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Hyattsville, Prince George's County

Home Remodeling in Hyattsville, MD

Bathroom Remodeling • Kitchen Remodeling • Basement Finishing • Deck Construction • Interior Remodeling

If you are planning a home remodeling project in Hyattsville, MD, the useful first question is which Hyattsville your house belongs to. Nearly half of the owner-occupied homes here were built before 1950, another 1,515 units went up between 2010 and 2019, and almost nothing was built for owners between 1970 and 1999. DMV Home Improvement LLC is a four-person crew based in Washington, D.C., and Hyattsville sits inside the surrounding area we cover.

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Owner-Occupied Homes Built Before 1950
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Empty room with original parquet wood flooring and painted trim in an older house

The Barbell

The Homes We Remodel in Hyattsville

Census figures describe a barbell. About 47.4 percent of owner-occupied homes predate 1950, only around 6.5 percent were built across the entire 1970 to 1999 span, and 1,515 units went up between 2010 and 2019. A century-old house and a seven-year-old townhouse can sit half a mile apart here and need almost nothing in common. The median unit has 4.8 rooms, so a home remodeling conversation in Hyattsville comes down to finding one more bath, one more usable floor, or one more room that works.

Hyattsville's Pre-1950 Homes

Hyattsville grew up around the B and O Railroad line and the 1899 streetcar, so mail-order kit houses are part of the stock. The Vallonia, the most commonly built Sears model in Prince George's County, shipped as one and a half stories with a facade-wide front porch, a central dormer, eight rooms and one bath. Short sidewalls upstairs, almost no closet depth, a kitchen walled off from the dining room, and one bath for every bedroom in the house.

The rest of the older stock reads the same way, from the late-nineteenth-century blocks around Farragut, Gallatin and Hamilton Streets to the Cape Cods of Queens Chapel Manor and the brick ramblers of University Hills. Much of that layer sits inside the Hyattsville Historic District, roughly 627 acres listed on the National Register in 1982 with a boundary increase in 2004, where porch detail, window rhythm and rooflines are part of what a house is. We plan around what is already on the block.

Refinished oak flooring running from a staircase with a wood railing through to a bright room beyond
Compact full bathroom finished in marble tile with a wall-mounted wood vanity

Bathroom Remodeling

Bathroom Remodeling in Hyattsville

With a median of 4.8 rooms, the bathroom is where the shortage shows first, and it shows differently at each end. In the pre-1950 houses a second full bath does not exist. In the 2010s townhomes the baths that do exist were finished to a builder's standard.

Adding a Second Full Bath

When a house was built with eight rooms and one bath, the second bath has to come from space the house already contains: a back bedroom, a deep hall closet, or the half story under the roof. Each option changes the floor below, because waste and supply lines have to reach a stack this framing never anticipated. Adding a second full bath is a question of what you give up elsewhere, so we walk all three.

Updating a Townhome Bathroom

The townhomes built between 2010 and 2019 put baths across four levels and are seven to fifteen years old now. Framing, venting and drain lines that age stay where they are, which is what makes the scope different. Renovating the bath that is already there is surface, storage and fixture work.

Hyattsville's Newer Townhomes

The 1,515 units built between 2010 and 2019 sit in two places: Arts District Hyattsville along Route 1, and the Riverfront at West Hyattsville Metro, where phase one delivered 183 townhomes by 2022. Those townhouses are seven to fifteen years old now, the point where owner-driven work begins. Nothing in them is failing. What is missing is the part the builder left plain: a lower level that arrived as a pass-through from the garage, narrow walls where built-ins and interior carpentry fit and standard furniture does not, and a main floor a full story above the yard.

Open main floor with the kitchen beyond and a stair core rising to the level above

Across Both Tracks

Our Other Remodeling Services

Bathrooms reach both ends of the city. So does the rest of the list, though each service lands differently on either side of the gap.

Galley kitchen with gray shaker cabinets, a tile backsplash and a light countertop

Kitchen Remodeling

In the pre-1950 houses the kitchen is a narrow room closed off from a formal dining room, so opening up a closed kitchen is a framing question before it is a design question. The load path has to land on something solid in a house whose foundation may be brick or fieldstone rubble, which is why the basement gets looked at before the kitchen does.

Finished lower level room with carpet, recessed lighting and a shuttered window

Basement Finishing

Lower-level work in Hyattsville starts with water. Residents have a name for the pond that forms where 40th Avenue, Hamilton Street and Gallatin Street meet by the Driskell Park entrance: Lake Gallatin. Wet basements are on record at 41st and Rhode Island Avenues and along 40th Avenue north of Jefferson Street. On those blocks the path to a finished lower level runs through drainage first.

