Where we work
Seattle and the Eastside, one drive from the studio.
Every neighborhood here has its own kind of house, and each one fails in its own way.
A Ballard bungalow hides knob-and-tube. A First Hill apartment has a stack that will not move and an elevator with a booking sheet. A Redmond house has nothing wrong with it except the bathroom it came with. Knowing which problem you are walking into is most of what experience is worth in this trade.
Seattle
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Ballard
Bungalows and four-squares with good rooms in the wrong order. We added a primary bath to one in 2025.
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West Seattle
Craftsman on the flats, mid-century on the slopes, and a kitchen shut off from the view in both.
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Magnolia
Generous houses with bathrooms that are not. Usually a question of spending the square feet you have properly.
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University District
The best bones and the worst floor plans in the city. Two houses there in one year, one of them back to the studs.
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First Hill & Capitol Hill
Apartments, which means a building as well as a home: alteration agreements, quiet hours and a stack that stays.
The Eastside
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Kirkland
Condos that have to be finished all at once, which is the job design-build exists for. A whole one in 2025.
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Mercer Island
Well built, badly dated, and usually two bathrooms at a time.
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Redmond
Newer houses where the work is upgrade rather than rescue. Two bathrooms in 2024.
Seattle is one permit desk. Every Eastside city is its own.
Kirkland, Redmond, Bellevue and Mercer Island each run their own building department, with their own submission requirements and their own review times. We work to whichever one your address belongs to, and it goes on your schedule as its own bar from day one.
If you are just outside this list, ask anyway.
We have built in Ravensdale. What matters is not the line on the map, it is whether we can be on your site quickly when something needs a decision. Call and we will tell you honestly.