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[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome to strategic renewal. I'm Doreen Milano. And today we're diving into the shifts and strategies that help leaders reinvent themselves and their businesses. This is strategic renewal on NOW media television. Well, welcome to strategic renewal. This is where we're going to explore innovation, leadership, and the strategy shaping tomorrow. Today I'm going to be joined by Tony Paez, the president of DFW design and build.
And in a region where historic charm meets rapid modern growth, where Texas weather tests every structure, Tony is leading a remodeling company that blends timeless craftsmanship with cutting edge technology. And we get to talk about that in just a moment. Tony, welcome to the show.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: Thank you, Dori. Pleasure to be here.
[00:00:54] Speaker A: I'm so happy to have you.
Now we're in the greater Dallas area. Remodeling is no longer just cosmetic. It's actually strategic. Homes must be resilient, intelligent, and ready for the future.
[00:01:08] Speaker B: Yeah, they do have to be that.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: And so with that being said, I'd like to have you just start telling us a little bit about DFW design and build.
What inspired you to enter the remodeling industry?
[00:01:22] Speaker B: Well, I've been building for maybe 35 years, and in Florida, Boca Raton and in Dallas, I've been here 10 years now.
So I've been involved with remodeling basically the whole time.
Mostly higher end.
[00:01:39] Speaker A: Yeah. You've been working for larger companies as well as your own companies.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: Corrector.
[00:01:43] Speaker A: And so you've had it from soup to nuts.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: Really?
And the thing that is so remarkable that I'd like you to talk more in depth about is what sets your company apart from the average remodeler that's out there.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Well, if I had to summarize it in one word, I would say really detailed planning.
And we enter into a lot of time in the planning stage. If you take a typical construction or remodeling project and you picture it as a circle, most remodeling companies will spend maybe the top one fourth of the circle in planning and estimating and getting everything ready. We lower that bar to where usually planning and estimating is about 30% that circle. So we cut that circle down lower. And that makes a difference because the whole project will run a lot smoother if you dedicate that time to planning.
[00:02:46] Speaker A: And so tell me, what's the result of all that planning?
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Probably the most visible signs are two. First of all, the project gets delivered on time and in budget.
[00:02:59] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: That's a big deal.
[00:03:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
And the second one is the owner Has a precise schedule as to when his time, when he's going to leave the home, when he's going to come back, what his costs exactly are going to be. And that reflects itself in fewer change orders.
[00:03:18] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:03:19] Speaker B: Large job. Instead of having 100 change orders, might become three or four change orders.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: That's a significant difference.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: It's a huge difference, especially in cost and time.
[00:03:30] Speaker A: Awesome.
So let's face it, we're in Texas, right?
And in this region, we've got beautiful historic homes and we've got a lot of modern homes.
And how do you preserve craftsmanship whether you're working on a historic site or a modern home?
How does that come together?
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Well, the first element is you have to have really good trades that work for you, that are familiar with the area and can do this kind of detail that's required for high end homes.
We recently did a project down in Swiss Avenue, which is a historic district, so everything had to be done to match historic conditions.
And so you have to have the crews that do it. We're only as good as the crews
[00:04:20] Speaker A: that, that you work with.
[00:04:22] Speaker B: That we work with. And we have excellent crews. And the same on the modern side. We have designers and architects that give us this blend that's necessary for really innovative and high tech homes.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Is it more difficult working on a historic site than a newer site?
[00:04:43] Speaker B: I wouldn't say it's more difficult. I would say it's different. And the aspects of communication with the owner and everything are different because we're a lot more tied down by parameters in a historic home that we have to meet the historic, understood historical area conditions.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Okay.
So when you're really embracing innovation, one of the things we talked a lot about earlier today was how homes are going to have to change in the future.
Right. If you're dealing with a historic home, how are you going to incorporate some of those more modern changes and still stay with the historic parameters?
[00:05:31] Speaker B: Well, technology is changing at an incredible speed. It's not linear anymore, it's exponential.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: Right.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: And I'm sure anybody who follows anything with AI is aware of how things are changing so quickly.
