Diab Custom Design

Tara Diab has been renovating New England homes and building the furniture that goes into them since 1989 — the company's own account of a Waltham sole proprietorship that BBB puts at 37 years in business, with an A+ letter grade. Her Massachusetts home improvement contractor registration, #180190, is active on the state registry in her own name, and BuildZoom counts 22 permitted projects on file for the business. Houzz and BuildZoom both list a construction supervisor licence, CS-077339. From customers there is a single line — a 2019 Google reviewer recommending her work. One wrinkle sits in the licence records. BuildZoom also lists an older home improvement contractor registration, #140925, as inactive, and says its status was at one point cancelled per Mass.gov. The current registration is the active one, so ask which number goes on your permit paperwork if the older one surfaces. The advertised work covers both halves of the business: general contracting, remodel design and furniture design at BBB, and at Houzz a longer list running through basement and bathroom remodeling, custom cabinets, crown molding and baseboard, flooring installation, countertops and deck building. If you want one person to carry a renovation and build the cabinetry or furniture that goes inside it, that is what this shop is set up for. Ask which of those permitted projects most resembles yours, and get the carpentry and the construction scoped in a single written estimate before anyone starts.