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At Bowen, we handle kitchen and bathroom remodeling for homeowners throughout Edgewater MD. One licensed team designs your project, builds it, and finishes it. We do not subcontract any part of the work.

We carry MHIC license number 48957 and three generations of the same family behind the name. From the waterfront communities along the South River to the newer streets off Central Avenue, we handle the design, the Anne Arundel County approvals, and every material decision in one place.

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Remodeling Edgewater MD Families Keep Coming Back To

Six Reasons to Choose Us for Your Edgewater Remodel

Edgewater houses cover a wide range. Some started as summer cottages. Others are substantial year round homes along the river, and newer construction fills the streets inland. Each one asks something different from a remodeler.

We have worked across that range since 1953. Our commitment is simple. We stay committed to the same quality of work whether the job is a full kitchen or a single bathroom, and our customers keep calling us back because that does not vary.

No Subcontractors, Ever

Your designer, demolition crew, carpenters, and finish team all work directly for us. We do not subcontract. When one company handles every phase, nobody can point at somebody else when a detail slips.

We Handle the Permits

Structural, electrical, and plumbing work needs county approval. We file the applications, book the inspections, and carry each one through to sign off. You never speak to a permit office.

A Scope That Fits Your Home

Some Edgewater homes need stripping back to the framing. Others need one wall moved. Many just need new surfaces. Our designers tell you which category your house falls into, including when the least expensive option is the right one. Nobody gets pushed toward a bigger project than the house needs.

Three Generations on Anne Arundel County Houses

Three generations of this family have worked on houses across Anne Arundel County. We know how each era was framed, where moisture collects in homes near the water, and what usually sits behind the walls of a 1950s cottage.

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We carry MHIC license number 48957 and we are licensed and insured. Our showroom in Crofton is where you make every material decision in person. Look the license up yourself at the Maryland Home Improvement Commission.

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Family Owned and Working Here Since 1953

Home, Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling Edgewater Trusts

Seven decades of high quality work, in house design, and residential construction services across Anne Arundel County.

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The room you keep meaning to deal with can become reality this year. Tell us the dream and we will tell you honestly what it takes.

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What We Have Learned About Edgewater Houses

Remodeling in Edgewater MD Is Never the Same Job Twice

Edgewater grew around water rather than around a highway. Communities spread along the South River and down the Mayo peninsula over several decades, and each wave of building left its own habits behind.

A cottage in Selby on the Bay and a recent build off Central Avenue have almost nothing in common beneath the finishes. Anyone quoting both the same way has not looked closely enough at either.

Much of the older housing started as seasonal cottages, built for summers on the water and converted to year round living later. The kitchens and bathrooms were sized for short stays rather than daily family use, and the framing behind them is often irregular. Our work here usually means reconfiguring the layout rather than replacing surfaces.

Homes built through the middle decades along the river and the established side streets are solid but closed in. They were laid out for a different way of living. Opening those layouts is the most common request we hear in this part of Edgewater, and it almost always involves structural work.

The newest construction inland along Central Avenue and Route 2 has sound framing and modern layouts, paired with builder grade kitchens and bathrooms. Nothing structural needs touching. Every surface does.

The county requires approval before any work that touches structure, wiring, or plumbing. Moving a kitchen sink qualifies. Adding a circuit qualifies. Taking out a wall certainly qualifies. Proceeding without approval creates a problem that surfaces years later, when a buyer’s inspector asks what was permitted.

We handle all of it. We file the applications, book the inspections, and follow each approval through. Your only involvement is letting the inspector in.

There is a resale reason to do this properly. County records show what was approved and inspected, and both appraisers and buyers check. Unpermitted work tends to surface at the worst point in a sale.

Several Edgewater communities have active associations that review changes to a property. Almost all of that review covers what can be seen from the road or the water.

Interior renovation usually proceeds without community review, because a new kitchen changes nothing outside your house. Check your own association rules rather than assuming, and we help you work out which parts of a project apply.

Where an association does have a say, knowing at the design stage saves weeks. We build those requirements into the plan before materials are ordered.

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Custom Edgewater Bathroom Remodeling & Kitchen Remodeling

Everything We Build for Remodeling in Edgewater MD

Edgewater covers a wide span of construction, and the right approach differs house by house. We work at every scope, from a full teardown to a surface refresh. Each project starts with an assessment of what your home actually needs. Our kitchen remodeling and bathroom remodeling in Edgewater MD work runs to the same standard whichever scope you choose.

Remodeling Edgewater MD

Some Edgewater kitchens cannot be fixed with new surfaces. When the layout does not work, the wiring predates the appliances, and the plumbing runs in the wrong place, we strip the room back to the framing and start again. Everything is rebuilt around how you want to use the space.

You do not always need to gut a kitchen to fix it. Often the problem is one wall in the wrong place, or a peninsula blocking the route everyone walks. We rework the footprint, move what needs moving, and leave the rest. This keeps the budget well below a full teardown.