But technology is evolving in many aspects. In electricity and plumbing and the way walls are made, the way insulation is put into a home.
The lighting is one of the more fluid elements inside a household that you can now vary light from.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: I didn't realize that.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
Change it from light being warm and dim in the morning when you get up as a sunrise, and then get brighter during the day and fade out during the night.
All Kinds of elements. Window technology has changed. People now can darken their windows or lighten their windows with a touch of a button.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: Can you put those kind of improvements into a historic home?
[00:06:30] Speaker B: As long as it doesn't show on the outside.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:06:33] Speaker B: We had this home in Swiss Avenue. Basically we cut the home in half to redo the whole back end. Then the outside was done in the very historical fashion. Looked the same, same windows and everything, but on the inside it was totally high tech.
[00:06:47] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:06:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: That's amazing that you can do that.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:51] Speaker A: I am. I am really impressed.
Goodness.
So the thing that I think is an important overarching topic that we're going to be talking about during this hour that we're together is strategic renewal. And so what does that mean in your world?
[00:07:15] Speaker B: It means staying up with the technology with the latest products that are coming out with just staying up to date. Because everything is changing so quickly in our marketplace.
You know that materials change on a day to day basis and costs are changing on a day to day basis.
The big element, which is energy, the whole way energy is processed into a home and how it's distributed in the home is changing also at a very
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And we are going to continue our discussion about technology and how it's transforming remodeling and how it's transforming our homes for the future.
All right, so the reality is technology is transforming industries straight across the board.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: It is.
[00:09:04] Speaker A: Right. And aspects. There's no escaping it. It's not going away.
It's not a fad. It is an actual trend that we have to incorporate in what we're doing. Right.
So when we look at the remodeling industry, how is technology transforming how you are working within the remodeling space with homes and customers?
[00:09:32] Speaker B: Yeah, that's a good question because it's a fundamental question of any remodel project. If you start on a remodel project and you don't incorporate it. Certain things that are coming down the highway with technology and artificial intelligence, you're going to be out of date in two to three years. Okay. The reality is that a home in five years will probably have robots in it.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: And what are you ready for that?
Homes with robots, really?
[00:10:01] Speaker B: It's reality. Oh, my God. We have to have charging stations in our home, and we're going to have to have reinforced floors. We're going to have to have wider corridors.
Robots will be doing a lot of the menial tasks that we'll be doing every day.
[00:10:17] Speaker A: I'm going to have a robot mowing my lawn.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: You're going to have a robot mowing your lawn. You're going to have artificial intelligence controlling all the air environment in your house, controlling the humidity and air conditioning and everything, and even changing it from day to night so that you get better rest at night in your dormitory.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow. I was not expecting that level of change that quickly.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: It's coming. It's coming fast.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: I've seen some of the articles of AI and robotics in some of the publications I read. I did not realize that it's going to become more of a household item as quickly as we're talking about it is.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: And we've started a process that we named quantum remodeling, which is basically addressing all these issues. From now, if you're going to have a remodel, a major remodel in your home of several hundred thousand dollars or even millions of dollars, you want to incorporate some of these things like charging stations for robots, reinforced floors.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: You know, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to really listen to this. This is a big deal.
If you're thinking about remodeling and your general contractor is not having this discussion with you, and you're doing this remodel within the next three to five years.
Please recognize that in 10 years, when you go to sell your home, if your home has not been updated, it may not get the full value that you would get today.
So really think through what you're doing.
[00:12:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:03] Speaker A: That's the message you're giving me, right?
[00:12:05] Speaker B: Absolutely. And even sprinkler systems are going to change outside. You'll just be able to draw a little map around the area that you want to have sprinkled. And the sprinklers will be smart and know how much water to put in different areas. It won't be like a one of these spray things that sprays everywhere.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: So is AI just going to be focused on sprinklers and mowing the lawn and that kind of thing. What other AI innovations are going to be happening in the home?
