Good bones deserve a second composition.
Whole-home renovations and additions that bring 1930s Dilworth foursquares and 1990s Foxcroft colonials into this century — without sanding away what made them worth keeping.
Renovation is surgery, not demolition.
A renovation is the hardest project in residential construction. You are operating inside a living patient: plaster that hides sixty years of improvisation, framing that predates the code book, and a family that often still needs somewhere to sleep. It rewards the one thing volume remodelers cannot offer — obsessive investigation before the first wall opens.
Our renovations begin with a forensic phase: moisture mapping, structural assessment, and selective exploratory openings, all documented before design starts. By the time we present drawings and a line-item budget, the surprises have already been found and priced. Charlotte’s historic-district commissions — Dilworth, Wesley Heights, Plaza Midwood — get an additional layer: we prepare and present the Certificate of Appropriateness package ourselves.
The goal is never to make an old house look new. It is to make the house feel like the best version of what it always wanted to be — ceilings lifted, light rerouted, rooms reordered around how you actually live — while the street sees a house that simply, quietly got better.
A. Forensic Investigation
Structural, moisture, and systems assessment with selective openings — finished with a written findings report. We price what is actually behind the walls, not what we hope is.
B. Design Within the Bones
Architecture and interiors developed together, honoring original proportions, casings, and sight lines while reorganizing plans for modern family gravity — kitchens that host, primaries that retreat.
C. Additions That Belong
Rear and side additions detailed so precisely to the original that a decade of weather makes them indistinguishable. Rooflines resolved, brick matched from reclaimed lots, mortar struck by hand.
D. Occupied-Home Logistics
Phased construction plans, sealed dust containment, dedicated entries, and a published quiet-hours schedule for families living through the work. Your house stays a home, not a job site.
E. Historic District Approvals
Full Certificate of Appropriateness preparation and presentation for Charlotte’s local historic districts, drawn from seventeen years of precedent files and commission hearings.
Original heart-pine, re-milled on site and returned to the floor it came from.
They found the rot, the bad wiring, and the sag in the ridge before we signed — then the price never moved again.