Dated bathrooms usually suffer from bad planning rather than bad construction. We rethink where the shower, bathtub, vanity, and storage belong, run new plumbing to suit that plan, and finish with tile and fixtures you picked yourself at the showroom. Where we uncover mold or moisture damage behind a surround, we show you before going any further.

When the layout already works, changing it wastes money. This scope swaps every visible surface, cabinets, counters, backsplash, lighting, and fixtures, while leaving the footprint untouched. Newer Edgewater homes with builder grade finishes gain the most from this approach.

Older houses around the South River rarely offer square walls or standard dimensions. We design and build cabinetry to the measurements your room actually has, then fit interiors around what you store. Available inside a larger project or entirely on its own.

When it comes to remodeling in Edgewater MD, we guide material selection, template your actual counters, coordinate fabrication, and install. Quartz, granite, solid surface, and butcher block all sit in our showroom where you can put your hand on them and see how each pairs with the cabinets you have chosen.

Tile decides whether a finished room feels considered or assembled. We help you settle on scale, pattern, and grout colour that suit the cabinets and counters, then our own installers handle prep, setting, and grouting.

Lighting gets planned at the start with us, not chosen at the end. Recessed placement, pendants over an island, under cabinet task lighting, and vanity fixtures all enter the electrical drawings early so the finished room lights the way you need it to.

Undermount, farmhouse, or vessel, with finishes chosen to match the hardware elsewhere in the room. Our crew handles the rough in and the connections, and county inspection follows wherever code calls for it.

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A Home and Bathroom Remodel Edgewater Homeowners Can Actually Plan Around

Six Steps From Planning to Completion

Handing your house to a contractor is a serious decision, and Edgewater homeowners ask good questions before they commit. We would rather have that conversation early. Here is the sequence every project follows, whether you live in a cottage on the water or a newer build off Route 2.

1

Free In Home Estimate

A designer comes to your Edgewater house, looks at the room, checks what the existing plumbing and wiring can support, and asks how you live. Nobody pitches you anything. You get straight answers and enough detail to decide whether to go further.

2

Permits & Project Requirements

We identify your construction era, the issues that come with it, and which Anne Arundel County approvals your project needs. Anything requiring a permit is identified now rather than discovered later.

3

Showroom & Design Consultation

You come to Crofton and choose cabinets, counters, tile, and fixtures alongside a designer. Everything sits together in front of you, so you approve combinations rather than individual pieces.

4

Custom Project Plan

Your designer turns the assessment and your selections into a written plan with a timeline and a price. Nothing proceeds until you have read it and agreed to it.

5

Our Own Crew Builds It

Our own crew handles every trade, from demolition through final finishing. The people in your house on the last day are the people who were there on the first.

6

Final Walkthrough

We go through the finished room together at the final walkthrough, surface by surface. Anything that falls short gets corrected before the job is completed and signed off.

Questions Edgewater Homeowners Ask Us

Straight Answers on Remodeling in Edgewater MD

A trusted process, an in house team, and a full range of renovation work. Here is what Edgewater homeowners ask us most.

The cost of a bathroom remodel in Edgewater MD depends on four things: whether walls come down, whether the plumbing relocates, the materials you select, and what condition the structure behind your finishes turns out to be in.

Scope drives the number, which is why we will not quote one before seeing your house. After the free in home visit you receive a written estimate covering the entire project with nothing held back.

Most bathroom remodels in Edgewater run a matter of weeks, though the timeline depends entirely on scope.

Swapping surfaces inside an existing layout finishes far sooner than a bathroom that gets reconfigured with relocated plumbing. Running every trade with our own crew means we control the schedule instead of waiting on somebody else, so you get an accurate date during planning rather than a flattering one.

Yes. Anne Arundel County requires approval for structural, electrical, and plumbing work, which captures most bathroom and kitchen remodels.

We file the applications, book the inspections, and see each approval through before work begins. Work that appears in county records also protects you at resale, when a buyer’s inspector starts asking what was permitted. The county publishes its requirements on the Anne Arundel County permits page.

Yes. We carry MHIC license number 48957 and we are licensed and insured for work throughout Anne Arundel County.

Look that number up through the Maryland Home Improvement Commission and our record appears in seconds. We would encourage you to run the same check on any contractors you consider, ourselves included.

Yes, Edgewater sits inside our service area and our crews work throughout the community.

We have handled kitchen remodels and bathroom projects in the waterfront communities along the South River, in the older neighborhoods off Central Avenue, and in newer construction closer to Route 2. Anne Arundel County has been our home county since 1953, and many homeowners here found us through a neighbor.

Yes. Consultations and in home estimates are free, with nothing owed if you decide not to proceed.

A designer comes to your house, measures the space, and talks through what is realistic for your budget. On payment, we structure schedules around project milestones, and some homeowners fund larger renovations through their own bank or credit union.

Rarely for interior work. Anne Arundel County applies additional rules to land near tidal water, and those rules concentrate on grading, clearing, and changes to a building footprint rather than on interior finishes.

Because every address differs, we check yours with the county rather than assuming, and we flag anything relevant before your design is finalized.