[00:12:33] Speaker B: You're going to have sophisticated robots for your, for your bathrooms that are going to be able to do the cleaning and turn on and turn off and keep the humidity and everything controlled in a bathroom. You're going to have robots that are going to control all your artificial intelligence, going to control all your appliances, and they'll even determine what you have to buy when you have to buy it and determine what is ideal for your body structure to be able to keep your best conditions for your. So it's going to be a transformation of your whole wellness in your home too, from that point of view.
[00:13:08] Speaker A: How soon do you think all this is coming together?
[00:13:12] Speaker B: It's advancing at a very fast pace. I mean, I would say you're going to see some very drastic changes in 2026, in this year.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: And, but it's only going to, it's only accelerating. So, you know. Yeah.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: Are we ready?
[00:13:31] Speaker B: You're ready. If you study it and you analyze it and you prepare for it. If not, it's going to catch you by surprise.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: I'm going to say most of the residents gonna. They're gonna be caught by surprise. They're gonna be caught by surprise because I'm surprised.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: And can you give us an example of a recent project where technology played a key role in what the homeowner needed?
[00:13:59] Speaker B: It depends on the level of sophistication of the buyer. Most of our buyers or clients are very sophisticated, so they are aware of the conditions that they require.
And I would say one of the big transformations, like one we did recently is a home office that really transforms into a whole environment.
They can change.
You know, how the, you know, it's good for video conferencing. It's good for conferencing. A lot of people are working from home, so it's a total environment.
[00:14:29] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: Kind of thing that controls lighting, it controls humidity, it controls cameras, it controls functionality. Functionality. Everything they need for it. You know, good communications especially.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Cool.
So do you use app based project tracking to reduce disruption for homeowners?
[00:14:52] Speaker B: This is one of the things that's being transformed because many people work with, say, one type of technology for their homes. They might use Apple or they might use Ring or they might use a certain technology from Android or something like that. And the blending has not been totally smooth now, but you have the major companies like Alexa and Ring and all these are starting to talk to each other and it's going to become more and more familiar. So you can use basically.
[00:15:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Alexa and Ring in my house are talking to each other.
[00:15:25] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: And they're actually talking to each other with multiple properties.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Right.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: Which gets really confusing because they'll get notifications about a different property than the one I'm currently in.
But I know they're starting to talk to each other.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:15:42] Speaker A: So we're gonna stop right now and have a little commercial break.
And when we get back, we are going to explore emerging technologies that are reshaping our what homeowners expect from their living spaces.
[00:15:58] Speaker B: Good.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: This is going to be exciting. We'll be right back. We'll be right back with more insights on renewing your focus, your energy, and your path forward. This is Strategic Renewal on NOW Media Television.
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Let's continue exploring what it means to embrace change and grow with purpose. So remodeling today isn't just about appearance.
It's about intelligence. It's about sustainability.
It's about resilience.
So, Tony, what emerging technology are you most excited about for the future of remodeling?
[00:16:48] Speaker B: Well, there's a lot of different areas if we go in, not just one particular one, but several of them. Let's start off with, for example, a garage.
Probably our grandkids are never going to have a driver's license.
They're going to.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: I've been thinking about that.
[00:17:04] Speaker B: We're going to move with Car purchasing will be a service and we'll have robot taxis that bring us in and out of your home. So if you think about garages, the garage size is greatly reduced.
It becomes a hub of other technologies and everything, or hobby cars or luxury cars or something like that. But it's not for your everyday commute to work.
So the garage is going to be transformed and generally it's going to be reduced drastically in size. Then as you move to kitchen, everything will be linked together. You'll probably have. Well, they're already starting to implement countertops
[00:17:39] Speaker A: that have smart counters.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: Yeah, smart counters. And they have screens on them and they have heating elements underneath it. So you can just move, you know, a pot on top of a certain part of the countertop and it'll warm up and you're going to have new materials. You're going to have all kinds of. Everything will be touchless, everything will be voice activated and everything will link together.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: Then if we go into the living room, living room is Going to be an area where you're going to have smart glass. Glass will change according to what your needs are going to be. Lighting will change. You're probably going to have an extremely large TV which will probably occupy a whole wall.
