Home renovations and additions
Kitchens, baths, whole-house remodels, and room additions — including the parts you find once the walls are open.
The part of remodeling nobody quotes
Every estimate for a remodel is an estimate about what is behind the drywall. In San Antonio's older housing stock — Monte Vista, Alamo Heights, Beacon Hill, the near-Southside — what is behind the drywall is often knob-and-tube remnants, galvanized supply lines, undersized service panels, and framing that was modified at some point by somebody who did not think about load paths.
We open a wall and tell you what we found, in writing, with what it costs to fix, before we keep going. That is slower than discovering it at the end. It is also the difference between a remodel that lands near its number and one that does not.
The other honest constraint is that a kitchen or bath remodel touches licensed trades. Moving a sink is a plumbing permit. Adding circuits for an island is an electrical permit. Those are not upsells, they are the inspection that makes the work legal and insurable.
Living in the house while we work
Most of our remodels happen in occupied homes. That means dust barriers, protected floors on the path in and out, and a clear answer to when you get your kitchen or your only bathroom back. We plan the sequence around the room you cannot live without and tell you the dates up front.
Recent work
Common questions
- How much does a kitchen remodel cost in San Antonio?
- Honestly, the range is wide enough that any number quoted before someone has seen the space is a guess. What moves it most is whether you are changing the layout — keeping plumbing and electrical where they are costs far less than relocating them — and what condition the systems behind the walls are in. We walk the space, tell you which of those apply to your house, and give you a written estimate that separates the known scope from the contingencies.
- Do I need a permit to remodel a bathroom?
- If you are only replacing finishes — tile, vanity, fixtures in the same locations — usually not. As soon as you move plumbing, add or move electrical circuits, or change the structure, you need trade permits from City of San Antonio Development Services. Unpermitted work becomes your problem when you sell the house, so we permit what should be permitted.
- Can we live in the house during a renovation?
- Usually yes, and most of our clients do. We set dust barriers, protect the path in and out, and sequence the work so you are not without a kitchen or a bathroom longer than necessary. For whole-house work there is often a stretch where moving out is genuinely easier, and we will tell you when we think that is the case rather than leaving you to find out.
- What happens if you find something unexpected behind the wall?
- We stop, show you, and price it as a written change order before continuing. Rot, failed framing, undersized or non-code electrical, and old galvanized plumbing are the common ones in older San Antonio homes. They are excluded from the original estimate because nobody can see through drywall, not because we are trying to get you on the hook later.