Rough first
Demolition, then plumbing, electrical and any framing changes, with inspections at each stage. Rough inspections happen before anything gets covered.
License# CBC1267977
License# CBC1267977
Full-house renovations in Bonita Springs. Kitchen, baths, flooring, trim and paint decided together rather than four projects in four different years.
There is a point where doing one room at a time stops making sense. You redo the kitchen and the floor beside it looks wrong. You fix the floor and the trim does not match.
Three projects in, the house is a record of decisions made in different years. A whole-home renovation solves that by treating the house as one design and finishing it all at once.
The kitchen, taken back to studs where the layout is changing. The primary bath, and usually the secondary baths. Flooring through the entire house so there are no thresholds between old and new.
Interior doors, baseboard, casing and crown brought to one profile. Lighting and electrical updated for how the rooms are actually used. Paint throughout. Laundry, closets and the built-ins most people skip.
What it does not automatically include is structural change. Sometimes a wall comes out. Sometimes the plan is better left alone. We tell you which before you are committed.
This is the part homeowners want to rush and the part that decides whether the project goes well. We walk the house, agree the scope, and produce a design and a full selection list. Cabinets, tile, counters, plumbing, lighting, hardware, paint. All of it chosen before anyone swings a hammer.
Then approvals. The permit goes through the city, and if your community has an architectural review board that submittal happens in parallel rather than after.
Then ordering, and only then demolition. Starting demolition while a long-lead item is unconfirmed is how a house ends up sitting torn apart, and we do not do it.
Demolition, then plumbing, electrical and any framing changes, with inspections at each stage. Rough inspections happen before anything gets covered.
Drywall and paint prep, flooring, cabinetry, then countertop templating, which can only happen once the cabinets are in.
Tile, glass, trim, fixtures, final paint, clean. Then we walk it with you and write down everything that is not right. It is finished when that list is empty.
A real timeline depends on the size of the house, the scope, whether the layout is changing, how your association handles review, and lead times on the cabinetry and materials you choose.
You get a schedule for your project once the scope and selections are set, and we tell you what could move it. A number quoted before anyone knows what is being built is always wrong, and it is wrong in the direction that makes everyone unhappy.
Most of our clients here are gone by June, and that’s the best thing that can happen to a renovation.
The one that goes badly is the one nobody planned.
You can, and some clients do. It is slower and dustier, and we sequence the work so you keep a usable kitchen or bath for as much of it as possible. If you have the option of being away, take it.
No, but decide everything at once. Even when the work is phased, choosing the flooring, trim and paint up front is what stops the house looking like it was renovated in installments.
It depends on the size of the room, the cabinetry, the countertop and tile you choose, and whether the layout changes. We price your project once the design and the selections are set, so the number is for your house rather than an average. The design consultation is free.
That depends on scope, whether the layout is changing, how your association handles review, and lead times on what you choose. You get a schedule once the scope and selections are set. We won’t quote you a number of weeks before we know what we’re building.
That’s our preference. Selections get made before you leave or over video after, materials are ordered and confirmed, and the disruptive work runs in an empty house.
The first conversation is free and it is a design conversation, not a sales call. We will tell you what we would do, in what order, and what it costs.
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