Bridey Design & Development LLC

Bridey Design & Development is Bridget Henson's design-build shop, run out of Meacham Road in Somerville and pointed at New England houses that need both a designer and a builder — historic renovations at one end, modern gut jobs at the other. The credential checks out: Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration #208363 is active in the company's name. BuildZoom lists the firm at the same Somerville address with the same phone and scores it 90, a number that reflects a verified license rather than any customer's opinion. Bridget's own account of how she got here is the useful part. She studied art and design at Northeastern, worked for several design firms, then moved deliberately into residential construction to understand both halves of a project — and she frames the job as managing the fifty-odd people a renovation can involve, from engineers to subcontractors. The firm describes itself as female-owned and says it has been at this for about a decade. Its services are general contracting, project management and 3D renderings, with coverage centred on Boston. What is missing is anyone else's account. No reviews have been posted on BuildZoom or anywhere else, so there is no independent read on how the projects actually go. Reasonable to shortlist if you want one firm carrying both the design and the build on a Boston-area renovation. Ask for a client reference and a walk-through of a finished project before signing, since the license is the only thing here that has been checked by someone other than the company.