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Architecture-led design & build

The house you meant to buy.

We draw it, permit it and build it with one team and one contract, so nobody spends a Tuesday explaining the drawings to the person holding the saw. Every project begins with a budget band we are willing to put in writing before a single wall comes down.

Founded
2009
Projects completed
310
Average design phase
9 weeks
Finished within budget band
92%

01  /  Selected work

Six houses, reordered

Drawn here as plans rather than photographs — the composition is the part that mattered before anything was chosen from a showroom.

The Long Kitchen

Kitchen & pantry · wall removal · 1908 foursquare

Ashgrove

House with Two Halls

Whole-home · structural reframing · 1960s ranch

Wren Hollow

The Quiet Bath

Primary bath · relocated stack · 1924 bungalow

Pellam Heights

Winter Addition

Rear addition · 420 sq ft · new foundation

Quarry Row

The Reordered Plan

Kitchen, bath & entry · 1890 rowhouse

Fennimore Park

Back House

Detached studio · 640 sq ft · full services

Sableton

02  /  Services

Four ways this usually starts

The intake form forks here too — what you are remodeling changes every question that follows it.

Kitchens

Layout first, cabinetry second. Most of the cost lives in what moves — plumbing, gas, and the wall that was never load-bearing until it was.

Typically 8–14 weeks on site

Baths

Waterproofing done properly, tile set by people who set tile all week. Relocating a stack is the single largest variable.

Typically 5–9 weeks on site

Additions

Foundation, framing, envelope and the review that governs all three. We survey before we promise a footprint.

Typically 6–11 months, permits included

Whole-home

A plan redrawn rather than redecorated. Usually mechanical, electrical and plumbing replaced along the way.

Typically 9–16 months, permits included

03  /  How we work

Four phases, in this order, every time

The sequence is the product. Skipping ahead is how remodels acquire the stories people tell at parties.

I

Design

Measured drawings, two or three plan options, and a budget band you can accept or walk away from. Nothing is ordered yet.

II

Permits

We prepare the set, file it, and answer the review comments. You are told what the calendar actually looks like, not what we wish it were.

III

Build

One superintendent, one schedule, one weekly note describing what happened and what happens next. Selections are locked before demolition.

IV

Punch list

We walk it with you, write down everything, and finish the list before the final invoice — not after it.

04  /  Begin

Describe the remodel you keep imagining

In your own words — the room, what bothers you about it, and roughly what you were hoping to spend. Plain sentences are fine; there is no form vocabulary to learn.

Whatever you write is read first, so the questions that follow are only the ones your description left open. At the end you get a budget band and a realistic phase schedule. Use the Estimate my remodel button in the corner to begin.

Free custom demo

Build me a demo for my industry.

Tell us your trade and town. We’ll stand up a branded instant-quote flow and email you the link — no sales call required.

Usually within one business day. No card. Free plan to start.