Home remodeling, from one room to the whole house

Kitchen remodeling

The kitchen is where a remodel usually starts, and often where the whole house opens up. New cabinets, countertops and lighting, and where it makes sense, walls come down so the kitchen joins the rest of the house. Cabinets get drawn before they get built, and you say yes or no to the drawings while changing your mind is still free.

We drew one Old Enfield kitchen around a walnut range wall and a new window that needed a header sized to carry the load; Houzz ran it as Kitchen of the Week. In Cedar Park, we stained white oak to read as walnut.

Bathroom remodeling

Bathrooms with the original builder tile and an enclosed tub, remade. Freestanding tubs, walk-in showers, new vanities and fixtures, and tile set the way it should be.

In one Leander master bath we pulled the enclosed tub for a freestanding one and a vein-matched large-format shower, with the niche cut into the tile field so the veining runs unbroken.

Whole-home remodels

When it is the whole house, we take it room by room: kitchen, baths, floors, stairs and the living spaces, so the inside finally feels like one house instead of a builder’s floor plan. It is the biggest work we do.

Big Tree Trail in Leander was our first whole-home remodel: every room, including a two-storey living room with grid moulding across the full wall. The client sent us two more houses in the same neighborhood.

A whole house needs a plan before it needs a price, and you do not have to find a designer to get one. For us it is design-build work: we bring in a designer we have built with before, Martin walks the house with you first and says what will and will not work, and we price from the finished drawings. Already have a designer? You keep them, and we build what they drew.

Additions & structural work

Opening a floor plan up is structural work, and it is a lot of what we do. A wall that carries load comes down with a header or a beam sized for the span, coordinated with a structural engineer. We also add and reclaim space, like turning part of a garage into a pantry and laundry.

At the Enfield house we opened the kitchen by dropping a load-bearing wall, sized the header for a new window, and borrowed space from the garage for a new laundry room, which let the old laundry become a walk-in pantry.

Start your remodel

Tell us what you are thinking about. Most people think about this for a long time before they call anybody. Calling early is easier than calling late, and nothing has been ordered yet.