Services

Whole Home Remodels • Additions • New Builds • ADUs

For people solving real problems, not swapping finishes.

Clients don’t come to us to move a faucet. They come when the house no longer works, the project is complex, and the stakes are high enough that they want one expert team accountable for getting it right.

Why complex projects go sideways — and how we prevent it.

We’ve heard countless tales from disappointed homeowners who’ve been let down by contractors. Projects fell short with costly mistakes, mismanaged details and timelines, and unmet expectations. 

That’s Why We Do Design + Build Differently.

Because you and your home deserve nothing but the very best.

Whether we’re working on a new home build, whole house remodel, designing your dream kitchen or bathroom, or building you a new addition to increase your living space, we stand by your side as your trusted advocates. 

We assemble the right team to skillfully collaborate on your specific project and communicate with you every single step of the way as we deliver on beauty and function.

The Design-Build Process: An all-inclusive one-stop-shop experience

A successful project comes down to our careful planning process with a single source of responsibility -that’s us! Before a hammer is lifted, we ensure we’ve checked every box, to ensure you get exactly what you want for your home.

Surprises are great for 50th birthday parties and tax refunds, but not when it comes to your home remodel!

You’ll know how everything looks, feels, works, what it costs, and how long it will take from the start – no surprises, and no details overlooked.

Whole House Remodeling Services

You love your neighborhood and don’t see yourself living anywhere else, but your home isn’t working anymore for your family’s lifestyle. You love to entertain, but your living room setup leaves half of your company in the dark and the other half mingling around the kitchen. You love to host holidays, but scheduling time in the one bathroom with a shower doesn’t exactly make for a comfortable guest experience.

We help you fall in love with your home again! Our whole home remodel services provide you beauty, function, and excellent craftsmanship. Let us work alongside you to reimagine even the most complex spaces.

The bigger and more complex the project, the more it matters that one team is directing every trade to a single, documented plan. That's exactly the work we do best.

Home Addition Services

Your family and lifestyle is ever-evolving. Which means even a home you love can be a source of stress and frustration if it doesn’t have space for everyone to live. Working from home, new family members living at home, and other life changes often call for more space.

We handle a wide range of home additions including garages with apartments, first-floor and second floor expansions, sunrooms, and more. We creatively and collaboratively design to make your home more beautiful, efficient, and cost-effective.

That extra legroom feels good, doesn’t it?

ADU Contracting Services

An ADU is a serious construction project — a small home in its own right, with its own permitting, utilities, and design challenges. Whether you’re building a detached in-law suite for aging parents, a private guest house, or a multigenerational solution, we direct the whole thing as one accountable team: feasibility, design, permitting, and build — priced and documented before the ground breaks.

There are many factors and decisions unique to ADU construction projects and that we can help you navigate. We handle absolutely every step of the process from conception to completion and guide you in making decisions with confidence.

It’s ok to get excited when considering the endless possibilities, we do too.

Kitchen and Bath Remodeling Services

When people call us about a kitchen, it’s rarely just a kitchen. We’re almost always reconfiguring the space — sometimes absorbing adjacent rooms — to fix how the whole floor lives and flows. If you’re looking for a cosmetic pull-and-replace, we’re probably not your team. If you want to solve how your home actually works, that’s exactly what we do.

Wake up and cozily sip your coffee in the breakfast nook, then luxuriate in the tub just a little longer…

Questions we answer on every call

What does a whole home renovation cost on the North Shore?

Most whole home renovations we build land between $600,000 and $1.5M. The spread comes down to the size of the house, how much of the layout moves, and whether mechanicals, windows and roof are in scope. Our Ipswich whole home renovation, three levels with a two-tone kitchen, butler’s pantry, primary bath wet room and attic office, came in between $1,000,001 and $1,500,000. That number is published on the project page.

For single spaces: kitchens in their existing footprint run $175,000 to $250,000. Move the layout, take out a wall, open it up, and it is $250,000 to $400,000. Primary baths run $110,000 to $180,000. Those figures come from projects we completed, not national averages.

We break these down room by room in our guide to what a home renovation really costs on the North Shore.

Is your price fixed?

For projects we can define cleanly, yes. Once design is complete and selections are made, we lock a fixed price and it holds. Two exceptions, and we flag both before you sign: genuine unknowns behind the walls or in the ground on an older home we have not been able to open up before contract, and changes you choose to add along the way. A building inspector requiring something none of us anticipated is a third, and it is rare.

Larger custom homes usually run cost plus instead. The preconstruction work is equally rigorous either way, so the number is confident before anyone breaks ground. What changes is how the contract is structured, and we will tell you which one fits your project and why.

What is your minimum project size?

Around $150,000, and practically that means a bathroom is in scope.

This is not us being precious about small jobs. Our value comes from engineering a lot of variables before anyone breaks ground, and there is fixed overhead on every project regardless of size. On a large renovation that planning saves you well beyond what it costs. On a small one the math stops working, and we would rather tell you that on a call than take the job and have you feel it later.

If you are still weighing whether the project is worth doing at all, we wrote about how to decide between renovating and moving.

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