In 2014, David Jordan began searching for new office space as his team was outgrowing its old one.
“After months of searching, we were fortunate enough to come across a 1927 Sears bungalow kit home that happened to be zoned commercial,” Jordan says. “It was the perfect property for us.”
The home is completely furnished, and the basement houses all of the sample materials. Jordan and his team grab those prior to meeting with a client and set up the samples in the office’s conference room. For meetings, Jordan says, the home is comfortable for clients and the team usually provide breakfast or lunch.
“Clients say, ‘Does anybody actually live here?’ because we’ve set it up to feel like someone’s home,” Jordan says. “We love that we’re a remodeling company and work out of a house.” In the future, he wants to do “extensive renovations … so it truly becomes a living, breathing model of [the company’s] work.”
Another advantage of the home is that it’s centrally located for the areas of the Washington, D.C., metro area that the firm services. Jordan says most of the communities he has jobs in are roughly 30 minutes from his office.
Aside from his clever choice of office space, Jordan feels he and his staff’s diverse talents sets the company apart from the competition. Jordan is a licensed civil engineer, he has a licensed interior designer on staff, and his project manager is a master plumber.
“We provide almost all of the labor on projects in-house,” Jordan says. “Having a master plumber on staff for a small remodeling company is a pretty rare thing to have.”
