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North Central Austin Ranch Renovation

Austin 78757 · Full renovation and addition

A full gut renovation of a single story ranch home in north central Austin: an opened kitchen, a new primary bathroom built as an addition, a covered patio turned into a bedroom, and a new exterior. The finished home has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.

Design renderings of the planned finished home. We will add construction and finished photos as the work is completed.

Design rendering of the renovated ranch home exterior: light stucco walls, black framed windows, a brick column, wood clad entry with a black door, and drought tolerant planting beside concrete paver paths — Exterior: new windows, cladding, entry and landscaping.

The scope

Full interior gut: drywall, ceilings and flooring
Engineered structural changes to open up the kitchen
Roof trusses modified to create a recessed ceiling
New primary bathroom built as an addition on a new foundation, plus repairs to the existing foundation
Covered patio converted into a bedroom
All windows replaced; new siding, exterior doors and an insulated modern garage door
R-19 insulation in the exterior walls
New kitchen and bathroom cabinets, counters and a kitchen island
Tiled showers in both bathrooms, new plumbing and electrical, and heating and cooling extended to the new rooms
Landscaping and new paths

Design rendering of the view from the front door into the opened floor plan: dining room on the left, kitchen with an island ahead and the living room on the right, with light oak floors throughout — From the front door: dining, kitchen and living now open to each other.

Design rendering of the kitchen seen from the living room: oak cabinets, a stone slab backsplash, a white waterfall island with a fluted base and brass stools, and a sliding door to the yard — Kitchen from the living room, with a sliding door to the yard.

Design rendering of the kitchen: flat panel oak cabinets, a white waterfall island with a fluted oak base, three globe pendants and stainless appliances — Kitchen: opened layout with a waterfall island.

Design rendering of the kitchen with full height oak cabinets, a plaster style range hood, stone backsplash and a fluted island with brass stools — Kitchen: full height cabinets and a stone backsplash.

Design rendering of the view from the entry toward the kitchen island and range, with light oak floors and a round mirror — View from the entry toward the kitchen.

Design rendering of the dining room: an oak table with upholstered chairs, a brass linear chandelier, a window to the front yard and a view through to the front door — Dining room facing the front yard.

Design rendering of the new primary bathroom: a double floating oak vanity with stone vessel sinks and lit mirrors, a freestanding tub under a window, and a walk-in shower with a bench and lit niche — New primary bathroom, built as an addition: freestanding tub and walk-in shower.

Design rendering of the bathroom: a walk-in tiled shower with brass fixtures and a lit niche, a stone vessel sink on a fluted oak vanity, a wall hung toilet and a backlit mirror — Second bathroom: tiled walk-in shower with a lit niche.

Why this house, and this kind of project

This is a typical north central Austin renovation. In ZIP code 78757, 68% of homes were built before 1980 and the median home dates from 1967, so many houses still have closed kitchens, one or two bathrooms and original systems. Opening the kitchen, adding a primary bathroom and converting unused space into a bedroom are the changes that make these homes work for how people live now.

The structural changes in the kitchen carry an engineer's approval, the new bathroom gets its own foundation, and the work is permitted. Our home addition permit guide explains what an addition involves in Austin.

Services in this project

More about building in this part of the city: Austin 78757, Allandale and Crestview.

Vinyl Liner Pool Leak Repair

Greater Austin area · Pool leak repair and new liner

A leaking vinyl liner pool. We pulled the old liner, cut into the floor and the deck to reach the leaking plumbing, laid new line, replumbed the pump and filter, and installed a new liner.

Empty vinyl liner pool with the old liner pulled back from the walls and crew members working by the entry steps — The old liner pulled so the leak could be traced.

Pool floor cut and trenched from the deep end drain toward the wall, with a demolition hammer and buckets on the floor — Floor cut open to reach the drain line.

Opening cut in the pool deck behind the wall, showing the steel wall panel and PVC lines in red soil — Deck opened behind the wall to reach the plumbing.

New white PVC line laid in the floor trench from the deep end drain to the pool wall — New line laid in the trench.

Crew member replumbing white PVC pipe between a pool pump and a sand filter on the equipment pad — Pump and filter replumbed.

Finished vinyl liner pool full of water, with a blue patterned border, a stainless ladder and white entry steps — Finished: leak repaired and a new liner installed.

Related service: pool construction & remodeling.

Bathroom Water Damage Rebuild

Greater Austin area · Water damage tear out, drying and rebuild

A leak soaked the walls and floor of a primary bathroom. We removed the wet drywall and flooring down to the studs, dried the structure with air movers and a dehumidifier, and rebuilt the bathroom.

Primary bathroom with the wet drywall removed to the studs behind a jetted tub, plumbing exposed and a dehumidifier on the floor — Wet drywall and flooring removed to the studs.

Air mover and dehumidifier drying an opened bathroom wall, with the flooring pulled up to the slab — Drying the structure before the rebuild.

Related service: bathroom remodeling.

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