Kitchens, bathrooms, additions, ADUs, seismic retrofits, whole-house renovations and new construction. Plus turnovers and compliance work for people who own rental buildings.
Pick one to see what it costs in Los Angeles, whether you need a permit and how long it takes.
For owners and managers
Rental buildings need a contractor who knows what a vacant unit costs per day and what the city's letters mean. We own and manage buildings here too.
Palisades and Eaton
What a rebuild actually costs, how the like-for-like rules differ between the City and the County, what your policy pays, and how to think about rebuilding against selling the lot. Written with the 2026 numbers and the places our sources disagree marked as such.
Kitchens, bathrooms, living spaces and exteriors from projects across Los Angeles.
Six steps, always in this order.
We meet you on site, listen, and look at what the building and the city will need. You get a written scope and a budget range.
When drawings are needed we bring in the architect and engineer, and price the design while it is being drawn.
We file with the city, handle the corrections they send back, and tell you where it stands.
An itemized price, a schedule and payment terms. Anything new after signing gets priced in writing first.
One supervisor on your job, licensed trades, inspections in order, and a weekly update with photos.
A final fix list, the city's sign-off, and a written warranty on our work.
The part nobody warns you about
Construction time is predictable. Permit time is not, and it is where most projects actually lose their months. These are first-review times in the City of Los Angeles, and every round of corrections adds another three to six weeks on top.
We file complete sets, use the city's pre-approved standard plans wherever one fits, and tell you where the application stands rather than making you ask.
Based in Beverly Hills, working across the City of Los Angeles and the cities around it. Each one has its own building department and its own rules.
Answers
Costs, permits and rules for building in Los Angeles, each answered on its own page.
Working with us
All of Los Angeles County. That includes the City of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, Culver City, Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale, the San Fernando Valley, the South Bay and Long Beach.
Yes. California contractor license CSLB 1083262, Class B general building, with a contractor's bond, general liability and workers' compensation. You can check it yourself at cslb.ca.gov.
We do, under our license. If a contractor asks you to pull an owner-builder permit for work they are doing, that is a warning sign.
Yes. Unit turnovers, capital projects, seismic and balcony compliance and pre-sale work are a large part of what we do.
Call (310) 734-2245 or send the address and what you want to do. We walk it, then send an itemized price with a schedule.
A bathroom runs $25,000 to $60,000, a kitchen $50,000 to $120,000, an ADU $120,000 to $450,000, and a room addition $350 to $600 per square foot in Los Angeles County. Every page on this site lists the range for that kind of work.
Call, or send the address and what you want to do. We will walk it, confirm what the city allows, and send a written proposal with scope, cost and timeline.