A few rooms
Room by room
Two or three rooms that belong together, such as a kitchen and the family room it opens to.
- One scope and one schedule
- Floors and trim carried through
- Licensed trades scheduled once
Whole-home remodeling
Whole-home remodeling and additions in Loudoun County
Some houses need more than one room done. When the kitchen, the family room, the stairs and the baths are all due, or the house needs to grow, it is one job: one plan, one builder and one written price, built in an order that makes sense.
- First visit
- Freeour builder walks the whole house
- One plan
- Written firstevery room and addition in one scope
- Permits
- Filed by usbuilding, zoning and trade permits
- Your price
- Itemizedin writing, room by room
What is included
What a whole-home remodel covers
A remodel that crosses several rooms is mostly a matter of order: what comes out first, which trade follows which, and where the family lives while it happens. We work that out on paper before anything is taken apart.
Kitchens and family rooms
Opened to each other or kept apart, with cabinets, counters, floors and a fireplace surround that belong together.
Bathrooms
Primary baths, hall baths and powder rooms done in one run, so the tile, the plumbing and the inspections happen once.
Stairs, floors and trim
Hardwood refinished or replaced through the house, new railings, doors, casing and paint.
Offices, built-ins and storage
Wall-to-wall cabinetry, bookcases and benches that make a room earn its space.
Additions
A sunroom, a screened porch or more room at the back, framed, roofed and tied into the house you have.
Guest houses and outbuildings
An existing guest house, office or garage renewed for the way it is used now.
From our projects
Every kind of room, from houses our team has remodeled.
One plan for the rooms, additions and outdoor spaces that need to work together. Start with the house you have, define the scope and coordinate the building work from there.
An addition, from the original house to the finished one
The back of one house before, while the additions were framed, and finished.
The projects
- A whole home, reconsideredWhole-home renovation and additions
- A comfortable place for guestsGuest-house renovation
- Room to work, meet and rechargeOffice built-ins and flex-space fit-out
Your price
How a whole-home remodel is priced
A job this size is priced from a written scope. Our builder walks the whole house, the visit is free, and the price that follows is itemized room by room, so you can see what each part costs and decide what to build now and what to leave for later. Most projects take one of these three shapes.
The whole house
Whole-home renovation
Most of the rooms in the house renewed in one project.
- Kitchen, baths and living rooms
- Stairs, floors, doors and trim
- The lower level and outdoor rooms, where wanted
More house
Additions
New space added to the house you have: a sunroom, a porch, a larger room at the back.
- Foundation, framing and roof
- Tied into the existing house and its finishes
- Drawings, permits and inspections
What moves the price
- How many rooms. More rooms means more of everything, though rooms done together cost less than the same rooms done one at a time.
- Structure. Moving a wall or adding on brings framing, drawings and permits with it.
- Kitchens and baths. They carry the most trades and the most finish for their size.
- Finishes. Cabinetry, stone and built-ins move the price more than drywall does.
- What the house hides. Old wiring, old plumbing and water damage show up at demolition. We price the change in writing before fixing it.
The visit is free. Your price is written and itemized after it, and any change after that is priced and signed before the work happens.
How the job goes
From the first walk-through to the last room
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Day one
We walk the house
Our builder looks at every room in the plan, measures, and asks how you use the house.
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Within a week
A written scope and price
Itemized room by room: what is included, what is not, the payment schedule and a start date.
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Before any demolition
Drawings, selections and permits
Layouts drawn, materials chosen and ordered, and the permit applications prepared and filed.
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In a planned order
Build
Demolition, framing, rough-ins, inspections and finishes, with a photo update every evening we are on site.
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The last day
Walkthrough
Final inspections passed, punch list closed together, then the final payment.
Building it here
Remodeling a house in Loudoun County
A remodel that moves walls, plumbing or wiring, or that adds to the house, needs permits. Which ones depends on the work and on where the house is, so we sort that out for your address before the price is written.
- Permits depend on the work. Moving plumbing, gas or wiring, taking out a wall or adding on needs permits. We prepare and file the applications and meet the inspectors.
- In a town, two offices. Inside a town such as Leesburg, the town handles the zoning approval and the County issues the building permit.
- Associations. If your home is in an association, its documents may govern what can be added or changed outside. We give you what your association needs.
- Licensed trades. Electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling, and gas work is done by licensed trade contractors.
Can we live in the house during the work?
Often, yes, for much of it. It depends on how many rooms are open at once and whether a kitchen and a bathroom stay usable. We plan the order with you before the price is written, and say plainly when moving out for a stretch is the better choice.
How long does a whole-home remodel take?
It depends on the scope, so we do not give a length before we have seen the house. Your written price includes a start date and an estimated completion date.
Can we do it in stages?
Yes. The price is itemized room by room, so you can build part now and part later. We will tell you which parts cost less done together.
Do you build additions?
Yes. One of the projects shown on this page added rooms at the back of an existing house, including a screened upper porch and a covered outdoor room below it.
Do you build new houses?
The new buildings we take on are accessory dwellings, backyard cottages, shops and barns. See ADUs, cottages, shops and barns.
Who does the electrical and plumbing?
Licensed electricians, plumbers and heating and cooling contractors, working under our contract. We schedule them, supervise them and answer for the finished job.
Will the price change once work starts?
Not unless the plan does. If you want something added, or we open a wall and find something nobody could have seen, the change is priced and signed before that work happens. No surprise charges at the end.
How do payments work?
The payment schedule is written into the contract and tied to progress on the job. The final payment is due after we have walked the finished work together and closed the punch list.
Often planned together
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