- Award category: Fine Design
- Speciality: Design/build remodeling
- 15 years in business
- 2004 volume: $2.7 million
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Staff: 7 office, 7 field
Credit:
In 1989, Bob Peterson and his wife, Rita, worked for the same design/build firm when it shut its doors — leaving them both jobless on the same day. Within a year they had put together a plan, got a loan, and opened for business. They started out winning trust by finishing the jobs their former employer left dangling. “There was no way I was going to leave a lady without a kitchen,” Bob says. “Not when I sold the project.”
Since then, Bob and Rita have played to their strengths — he's a builder and she's the designer — to create a firm that does everything from building to finishing to furnishing, including things like choosing artwork and window coverings, which Bob will install. They work well as a team, and outside of the residential remodeling, the design division brings in a large portion of ABD's revenue.