Renovation and Reconfiguration

Most renovations begin as a list of complaints. The kitchen is in the wrong place. There is nowhere to put anything. The guest area eats half the house and gets used four times a year. Each one is a symptom, and the house usually has one underlying problem behind all of them.

We start by finding it. We walk the house with you, we watch how you actually move through it, and we ask what you have stopped doing because the house makes it difficult. Then we test layouts against that, not against a style.

Most of what a renovation changes is interior architecture. A wall comes out so the kitchen meets the family room. A doorway moves so guests stop walking through the private side of the house. A ceiling drops to carry light and air where they are needed. Each of those is checked with a structural engineer before it reaches a drawing.

From there the work is ordinary and exacting: what moves, what stays, what the structure allows, what the building management permits, what it costs, and in what order it happens so you are not living in a building site longer than you need to be. We can hand that design to your contractor, or build it ourselves.