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Serving Santa Clara · Santa Clara County

Your remodeling contractor in Santa Clara

Our office and design showroom are on Scott Boulevard, so in Santa Clara you are not hiring a contractor who covers the city. You are hiring the one who works from it.

Remodeling in Santa Clara

The remodeler whose showroom is already in your city.

We have remodeled homes across Santa Clara, and our showroom on Scott Boulevard is where most of our clients, from every city, come to pick cabinets and stone. For Santa Clara homeowners that means the crew, the office and the job are all inside the same few miles: parts get picked up the same morning, an inspector question gets answered in person, and nobody bills you for windshield time.

The housing here is classic South Bay: postwar tracts built fast in the forties and fifties when the orchards came out, with a historic core around the Old Quad and Agnew. Those tract homes are structurally honest and spatially stingy, which is why kitchen wall removals and hallway bathroom rebuilds are the two jobs we do here most.

City hall, handled

Permits in Santa Clara, handled for you.

Permits run through the Building Division of the Community Development Department, filed on the city's online permitting portal. The counter takes appointments and walk-ins, and minor scope like water heaters and reroofs can be issued through the city's Simple Permits system almost instantly. We file, track and close every permit as part of the contract.

Santa Clara also runs a pre-approved ADU plans program: vendor plan sets the Building Division has already reviewed, with the city's own program document committing to an initial site-specific plan review within ten business days. If a pre-approved set fits your lot, it is the shortest road to a legal second unit in this city, and we build from those sets as readily as from our own designs.

One caveat we plan around: homes on the city's Historic Resources Inventory, concentrated around the Old Quad and Agnew, need a Significant Property Alteration permit for changes, with the bigger ones reviewed by the Historical & Landmarks Commission. It is a drawings problem, and drawings are our department.

The housing stock

What Santa Clara homes ask for.

A Santa Clara tract home usually has one bathroom more than it needs walls and one fewer than it needs fixtures. The remodels we do most here: open the kitchen to the living space, turn the hall bath into two, and push a primary suite into the back yard as an addition or convert the garage into living space the family actually uses.

Because the lots are generous and flat, Santa Clara is also one of the best ADU cities we work in. A detached unit or a garage conversion here rents easily and appraises well, and state law now bars the city from demanding replacement parking when a garage becomes an ADU.

Santa Clara questions

What Santa Clara homeowners ask us.

Do you really have an office in Santa Clara?

Yes. 3030 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara, CA 95054, office and design showroom. Come in, put your hands on the cabinet doors and the stone samples, and meet the people who will run your job.

How do permits work in Santa Clara?

Everything files through the city's online portal, with over-the-counter appointments for smaller scope and near-instant Simple Permits for minor work. We prepare the drawings, submit, answer plan check and meet the inspectors. You sign nothing at a counter.

Is Santa Clara good for ADUs?

One of the best. Flat, generous lots, a city pre-approved plans program with a published ten-business-day initial review for site plans, and state rules that cap setbacks at four feet and bar replacement-parking demands on garage conversions. Bring us the lot and we will talk it through.

My home is near the Old Quad. Does that change anything?

If it is on the city's Historic Resources Inventory it can add a review step for alterations. We check the inventory before we draw a line, and we prepare whatever package the review needs.

Free consultation

Planning a remodel in Santa Clara?

Tell us what you are imagining. We will walk the space, explain what your city requires, and put a fixed price in writing.

We reply within one business day. No sales visit, no pressure. Prefer to talk now? Call (408) 443-2393.

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