Whole home remodeling in Rancho Santa Fe, designed and built by one team.

We do. Rancho Santa Fe is unincorporated, so plans for whole home remodels go to the County of San Diego, and homes inside the Covenant also go through the Rancho Santa Fe Association's review. Our design and architectural team drafts the construction documents, a licensed structural engineer stamps them where the scope calls for it, and we manage the whole permit process for you.

Nine to fifteen months from the first visit to completion, depending on scope and on the Art Jury review where the exterior changes. Design and permits come first.

Inside, the Jury has no role. Outside, it measures changes against the Covenant's character, and a design that respects the roof forms, materials and proportion of the original is what passes. We have presented to it before.

They are part of the plan from the first meeting: capacity, supply and sizing checked before design, and upgraded with the project when the house needs it.

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.