Marblehead Design Group

Marblehead Design Group is a one-showroom kitchen practice on Pleasant Street in Marblehead, working as a designer for Elmwood and Cabico cabinetry. The portfolio is where the character shows: 23 project sets on Houzz, weighted toward old houses on the North Shore — a transitional kitchen in a historic Salem home, an 1890 remodel in Manchester-by-the-Sea, a Cape kitchen in Barnstable, several Marblehead updates. Typical jobs run $10,000 to $100,000 by its own listing, which fits a business that designs the room and supplies the cabinetry rather than one that runs a whole-house renovation. Two things to sort out before hiring. Nothing written by a customer has been published on the directories checked, so there is no third-party read on how projects actually go — ask for two or three recent clients and go see a finished kitchen. And on credentials, BuildZoom lists licence #198659 for this business with an expiration date of June 2022, marked inactive; it also lists liability insurance with Hiscox up to $2 million. If your job needs a registered home improvement contractor pulling permits, ask directly who holds that registration and get the number to check yourself. For cabinetry selection and a designed layout in an older North Shore house, the published work is squarely in that lane.