Raised wood deck with a matching wood railing and a stair run at the corner

Deck Construction

On a four-level townhouse the garage sits under the house, so the main floor is a full story above the yard and the back door opens onto nothing. Building a deck off a main floor that sits a story up means a ledger properly attached to the band joist, framing sized for the span, and a stair run to grade.

Living room opening through a wide cased doorway to a dining room beyond

Interior Remodeling

The gap between the two housing stocks is where general interior work earns its keep: flooring over a tired subfloor, plaster and drywall repair, trim and door replacement, and closets where the original plan never put any.

Where We Work

Areas We Serve Around Hyattsville

Hyattsville is unusual in that the mailing address and the city limits do not agree. ZIPs 20781 and 20782 are the incorporated city: downtown, the historic core, West Hyattsville, University Hills and Queens Chapel Manor. ZIPs 20784 and 20785 carry Hyattsville mailing addresses and contain no part of it.

Our base is Washington, D.C., and Hyattsville does not touch the District line; Chillum and Mount Rainier sit in between. US Route 1 enters Maryland as Rhode Island Avenue and becomes Baltimore Avenue, and the Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail follows the streetcar Route 82 right-of-way that gave Streetcar 82 Brewing its name. We work in Hyattsville and throughout Washington, D.C. and the surrounding areas.

Our Process

Our Remodeling Process

In Hyattsville, step one carries the most weight.

01
Contact Our Team
Call or send the form and tell us roughly when the house was built. With almost nothing built here between 1970 and 1999, that detail sorts the project.
02
On-Site Consultation
We come to the house, read the actual conditions, and take measurements.
03
Detailed Estimate
You receive a clear, itemized estimate covering materials, labor and timeline.
04
Review the Contract
Scope, payment structure, warranty and schedule get read together before anything is signed. If the work needs a permit, that coordination is part of what we take on.
05
Construction
Our four-person crew does the work, and you hear where things stand as the project moves.
06
Final Walkthrough
We review the finished work with you line by line, and the job is not done until you say it is.

In Their Own Words

Hyattsville Customer Reviews

The same four people would be doing the work at either end of the city. A century-old Vallonia and a townhouse finished in 2018 ask for opposite things, and the crew that shows up is the same either way. Our work carries a 5.0 rating across 32 reviews.

★★★★★

“DMV home improvement is a family owned business & they've become my family. Across multiple jobs Jorge has been my go to. He's always prompt, professional & does great work. Pricing is always fair. To simply put it, I trust their work.”

Charles Morris Jr

★★★★★

“DMV was fantastic from start to finish. They upgraded our existing deck, built a screened in portion, installed new pavers/sidewalk, and did a couple other smaller jobs. High quality work, professionalism, and great communication.”

Garret Harries

★★★★★

“I recently hired DMV Home Improvement to renovate my garage, and I couldn't be more thrilled with the results. The transformation is absolutely stunning.”

Sharon Yarborough

Read what homeowners have written about our work, or meet the four people who would be doing the work.

Two-Track Questions

Home Remodeling FAQs

It has to be taken from somewhere the house already has, and the candidates are limited in a plan built with eight rooms and one bath. What decides it is where the existing stack runs and what sits on the floor below, because the drain has to reach a line this framing never anticipated. Those two things get checked during the consultation, before a layout is drawn.

Both, and they are genuinely different jobs. The townhomes built between 2010 and 2019 need finish work: a lower level turned into a room, built-ins, updated surfaces, a deck off a main floor that sits a full story up. A pre-1950 house needs space found first.

Yes. Only ZIPs 20781 and 20782 are the incorporated City of Hyattsville; 20784 and 20785 carry Hyattsville mailing addresses without containing any part of it. The city publishes a residency check for that reason. It makes no difference to us either way.

Usually, but the order matters. In the low-lying blocks this is a drainage and sump question before it is a finishing question, and finishes go in only once the space has proven it stays dry. That is the one shortcut we will talk you out of.

Mostly it changes how the outside gets treated. The district covers roughly 627 acres and the houses inside it were built to read as a set, so the exterior is the part of the project with the least room to improvise. Interior work is usually where the gain is, and a plan keeps the street-facing side of the house as you found it.

Rear deck with white railings, a covered seating area and a stair run down to the yard
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Whether your house is a one-bath bungalow off Baltimore Avenue or a townhouse near the Riverfront due for its first update, the next move is the same. Call (202) 904-3326 or tell us the year and the ZIP through the form. A reply comes back within 24 hours. The walkthrough and the written scope come before any number does, and the finished work carries a one-year workmanship warranty.

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Tell us roughly when the house was built and the ZIP, and we will set up a walkthrough. We work in Hyattsville and throughout Washington, D.C. and the surrounding areas.

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