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Corona del Mar is a village laid out on a grid of narrow lots, and that single fact sets almost every brief here. The flower streets were subdivided thirty feet wide and deep, with an alley at the back and neighbours close on both sides, so a house grows upwards rather than outwards and the staircase becomes the most consequential thing on the drawing. The bluff tracts above the beach are the exception and they have their own problem, which is view. All of it sits inside the coastal zone. We have finished a two-storey whole-home remodel here and published it in full — photographs, and the price it closed out at.
73 finished remodels published with their final price — nothing hidden.
What our finished LA work actually cost: 27 kitchens ran $23k–$84k, median $50k; 28 bathrooms $28k–$105k, median $38k; 17 whole-home remodels $36k–$440k, median $150k. Real final prices from our own job records, not estimates.
$35,000 A patterned encaustic-look floor, a sage shaker vanity and a glass shower with a tiled bench.
$40,000 White shaker cabinetry and brass pulls around a sage-green island under a beaded chandelier.
$45,000 Rust and blue slate-tone tile over a pebble mosaic shower floor, with bronze fittings.
$65,000 White uppers over grey shaker lowers with brass pulls, an apron sink and a broad quartz peninsula.
$242,700 Structural work to open up the space, a vaulted ceiling, solid wood floors, kitchen and two baths.
$250,000 White shaker cabinetry and veined quartz, with hex-mosaic walk-in showers.
Not a range and not an example from somewhere else. Every project below was built in Corona del Mar, and each one publishes the price it actually closed out at — the photographs, the figure, and the homeowner's own video where they recorded one.
$275,000 Final price: $275,000. That is the closed-out figure for this job, not an estimate and not a rounded range.
See this project and its price »On the flower streets the lot width is fixed and the house is already close to it, so the real design question is vertical: where the stair lands, what light reaches the middle of the ground floor, and which rooms earn a window on the long elevation. Get the stair wrong and no amount of finish rescues the plan.
Most of these houses take deliveries, skips and parking from the alley rather than the street. That is a logistics line with a real cost, and it is also why a project here goes better when the neighbours know the schedule before the first lorry arrives rather than after.
Three blocks from open water, hardware choice stops being taste and becomes engineering. Fixings, exterior metalwork and anything on a window get specified for corrosion here, because the alternative is a beautiful kitchen with rusting handles in four years.
Building permits are issued by the City of Newport Beach through its Community Development Department at the civic centre on Avocado Avenue. Corona del Mar lies inside the coastal zone, and Newport Beach administers its own certified coastal programme, so a coastal development permit is issued by the city rather than referred to the California Coastal Commission — a second approval, but not a second agency.
We pull permits in-house — clients don't need to navigate the building department.
The usual answer to "what does this cost in Corona del Mar" is a range somebody chose. Ours is a house.
Our whole-home remodel here closed out at $275,000. Two storeys taken together rather than room by room: a broad quartz island in an opened-out kitchen, a curved staircase with iron balusters as the centre of the plan, and marble-look bathrooms. The whole project is published with its final price.
One closed-out contract, not a local rate. We publish no per-city average and could not honestly build one — the cost records hold no location field at all. What we do publish is every recorded final price on one filterable page, where whole-home projects ran $36k-$440k with a median of $150k and half of them landed between $78k-$246.3k.
The flower-street lot is the defining constraint here, and it rewards planning far more than it rewards spending.
The stair is the plan. In a house this narrow the staircase decides where the kitchen can be, how far daylight travels, and whether the ground floor reads as one space or three. Moving it is expensive and occasionally the only thing worth doing; leaving it and designing around it is often better, but that is a decision to take deliberately at drawing stage rather than by default.
Light comes from the ends and the top. With neighbours on both long elevations, usable daylight arrives at the front, at the back and from above. Rooflights, a stairwell that carries light down, and glazing concentrated where it is legal and useful do more here than any amount of pale paint.
The bluff houses have the opposite problem. Above the beach the lots widen and the brief becomes view — which rooms get it, what it costs structurally to open a wall towards it, and how to do that without making the house harder to heat and cool than it already is.
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Plan for 4–6 weeks of design, 4–6 weeks of permits, then 8–14 weeks of construction — 4–7 months from first conversation to final walkthrough. The coastal approval runs alongside the building permit rather than after it, so it usually costs calendar rather than months.
Yes, and most of the work here is exactly that. Deliveries are booked rather than assumed, the skip lives where it does not block a neighbour, and the sequence is planned around a single access point instead of pretending there are two.
Yes, and it is published rather than described. A two-storey whole-home remodel — a broad quartz island, a curved staircase with iron balusters, marble-look bathrooms — closed out at $275,000. The photographs are the finished rooms, and the full project has its own page.
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