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Whole-Home Remodeling for Greater Boston

Kitchens, baths, basements, and new layouts in older homes, with knob-and-tube, plaster, and triple-decker realities handled by one licensed crew.

Home remodeling

Remodeling Old Homes for How People Live Now

The homes around Somerville, Cambridge, and Medford have character, and they have age. Behind the plaster you find knob-and-tube wiring, undersized panels, balloon framing, and floor plans built for a different century. A real remodel here means dealing with what is behind the walls, not just refreshing what is in front of them.

We remodel whole homes with that reality in mind. Because we run our own crew and keep licensed electrical in house, we can open a wall, update the wiring, and finish the space with one team on one schedule, instead of watching subs pass the job back and forth.

What Our Home Remodeling Covers

From a single-room refresh to a full gut renovation, planned around your home's realities.

  • Whole-home remodels

    Taking on the entire house at once, coordinating kitchen, baths, floors, and systems on one schedule so you live through one project instead of five separate ones.

  • Kitchen, bath, and basement in one plan

    Remodeling the rooms that matter most together, sharing plumbing and electrical runs where it makes sense to control cost and disruption.

  • Layout and floor plan changes

    Opening up chopped-up floor plans typical of colonials and triple-deckers, removing walls, and reworking how the house actually lives for a modern family.

  • Knob-and-tube and wiring updates

    Removing knob-and-tube and old cloth wiring as walls come open, and running modern, grounded, code-correct circuits with our in-house electrical crew.

  • Plaster, lath, and insulation

    Handling the plaster and lath realities of century-old walls and ceilings, patching or replacing correctly and adding insulation where the walls are already open.

  • Systems and finishes

    Updating heating, wiring, and plumbing behind the walls, then finishing with flooring, trim, paint, and fixtures that match the character of the home.

Why work with us

One Team Through Every Open Wall

A remodel in an old home is a series of surprises. When each trade is a separate subcontractor, every surprise turns into a scheduling delay and a debate over who owns the fix, while your house sits torn open.

We keep the core trades in house, including licensed electrical, so when a wall comes open and reveals knob-and-tube or a failing junction, the crew that is already there handles it. One team, one schedule, and one point of accountability for the whole remodel.

  • One crew through demo, systems, and finishes, not a chain of subs
  • Licensed electrical in house to handle knob-and-tube and rewiring
  • Built for older-home realities: plaster, balloon framing, settled floors
  • Licensed and insured (MA HIC #217519 / CSL #122193)

How it works

How a Home Remodel Runs

From the first walkthrough to the final punch list, here is the path your remodel follows.

01

Free walkthrough and wish list

We tour the house with you, listen to how you want it to live, and point out the hidden realities in an older home before they become surprises.

02

Scope, phasing, and fixed quote

We turn the wish list into a written scope, sequence the work room by room where it helps, and hand you a fixed price before anything starts.

03

One crew does the work

The same team opens the walls, updates the wiring and systems, and finishes the space, so the trades line up instead of waiting on each other.

04

Inspections and final walkthrough

We pass the required inspections, walk the finished space with you, and handle the punch list before we call it done.

Home Remodeling FAQs

Common questions about whole-home remodels, wiring, and older homes.

It depends on the scope. For a full gut renovation, most families move out for the heaviest phases. For a phased remodel, we can often keep part of the home livable and sequence the work room by room. We talk through what is realistic for your project up front so you can plan.
It is common in Somerville and Greater Boston homes, and a remodel is the right time to deal with it. As walls come open we remove knob-and-tube and old cloth wiring and run modern, grounded, code-correct circuits. Because we keep licensed electrical in house, the rewiring is part of the same job, not a separate scramble.
Yes. Older colonials and triple-deckers were built with small, closed-off rooms. We open up floor plans, remove walls, and rework the layout so the house fits how you live now. Where a wall is load-bearing, we bring in a structural engineer, install a beam, and get it inspected.
When the electrical is subcontracted, remodels stall waiting on an outside electrician and the trades argue over scheduling. With our licensed crew handling both the construction and the wiring, the electrical lines up with the rest of the work and one team stands behind the whole project. We hold MA HIC #217519 and CSL #122193 and are fully insured.
Plaster and lath instead of drywall, balloon framing, undersized panels, aging plumbing, and floors that have settled over a century are all common. We flag the likely realities during the walkthrough and build a contingency into the plan, so an open wall does not blow up your budget.

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