Whole Home Remodeling Los Angeles

For a true gut, yes, you move out. There's a stretch with no kitchen, no working bathrooms, no heat, and drywall dust in everything, so living in it isn't safe or realistic. If the scope is smaller we can phase the work and keep you in one part of the house while we build the other, but phasing is slower and you live with noise and dust longer. We'll walk the house and tell you honestly which one your project is before you plan around it.

Yes, and we do it often. Bring your architect and designer and we'll build to their drawings and sit in the coordination meetings so the details get built the way they were drawn. If you don't have an architect yet, we work with a handful of residential architects around LA and can put you with one who fits the house and the budget.

On an older LA home you almost always find something once demo starts: old knob-and-tube, a beam someone notched through, galvanized pipe that's shot, framing that was never permitted. We carry a contingency in the budget for exactly this, and we show you what we found before we close the wall back up, with the cost in writing, so there are no quiet change orders at the end. Nobody can price what they can't see yet, and any builder who swears there won't be surprises on a gut hasn't opened enough walls.

Multi-room remodels typically run $150K – $400K, full whole-home remodels $400K – $1M, and ground-up or extensive additions $1M and up. Square footage, structural scope, MEP, and finish level drive the range.

Most whole-home projects run 6 – 14 months from contract to closeout. Light refreshes can finish in 4 – 6 months; heavy structural and design-build scopes can extend to 18+ months.

Yes. We can lead design, engineering, permitting, and construction under one team, or we can build to drawings from an outside architect or designer.

Sometimes. For phased remodels we isolate work zones and protect the rest of the home, but heavy structural or whole-floor scopes generally call for the home to be vacated for portions of the build.

We define allowances explicitly in the contract for items still being selected (tile, plumbing fixtures, lighting, hardware) and document any change in scope through a written change order before the work proceeds.

Before construction starts we recommend confirming long-term goals for the home, identifying must-keep finishes, gathering inspiration images, locking the budget tier, and reviewing the schedule and decant plan with the team.