Whole-Home Remodeling in South Pasadena
Serving 91030 and Pasadena, San Marino, Alhambra
Houses in this city change hands rarely, and that single fact should change how a whole-house project is scoped. Most of the people who commission one here are not preparing to sell in three years — they are deciding what the next thirty look like. Work scoped for a resale and work scoped for a lifetime are genuinely different projects, and confusing them is expensive in both directions.
Real projects. Real prices.
73 finished remodels published with their final price — nothing hidden.
What 17 finished LA whole-home remodels actually cost: a median of $150k, in a range of $36k–$440k. Real final prices from our own job records, not estimates.
$150,000 A cobalt glass-tile backsplash with marble-look slab baths in brushed brass.
$237,000 Deep green tile floor-to-ceiling, a farmhouse sink, living space open to the patio.
$238,000 A walnut-fronted quartz island, arched openings, and sage-green stacked tile baths.
$250,000 White shaker cabinetry and veined quartz, with hex-mosaic walk-in showers.
$275,000 A broad quartz island, a curved staircase with iron balusters, marble-look baths.
$440,000 Stone-look tile bathrooms with freestanding tubs, under an exposed beam ceiling.
Whole houses people intend to keep
Scope it for thirty years, not for a listing
Choices that a resale would never justify — proper insulation, a service upgrade that has headroom in it, drainage renewed rather than patched — are obviously correct in a house somebody intends to grow old in. We ask which project this is before recommending anything, because the honest answer changes the specification.
Moving out, or living through it
A family staying in the house makes the programme longer, dustier and more considerate; a family moving out makes it shorter, cheaper per week, and more expensive in rent. Neither is wrong. What is wrong is deciding late, because the whole sequence is built around that choice.
Keeping the house dry while it is open
A hundred-year-old roof, original windows and a winter in the middle of the programme are a combination that decides its own order of operations. Weatherproofing comes before anything anybody wants to look at, and that is not a delay to the interesting work — it is what protects it.
A small block notices a long project
Narrow streets, close neighbours and limited parking mean a year-long job is an event on the street rather than behind a hoarding. Deliveries, skips and working hours get planned with that in mind, which is simply how a long project stays possible here.
Written by Onn Cohen-Meguri, founder and designer at Design Onn Point — 12+ years in business, 1,200+ finished Los Angeles projects. CSLB #1133368.
Pricing in South Pasadena
From our completed projects.
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