Full Home Renovations
Down to the studs and back again — including historic houses, and ones that have already been through a bad renovation.
When one room isn’t the problem.
Sometimes the house has good bones, a great location, and plenty worth keeping. It just doesn’t work anymore.
A whole-home renovation gives us the chance to look at the house as one project instead of fixing it one room at a time.
- Fix the floor plan. Open up closed-off rooms, improve traffic flow, create better storage, and make the square footage you already have work harder.
- Update the whole house together. Kitchens, bathrooms, flooring, trim, lighting, electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems can all be planned as one project instead of a collection of renovations over the next ten years.
- Keep what’s worth keeping. Original hardwood, good masonry, old trim, solid framing — an older house doesn’t need to become a new house. We keep the parts that make sense and rebuild the parts that don’t.
- Plan for what’s behind the walls. Older homes have history. Previous renovations, old wiring and plumbing, water damage and unusual framing aren’t uncommon. We do as much homework as we can before construction and plan for the things we genuinely can’t see yet.
The goal isn’t to make an old house look new.
It’s to make the house work the way you need it to now — without losing everything that made it worth keeping in the first place.
Who is a whole-home renovation for?
A whole-home renovation makes sense when you still like the house, property, or location — but too much of the house needs to change for another small remodel to solve it. Instead of renovating one room now and tearing into another three years later, we can step back and fix the house as a whole.
- You love where you live, but not the house anymore. The property, neighborhood or location is worth staying for.
- The floor plan doesn’t work. Small rooms, wasted space, bad traffic flow or an outdated layout need more than cosmetic changes.
- Most of the house needs updating anyway. Kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, lighting, trim and finishes are all reaching the point where you’re considering replacing them.
- The house needs major system upgrades. Older electrical, plumbing, HVAC, insulation or other behind-the-walls work makes it smarter to coordinate everything at once.
- You bought a house specifically to renovate. The bones and location are right, but you knew going in that substantial work was part of the deal.
- You need the house to work differently for the next stage of life. Growing family, working from home, first-floor living, more storage, better entertaining space — the house needs to change with you.
- You’re considering moving because of the house itself. Before giving up a property you like, it can be worth comparing the cost of moving with the cost of making your current house the one you’d actually want to buy today.
If you’re changing enough that every room starts affecting the next one, it’s probably time to stop thinking room-by-room and start thinking about the house as one project.
Working out the budget.
We publish our numbers. A whole-home renovation is priced off how deep the work goes and how old the house is — run yours through the calculator and you’ll have a real range before you spend a dollar on it.
Worth reading first.
- Do you live through it or move out? — which parts of the house stop working, and when temporary housing is worth it.
- Horsehair plaster — why old walls behave differently, and when they’re worth keeping.
- Knob-and-tube wiring — what it is, and why a newer panel doesn’t mean the house is rewired.
- From lead and cast iron to PEX and PVC — the several generations of plumbing hiding in one house.
- What a contingency is — and why an honest estimate has one.
- What a change order is — and when your contractor should actually use one.
- Tying new work into an old house — foundations, rooflines and what shows up when the walls open.
What people say about working with us.
“The house sustained a lot of water damage due to radiators leakage — over 10,000 gallons. The house was built in 1844 so there were challenges for Mike. We were very pleased with the final results.”
“Hands down by far the best construction / handy man / business owner I have ever had an experience with. He went above and beyond from day 1 until completion.”
“This was our first time working with a contractor & our experience was great! Mike and his crew took our project seriously and treated us & our home with respect.”
Let’s see if this makes sense.
Fifteen minutes on the phone. You’ll have a realistic range before we hang up — and if we’re not the right people for it, I’ll tell you.