conflicts that arose for other subcontractors, no doubt due to the significant delay caused by the no-show framers.
In the end the house is beautiful and works for us better than we could have imagined. While the house has not expanded much in
terms of square feet, the open floor plan and high ceiling/roof line combined with increased natural lighting gives a much more expansive feeling inside. From the curb, the house has modern angular green metal roof with cedar siding and one has to look hard to find any resemblance to the original house.
At the completion of of the project, TBC was very responsive to completing punch-list items and other minor issues that have arisen over the past year. While my wife and I certainly had stressful times during the renovation (and certainly did a lot of second guessing our decision to renovate rather than move), we always felt that David had a personal interest in getting the job done correctly and making sure that we were happy in the end. In that regard, David was very accessible by email or phone before, during, and after the work. In summary, David Kinsella provided the creativity to design a renovation plan that was truly transforming for our house and TBC was then able to see the plan through to successful completion."

"Just the best, amazingly talented crew, and I’m pretty picky. They came highly recommended and I won’t use anyone else if I have any future projects. Also, just really nice to deal with and I love that."

"Very professional, honest, hard working team. I had several quotes to replace the cedar siding, and repair dry rot around the sill plate. Boris is a General Contractor and the only one that would take on not only the siding but repaired the extensive dry rot around the front door and 2 windows. His team is 2nd to none. I plan to use them for a future Bath and Kitchen remodel. There were no hidden costs, everything was fair and reasonably priced."

"Flexible when I added more projects; they also re did the flooring which was awesome and updated a bathrrom"

"Wally’s company is the best, great professionals, kind people, their work is impeccable. I highly recommend"

"neat clean perfect fair price super friendly and always good attitude. Highly recommend them 100%"

"The work was well done and completed in a reasonable amount of time. He cleaned up the existing bed more than I was expecting in that he removed a very large pile of debris (e.g. old branches, leaves, etc). It all looks great!"

"They are great to work with. It was one stop shopping. They did the cabinets, installed the flooring and painted. They even had their electrician and plumber available to do work! I highly recommend them!"

"We have had Jorge work on several projects in our house from baseboard replacement and new interior doors, to our exterior front door and built-in custom cabinets and custom laundry room. We will definitely be using Jorge for many other future projects in our home. I cannot say enough about his professionalism and quality of work. Heâ s extremely meticulous and is fantastic at rough in work and finish work. It is so difficult to find someone who can do bothâ ¦ and well. Best part is he cleans up after the job and leaves the work space spotless. I highly recommend!!"