DeSantis & Son

DeSantis and Son is honored to have received the Harrisburg Magazine's Reader's Choice Award for Carpentry in 2015 and 2016. This was possible thanks to the strong relationships we have built with our customers and suppliers. We appreciate each opportunity and at the end of every job, the most valuable reward are the smiles on our customers' faces. Your home is probably your single, highest investment. As a home owner you are aware of the costs and responsibilities of owning a home. When you decide to remodel you want someone you can trust, not only an honest person, but one who can see your ideas and dreams then turn them into reality.

A deck, whether an existing feature of the home or brand new, is a perfect compromise between indoors and outdoors — Clean and safe like indoors, open to the sky like outdoors, a step away like indoors, separate from the noise of TV and computers like outdoors. In this part of the country a deck is a nine- or ten-months-of-the-year amenity, and an incomparably inexpensive way to add square feet to your living space. An old and faded deck - even one that had become unsafe - can be brought back to use.

What do you get the house that has everything? Energy savings! The larger and older the house, the more it can benefit from updates to its heating and airconditioning, and to the efficiency of its insulation, windows, and doors. You will be amazed not only by the year-over-year savings in your energy costs, but by the immediate comfort benefits, every season of the year, of multizone control of room temperatures, reduction of drafts, and control of light and shade. We can even help you plan and execute the very latest in solar, wind, or geothermal technologies.

There is a whole floor of your home that your home has been keeping from you. It has always been there but it can't be used, because it is dark, drafty, moist, low-ceilinged, and chopped into spaces that are too small. It's the basement, and we can make your house give back that secret space - often as much square footage as the whole first floor. Every problem of every basement has a solution, and every basement can suddenly reveal a playroom, an entertainment center, a teenager's bedroom, or a relative's cozy apartment.

Modern features and fixtures mean that bathrooms are changing faster than any other room of the house. A table is a table and a couch is a couch, but a redesigned bathroom can include comfort and convenience features like a jacuzzi or steam shower that didn't even exist when your house was built. A new bathroom can solve cosmetic problems like dated tile color schemes and worn flooring and at the same time make the room more comfortable to spend time in. From a jewel-like little powder room to a whole new plumbing core that turns the master bedroom into a master suite, we can work with you to make sure you get the maximum of comfort, convenience, and resale value for every dollar you spend.

And yet you may not be enjoying these details in your home because they are worn, damaged, or hidden by paint or stopgap repairs. We can bring your home's most precious features back to stunning new life, by carefully and safely refinishing them. Or we can replace them with efficient and environmental new pieces (for instance, we are a Pella window Installer and Sales Agent) while perfectly matching your home's original appearance in selection of materials, colors and wood grain. Some of the most cost-effective projects combine old and new.