Your Custom Builder and Home Remodeler

Quality - Affordability - Value

Serving Baltimore and Harford Counties in Maryland

MHBR #737 and MHIC # 27702

Quality, affordability, and value is the foundation for our success with both the Custom Homes and Home Remodeling.

Handcraft Homes, founded in 1986 and incorporated in 1990 is a Custom Home Builder and Home Remodeling Company located in Sparks, Maryland. Handcraft Homes is your Design/Build company. We are focused on providing the consumer with a quality product at an affordable price. We pride ourselves in offering the customer a product of value. Handcraft Homes is one of the premiere Home Builders and Remodelers offering quality construction built by true craftsman in the region. We are your one stop shop providing design, pricing , construction and service.

Handcraft Homes is certified by the EPA for lead safe work practices to work on homes built before 1978. Federal law mandates that a contractor be EPA certified to work on the homes built before 1978. Heavy fines can be imposed on a contractor that is not certified to meet the mandates by the EPA. Please see the Custom Remodeling section for more information.

About Us

Handcraft Homes and Improvements, Inc., is under the direction of Michael Wood Sr., the Founder, Owner and President. The company began in the Home Remodeling market and then progressed to the Custom Home market. Handcraft Homes desire to be one ot the best in the field, along with their commitment to hiring capable and talented craftsman to construct their projects has time and time again proven to be successfull  over 25 years.

Together with the Custom Homes, Handcraft Homes is a one stop shop for Home Remodeling needs for every homeowner in the region. The many Home Remodeling services include Additions, Finished Basements, Kitchens, Bathrooms, Replacement Windows and Doors, Decks, Roofing, Siding and any General Remodeling Service needed by a homeowner.

Homeowners can call Handcraft Homes and depend on them to design, estimate, construct and service any project they have in mind!

Commitments

Quality

To finish a home like any new product on the market; it should look, smell and feel new.

Affordability

Study, develop and implement new techniques to increase productivity and quality, without increasing cost.

Value

Provide quality at a reasonable price.

Handcraft History   

Founder Michael Wood Sr.was born into Custom Home Building and Home Remodeling. The second son of a highly respected custom home builder. Michael was sizing up home construction and hammering nails at preschool age. Trailing alongside his father, Arthur F. Wood, Michael observed carefully as his Dad solved the usual home construction obstacles. His brothers Arthur N. Wood and Brian T. Wood are also builders in the region.

When the home building industry was slow his Dad would purchase and refurbish older homes. This spurred an interest in Michael for remodeling, and at the age of 23, he purchased and renovated several of the old dilapidated row homes in the Federal Hill area of downtown Baltimore.

At that time, Michael traded as Michael A. Wood Enterprises. While renovating the homes in Federal Hill he would subcontract work from his future competitors to generate income while he rehabilitated his latest project. Having the ability to design, draft, and construct with the utmost attention to detail, Michael soon ceased his subcontract work due to the demand of his ever growing Home Remodeling clientele.

In April 1986 Handcraft Home Improvements was established. By 1990, the year Handcraft was incorporated, the company was constructing $500,000.00 in home improvements per year. In 1992, Handcraft built its first custom home and changed the company name to Handcraft Homes and Improvements, Inc. in order to reflect their new direction.

Handcraft Homes has been building custom homes and remodels in Baltimore and Harford counties since 1986, and takes pride in its continued success year after year with its talented and valued craftsman. Michael's design talents from his renovating, subcontracting, remodeling, home building and a lifetime involvement with new construction has resulted in a product of outstanding quality at a price to fit all individual budgets.