Our story
From a shed in Adenta to fourteen people
We have never advertised. What follows is the honest sequence of jobs that were slightly too big for the firm as it stood, and what each one taught us that we still do.
Thirteen years
Every step was a job that was too big for us
2013
Two carpenters and a borrowed van
Kwabena and Kofi start making doors and wardrobes in a shed behind a house in Adenta. The first year is eleven jobs, all of them joinery, all of them for people they already knew.
2015
The first whole kitchen
A client asks for the kitchen as well as the units. It goes three weeks over because nobody had thought about the order the trades come in. The lesson costs us money and becomes the way we work.
2017
Adzo joins, and quotes get an exclusions list
A quantity surveyor by training, and the first person here to insist that a price with nothing excluded from it is not a price. Job overruns halve in eighteen months.
2019
The Cantonments house
Our first whole-house renovation and the first job with a named supervisor on site every day. It finishes on the date on the programme, which surprises everybody including us.
2022
The workshop doubles
We take the unit next door in Adenta and put in a proper spray booth. Everything fitted in an Abode house has been made ninety minutes away ever since.
2026
Fourteen people, and still no advertising
Every job since 2016 has come from somebody who saw the work in a friend's house. It is a slower way to grow and it is the only marketing we have ever been able to afford.
620
+
Houses finished since 2013
14
People on the payroll
13
Years working in Accra
94
%
Of work comes by referral
Craftsmanship
Work that holds up through the rains
Anything looks good the week it is finished. What separates a good job from a cheap one is what it looks like after two rainy seasons and a harmattan — so that is the standard we quote against.
Materials chosen for this climate
Marine ply in wet areas, hardwood where a softwood would move, and paint rated for the humidity rather than the price list.
Finished where nobody looks
Behind the cistern, under the sink, the back edge of a wardrobe. The places that decide whether a job lasts are the places nobody inspects.
Office, Monday to Saturday
030 254 8817Recognition
Work that has been noticed
Year
Award
Awarded by
2026
Renovation of the Year, residential
Ghana Institute of Architects
2025
Small contractor of the year
GREDA Industry Awards
2024
Site safety commendation
Ghana Federation of Labour
2023
Best use of local timber
Accra Design Week
What people say
Trusted by people who live here
They took the kitchen out on a Monday and we were cooking in it three weeks later, on the day they said. The price at the end was the price on the first page.
Akosua Mensimah
East Legon
We had two builders quote before them and both were cheaper. Both also wanted half the money up front. Abode took a third, showed us the schedule, and never asked for more.
Kojo Anane
Cantonments
I let four flats and I have used them on all of them. What I pay for is not the tiling — it is that I get one call a week and I never have to go and stand there myself.
Mansa Owusu
Airport Residential
The old bathroom leaked into the room below every rainy season for six years. They stripped it to the block, tanked it and re-tiled. Two rainy seasons now, nothing.
Eric Tetteh
Tema Community 25
We lived in the house the whole time with a two-year-old. Every evening the site was swept and the doors were on. That sounds small until you have had builders who did neither.
Serwaa Boateng
Adenta
The rewire found things in that house that frightened me. They stopped, called me, showed me, and gave me a price to fix it before touching anything. That is all I wanted.
Samuel Mensah
Osu
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