Your whole house.
One team. One schedule.
A whole home remodel isn't five projects stacked on top of each other. It's one project that touches every room you live in, runs for months, and only works if a single team owns all of it.
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The bigger the job, the more places it can quietly come apart.
A kitchen that goes badly costs you a summer. A whole house that goes badly costs you a year. These are the ones we hear about.
- ×Four trades on site and nobody who owns the schedule when one of them slips.
- ×You move out for three months and you're still out at month seven.
- ×Hundreds of selections, all urgent, none of them explained before you have to decide.
- ×By month three the bills stop resembling the budget, and nobody can tell you when that started.
- ×The designer hands off to a builder who says it can't be built the way it was drawn.
Every room, drawn and decided before anything is torn out.
On a whole house every decision runs straight into the next one. The kitchen decides the dining room, the dining room decides the flooring, and the flooring runs through every space you own. We design the whole house as one thing, so you approve it once and it holds.
The team that draws it is the team that builds it. There's no hand-off where a design turns out to be unbuildable.
Three steps. Over months, not weeks.
- 1
Tell us how you actually live in it.
Not room by room. Where the family gathers, which rooms never get used, what you'd change if nothing was fixed in place. A whole house remodel is the one chance to fix the plan itself.
- 2
See the whole house before demolition.
Every room designed, every major selection made, one schedule covering all of it, and an open-book budget you can read. You approve a house, not a stack of separate quotes.
- 3
Move back into a house that works.
One team the whole way, milestone updates you get without asking, and a written punch list walked room by room before we call it done.
Do you have to move out?
Usually not, and in Orange County that question is really about rent rather than construction. A three bedroom rental here runs around $4,500 a month. Six months out is $27,000 before you've moved a single box, and short leases are harder to find and cost more per month, so a six month build can mean signing a twelve month lease.
Moving out makes the build faster and cheaper. It usually makes the project more expensive. Here are the four ways we run it, cheapest first.
Put a kitchen in the garage and stay.
We build a temporary kitchen in the garage with a sink, a counter, a fridge and a cooktop, and we keep one bathroom working the whole way. You live in your house for the entire build.
Typically $10,000 to $20,000, and you keep all of it. The plumbing, power and cabinets stay where they are, so you finish the project with a garage that's become usable space instead of six months of rent receipts.
Phase it, room by room.
We work through the house in stages so you always have a working kitchen and bathroom. No temporary build and no rent.
It takes the longest overall, because crews can't work everywhere at once and each phase has to be closed up before the next one opens.
Move out for the heavy phase.
You stay through demolition and again for finishes, and you leave for the middle, when plumbing, electrical and flooring are open everywhere at once.
Two or three months of rent instead of six. We tell you the window before you sign, not once you're in it.
Move out for the whole build.
Every trade works everywhere at once, nothing has to be protected or packed down each evening, and nobody is working around your family. This is the fastest build and the cheapest to construct.
Then add six months of rent. For most families this ends up the most expensive option, which surprises people.
What whole-home remodels typically cost in Orange County.
These are typical market ranges for Orange County, not a KDB quote. Where your project lands depends on square footage, how much structure moves, and the level of finish. We'll walk you through real numbers before anything is signed.
| Project Tier | What It Is | Typical Range |
|---|---|---|
| Partial Whole-Home | Several connected rooms, usually kitchen, living, dining and a bathroom, on the existing floor plan | $150,000 - $300,000 |
| Full Interior Remodel | Every room refinished, kitchen and baths rebuilt, new flooring throughout, electrical and plumbing updated | $300,000 - $600,000 |
| Full Remodel with Structural Work | Walls removed for an open plan, rooflines or windows changed, square footage added, systems fully replaced | $600,000 - $1,200,000+ |
Eight months is a long time to take someone on faith.
One team, start to finish.
The same people design it, build it and walk it with you at the end. The accountability sits in one place for the entire run.
One schedule, every trade.
A milestone schedule shared before work begins and kept current the whole way. It will change. You'll always know why.
Open-book pricing throughout.
You see real costs as they happen and a running total as the project moves, instead of a lump number you take on faith for eight months.
Nothing changes without your signature.
Every change to scope or cost is a written change order signed by both parties. On a job this size that's the difference between a surprise and a decision.
Updates you get without asking.
Photos, progress and schedule in your portal, and a team you can always reach. On a long build, silence is what erodes trust fastest.
A one-year workmanship warranty.
All labor covered for a year after completion. If something isn't right, we make it right. No debate.
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