Joseph F. Yencho, Design/Builder

It would be hard to find words to describe how positive our experience with partners Joe Yencho and Carl Bryan was. I am writing after living in our amazing house for over a week, moving in two days after work was done on 12/21 ....ON TIME and On Budget! If someone else told me my story I might have trouble believing it: that Quality By Design started work the day after we closed and finished on the date in the contract; that the work was of the highest quality; that Joe and Carl gave excellent design and budget advice throughout; and that we had a positive relationship throughout. Over a 5 month renovation we found Joe and Carl to be two of the best people I've had the pleasure of working with in any setting. They were unbelievably hard working, smart, kind, respectful, patient, and skilled. Two signs of their work that were very important to us were 1) Joe and/or Carl were on site every day and 2) all of the subs they brought in were the best of the best and had a ton of respect for Joe and Carl. They have been immediately available for any questions or minor issues we've had since the work was finished. Joe documented the work on his site and I urge you to look at it. The cliche "I can not recommend them enough" is too true. We were so lucky to find Quality By Design. I can not recommend them as highly as they deserve.

Joe completed a gorgeous custom kitchen for us in March of last year. (It's the kitchen is featured in his project book.) Our previous kitchen was outdated, cramped and barely functional. A full bath and a peninsula took up most of the floor space in the kitchen, and a "window" overlooking the adjoining family room took up valuable wall space. Joe worked with us to design a functioning kitchen that fit our lifestyle with the limited space we had. After seeing our options on paper, we ended up reducing our bathroom to a half bath, filling in the window, and pushing a wall over a few inches to achieve our dream kitchen - in fact, its the picture for his website. I was very impressed with his skill and timeliness. Joe completely reshaped and renovated the bathroom, gutted the kitchen, ran all new electrical, installed new flooring, installed a new ceiling, built us a new wall, installed all the appliances and custom cabinets, installed a beautiful tile back-splash and did all the finishing touches (crown molding, painting, etc.) all within our predefined schedule. This was my first experience with a major renovation project, but I've heard horror stories from others of delays and hiccups along the way - we had none of that with Joe! Everything came together perfectly. He has a natural sense of knowing what will and will not work within a design and seemed to always be thinking one step ahead. It is clear that Joe's experience has given him an eye for quality without sacrificing value. Our custom cabinets were incredibly well priced and exquisitely handcrafted to our specifications - something a run-of-the-mill home improvement mega store would never have been able to do for us. He was also able to get us a fantastic price on the perfect piece of soapstone for our counters. He's got a good list of contacts up his sleeve and he knows how to use them! It's one year later and there isn't anything that has popped up that I would want to change. I could not be happier with the finished product that Joe provided us. I highly recommend his services. Mary P

I've had quite a bit of experience with contractors, but none has been as rewarding as with Joe. I first met him doing a photo shoot of a bathroom project that he had built. I was completely impressed by the design and the quality of the workmanship. During the shoot I mentioned that I was in the process of renovating a kitchen in Jamaica Plain. I thought that his prices would be totally inaccessible for us, but he agreed to come over to look at the space. I had spoken with three other contractors about the space, none of whom anticipated the limitations of simply replacing existing existing cabinetry and adding some additional cabinets to make a workable kitchen in our small space.. Joe actually thinks about kitchen design (he is an avid cook) and has developed a philosophy about creating kitchens worked around usability. He is a champion of form follows function, but has an impressive aesthetic sensibility. He has displayed some of the usual contractor quirks of not completing everything on schedule, but the wait has been more than worth it. I cannot recommend him too highly if you want quality, original work.

My first experience hiring someone from Houzz and it's been a great experience. We own a beach cottage in RI that was experiencing some foundation issues and Joe immediately identified the problem and came up with a solution that is much more than just a "patch" job. Joe is knowledgeable, friendly, easy to work with and arrived to the job promptly. He explains technical building terms so that a lay person can understand. We needed someone to fit us into a tight time frame and Joe kindly fit our one day repair into his schedule. We are discussing another problem area with Joe and hope to work with him again soon. In the next couple years, this house will need a new kitchen and I hope we get to work with Joe for that project as well.

I recently had the enormous pleasure of working with Quality by Design Construction (QBD) to create my dream spa bathroom addition. I had a very specific vision for the project and QBD understood that vision and partnered with me to create the unique details to truly make the end result one of a kind. The project was enormously complicated from a structural, mechanical and design perspective and QBD did an amazing job every step of the way. As with any project, there were challenges along the way, but I was always confident that QBD would do whatever was necessary to get the job done. In addition to being great at what they do, Joe Yencho and his partner Carl Bryan and their crew and subs were a pleasure to work with. I truly appreciate QBD’s dedication to carrying out my vision and would highly recommend them to anyone seeking high quality work at competitive prices. I would not hesitate using QBD again and look forward to having them come back soon to do more projects in my home.

I would like to let everyone know what a terrific job Joe did for us on our kitchen. We (Dave and I) had been looking for years to modernize our small cramped kitchen. Either the kitchen suppliers wanted just to sell new cabinets ( not solving the problem) or several local Contractors wanted to add a large addition to make more room (very costly), but could only refer us to the cabinet salesmen at their lumberyard for the design (who just wanted to sell us new cabinets). At first I was not sure about contacting Joe, he looked very expensive. But after a very long initial meeting, and several follow-ups to tweek the design, we fell in love with the plan. He completly changed the layout, added a >small< bump out to one wall, and 3 months later, we are using our dream kitchen!~ Dave and I would highly recommend Joe anytime!

Joe's work for me was beyond my expectations in every way. His redraw of the kitchen in my blueprints took it from so-so to spectacular. He planned the kitchen around the way my husband and I will be living on small acreage and accommodated our habits in the design. I can recommend Joe Yencho's work without reservation.