Whole home remodeling · Carmel Valley
Whole home remodeling in Carmel Valley, designed and built by one team.
A whole home remodel redesigns more than one room as a single plan: the kitchen, the bathrooms, the living spaces and the flow between them, drawn, permitted and built by one team on one contract. Award-winning in San Diego.
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Whole home remodeling in Carmel Valley
More than one room, designed as one home.
A whole home remodel is any project that redesigns more than one room as a single plan, from a primary suite and the bathrooms beside it to the entire floor plan, inside and out.
Kaminskiy designs and builds whole home remodels across San Diego County: one plan, one permit set and one contract for every room,. A kitchen that opens to the dining room, bathrooms that match, a primary suite where two closets used to be, a second story over a one-story bungalow. Our designers, architectural drafters and project managers plan every room together, so the materials match, the permits are pulled once and the home reads as one home instead of a collection of projects. Founded in San Diego by Sergei Kaminskiy, and still founder-led.
Carmel Valley was built mostly in the 1990s and 2000s, so its kitchens and primary baths are reaching the age where families want them redone properly, inside well-run HOAs. Permits for whole home remodels in Carmel Valley are issued by the City of San Diego. Our design and architectural team drafts the construction documents, a licensed structural engineer stamps them where the scope calls for it, and we submit them and manage the whole process for you.
Start with a complimentary consultationWhole home remodels in Carmel Valley
A whole home remodel in Carmel Valley: the house is good, the finish is from 1995.
The typical Carmel Valley whole home remodel is a two-story house from the 1990s getting everything at once: kitchen, baths, flooring, lighting, the stair rail, the two-story foyer toned down and the systems brought to today. The structure stays; the house becomes the one you would buy new.
A whole home remodel in Carmel Valley is less about moving walls than about doing every room to the same standard in one project: the kitchen and family room first, the baths, then floors, stairs, lighting and paint. Most families stay in the house and we phase the work by floor so a kitchen or a bath is always in service.
Water heaters, HVAC and roofs in Carmel Valley are at or past their first replacement. A whole home remodel is the time to replace them, add insulation where the attic allows, and bring the lighting to today's Title 24 code. Done together with the finishes they cost less than done one by one later.
Interior work needs a building permit from the City of San Diego. Any exterior change, from windows to a patio cover, goes to your association's architectural committee as well. We submit both, in parallel, and keep the schedules aligned.
Families who bought the house in the 2000s and are staying through high school and beyond; new owners of an original 1990s home who want it done once, properly, before they move in; and parents planning a first-floor suite for the next decade. One contract, one team, the price in writing before demolition.
Finishes are chosen at our Design Center in Rancho Bernardo, about 15 minutes along State Route 56; every project starts with a visit to your home, not to ours.
Our work in Carmel Valley and nearby
Carmel Valley remodels, and the neighbors next door.
Two projects in Carmel Valley, then recent projects in Del Mar. Every photo is a Kaminskiy home, designed and built by our own team.
Remodeling in Carmel Valley
Every service in Carmel Valley. One local team.
This page is about whole home remodeling in Carmel Valley. Every other Kaminskiy service has its own Carmel Valley page too, and the neighborhoods around Carmel Valley have theirs: the same designers, project managers and crews, from one Design Center.
Nearby neighborhoods
We design and build whole home remodels in every neighborhood of San Diego County. See the San Diego whole home remodeling page or schedule a consultation.
The Carmel Valley whole home remodeling guide
Whole home remodeling in Carmel Valley, in detail.
How a whole home remodel goes in a Carmel Valley house.
Kitchen, primary bath, hall baths, flooring throughout, the stair, the lighting plan, interior doors and hardware, paint, and the laundry. The two-story foyer and family room often get a treatment that brings their scale down.
The footprint and the floor plan, which were drawn open to begin with; the windows, unless they are failing; and the roof line. Keeping the structure is what keeps a Carmel Valley whole home remodel to months rather than a year.
We sequence by floor and keep one kitchen or bath working at every stage. The family room usually becomes the temporary kitchen while the real one is rebuilt.
A building permit from the City of San Diego; HOA review only for exterior changes. Six to twelve months from the first visit to completion depending on scope. An addition in the same project changes the permit and the timeline, and we plan both together.
Room additions in Carmel ValleyGood questions
Carmel Valley whole home remodeling FAQ: a few straight answers before you call.
Cost, timelines, living through it, phasing, permits with the City of San Diego and value. More on the full FAQ page.
Read all FAQsNothing. The in-home design consultation is complimentary anywhere in Carmel Valley. A designer comes to your home, listens to what you want to change, takes measurements and photos, and tells you honestly whether we are the right fit for the project.
We do. Permits for whole home remodels in Carmel Valley are issued by the City of San Diego. Our design and architectural team drafts the construction documents, a licensed structural engineer stamps them where the scope calls for it, and we submit them and manage the whole process for you.
Usually, yes. We phase the work by floor so there is always a working kitchen or bathroom, and we seal and protect the areas in use. For the most extensive projects we talk through temporary arrangements before we start.
Six to twelve months from the first visit to completion, depending on how many rooms and systems are in scope. Design and the City permit come first; construction is the shorter part.
No. Associations review exterior changes. If the project includes new windows, a patio cover or an addition, that part goes to the architectural committee, and we handle the submission.
Any project that redesigns more than one room as a single plan. That can be a primary suite and the two bathrooms beside it, the whole first floor, or every room inside and out, including a second story. The scope is yours to set. What makes it a whole home remodel is that the rooms are designed together, so the materials, the layout and the schedule all belong to one plan.
It depends on the size and age of the home, how many walls move, and whether plumbing, electrical or structure change. Finish level matters too. What we promise is a fixed price in writing before anything is demolished: at the design and bid presentation you see every line of the scope, the contract and the schedule together. Our kitchen and bathroom cost calculators on this page give honest ranges for the two rooms that usually set the budget.
Sometimes, and we plan for it either way. Smaller scopes can be built in a sequence that keeps a kitchen or a bathroom working. Larger ones are usually easier, faster and cleaner with the home empty. We talk through temporary arrangements with you before the start date goes on the calendar, never after.
Yes. The plan is drawn once, as one home, and can be built in phases as budget and life allow. Because the design, the materials and the permit set already exist, each phase matches the last. We wrote a guide to phasing a whole home remodel in San Diego, linked below the questions.
No. Our designers and architectural drafters create the plans, a licensed structural engineer stamps them where the scope calls for it, and the same company builds from those drawings. There is no handoff between a design firm and a contractor, and nothing falls into the gap between them.
Start here
Schedule your complimentary in-home design consultation for your whole home remodel, anywhere in Carmel Valley.
- A designer comes to you, measures, listens and shares first ideas.
- No pressure and no obligation. We tell you if we are not the right fit.
- Our Client Care team calls back during the time slot you choose.