Design–Build

When the people drawing the plans and the people pouring the foundation work for the same studio, you stop hearing 'that's not in my scope.' We listen to your ideas, your dreams, and your budget from day one, and curate multiple options that fit all three. You see fully-priced design directions before a permit is pulled, before a tool is lifted.

Every direction we present comes with a realistic 3D rendering and a price. You don't sign off on a sketch and hope. You sign off on a room you can already see, at a number you've already approved. That alignment is the difference between a project that finishes on schedule and one that doesn't.

The honest answer is: a remodel or build can cost almost anything, the better question is what you want to invest in your vision. Tell us the number first; we will tailor every decision so the design you fall in love with is also the design you can afford.

We design and build across the East Bay and the Peninsula, from Walnut Creek, Lafayette, and Orinda to Atherton, Hillsborough, and the San Francisco neighborhoods. Every one of these markets has its own planning department and its own idea of what a permit takes. Because we work here every week, we price and schedule around the real timelines, not the optimistic ones.

A Bay Area project lives or dies on the details most firms meet too late: Title 24 energy compliance, seismic and structural review, tree, grading, and lot-coverage ordinances, and California's shifting ADU rules. We fold all of it into the design phase, so the home you approve is a home the city will actually let you build, on a schedule that plans for the review instead of pretending it away.

From the first conversation to the final walkthrough, a single project manager owns your project. There is no handoff between architect and builder, no detail lost in translation, and no finger-pointing when a decision is needed. A Gantt-tracked schedule keeps the whole build visible, and a standing invitation to the site means nothing happens behind a curtain.

Design runs anywhere from a few weeks to a few months depending on scope, a kitchen moves quickly, a whole-home remodel or a ground-up build is a longer conversation. Construction then follows a schedule we set together before the first permit is pulled. We would rather give you an honest range up front than an optimistic date we cannot keep.