Remodeling Beverly Hills: Home Remodeling Contractor in Beverly Hills, CA

Remodeling Beverly Hills is a design-build remodeling contractor in Beverly Hills, California. We work across the city and the surrounding Westside on whole-house renovations, kitchens and bathrooms, room additions, ADUs, and remodeling on rental and investment property. A job starts with a measured drawing and ends with a signed-off permit card from the counter at 455 N. Rexford Drive.

We have built under this name for more than twenty years. The trade behind it runs back a good deal further, over 120 years and five generations of carpenters and home improvers, and the company is led today by a U.S. Air Force veteran. On site that shows up in fairly unglamorous ways: drawings before anyone starts demolition, a schedule with real dates on it, and subcontractors who turn up on the day they said they would.

Call (424) 766-1835 and we will come and look at the space. You get a written scope and a budget range before you commit to anything, and it costs you nothing.

Residential remodeling services in Beverly Hills

Most of our work sits inside single-family homes between Sunset and Wilshire, in the flats south of Santa Monica Boulevard, and on the hillside lots above Coldwater and Benedict Canyon. These are the jobs we get asked for most often.

Income property and investor remodeling

A large share of Beverly Hills and Westside property is held as income or held short, and that work runs on a different clock than an owner-occupied remodel. A vacant unit loses money every week it sits. A flip loses margin to every day of carry. So we bid and schedule these jobs differently, against a fixed scope and a hard finish date instead of an open one.

It is also where the Los Angeles seismic retrofit ordinance keeps coming up. Around 13,500 soft-story buildings fall under Ordinance 183893. The compliance deadline for buildings under sixteen units passed in April 2026, and penalties for missing it run to $500 a day.

Specialty work most remodelers subcontract out

Beverly Hills housing is not one thing. The flats hold 1920s Spanish Colonial Revival and Mediterranean Revival. The middle of the city is mostly post-war traditional. Trousdale Estates has one of the densest concentrations of mid-century modern anywhere in Los Angeles. They do not take the same treatment, and the work below is where that difference tends to show up.

• Historic and period home restoration. Matching original plaster, steel casement windows, clay tile roofs, and hand-troweled stucco on pre-war homes.
• Mid-century modern renovation. Post-and-beam framing, exposed structure, floor-to-ceiling glass and flat roofs, updated without flattening the original design.
• Second story additions. Vertical expansion on a constrained lot, including the foundation and shear analysis that has to happen first.
• Wine cellar design and construction. Insulated envelope, vapor barrier, cooling unit sizing and racking, built into a basement or a converted room.
• Home theater and media rooms. Isolated construction, acoustic treatment, projector geometry and equipment ventilation.
• Outdoor living and backyard remodeling. Covered patios, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, fire features and pool-deck hardscape.
• Fire and water damage restoration remodeling. Insurance-scope rebuilds after a loss, coordinated with the adjuster.

Why Beverly Hills homeowners call us

• Licensed, bonded and insured. Our California contractor's licence number is published in the footer of every page on this site, and certificates of insurance go to you or to your HOA on request.
• Twenty years under this name. Long enough that our early work has now been through two decades of weather, earthquakes and daily use. That is the only real test of a remodel, and we can show you the results of it.
• Design-build under one roof. Drawings, engineering, permits and construction come from one contract, so nobody gets to blame the other party when something does not line up.
• Permits handled. We prepare and run the plan check submittal, whether that is the Beverly Hills Community Development Department or LADBS on a property just over the line.
• A written scope before a deposit. Line-by-line, with allowances stated. If a number is an allowance rather than a fixed price, the proposal says so.
• Craft first. More than 120 years and five generations of family carpentry sit behind this company, and millwork, trim and finish carpentry are still where our standards get set.
• Veteran-led. Schedules are treated as commitments, not aspirations.

How a remodel runs with us

1. Walk the property

We visit, measure, and look behind the walls wherever we can get a look. You have a realistic budget range in writing the same week. If your budget and your scope do not meet, this is where you find that out, not three months later with the kitchen already on the driveway.

2. Design and engineering

Measured existing conditions first, then a design set. Structural engineering wherever walls, roofs or foundations are involved, and Title 24 energy compliance where the scope triggers it.

3. Permits and plan check

We submit, answer the corrections, and carry the project through approval. On a straightforward interior remodel in Beverly Hills that runs a few weeks. On an addition or an ADU, plan on considerably longer.

