Design, Planning & Permitting Support Los Angeles

One team. Plan to permit to build.

Permitting is where most remodels lose weeks nobody planned for. Not because the city is impossible, but because plans go in incomplete and come back with corrections. We handle design and permitting in Los Angeles under one roof, from the first drawing through final plan check sign-off, so the set that gets submitted is the set that gets built. Design starts with how you actually live. We walk the space and talk through your morning routine, where the kids do homework, how you cook and entertain, and we plan around flow and light before anyone picks a material. Then selections get real: stone, tile, wood species, hardware, lighting, paint. We bring physical samples to your house so you see them in your own light, not on a screen. Renderings come next. We build photorealistic 3D views of the kitchen, bath, or exterior so you can move a wall or swap a finish while it is still cheap to change. The construction drawings follow: floor plans, elevations, electrical and plumbing layouts, and finish schedules. That set does two jobs. It is what the city plan-checks and what our crew builds from, so accuracy on paper is what keeps surprises out of the field. Permitting in Los Angeles is not one process, it is several. Most work runs through LADBS plan check, and LADBS timelines run 4–12 weeks depending on scope. But Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, and other cities run their own building departments with their own reviewers and their own pace. Hillside lots trigger the hillside ordinance. Pacific Palisades and Malibu pull in the Coastal Commission. Hancock Park and other historic districts mean HPOZ review. Nearly every job needs Title 24 energy documentation, and anything structural needs stamped calcs from an engineer. We know which of these apply before we submit, because guessing is what stalls permits. Here is the honest part: submission quality is schedule insurance. A clean, complete, coordinated set clears plan check with fewer correction cycles. A thin set comes back with comments, you revise, you resubmit, and you have lost a month. We would rather spend the extra days getting the drawings right than hand the city a reason to bounce them. Value engineering happens here too, before anything is ordered. Want the look of Calacatta marble but not the invoice? We will point you to a quartzite or porcelain that gets 90 percent of the look at 50 percent of the cost. Want to spread the work out? We phase it in a way that makes sense structurally and on the calendar, not just financially. We also work with your people. If you already have an architect or interior designer, we translate their vision into a buildable, permit-ready set and manage the city from there. If you need one, we can connect you through relationships built over years of high-end residential work across Los Angeles. Here is the case for keeping it under one roof. When design, permitting, and construction are three separate companies, every handoff is a place for something to get lost, and every question turns into a game of telephone. When it is one team, the people who drew it are the people building it. Corrections get answered the same day, changes get priced in real time, and nobody points fingers when a detail needs a decision. If you are planning a remodel in Los Angeles and need to turn an idea into a permitted, buildable set, we will walk your project and tell you straight what it will take to get through the city.

• License #1140511
• Licensed & Insured
• Serving LA's Westside