No. Your designer, demolition crew, carpenters, and finish team all work directly for us.

That one decision removes most of what goes wrong on a remodel, because nobody can point at another company when a detail slips. The crew in your house on the last day is the crew that was there on the first.

Our showroom is at 2146 Priest Bridge Court, Suite 2, Crofton, MD 21114, open Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM.

Every cabinet, counter, tile, and fixture in your project gets chosen here in person rather than off a screen. From most of Edgewater the drive runs about 25 minutes up Route 2 and Route 3. Call (410) 451-5928 and we will set a time.

Yes, and we handle it as real construction rather than a surface cover up.

We remove the old tub, inspect the framing and plumbing underneath, correct any damage we find, and build the new shower properly. Taking the time to fix what sits behind the surface is what makes the result last, and it is the difference between a bathroom that holds up and one that fails quietly in five years.

Yes, and plenty of Edgewater homeowners do exactly that.

One team across both rooms means one schedule to coordinate, a consistent design language through the house, and sequencing that keeps somewhere usable while work continues. A good number of our repeat customers started with a single room and called us again a year or two later.

That depends on the condition of your cabinet boxes, and we will tell you straight which one your kitchen calls for.

Where the existing boxes remain sound and only the finish looks tired, painting delivers a genuine change for considerably less. Custom cabinetry gets designed and built for the room it lives in, sized to your walls and your storage habits, and that is the right answer when the boxes themselves have gone.

Expect a tidy site, a crew that behaves like guests in your house, and someone telling you what happens next.

We cover what needs covering, sort debris removal before demolition rather than after, and keep you posted through each phase. Nobody enjoys living around a renovation, and how a crew conducts itself decides how bearable those weeks feel.

We stop, show you exactly what we found, and talk through the options before going any further.

Older houses close to the South River sometimes conceal mold or moisture damage beneath a tub surround or under bathroom flooring. Burying that under new tile serves nobody. You get the facts, revised options, and a decision that stays yours.

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Three Generations of Local Experience

At Bowen Remodeling and Design, we are a third generation family business and we have worked on Anne Arundel County houses for more than 70 years. You deal with the same local team from the first free consultation through to the final walkthrough. We provide home remodeling in Edgewater MD and across nearby communities, including:

Whether you are planning a complete kitchen, a bathroom you have put off for years, custom cabinetry, or simply a refresh that pulls a room together, our designers and installers make remodeling in Edgewater MD straightforward and shape it around your house.

We have built a reputation in this region on careful work and workmanship that carries a personal signature. Read our rating and reviews before you call anyone, ourselves included, because a remodeler is only worth what past clients say.

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Where We Work Around Edgewater

We remodel homes throughout Edgewater and the wider Anne Arundel County area, from converted waterfront cottages to recent construction inland. Below are the areas we cover, with ZIP codes where they apply. Confirm your address any time by calling (410) 451-5928.

Our full service area covers Anne Arundel County and parts of Howard County.

These streets sit closest to the original colonial settlement, and the housing runs from mid century builds to more recent infill. Kitchens here frequently carry original footprints designed around appliances nobody uses any more. Reconfiguration tends to deliver more than replacement, and we plan around the framing quirks that older construction near the water reliably produces.

Much of this housing began life as seasonal cottages before becoming year round homes, which shows up in compact kitchens and bathrooms that were never meant for daily family use. Layout changes matter more here than anywhere else in Edgewater, and we look closely at moisture history before finalising any bathroom plan.

Down the peninsula the houses grow larger and the water gets closer on both sides. Bathrooms take the brunt of the humidity, and homeowners here often want spaces that suit the setting rather than fighting it. We plan ventilation and material choices with that exposure in mind.

Riva and the streets bordering the river carry a mix of established homes and newer construction. Kitchen projects here commonly involve opening sightlines toward the water, which usually means structural work and a permit. We identify both early rather than midway through demolition.

The newest housing in Edgewater sits along these corridors, and it arrives with modern layouts paired with builder grade kitchens and bathrooms that never matched the rest of the house. Surface upgrades transform these rooms without touching the footprint, which keeps both the cost and the disruption down.

Past Edgewater we cover Annapolis, Davidsonville, Crofton, Millersville, Severna Park, Gambrills, Odenton, and Pasadena, along with parts of Howard County. Every project follows the same six stages regardless of the address. Ring (410) 451-5928 to confirm we cover yours.

Remodeling Experts Edgewater Residents Visit in Crofton

Getting to Our Crofton Showroom from Edgewater

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From Edgewater, take Route 2 north toward Annapolis.

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Follow Route 50 west, then join MD 3 (Robert Crain Highway) south.

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Look for signs toward Priest Bridge Drive off MD 3.

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Watch for Priest Bridge Drive off MD 3, and turn onto Priest Bridge Court.

Arrive at 2146 Priest Bridge Court, Suite 2, Crofton, MD 21114. Roughly 25 minutes and about 12 miles.

Or we can come to you. Every Edgewater estimate is free and we travel to your house.

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