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The new kitchen from the living side, marble island and waterfall end under polished nickel pendants

Silent Harbor, Huntington Beach

The interior was rebuilt without changing the exterior.

A full interior remodel of the kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms, with kitchen design by The Kitchen Lady. The front of the house is exactly where it always was.

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Location
Huntington Beach
Scope
Full interior remodel
Kitchen design
The Kitchen Lady
Principals on site
Jason and Benjamin

A full interior remodel, room by room.

The work went room by room and stopped at the walls. A new kitchen, planned with The Kitchen Lady and built around a marble island with seating on three sides. Bathrooms taken back and rebuilt, one of them in marble from the floor to the ceiling. Bedrooms reworked through the house, including a new guest suite. A new fireplace in the family room, which is where this house actually spends its evenings.

The parts worth paying for are the parts that do not photograph. Plumbing and electrical reworked behind finished walls. Cabinetry scribed to rooms that were never quite square. Tile set so the pattern runs true into the corners and around the openings. A remodel that never goes outside has nowhere to hide, because every new surface meets an old one, and the joint between them is the whole job.

Kitchen design by The Kitchen Lady. We are a California-licensed general contracting firm, led by two principals. You keep your architect and designer. We build what they draw.

The room the kitchen opens into

The family room

The room the kitchen opens into

The kitchen does not end at a counter. It runs into the family room, and the two read as one space with the island as the hinge. A new fireplace anchors the far wall. The glass along the back stayed where it was, so the garden that was already there does the rest of the work.

Marble, and the joints you are not supposed to notice

The primary bathroom

Marble, and the joints you are not supposed to notice

Marble on the walls, the floor and the counter, which means every seam is a decision somebody had to make and then live with. The arched window was kept, and the tile was set to meet it. Benjamin takes the interior detailing and the finish work on every project. Nobody notices it when it is right, and that is the standard.

New rooms behind old windows

The bedrooms

New rooms behind old windows

Bedrooms reworked through the house, including a new guest suite, with new flooring, new casing and a fresh paint specification throughout. The windows and the openings stayed exactly where they were. Everything that meets them is new, which is harder than moving them would have been.

Built into this house

A kitchen planned with The Kitchen Lady

New cabinetry, new countertops and backsplash, new appliances, and lighting specified to suit them.

A marble primary bathroom

Walls, floor and counter, with the existing arched window kept and the tile set to meet it.

A new guest suite

A room that had one job before, now with its own bathroom and its own reason to exist.

A new fireplace

The family room needed a middle. It now has one, and the seating finally makes sense around it.

Plumbing and electrical reworked

Behind finished walls, under finished floors, and invisible in every photograph on this page.

Nothing structural. Nothing outside.

No walls moved, no roof touched, no ground broken. Every hour went into the rooms you live in.

The rest of the house

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The island
The islandMarble top, seating on three sides, and the range wall straight ahead.
The range wall
The range wallA marble slab behind the range, with a niche recessed into it.
Kitchen into family room
Kitchen into family roomOne space doing two jobs, with light along the whole of the back wall.
The tall run
The tall runFull height cabinetry beside the refrigerator, scribed into the corner.
The second bathroom
The second bathroomTwin vanities, a subway tile wainscot, and a decorative patterned floor tile.
The terrace
The terraceThe existing pool and paving. The remodel stayed inside.

From the street it is the same house.
Inside, it is not.

Silent Harbor
The house from the street, unchanged, tile roof and white garage doors
The street side.The front of the house was not part of the work. All of it is behind the door.

If your project sounds like this one, we should walk it together.

They walk the lot together before a line is drawn. Jason takes the structure and the site, Benjamin takes the details you live with every day. Both of them are on site, on every project, and we only take a few homes at a time so that stays true.

Serving the greater Orange County and Los Angeles area, and the Altadena fire rebuild.

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