Remodeling Services in Santa Monica, CA

Kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, home additions and ADUs, flooring, and whole-home remodeling — five categories chosen because they match what Westside homeowners actually ask for, not a generic national menu. Each links through to its own page with a full breakdown of what is covered and how we approach it here. If a project does not obviously fit one of the five, call (424) 384-1771 and describe it; most remodels sort into a category within a minute or two on the phone, and a free consultation settles the rest.

Design-build means the design and the construction sit with one team, so the group that draws your kitchen is the group that builds it — instead of you hiring an architect and a separate contractor and refereeing between them. Every one of our five services runs this way: free consultation, 3D design, written estimate, then the build, with permits pulled by us. On the Westside's older homes, where a wall opened for a remodel can reveal decades of ad-hoc work behind it, that single line of accountability is what keeps a surprise from becoming a dispute.

Fixed, in writing, before demolition — that is the standard on every one of the five services, not just the larger projects. The written estimate follows the consultation and the design, so you are approving a defined scope rather than a rough guess. Changes only happen through a documented change order that you approve, typically when a hidden condition turns up inside an older home, so the price never drifts quietly on the invoice. Ask for the scope in writing every time, and that is exactly what you will get.

All of it is built to the California Building Standards Code, and significant remodels and additions have to meet the Title 24 energy code and CALGreen for efficiency and sustainability. Permits and inspections run through the correct jurisdiction — the City of Santa Monica for city addresses, and the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for Venice, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades. Where a parcel sits west of Lincoln in the Coastal Zone, a Coastal Development Permit can apply, and we confirm which of these your specific home triggers before design work begins.

Because the Westside's high-value, older stock is built around kitchens and baths that were designed for a different era of living. The median owner-occupied home in Santa Monica runs around $1.75 million, much of it early-1900s Craftsman and 1920s–30s Spanish Colonial Revival, and those homes reward a full kitchen or bath renovation rather than a replacement. Cabinets, countertops, islands and backsplashes on the kitchen side, and walk-in showers, tub-to-shower conversions, vanities and tile on the bath side, are the most-requested projects we take on across every neighborhood we serve.

An ADU — an accessory dwelling unit, also called a granny flat or backyard cottage — is a second, self-contained living space on a residential lot, and California's 2016 laws made them far easier to build by preempting much of the local zoning that used to block them. The City of Los Angeles alone went from under 100 ADU permits in 2016 to over 7,000 in 2022, and it is one of the strongest remodeling drivers across the Westside. We assess ADU feasibility — setbacks, lot coverage, access and utilities — at the consultation, and handle the design, permitting and build under our home additions and ADUs service.

They differ a lot, which is why we treat them as separate stories. Venice is eclectic beach bungalows and canal-front homes interleaved with architect rebuilds, on narrow lots and permitted through the City of Los Angeles; Brentwood is large-lot Cape Cod, Tudor and Spanish Revival estates plus protected mid-century homes, some on canyon hillsides; Pacific Palisades is coastal-canyon stock, much of it in active rebuild after the January 2025 fire. Santa Monica itself is its own city with its own permitting, a Coastal Zone west of Lincoln, and historic districts that shape a period remodel.

Yes — a meaningful share of Westside work sits under some kind of overlay, and part of the job is planning around it rather than being surprised by it. Santa Monica's Third Street Neighborhood Historic District and its designated landmarks constrain exterior alterations on period homes, and parcels west of Lincoln fall in the Coastal Zone where a Coastal Development Permit can be required. We check these against your specific address at the consultation, so a kitchen or whole-home remodel is designed to work within whatever applies from the start, keeping the character of an older home intact where that matters.

It depends on the scope, and it is one of the first things we plan around a whole-home project rather than leave to chance. A phased remodel can sometimes keep part of the home livable while another part is worked on, but a full gut renovation or a project that takes the kitchen and only bathroom offline usually means moving out for the duration. We are straight about that at the consultation and build the schedule around it, so you know before signing whether living in place is realistic for your particular whole-home remodel.

Flooring in a period home is rarely just a surface swap, because the subfloor and the transitions between original and remodeled rooms have to be dealt with honestly. We work in hardwood, luxury vinyl plank and tile, matching the material to the room and the home — solid or engineered hardwood for living spaces, tile or LVP where moisture and durability matter, and careful transitions where a new floor meets a period one. As part of a design-build project, the flooring is planned alongside the rest of the remodel rather than bolted on at the end, so heights, thresholds and finishes line up.

Call (424) 384-1771 and describe what you are picturing — even a rough idea is enough. We will confirm your address falls within our coverage across Santa Monica, Venice, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Mar Vista and Marina del Rey, then book a free in-home consultation, which is where the design-build process genuinely begins. From there it runs in order — consultation, 3D design, written estimate, then the build — with the scope and price agreed on paper before anyone lifts a tool. See the contact page for how the call itself works.