Lot & feasibility review
Access, slope, soil, setbacks, utility runs and what the site will realistically allow before you commit to a design.
Custom home building
in San Diego.
Ground-up construction on your lot, run by the licensed builder who priced it — not handed to a project manager you have never met.
The approach
A house is the sum of
A house is the sum of
a thousand small decisions.
Building from the ground up is the most exposed thing a homeowner can do. There is no existing structure to hide behind, no shortcut through the permit process, and every decision you make in month one is still visible in year twenty.
We take on custom homes the way an owner-builder does: the person who walks your lot is the person who prices the build, sequences the trades and answers the phone when a question comes out of the ground. Kenneth D. came to us after another contractor stalled on his new-construction house — the thing that finished it was knowing who was actually accountable.
Before anything is ordered, scope, budget and design criteria are aligned into one document. That is the single most useful hour of a custom build, and it is where most projects that go wrong were already going wrong.
Licensed CSLB #1049743 · Bonded & insured
What is included
Everything this
Everything this
work involves.
One licence covers all of it. You are not appointing six separate trades and refereeing between them.
Budget-to-design alignment
Your design criteria reconciled against real construction costs, so the drawings you develop are ones you can afford to build.
Permits & approvals
Plan submission, corrections and inspections managed through the City or County so your project keeps moving.
Foundation & framing
The structural work everything else depends on, set out square and level by people who will still be here at finish stage.
Full trade coordination
Plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, stucco and drywall sequenced so nobody is standing on anybody else.
Finishes & handover
Cabinetry, stone, flooring, tile, lighting and paint, then a punch list walked together until you sign it off.
How it runs
Four stages,
Four stages,
no surprises.
You will always know which stage you are in and what happens next.
01
Site visit and feasibility
We walk the lot with you, talk through what you are trying to build, and give you an honest read on what the site supports and what it will cost.
02
Pre-construction planning
Scope, budget, design criteria, selections and lead times settled in writing. Permits submitted. Nothing is guessed at later.
03
Build
Foundation, framing, dry-in, rough trades, insulation, drywall, finishes. Sequenced weekly, with the owner on site.
04
Walkthrough and sign-off
We punch the list together, room by room. Nothing is called finished until you have looked at it and agreed.
Selected work
Work of this kind.
Ask us for photographs and references from recent projects near you — we will send them over.
In their words
Clients on this
Clients on this
kind of project.
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Questions
Straight answers.
Most single-family custom homes run twelve to twenty months from permit issue to handover, and the permitting itself can add several months before that. Site complexity, plan-check corrections and how quickly selections are made all move that number. We give you a realistic programme up front rather than an optimistic one.
Yes — that is the typical case. If you have not bought the lot yet, we are happy to walk it with you before you commit, because access, slope and utility runs can change the build cost dramatically.
Both work. We regularly build to an architect's drawings, and we can also help you align an early design with a realistic budget before too much drafting time is spent on something that cannot be built for the money.
Yes. We hold California Contractors State License Board licence 1049743, General Building Class B, which is the classification required for ground-up residential construction, and we carry a contractor bond and insurance. You can verify the licence yourself at cslb.ca.gov.
Genuine unknowns exist in construction, particularly below ground. What we control is that they are raised with you immediately, priced in writing, and agreed before the work happens — never discovered on a final invoice.
Related
Often combined with.
Most projects touch more than one of these. See all services.
Home Additions & Structural
Second storeys, ADUs and bump-outs — plus the foundation and framing work most remodelers would rather hand to somebody else.
Whole-Home Renovation
Interior gut and rebuild — planned so you know what happens each week and, more importantly, when you get your house back.
Free, no-obligation
Tell us about the project.
Send the details, or just call. You will speak to Russell — the person who will price the work and run it.