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BirdDog Design & Build Birddog designs is a local Veteran owned and operated company. We are a licensed and insured #120259

Remember the brick kitchen from last month? Here's the rest of it.The original chimney now anchors the seating. Sage gre...
10/23/2026

Remember the brick kitchen from last month? Here's the rest of it.

The original chimney now anchors the seating. Sage green lowers and white uppers wrap the room, and faux wood beams and floating shelves finish it off. Same footprint, completely different room.

Would you have kept the brick, or covered it? Tell us below.

None of these are the first thing you notice in a kitchen. They're the things you notice every day after.A black sink an...
10/16/2026

None of these are the first thing you notice in a kitchen. They're the things you notice every day after.

A black sink and faucet against white quartz. A microwave drawer that keeps the counter clear. Under-cabinet lighting on every run. A black hood over textured white tile.

Planning a kitchen? Call 410-881-9010 or see more at https://www.birddogdesignsco.com/kitchen-renovations

The internet says one number. The contractor says another. So what does a kitchen or bathroom remodel actually cost arou...
10/14/2026

The internet says one number. The contractor says another. So what does a kitchen or bathroom remodel actually cost around Baltimore?

We wrote a free planning guide that answers it straight: real cost ranges, what pushes the number up, and the decisions worth making before you spend anything.

Comment GUIDE or send us a message and we'll send it over. No sales call attached.

Room to cook on one side and four stools on the other.A long island with a waterfall quartz end, warm oak cabinets and o...
10/12/2026

Room to cook on one side and four stools on the other.

A long island with a waterfall quartz end, warm oak cabinets and one statement light over the top. Would you go wood like this, or painted? Tell us in the comments.

See more kitchens: https://www.birddogdesignsco.com/kitchen-renovations

How long will my bathroom take?"How long will my bathroom take?" It's the question we get right after cost, so here's th...
10/07/2026

How long will my bathroom take?

"How long will my bathroom take?" It's the question we get right after cost, so here's the real answer.

A full gut remodel, down to the studs, takes three to four weeks of active work. If the walls and plumbing stay where they are, it's closer to two weeks. A big room with a lot going on (new subfloor, heated floors, custom glass) can run up to five.

The part most people don't hear: the clock starts after the decisions. We get your tile, vanity and glass chosen and ordered first, so the crew never stops mid-job waiting on a delivery.

What questions do you have about timing? Ask below, or call 410-881-9010.

09/21/2026

Before and after on a kitchen we finished in Baltimore County.

The original brick chimney was always staying — you don't rip that out of a house that old, you build around it. Everything else went.

Dark cabinets and a closed-in galley became white uppers, green lowers, open shelving where the wall cabinets used to crowd the window, and quartz throughout. Same room, twice the light.

This is the kind of project people assume needs an addition. It didn't. It needed the layout rethought and the right things taken out.

If your kitchen feels smaller than it is, that's usually fixable without moving a wall. Happy to tell you whether yours is 👇

"Recently finished a primary bath remodel. Cannot say enough about BirdDog! Seamless from start to finish. These guys ar...
09/17/2026

"Recently finished a primary bath remodel. Cannot say enough about BirdDog! Seamless from start to finish. These guys are seriously detail oriented professionals — nothing is a problem for them. They showed up every day, put their heads down and really exceeded our expectations! It's nice to have people working in your house who care and respect your home. They were even quiet and clean during demo!"
— Frank, five stars on Google

The line we keep coming back to is the last one.

Nobody puts 'quiet and clean during demo' in a brochure. But if you have ever had a crew in your house, you know it is close to the top of what you actually worry about — along with whether anyone turns up on Tuesday.

That is the part of this job that has nothing to do with tile. Showing up. Sweeping the floor before you leave. Treating somebody's house like they still have to live in it while you work.

We do not buy leads. Almost everything we take on comes from someone telling a neighbour — so if we have worked on your home, a review genuinely goes further than you would think 🙏

If you've searched "bathroom remodel cost Baltimore," you've seen a number around $11,000. Then you call a licensed remo...
09/16/2026

If you've searched "bathroom remodel cost Baltimore," you've seen a number around $11,000. Then you call a licensed remodeler about a full renovation and hear $30,000.

Both are real. They're describing completely different jobs — and working out which one you're being quoted is the single most useful thing you can do before signing anything.

We wrote the whole thing down: where the gap comes from, what's usually missing from the cheaper number, and what a permitted, to-the-studs bathroom actually costs around here.

Read it before you compare quotes 👇

Let's talk about the contingency line on your estimate, because homeowners often read it as padding.When we price a proj...
09/14/2026

Let's talk about the contingency line on your estimate, because homeowners often read it as padding.

When we price a project in an older home around here, there's a number in there for things nobody can see yet. Not a cushion for us — a stated amount for what might be behind a wall that hasn't been opened since the house went up.

Here's the reasoning. We cannot see behind tile until we take it off. In a house of that age, what's back there is frequently past its service life, and finding it is the normal outcome rather than the unlucky one.

So we do three things. We show the contingency as its own line rather than burying it in the price. We tell you in advance what would actually trigger it. And if we don't use it, you don't pay it — it doesn't quietly turn into our margin at the end.

A quote with no contingency isn't cheaper. It's just less honest about what nobody can know on day one.

Own a house from that era? What did you find? 👇

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10015 Pulaski Highway
Baltimore, MD

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Monday 7am - 4pm
Tuesday 7am - 4pm
Wednesday 7am - 4pm
Thursday 7am - 4pm
Friday 7am - 3pm

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+14436764191

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