Reimagined Construction
Design-build renovation
What we do
A whole-home remodel is not a series of room projects run consecutively. It is one job with one structure, one set of services and one schedule — which is why it costs less than doing the same rooms one at a time, and why it is harder to live through.
A house stripped to studs, with the original frame visible
Design and full construction drawings for the entire house.
Structural work, foundation remediation and roof alterations where needed.
Complete replacement of electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems.
Every room fitted, finished and decorated.
Permitting, inspections and close-out documentation.
Full-house protection, or a coordinated move-out plan if staying is the wrong call.
Most Houston houses of any age have moved. On a whole-home job that stops being something to monitor and becomes something to fix, because every finish you are about to install will be hung off it.
We assess the foundation in discovery, get a geotechnical opinion where the movement warrants it, and carry the remediation as a named line rather than a hopeful contingency.
At this scope, replacing is almost always cheaper than extending. Pulling the whole electrical service, the whole supply and waste, and the whole mechanical system while the walls are open costs a fraction of doing it later, and it resets the clock on all three.
Slab plumbing is the exception worth naming: replacing under-slab drainage means breaking the slab, and that decision is made in preconstruction with a camera survey behind it, not on site.
The order is the job. Protection, demolition, structure, rough-in, inspection, close, finish, commission. Getting one out of order does not just cost time — it costs work already done.
How long it takes
Seven to fourteen months on site
Plus four to seven months of design and preconstruction. Anyone quoting a whole-home remodel at four months is quoting a different job from the one you are describing.
Whole-home work we take on generally runs from $350,000 to well over $1,000,000. Per square foot, expect $200 to $450 depending on how much of the structure and the services move.
Levelling and pier work at the low end; underpinning and slab replacement at the high end.
Electrical service, supply and waste, and mechanical across the whole footprint.
Opening the plan, new beams, roof changes, and anything a previous renovation cut through.
Typically a third to a half of a whole-home budget. The rest of the house is cheaper per square foot than these rooms.
Flooring, joinery, decoration and hardware across every room, driven almost entirely by specification.
Discovery
Existing conditions, foundation, services, and what the city will require.
Design
Twelve to twenty weeks. Every room, every selection, priced as it develops.
Preconstruction
Line-item estimate, permits, long-lead orders, fixed contract sum.
Construction
Seven to fourteen months, with a published weekly schedule.
Handover
Punch list, close-out records, warranty, and a return visit at one year.
For a true whole-home remodel, staying is usually the wrong call, and we will tell you so even though moving out is the easier job for us.
The house will have no functioning kitchen for months, the services will be off for extended periods, and the dust containment that works for one room does not work when every room is open at once.
Where clients do stay, it is normally a phased version — the house split into two zones and the work run through them in sequence. That adds two to four months and roughly ten per cent, and we price it as its own option so you can compare it against the rent it saves.
Whole-home work starts with a walkthrough and a conversation about what the structure and the services actually need, before anyone talks about finishes.