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Fast, Reliable Home Remodeling Across Davis
Home remodeling in Davis, CA typically costs between $14,000 and $45,000 for a kitchen, $9,000 and $28,000 for a bathroom, and $45,000 to $130,000 for a home addition. We are Mason Remodeling, and we’ve spent years working inside Davis city limits, which means we know the building department’s plan-check timelines, which inspectors you’ll see at rough-in, and how to keep a remodel moving without a permit hold. If you’re planning work off Sycamore Lane, in North Davis, or anywhere else in the 95616 zip code, call (803) 680-2547 and we’ll put a written price in your hands before any tools come off the truck.
Why Mason Remodeling Is Davis’s Preferred Home Remodeling Company
Davis homeowners keep calling us back for one reason: we write the full scope and the full price before we start, and we stand behind the work for 365 days from the completion date. That’s the 365-Day Done Right Promise, and it’s not a marketing phrase. It’s a written guarantee on every project. When we remodeled a 1970s ranch house off Sycamore Lane in central Davis, we gutted the kitchen down to studs, replaced the subfloor where a slow leak had rotted the plywood, and set new KraftMaid cabinets with a Cambria quartz top. The wall between the kitchen and dining room was load-bearing, so we pulled a City of Davis permit, added a properly sized header, and passed the framing and rough-in inspections before the drywall went back up. No drama, no surprises, just the work done in sequence.
Our crews are held to the Threshold Standard on every Davis job. That means every technician is background-checked, identity-verified, and arrives in a clean marked uniform. Before the visit, you get the name and photo of the person coming to your door. They show a photo ID badge when they arrive. If you’re home alone with kids, or you’ve had a bad experience with contractors before, this is the part that matters most. Isaac Pruett, who leads our Home Remodeling work, personally reviews every project scope before we send a crew into Davis.
Davis has its own building code review process separate from Yolo County. That’s not a formality. It changes how long plan-check takes here, when your rough-in inspection gets scheduled, and which details the inspector is going to look at first. We know those timelines because we’ve run jobs through the City of Davis building department more times than we can count. That local knowledge keeps your project from stalling out waiting on the wrong paperwork.
Styles & brands we work with
Whole House Remodel in Davis
A whole house remodel in Davis means bringing an older home up to the way you actually live now, not the way the original floor plan was drawn in 1968. Most of the homes in central and North Davis were built between the 1950s and the 1980s. That means closed-off kitchens, small bathrooms, single-pane windows that fog over in Delta humidity, and floor plans that fight you every time you host a dinner. A whole house remodel reworks the layout, updates the systems, and gives you a home that functions as one connected space. In Davis, a whole house remodel typically runs $45,000 to $130,000 depending on scope. The wide range is real: a cosmetic refresh costs far less than moving walls, replacing plumbing stacks, and rewiring a 1970s electrical panel.
Layout Reconfiguration and Open-Plan Living
Older Davis homes were built with separated rooms and load-bearing walls that make the place feel smaller than its square footage. When we open up a central Davis ranch, we’re typically relocating plumbing, reinforcing floor joists, and adding a structural header where a wall used to be. That work triggers City of Davis permits and inspections, and it’s exactly the kind of thing that separates a clean job from an unpermitted mess at resale.
Full Systems and Finish Work
Once the walls are open, it’s the right moment to replace galvanized supply lines, upgrade the electrical panel, add insulation to meet current Title 24 energy standards, and level floors. Then comes the finish work. We install specification-grade materials from brands like Cambria and Kohler, and we write that selection into the scope before we begin so the price doesn’t drift during the job.
Luxury Home Remodeling in Davis
Luxury home remodeling in Davis isn’t about gold fixtures. It’s about exactness, tolerance, and materials that hold up for decades. We’re talking about a kitchen with a Cambria or Silestone countertop, a walk-in shower with a Schluter waterproofing system under the tile, and cabinets from KraftMaid or Wellborn that actually close soft and stay square. In Davis, a luxury kitchen remodel typically lands between $30,000 and $45,000, a luxury primary bath between $15,000 and $28,000, and a high-end whole-home remodel can run past $130,000 when it includes structural work. Those numbers reflect real material cost, real labor in a market where skilled crews are in short supply, and the City of Davis inspection load.
High-End Kitchens and Baths with Real Material Selections
Every luxury project starts with a written material list. Cambria quartz, Kohler fixtures, Grohe hardware, Benjamin Moore paint. We specify exact SKUs before we order anything. That prevents the classic mid-project upgrade spiral where an allowance becomes a change order and your $14,000 kitchen quietly becomes $45,000. We don’t play allowance games.
Custom Built-Ins and Whole-Home Finishes
Luxury also shows up in the details: custom millwork, built-in cabinetry that matches the wall profile exactly, tile layouts that line up across the room without an awkward cut at the threshold. Those details require a crew that measures twice and a project lead who checks the work against the written scope at every milestone. That’s how Isaac runs every Davis job.
Trusted Brands We Service in Davis
We work with specification-grade material partners because a remodel should not start with a compromise. For Davis kitchens, we regularly install KraftMaid and Wellborn cabinetry with Cambria, Silestone, and Caesarstone surfaces. Bathrooms go in with Kohler and Moen fixtures, and Toto where the homeowner wants it. When a project touches exterior work, we’ll specify GAF and CertainTeed roofing or Belgard and Unilock hardscaping. Because we stock ordering channels with these suppliers directly, we can turn around material replacements for Davis customers faster than a generalist who has to source piecemeal from the Sacramento warehouse district.
