RG Home Remodeling plans and builds whole-home renovations across Berkeley and the inner East Bay. A whole-home renovation is the chance to keep the home and the block you love while reworking a closed-off layout, modernizing the kitchen and baths, replacing aging wiring and plumbing, and bringing the finishes up to current taste and code. In an older South Berkeley flat or an Elmwood bungalow, that is often the smartest money you can spend. We plan the renovation as one project, scope it honestly, and build it with one accountable crew.
- The layout and the systems reworked together
- Updated kitchens and bathrooms throughout
- Knob-and-tube and old plumbing brought up to code
- Insulation and efficiency upgrades while walls are open
- One design and build team start to finish
When a whole-home renovation is the right call
A whole-home renovation makes sense when the bones of the house are good but the layout, the systems, or the finishes no longer fit how you live. Older Berkeley homes often pair genuine character and solid old-growth framing with closed-off floor plans, kitchens and baths that are decades out of date, and wiring and plumbing well past their service life. A renovation lets you keep the character and fix everything else.
It is frequently a better value than moving or rebuilding, because the location and the structure are worth keeping. The expensive shell, the foundation and most of the framing, already exists, and in this part of the East Bay that framing is often better than anything built today. A renovation reworks the interior for far less than starting over, while keeping what made the home worth buying in the first place.
An honest read of what the house truly needs is the key. We assess the structure, the systems, and the layout, then tell you plainly what should be kept and what should be reworked, rather than selling a gut-everything package the home may not need.
Layout, systems, and finishes handled as one project
A whole-home renovation can reach almost everything. Walls come down to open up a chopped-up plan, kitchens and baths get reworked around how the household actually lives, and the wiring, plumbing, and mechanical are brought to current code while the walls are open, which is by far the best time to do that work in an old house.
Because the systems and the layout are reworked together, the result is coherent rather than patched. The new electrical and plumbing follow the new layout, insulation and efficiency get addressed while the walls are open, and the finishes unify the whole home instead of jumping from era to era as you move room to room.
We handle the renovation as one project so the pieces line up, and you see the plan and the written price before we open a single wall. There are no surprises in scope or cost once the work is under way.
One crew, an honest plan, a project under control
A whole-home renovation means demolition, structural work, new systems, and a full finish package, which is exactly why a single design-build crew matters so much. We own every phase, so the new work connects cleanly with whatever is being kept and the project stays accountable from the first day through the last.
We stage the work to keep the home livable for as much of the project as the scope allows, then finish it efficiently once it starts, and we keep you posted on progress and what comes next the whole way through. One team owns the entire job, so you never juggle separate trades on your own and nobody points fingers when an adjustment is needed.
If your Berkeley home is solid but no longer fits how you live, call 510-966-0721 for a free consultation and an honest plan for bringing it up to date.
The complete project picture
A home is a design-build project, so home renovation rarely stands alone, it connects to basement conversion, architectural millwork, general contracting, a home addition, a bathroom remodel, and our crew handles all of it as one accountable team. We bring the same service to Home Renovation in South Berkeley, Home Renovation in Elmwood, Rockridge home renovation, Home Renovation in Claremont and everywhere else across the Berkeley area.
If you searched for local remodeling service, you have reached a local home contractor, call 510-966-0721 any time. For background, read A Practical Guide to Remodeling Your Home on our blog, or head back to our Berkeley home page to see everything we do.