The most demanding
room, done
right.

Your contract is built on a defined scope, not a rough estimate — every material, fixture, and labor line is priced before we break ground. If something outside that scope turns up once work starts, you get a written change order with the exact cost before anything proceeds, never a surprise on the final invoice.

We build your schedule around the real LA permitting and inspection calendar, not a best-case guess, so the date you sign off on already accounts for plan-check and inspection wait times. If something outside our control pushes it, you hear about it the same week — not the week the deadline passes.

You get a single point of contact for the entire job, not a rotating cast of subs to chase down. We check in with you daily — by phone and by message — so you're never finding out about a problem after it's already cost you time.

Every job closes with a walkthrough and a written punch list — nothing is “done” until every item on it is fixed and you've signed off. We stand behind our work with the guarantee spelled out in your contract, and every trade that requires a license gets a licensed sub, not unlicensed labor to save a day.

We pull permits for anything LA requires a permit for, full stop, even when a smaller scope makes it tempting to skip. That protects you two ways: the city inspects the work as a second set of eyes beyond ours, and you're never the one holding an unpermitted addition when it's time to sell.

Yes — moving a sink, even a few feet, means rerouting the drain and supply lines, which requires a plumbing permit under LA's building code. If the rest of your kitchen scope is straightforward, LADBS's Express Permit program can often issue this same-day rather than going through full plan check. What it doesn't cover is skipping the permit — an unpermitted drain relocation is exactly the kind of thing that surfaces at your home inspection when you go to sell.

There's no single statewide code number for kitchen aisle width the way there is for a commercial exit path — the widely used minimum is 36 inches for a walkway and 42–48 inches for a working aisle with room to cook, and that's what we design your island to. Where it does become a real code issue is if the island blocks a required path to an exit door — that's not a guideline, that's a problem we catch in the design phase, before anything gets ordered.

If it's in a wall or ceiling we're already opening as part of your scope, it gets replaced to current code — that's standard, not an upcharge surprise, since anything we touch has to meet today's electrical code, not the code from when the house was built. Knob-and-tube elsewhere in the house that we're not touching can legally stay if it's in good condition, but we'll flag it either way — most insurers charge more, or decline coverage outright, for a home with any active knob-and-tube.