And you can set up an environment if you want to get you up at sunrise on the beach and you have a whole wall that's a sunrise and in the afternoon a sunset in the Alps or something like that. And it'll just look like a whole wall.
[00:18:35] Speaker A: That's crazy.
So you can do staycations just based on the TV that you got.
Right. It'll take you different places doing different things.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: And that technology also going to get less and less expensive. So it's going to be very, very affordable, easily affordable for many people.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: So what's going to change about the homeowner experience?
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Well, here's the thing. You're going to have robots in your home that are going to do most of your daily chores. They'll be folding clothes, they'll be putting dishes in the dishwasher, they'll be cleaning. They'll be charging themselves while you're out at the office, so the sound doesn't even bother you. They'll be doing shopping lists and things like that. So you're going to have a lot more productive, usable time in your day.
Now what you do with that time is a key element.
If you're riding on top of the wave of artificial intelligence and the time technology, then you're going to be a lot more productive in your daily chores.
The cost of.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Well, I would suggest that your productivity could actually extend into your later life.
[00:19:49] Speaker B: Oh, absolutely.
Wellness is another aspect that's being addressed very completely.
And I think within five years, I hear that your longevity will be greatly extended. They say right now with the technology that exists for every year additional year you live, you're gaining an extra year on the back of your life. And I think that will be extended greatly as we move into these next five years.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: That's mind blowing.
So you know the climate is changing, right? Yes, the technology is changing.
How are they coming together to make our homes more efficient and effective for our living environment?
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Well, as I mentioned previously, I think briefly is that all your inside elements of air control, pollution, air exchanges, humidity, all those will be automatically controlled for you by very sophisticated level of artificial intelligence. And so your quality of air inside the house will be greatly improved. Okay.
Also, the technology is helping improve how we build these structures to better resist elements from the outside.
[00:21:10] Speaker A: Got it.
[00:21:11] Speaker B: We're going to have better insulation, we're going to have better protection on our, on our roofs. We're going to have better elements to keep us out of exposed to less dangerous from the areas that are changing outside.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Understood. So, you know, one of the things that makes me really curious about this is something like if you look at H vac when you buy an H vac system, it's anywhere from, you know, 16,000 to $25,000, depending on the size of the home and how many units you need and so on and so forth. Right.
So are you telling me that if we've got an older H VAC system, are we going to be mandated to update it to have the level of sophistication and energy savings that we would want to get out of it?
[00:22:15] Speaker B: The answer is yes. Okay. But the counterpoint to that is that technology is improving a lot. They're becoming a lot more efficient, these air conditioners.
And the cost of production is a lot lower. You have robots who cost 40 cents an hour working in these factories making these air conditioners. And you can expect the priority price of air conditioning is to drop drastically in the coming years.
[00:22:40] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: Because I didn't think about that. The cost of labor and the cost of materials is dropping drastically because we're cutting a lot more efficient in the construction.
Energy is going to drop in price. So we're going to have.
It will not be as big as transition as having to pay all that extra money to have it done.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Wow. Okay, So one quick question and then we're going to go to a break again. But what does future proofing really mean in practical terms? For Dallas homeowners?
[00:23:18] Speaker B: It means if you're embarking on a remodeling project or will be embarking in, in the short order, you want to have a contractor that is up to date with technology, that is constantly studying the new materials and the new products and everything that's coming on board and can incorporate those and educate you on these technologies and why they're beneficial and why they are important for the next four or five years. If you don't put. If you're remodeling now and you don't take into account or within the next two years that you have to have a station for charging your robots and you don't put that into a plan, somehow you're going to be have to do that in four or five years,
[00:24:04] Speaker A: you're going to have to go back and retrofit.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: Back and retrofit. So if somebody can give you this plan, you can make the decision. You have options and you can make the decision, do I want to incorporate this or don't I want to incorporate. The big problem we run into is a lot of people don't believe that this change is coming or they think they can avoid it.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: Kind of like climate change. Right?