4. Build

One site supervisor who stays on the job, a published schedule, dust containment in occupied homes, and inspections booked ahead of the work instead of after it.

5. Close out

Final inspection signed off, punch list finished, warranty documents and appliance manuals handed over, and the permit card closed. An open permit is the kind of problem that stays quiet for years and then surfaces in escrow.

Permits and plan check in Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills runs its own building department instead of deferring to Los Angeles County, and the Community Development Department sits in City Hall at 455 N. Rexford Drive. That works in your favour. It is a small department serving a small city, and a well-prepared submittal moves through it. The flip side is that a contractor whose experience is all in the City of Los Angeles will be learning a different process on your project, at your expense.

Three local specifics are worth knowing before you set a budget. Projects that come to more than a 50% remodel of a multi-family or commercial property carry an accessibility expert fee, calculated as a percentage of the plan check and permit fees. Hillside properties above Sunset face extra grading and geotechnical review. And single-family design review can apply to anything visible from the street, which catches front elevations, windows and roofing far more often than owners expect.

Areas we serve around Beverly Hills

Beverly Hills is the centre of what we do, and the rest of the Westside is a short drive in most directions. We work regularly in West Hollywood, Bel Air, Brentwood, Hancock Park, Culver City, Santa Monica and Pacific Palisades, and over the hill in Studio City, Sherman Oaks and Encino.

Further out we take projects in Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, Calabasas, Malibu and Manhattan Beach. If your property sits inside roughly 25 miles of Beverly Hills, we will come and look at it. Past that we will usually tell you a closer contractor is the better bet, because a crew stretched across the county is no use to you when something needs sorting on a Tuesday morning.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a full home remodel cost in Beverly Hills?

Full remodels in this market generally run $200 to $800 per square foot depending on finish level and how much structural and mechanical work is involved. A cosmetic refresh sits near the bottom of that band; a gut renovation with new systems, moved walls and high-end finishes sits near the top or above it. Our cost guide breaks the numbers down job by job.

Do I need a permit to remodel in Beverly Hills?

Almost certainly, unless the work is purely cosmetic: paint, flooring laid over an existing subfloor, or cabinet replacement in the same footprint. Anything that moves plumbing or electrical, changes a structural element, alters a window or door opening, or adds square footage needs a permit from the Beverly Hills Community Development Department. We prepare and run the submittal as part of the contract.

How long does a kitchen or bathroom remodel take?

A bathroom in the same footprint is typically four to eight weeks on site. A kitchen with new cabinetry is usually eight to fourteen weeks, and the long pole is almost always cabinet lead time rather than labor. Add four to ten weeks up front if the scope needs plan check.

Can I stay in the house during the remodel?

For a single bathroom or a contained room, usually yes. For a kitchen you can, but plan on a temporary setup and roughly two months without a working kitchen. For a whole-house gut, no. The house will be without power, water or both for stretches, and living on site slows the schedule enough to cost more than the rental.

Do you work on rental buildings and investment property?

Yes, and it is a growing part of the business. Unit turns, common-area upgrades, full building refreshes, flip renovations and pre-sale work all run on fixed scope and a hard completion date, because vacancy and carry cost are the real budget on those projects.

Which areas outside Beverly Hills do you cover?

Roughly a 25-mile radius. That includes the whole Westside, the southern San Fernando Valley, the coastal cities from Santa Monica down to Manhattan Beach, and east as far as Glendale and Pasadena. Call (424) 766-1835 and we will tell you straight away whether your address is one we serve well.

Are you licensed, bonded and insured?

Yes to all three. Our California contractor's licence number is published in the footer of every page on this site, and you can verify it yourself on the CSLB website in under a minute. We would encourage you to, for us and for anyone else you are considering. Certificates of general liability and workers' compensation insurance go to you on request, and directly to your HOA or building management where a condo or high-rise project requires them.

How long have you been in business?

More than twenty years remodeling under this name, with over 120 years and five generations of family carpentry behind it. The practical value of that is not the number. It is that work we completed fifteen and twenty years ago is still standing in this city and we can talk you through how it has held up.

What does an estimate actually include?

A site visit, measurements, a walkthrough of what the work involves and where the risks are, and a budget range in writing. It is not a fixed bid, because a fixed bid needs drawings. It is enough for you to decide whether to proceed to design.