Bio

AJH Renovations, LLC, is a member of Greenville's HBA and a Better Business Bureau Accredited Business. The Upstate company has been family owned and operated by son and father team, Ariel and Chuck Hartman since its inception in 2005.

Ariel Hartman (Managing Director): Love of construction came early to Ariel. While in his teens, he participated in a number of mission construction projects with his Greenville congregation, Fellowship Bible Church; as he describes it, he "caught the construction bug" and has had it ever since. In the following years he gained experiential knowledge of the renovation business through private projects, especially in the burgeoning North Main area of Greenville. He studied Construction Management at Greenville Tech, earning his business license and founding AJH Renovations, LLC, at the age of eighteen. Since then he has enjoyed the varied challenges of giving new life to Greenville's historic houses, creating custom homes that continue the spirit of their community, and always growing with a growing industry.

Chuck Hartman (Managing Director): After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984, Chuck pursued a decade-long career in engineering that took him west to the Oklahoman oil fields. In 1989, a position with O'Neal Engineering brought him to the Upstate of South Carolina with his wife and son, Ariel, but in 1996 he turned his focus to a full-time pastorate. Engineering continued to run in his veins, however, and the founding of AJH Renovations in 2005 gave him the chance to unite his love of history with his love for design. From talking with clients to working at the drawing board, he enjoys bringing together client needs and Greenville's historic styles to create the ideal custom home - whether that involves an addition, a remodel, or a new house.

April 1, 2005 is the incorporation date of AJH Renovations, LLC, the first of the AJH family of companies to be born. No foolin’; it’s been twenty years since this show had its first episode, a whole-house renovation on North Main Street in downtown Greenville. Over the past two decades, we’ve lost count of how many residential renovations we have done in and around Greenville. Along the way, we added two divisions to our family – AJH Custom Homes, LLC, and Designed for Downtown, LLC. We have also branched out into light commercial and commercial subcontract work, including a key role in the recent ballroom renovation at the Pointsett Club in downtown Greenville. Each year has brought new opportunities and new challenges, not least of which were the Great Recession of 2009, the COVID pandemic, and the current high mortgage rates and general economic uncertainty. These challenges motivated us to develop a design/build renovation system that is both creative and efficient, providing our clients with beautiful and effective revitalization of their older homes.

AJH Renovations, LLC is one of the pioneers in the Upstate of the Design/Build renovation model combining in-house architectural design with licensed construction services. This model streamlines the process of taking the homeowners’ dreams and needs and turning them into reality while also maintaining the character and ambiance of the mature home. Our designers work with our construction management staff in order to propose renovations that ‘work’ with the house or, as we often put it, letting the house work with the renovation. Design modifications can be investigated with the cost impact immediately determined by the construction side of the business. Proposed modifications are evaluated from the aesthetic and functional aspect, but also from the perspective of ‘buildability’ and code compliance. Our clients have been overwhelmingly pleased and well-served by the Design/Build model.

We at the AJH Family – AJH Renovations, AJH Custom Homes, and Designed for Downtown, bring twenty years of residential design and construction experience to the table. Give us a call today to see how our Design/Build model can transform your house into a ‘new’ old home.