Build Design Center

Build Design Center at 1631 Wisconsin Avenue NW is an architecture and interior design resource center in the upper Georgetown commercial corridor, offering the materials, products, and design consultation services that the Georgetown residential and commercial renovation market needs in a single address. The design center format, which aggregates the resources of the renovation and interior design process under one roof, serves the Georgetown client who is managing a renovation project and needs to make the connected decisions about tile, cabinetry, hardware, lighting, and the other components that a coordinated renovation project requires.

Georgetown’s residential renovation market is sustained by the neighborhood’s stock of Federal-period and Victorian-era buildings that require ongoing renovation to meet the standards that their current owners expect. The Georgetown homeowner who purchases a nineteenth-century townhouse typically faces a renovation program that involves all of the building systems alongside the interior finish materials: the structural, mechanical, and electrical systems that the old buildings require updating, combined with the kitchen and bath renovation and the finish materials that the modern interior demands.

The design center model serves this market by providing the professional community, the architects, the interior designers, and the general contractors who serve Georgetown’s renovation projects, with the product resources they need to specify and supply the materials their clients select. The trade-only or trade-and-consumer model that most design centers operate allows the professional to use the center as a resource while also opening the door to the direct consumer client who is managing their own renovation.

The Wisconsin Avenue address at 1631 is in the upper Georgetown commercial corridor, above the main boutique district and accessible to the residential blocks that the Georgetown renovation market is concentrated in.

Hours run Monday through Saturday. The design center model serves the Georgetown renovation market by aggregating the material and product decisions of the renovation project in a single address: the tile, the hardware, the lighting, the cabinetry hardware, and the surface materials that the kitchen and bath renovation requires can be selected in a coordinated way when the design center carries the full range. The Georgetown renovation market is sustained by the neighborhood’s stock of Federal-period and Victorian-era buildings that are continuously being purchased, renovated, and sold by the professional and diplomatic community that populates the neighborhood. The design center’s customer base consists of the architects and interior designers who serve these renovation projects and the homeowners who are managing their own renovations with the guidance of a general contractor. The Wisconsin Avenue address at 1631, in the upper commercial block above the main boutique district, gives the design center access to the residential Georgetown market that the upper Wisconsin neighborhood represents. The professional who works in the Georgetown design industry, from the architect to the kitchen installer, uses the design center as the primary resource for the product categories that the renovation project requires. The trade account that most design centers maintain for professional clients, with the pricing and credit terms that the professional’s business model requires, is the primary commercial relationship for the center. Hours run Monday through Saturday.