A whole-home renovation is a long project and we would rather say so plainly at the outset. Design and selections generally occupy eight to twelve weeks, long enough to resolve plans, elevations, cabinetry, stone, flooring, and lighting for every room before anything is ordered. Construction commonly runs four to nine months depending on square footage, how much structure moves, and lead times on custom millwork and appliances.
Sequencing the house
We phase the work so the house is not opened everywhere at once. Structure, mechanical, and rough trades run first, then cabinetry and stone, then flooring, then paint and finish carpentry, with the rooms you rely on most released back to you as early in the schedule as the sequence allows.
Permits and architectural review
Where the work touches structure, gas, plumbing, or electrical service, it is permitted — and we handle that quietly on your behalf with the City of Dallas and the surrounding municipalities. In Highland Park, University Park, Preston Hollow, and comparable communities, we prepare and submit architectural review packages ourselves, having done so often enough to know what each board expects to see.
Living in the house
Some clients stay through a whole-home project and some move out for the heaviest phases; we will tell you honestly which we would recommend for your scope. If you remain, dust is contained at the active work area, flooring and pathways are protected from the front door inward, materials are staged outside your living space, and where it helps we set up a temporary kitchen so ordinary life continues around the project.
Investment, in writing
Rather than a number that drifts, you receive a fixed scope of work covering every room, documented and signed before demolition. Changes happen only when you ask for them, and they are priced before the work is done.