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AfterCommon Home Remodeling Problems We See in Davis Homes
- Hidden subfloor rot under kitchens and baths. Davis homes sit on clay-heavy soil, and older pier-and-beam foundations move with the seasons. A tiny supply-line leak that’s been dripping for a decade rots plywood quietly until we open the floor and find it. We budget this as a known possibility in any pre-1990 Davis remodel and write it into the scope as a line item, not a surprise.
- Unpermitted structural changes from previous owners. Davis has a high resale volume, and we routinely find that a past owner removed a load-bearing wall without going through City of Davis plan check. That unpermitted work becomes your problem at resale, and it has to be opened up, reinforced to current code, and signed off before anything else can move forward.
- Single-pane windows and drafting exterior doors. Many Davis homes built before 1990 still have original aluminum windows. The Delta wind and summer heat make those rooms uncomfortable year-round. A remodel is the right time to replace them, but it has to be sequenced before drywall and trim, not after.
- Moisture problems in bathrooms with poor ventilation. Davis winters bring humidity that sits in a shower stall with no exhaust fan. We regularly tear out tile to find mold on the backer board. The fix is a proper exhaust fan routed to the outside, a sealed shower system, and tile set on a waterproof membrane like Schluter.
Pricing for Home Remodeling in Davis, CA
Davis pricing tracks real scope, not a salesman’s mood. The table below reflects what we actually write into contracts for projects inside Davis city limits. A small kitchen remodel starts around $9,000 if you keep the existing layout and do not move plumbing. A full kitchen that relocates the sink and opens a load-bearing wall lands in the $30,000 to $45,000 range. Home additions and ADUs are the biggest-ticket work in Davis, and those numbers reflect permit fees, plan check, materials, and skilled labor. Call (803) 680-2547 and we’ll send you a written, line-item price for your specific scope. Free estimate, no charge for the conversation.
| Project | Davis Price Range |
|---|---|
| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 – $20,000 |
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
| Home Addition | $45,000 – $130,000 |
| ADU Construction | $90,000 – $220,000 |
| Garage Conversion | $30,000 – $80,000 |
If you’re comparing costs across the causeway or down I-80, Davis is typically 10 to 18 percent higher than Yolo County’s smaller jurisdictions because City of Davis plan check and inspections add time and compliance cost to every job. That’s not a fee we invent. It’s a real line item on your permit application.
We Also Serve Cities Near Davis
Most of our Davis work comes from referrals in Dixon, Woodland, West Sacramento, and Winters. If you’re planning a remodel in one of those cities, the same written-price standard applies. For homeowners researching Home Remodeling in Davis and the surrounding Yolo County area, we’ll come out, measure, and give you a real number to work with.
Serving Davis, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Davis area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Home Remodeling in Davis
Yes, if you’re moving plumbing, altering load-bearing walls, changing the electrical layout, or adding square footage, you need a City of Davis building permit. Davis has its own building department and fire code review separate from Yolo County. Cosmetic work like painting, cabinet refacing, and replacing a countertop on an existing cabinet layout does not typically require a permit. The rough rule: if you’re opening a wall or moving a pipe, plan check is involved. We pull all permits and schedule all inspections as part of our written scope. Call (803) 680-2547 and we’ll tell you exactly which permits apply to your project.
A small Davis kitchen remodel with new cabinets, counters, and paint runs $9,000 to $20,000. A full kitchen remodel with layout changes, structural work, higher-end finishes, and new plumbing and electrical lands between $14,000 and $45,000. The biggest cost drivers in Davis are structural changes to load-bearing walls, moving the sink or range, and the material tier you select. Kohler fixtures and Cambria quartz cost more than stock options, and we’ll show you both numbers in writing before you commit. Call (803) 680-2547 for a line-item quote on your exact scope.
A whole-house remodel in Davis typically takes 12 to 20 weeks depending on scope and City of Davis inspection scheduling. Plan check alone can run two to six weeks for structural changes. Bigger jobs that trigger fire code review take longer. We sequence the work so that demolition, rough-in, inspection, and finish phases don’t stack up against each other. The calendar is part of your written scope, and we hold to it unless the city moves first.
A change order is a written amendment to your original scope that adds work or materials after the contract is signed. In most cases it raises the price because it means something changed: you upgraded the countertop mid-project, or we opened a wall and found a rotted joist. At Mason Remodeling, nothing triggers a change order unless we show you what we found, tell you what it costs, and get your sign-off in writing first. You never pay for a surprise. Call (803) 680-2547 and we’ll walk you through how change orders work before you sign anything.
A punch list is the final walkthrough document that lists every small item still to be finished, fixed, or touched up before the job is complete. In Davis, we do the punch-list walkthrough together, write everything down in the order we’ll fix it, and you sign off only when the list is done. Your 365-Day Done Right Promise starts on the completion date we both agree on at that walkthrough. If anything on the list still isn’t right a week later, call (803) 680-2547 and we send a crew back at no charge.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner at Mason Remodeling, serving Davis since 2004.
