Remodel & Renovation Design

What you get

• Measured survey of the existing space, including the things that are not square.
• Floor plans showing layout, clearances, door swings and furniture at true size.
• Elevations — each wall drawn flat and to scale, showing cabinetry, tile, heights and proportion. This is where a kitchen or bathroom is genuinely designed.
• Material and finish selections: cabinetry, stone, tile, fixtures, hardware, flooring, paint and lighting.
• A specification precise enough to price and to build from, with actual products rather than allowances wherever possible.
• Coordination with a structural engineer, architect or other consultants where the scope needs them.

What drawings catch, for free

Every item here is a common, expensive failure that an elevation prevents on paper:

• An upper cabinet run colliding with a window casing
• A hood leaving a two-inch gap to the ceiling — too small to fill, too big to ignore
• A dishwasher door that cannot open because it hits the corner cabinet
• Sconces specified at a height that puts them behind the mirror’s edge
• Built-ins that are not symmetrical about the fireplace, in a room where symmetry was the whole idea
• An island long enough for four stools but with knee space for three
• A toilet centerline giving 13 inches of clearance where 15 is the minimum

None of these are exotic. All are expensive after the fact and free on a drawing. The full explanation is in floor plans and elevations, explained.

Typical projects

Kitchens and bathrooms, media rooms, fireplace walls and built-in cabinetry, staircases, opening a wall between rooms, primary suites, and whole-home renovations planned in phases.

And then?

Two routes from an approved design:

• We build it. Jan takes on the general contracting, so the person who drew the elevations is the one making sure they get built.
• Your builder builds it. Perfectly workable — the drawings and specification are made to be built from. That arrangement is remodeling consulting.