[00:24:26] Speaker B: They think they can avoid it. They all, all these things that are, that are, you know, we face every day because I face homeowners that are saying, you know, what am I gonna do that for? It's not, you know, what am I gonna make my halls wider for with more rounded corners if I'm out on plan ever or I'm having a robot in my home. And the truth of the matter is we're going to have them.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: Got it. Wow.
So we're going to take a quick break here and next up, we're going to talk about leadership, long term vision and why strategic innovation still requires a personal touch.
We'll be right back with more insights on renewing your focus. Focus your energy and your path forward. This is Strategic Renewal on NOW Media Television.
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And we are talking to Tony Paez with DFW Design and Build.
And we're our next topic is innovation matters. But trust and craftsman remain timeless.
So, Tony, the first question I have is what challenges does the remodeling industry face today?
And how does your technology focus help on helping overcome those challenges?
[00:26:26] Speaker B: Well, that's a complex question.
[00:26:29] Speaker A: It's a loaded question. I know.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: But it really comes down to in Texas, you don't need, you don't have a license to practice contracting.
[00:26:40] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:26:41] Speaker B: So you can go downtown with $300 and a ladder and say, I'm a building contractor and go out and start building. And I get calls every week from people that gave large deposits and started doing work. And they said, this guy doesn't know what he's doing or he abandoned the job.
And unfortunately, I have to say, I can't help you unless I go in, tear everything up and start again from scratch.
So the first, the first thing you have to do when looking for a modeling contractor is find somebody who's reliable, who's been around for a year. There are a lot of Good associations such as nari, Dallas Builders association, NASA, association of Homebuilders, the US Council for Green Building, to keep everything green and environmentally good.
[00:27:25] Speaker A: So who do you suggest people check with to build that knowledge about how long has this contractor been in business?
[00:27:34] Speaker B: Right. Well, definitely, you want to make sure that he's a member of some of these associations around. I was a member of the Dallas Boards association for Board of Directors for a while, and I've been in a lot of these institutions for quite a period of time. But you want to get referrals, you want to check the ratings, and all that today is fairly available. You have to make sure that those ratings are legitimate, too. You know, there is actual contract. So I would definitely suggest get a couple of names of people that he's done work for and call them up. Anybody who's had work done will generally speak to you and let you know how their experience was.
So that's the first part. The second one is you have to buy this planning process that I explained at the beginning of taking the time and the detail of really going through all the details.
And it can be something as simple as, hey, you want to put in a, you know, a pocket door here. Did anybody check if there's a light switching in that wall and we have to change it, or is it going to be a change order? So the experience counts for a lot. Somebody who looks at these plans and say, we have to address these issues before we have to address them. You know, Frank Lloyd Wright has a very famous saying, which is, it's a lot easier to fix things in the drawing board with an eraser than it is with a hammer on a job set.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: And I've actually watched that happen, and it's not pretty.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: It happens. It happens. So the other part of that, the second part of your question is the owner has to have trust. And trust is one of the most precious things we have as a contractor or basically in many fields.
And that is get built up during, during the, during the planning stage a lot because you have a lot of communication with the owner. You're going back and forth with the owner, with their designers, with their architects. And they can tell in these conversations if you're, you know, you're, you're being educational, you're helping them through some of these struggles that they're having and that you're addressing issues they may not even see during this whole stage.
And it really comes down to if you put the customer first. We always put the customer first. I'll have somebody who'll come to me and say, I want to do a 2,000 square foot addition and I'll look at the project, the study, and say, you know, this is going to price you out of your market here. Let's consider talking to your architect, your designer, maybe changing that to 700 square feet. And you're going to get all the functionality you need out of that. We'll make sure you do that. But you're going to spend less money and you'll still be within your price point. Yeah.
[00:30:19] Speaker A: So how do you ensure that advanced technology never replaces the personal touch that clients expect?
[00:30:27] Speaker B: Well, technology is aiding us a lot. You know, with artificial intelligence now, you can produce elements very quickly, you can get estimates, you can get all this. But experience counts.
And people will still want to see a person who knows what they're doing on the job site. Because construction, as you know, is a lot of problem solving.
You're constantly solving problems and solving issues.
