Whole-Home Remodeling in Manhattan Beach
Serving 90266 and Hermosa Beach, El Segundo, Redondo Beach
Whole-home work in Manhattan Beach is shaped by the site before it is shaped by taste. The lot is small, the neighbours are close, and the street may be narrow. Those three facts set the sequence, the staging and a good part of the cost.
A whole house on a constrained site
Up and inward, rather than outward
Where the footprint has nowhere left to go, added space comes from vertical reorganisation and from reclaiming room lost to poor circulation. That is a design problem, and it is worth solving properly before anything is demolished.
Neighbours are part of the plan
Houses here sit close together. Deliveries, skips, noise and parking affect people who live a few feet away, and handling that deliberately is what keeps a long project from becoming a bad-tempered one.
The City runs its own building department
Manhattan Beach is an independent city with its own Community Development Department, and permits and inspections run through its own portal. It is not an LA City or LA County process, and assuming otherwise is a good way to start on the wrong foot.
Stairs become the centre of the house
When a house grows upward rather than outward, the staircase stops being circulation and becomes the main piece of the interior. Deciding where it lands and what it looks like early shapes every floor around it.
Written by Onn Cohen-Meguri, founder and designer at Design Onn Point. Onn has spent 20+ years designing and building in Los Angeles. CSLB #1133368.
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