K I R K L A N D
WHOLE HOME REMODELING IN KIRKLAND
The Ranch House Problem
A 1962 Kirkland rambler was built for a family with one car, one phone line, and a different idea of privacy. It has a 7-foot ceiling in the hall, a galley kitchen walled off from everything, and a bath the whole house shares.
You can patch it. Most people do, one room at a time, and end up with a house that is a museum of fifteen years of unrelated decisions.
A whole-home remodel is the alternative: one plan, one palette, one construction sequence, and a house that makes sense from the front door to the back fence.
What we take on
We gut to studs. Walls come out and beams go in where the new plan needs them. The panel gets replaced, the wiring and plumbing run new, and the HVAC gets designed for the actual room layout instead of whatever the original duct run could reach.
Then the envelope: insulation, air sealing, windows, siding, and roof. Then the interior, floor to ceiling, in one coherent finish schedule.
Clients come back after a winter and tell us the house is quieter and cheaper to heat. That is not a side effect. It is half the point.
Working Inside a Tight Footprint
Kirkland lots are small and the neighbors are close. A whole-home gut means dumpsters, material drops, and a crew in the driveway for months. We plan the site logistics before demo: where the container sits, when deliveries land, which side of the house the crew enters, and how the sidewalk stays passable.
We also pull permits properly. Structural work, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing all get inspected. A remodel with no paper trail becomes a problem at resale.
Where the Money Goes
Kitchens and baths absorb the largest share of any whole-home budget, and they are also where the biggest quality gap opens between builders. Frameless cabinet boxes with particle-board cores, tile set on drywall, and a shower pan that flexes will all show up within three years.
We build cabinet runs in plywood, back tile with cement board and a proper waterproofing membrane, and set pans on a mud bed with a real slope. It costs more on the invoice and nothing on the back end.
A REALISTIC TIMELINE
A gut remodel of a 2,000-square-foot Kirkland house runs six to nine months of construction after a two-to-three-month design and permit phase. Clients move out. We tell people that up front because the alternative — living in a demolition site — makes everyone miserable and slows the crew.
Finish Carpentry Is the Tell
Stacked casing, consistent reveals, doors that swing true, and trim that holds tight through a heating season. Our carpenters set the standard and Matt inspects it personally.
A PHONE CALL AWAY
Call 206.406.3264 to talk through your house.
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