So the experience counts. And somebody who knows what they're doing will be able to get, guide you and take you through these things.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: And let's face it, when you're in the middle of the project, the homeowner is going to have a brilliant idea no matter what stage of construction you're at.
And that brilliant idea is not necessarily going to be feasible or economically feasible.
[00:31:17] Speaker B: Right.
[00:31:18] Speaker A: Or actually doable without undoing everything you've already done.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Right.
[00:31:22] Speaker A: So having open lines of communication with the homeowner on a continual basis is really key to having a successful project, isn't it?
[00:31:32] Speaker B: Absolutely. We have a process where we have continual contact with the customer interchange, where we're bringing him up to date on where the schedule is, where the budget is, you know, any changes that are taking place and address any issues he has. And we try to do that very proactively.
And like you say, things come up all the time. So we have to. The sooner we can address things with the owner. And mistakes even happen too. You know, mistakes happen and it's not that the mistakes won't happen, it's your ability to be able to solve it and take it over and fix it.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: I love it.
So what's your five year plan for DFW design and build?
[00:32:12] Speaker B: Well, we kind of defined ourselves as a boutique remodeling company. A remodeling detailed, larger models are more complex and difficult to do than the construction of a new home.
So it's the area that I love to be in.
I see ourselves continuing to be a relatively small project. We tend to handle no more than Five projects at a time.
And if we do, we generally will put off one project so that we can keep very personalized attention on every project.
So our plan is to continue to grow that and always be, improve processes and improve everything we can to give a better service. But basically that's our long term vision.
[00:33:03] Speaker A: So if someone in Dallas is really considering a remodel, why should they choose you and your company?
[00:33:14] Speaker B: Well, I think a lot of the reasons I've mentioned that we are a very trustworthy company. We're a very ethical company. Everything we do is transparent.
We do not cut corners.
We do everything so that it's right. And that sometimes shocks a little bit of people because it's more expensive to do things right.
[00:33:36] Speaker A: It is more expensive to do things
[00:33:37] Speaker B: right, but in the long run, it holds up better, you know. So then also the detail we put into the planning, I think that that's a major reason why somebody would want to choose us. We're not a kind of company which is going to turn around, give you an estimate in five minutes per square foot or something like that. There's too many factors involved in an intense, large remodel to be able to ignore some of the things that may come along or the finishes, which are. Can vary greatly in a home.
[00:34:09] Speaker A: Absolutely. But one of the things that I've heard in our conversation today is fundamental, which is you look at not only the home you're remodeling today, but how it's going to be serviceable tomorrow.
And if we're not looking at how we're going to live in the next 5, 10, 15 years and what we're going to need, we're not planning appropriately for the remodel that we're doing today.
[00:34:40] Speaker B: That's correct. And you, you have to get to know the people you're working with. And if somebody has kids that are in teenage years and they live in bedrooms and everything else like that, if you transform the space in such a way that, you know they're going to go to college or they're going to go off, you can transform that space. And if you set it up with the right conditions, the transformation becomes a lot easier into another kind of office or room or space or media room or something like that when that time happens. But if you don't plan for that, you leave it as just a plain bedroom, then you're leaving yourself short as to what's coming down the way.
[00:35:17] Speaker A: I love it.
So, Tony, how should people contact you?
[00:35:24] Speaker B: There's. You can visit our website, which is www.designandbuild.com DFW Design and Build. DFW Design and Build. We're also all five star ratings on Houzz.
We're members of the Dallas builders Association of NARI of the U.S.
green Builders Council.
We have you can can email me at salesfw designandbuild.com my phone number is 214-606-4598 and I pick up the phone, which is awesome.
[00:36:05] Speaker A: Now, one of the things I want everybody to understand is that Tony's here because he believes in strategic renewal. And this interview really highlighted Tony's expertise and longevity in this space.
What I'd really like to do is thank you for coming and playing with us today and educating our viewers as to what is coming and how we have to think differently, get a little more strategic about how we renew our spaces.
Thank you so much for being a part of today day.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: Thank you, Doreen. It's been great being here. Thanks for your questions.
