Stories – Historic Spanish Style – Gut Remodel

Session # 1 – The Beginning

Session # 2 – The Rebuild


Session # 3 – The Pool and Pool House


Session # 4 – The Finishes !!!

Gut Remodel, Addition and New Construction All in One

Santa Monica Spanish Gut Remodel - Front view

Out with the old

Front door after re build
Demolition of the old

Rebuilt new entry

Santa Monica Gut Remodel - framing

A “Gut” remodel/restoration of a turn of the Century Spanish revival home located in Santa Monica.
The house was completely stripped to the “good” studs and rebuilt from the inside out.  As is the case in Los Angeles,
rebuilding a home and bringing it up to current building code standard, requires building from the inside out.  New foundations,
framing and mechanical systems create a new home.

  • Remodel/restoration of Spanish revival home
  • New pool house and custom pool with fountain
  • Complete “Chef’s style” kitchen
  • Unique open beamed ceiling
  • Moroccan tile
  • Plaster ceiling molding

Santa Monica Gut Remodel - pool house and pool
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - living room
Kitchen cabinets - rough install
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - happy tradespeople !
Testing paint colors
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - finish kitchen
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - Moroccan tile and plaster ceiling in the hallway
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - tile risers on stairs
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - Pool house
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - steel column frame for pool house
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - exterior painting
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - gargage for living
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - custom driveway gate

Parts and pieces – the front gate and custom wrought iron.

Santa Monica Gut Remodel - craning in trees

Landscaping with large specimen trees being craned onto the site.

Framing
Santa Monica Gut Remodel - outdoor fireplace

Bungalow / Ranch Remodel

Remodeled !

Bungalow_remodel finish2

Before

Bungalow_remodel1_before

Below are the new and existing plans. Most of the older homes have lots of tiny rooms. The are also usually oriented to the front yard and most people would rather have a more open kitchen / living space that opens up to the back yard.

Opening the house to the back yard and creating a kitchen / living room

The tiny old kitchen opened up to become a new one!

This typical, 800 square foot, post WW2, suburban house in Los Angeles was about as plain as they come. Check out the video story – above – detailing the design – construction and finishes for this home published in Finehomebuilding !

Finehomebuilding Ranch Remodel

Stories – Ozzie & Harriet Ranch House Transformed

Session # 1 – What’s a “Rolling Remodel?”

Session # 2 – Master Bath & Kitchen

Session # 3 – Front Facade Rebuild – Structural Work

Coming soon !

This is what I call a “rolling remodel.” The project started as a new master bath and kitchen and ended up a completely remodeled home with a totally different new modern look.

Remodel board and batten and standing seam metal roof

Beautiful lines of standing seam roof and board and batten siding with a custom white glass garage door

Kitchen addition cathedral ceiling and open beams

Kitchen addition cathedral ceiling and open beams

Standing seam metal roof and board and batten siding

Standing seam metal roof and board and batten siding with a new kitchen addition

Remodeled master bath with white glass panels

Remodeled master bath with white glass panels

Remodeled master bath custom cabinets

Remodeled master bath custom cabinets

Remodel pool bath with floor to ceiling custom tile

Remodel pool bath with floor to ceiling custom tile