Our Remodeling Services

Kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, home additions and ADUs, flooring, and whole-home remodeling — five categories built around what Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood and Pacific Palisades homeowners actually call us about, not a generic franchise menu. Each service links through to its own page describing the scope and how Tal and Ari approach it on this side of LA. If your project doesn't obviously match one of the five, call (424) 369-0310 and describe it — most jobs sort into a category inside the first couple of minutes, and a free consultation settles the rest.

Design-build means the design and the construction sit with the same two owners, so the plan Tal and Ari draw is the plan they build — no separate architect-versus-contractor handoff where a designer's drawing meets a builder's budget for the first time mid-job. Every one of the five services runs the same sequence: free consultation, 3D design, written scope, then the build, with LADBS permits handled by us. On Brentwood's older estate stock, where opening a wall can reveal decades of undocumented work behind it, having one accountable team is what keeps a surprise from turning into a dispute.

Fixed, in writing, before demolition — on every one of the five services, not just the larger ones. The written scope follows the free consultation and the 3D design, so what you sign is a defined number, not a rough guess extended into a range. If a hidden condition turns up once a wall is open — common in Brentwood's older Cape Cod and Spanish Revival stock — the only path to a changed price is a documented change order you approve first. Ask for the written scope every time, because that's exactly what you get.

All of it is built to the California Building Standards Code, and significant remodels and additions have to meet the Title 24 energy code and CALGreen for efficiency and sustainability, with the 2025 California codes in effect as of January 1, 2026. Permits and inspections run through the LA Department of Building and Safety (LADBS) for Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood and Pacific Palisades, since all four are City of Los Angeles neighborhoods rather than separate cities. Hillside lots up Mandeville, Sullivan or Kenter Canyon also fall under LA's grading and hillside rules, and much of that terrain sits in a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone with Chapter 7A fire-hardening requirements.

Because Brentwood's housing stock — Cape Cod, Tudor and Spanish Revival estates, the protected mid-century homes of Crestwood Hills, hillside houses up the canyons — was largely built for an earlier way of living, and kitchens and baths show that gap the most. Bathroom remodeling was the single most common project type in NAHB's 2025 remodeler survey, rated common to very common by 73% of remodelers, and kitchen remodeling wasn't far behind at over 50%. Custom cabinetry, stone counters and layout changes on the kitchen side, and curbless showers, tub-to-shower conversions and tile on the bath side, are the two projects we run the most across every neighborhood we serve.

An ADU — accessory dwelling unit, also called a granny flat or backyard cottage — is a second, self-contained living space on a residential lot, and California's 2016 laws made them far easier to build by preempting much of the zoning that used to block them. ADUs grew from 11% to 26% of all housing permits across the Southern California region between 2018 and 2022, one of the strongest remodeling drivers on the Westside. We assess feasibility — setbacks, lot coverage, hillside grading if it applies, and utility connections — at the free consultation, and handle the design, permitting and build under [home additions & ADUs](/home-additions).

Enough that we treat them as four separate stories. [Bel-Air](/bel-air) is gated, low-density estate territory set entirely within the Santa Monica Mountains, [Westwood](/westwood) mixes Holmby Hills estates with Wilshire-corridor condos that add HOA approval, and [Pacific Palisades](/pacific-palisades) is coastal-canyon terrain now largely in post-fire rebuild after the January 2025 fire. Brentwood itself carries large-lot estates and hillside canyon homes up Mandeville, Sullivan and Kenter. All four permit through LADBS, but the terrain, the fire-hazard zone status and — in the Palisades — the Coastal Zone are what actually shape a given job.

Yes — it's a routine part of working this side of LA. Brentwood's canyon foothills, all of Bel-Air, and much of Pacific Palisades sit in a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, so a hillside remodel or addition has to account for Chapter 7A wildland-urban-interface fire-hardening and LA's hillside grading rules on top of the usual scope. We check a property's hillside and fire-zone status against its exact address at the consultation, so a kitchen or whole-home remodel is designed to work within whatever applies from the outset rather than stalling at plan check.

It depends on the scope, and it's one of the first things we plan around a whole-home project rather than leave for you to discover mid-job. A phased remodel can sometimes keep part of the home livable while another part is under construction, but a full gut renovation or a job that takes the kitchen and every bathroom offline at once usually means moving out for the duration. We're direct about that at the free consultation and build the schedule around the answer, so you know before signing whether living in place is realistic for your particular [whole-home remodel](/whole-home-remodeling).

Flooring in an older estate is rarely a simple surface swap, because the subfloor condition and the transition between original rooms and a remodeled space have to be handled honestly rather than papered over. We work in solid and engineered hardwood, luxury vinyl plank and porcelain or natural-stone tile, matching material to the room and the house — hardwood for living spaces, tile or LVP where moisture and durability matter most. As part of a design-build project, [flooring](/flooring) gets planned alongside the rest of the remodel, not bolted on at the end, so heights and thresholds line up cleanly.

Call (424) 369-0310 and describe what you're picturing, even if it's still rough. We'll confirm your address falls inside our coverage across Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood and Pacific Palisades, then book a free in-home consultation, where the design-build process genuinely starts. From there it runs in order — consultation, 3D design, written scope, then the build — with the number agreed on paper before anyone picks up a tool. See [contact](/contact) for how the call itself works, or read [how Tal and Ari built the firm since 2008](/about).