LeNak is a small town, family owned, and operated custom home design and build company based out of Damascus, MD. LeNak encompasses quality and value while delivering a personable custom home experience for families. Doing business in Carrol, Howard, Frederick and Montgomery Counties, we also work outside this area by request. While the majority of the work we do is new home development, we also do renovations, additions, commercial, site work, development and snow removal.
In 1996, Ken and Judy started their dream of building their own homes and opened LeNak Company. They take a passionate joy in meeting new customers, designing homes perfect for each family, finding land, building the home and presenting it to the customer. They love providing a dream home for a family to create new memories in. This is their passion.
It all started for Ken, the youngest of 6, around the age of 10. His oldest sister and brother in law had a similar family business in Urbana during the 70’s building homes. Weekends were spent sweeping houses, feeding trash into the burn fires (just imagine trying that today), general labor and having fun on jobs sites. As early as high school, Ken was drafting house designs.
About the builder: A life long dream for Ken Lefebvre, after working for civil engineering firms and big builders for 15 years, in July of 1996, Ken and his wife Judy jumped in and opened a family business building custom homes. LeNak Company always had the intent to stay small, connected, hands on, low overhead and high value. This has allowed us to live on the same street where we built all of the houses, friends with all of our neighbors, for the past twenty years.
Where did the name “LeNak” come from? In 1996 Ken Lefebvre and Judy Sernak were engaged to be married. They felt that “Lefebvre Homes” was just too difficult for customers. So, Lefebvre and SerNak were merged to create an easy to remember “LeNak Company”.
During high school, Ken worked as an auto mechanic for dealerships and on gasoline alley (race car garages). In 1981, after high school, Ken shifted to civil engineering. Math being his favorite subject, it all came easy. Learning substrate volumes, real estate title work, drafting site plans and record plats, staking buildings and property boundaries. From there, came Concrete High Rise buildings; too slow. Then almost home, New Home Builders. Working for notable medium and national builders, Ken developed professional experience in architecture, structural engineering, the economics of the business, methods, materials, purchasing, what to do, what not to do, what works, what doesn’t work, how things fail and what makes a good home.