Julie Laughton Design Build

Premiere Custom Home Builder Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach Charmer

This is another vintage Laguna Beach custom home remodel in process. What makes this project special is that I knew the homeowner for over thirty years and spent a couple of Christmas’s in this home. Now, I am remodeling it for his two children. We are not only restoring and refurbishing this home, we are opening the interior for today's modern living.

The home was originally built in the late 1930s and from what we can see it was a much smaller cottage. Over the years, rooms were added and exterior spaces were converted to interior spaces. Even though the house is one-story, it is over 3,000 square feet. With the garage and decks, it is almost 4,000 square feet, so it’s an ample space.

We will keep the cottage look with white horizontal siding, new black asphalt shingled roof and black clad windows. The interior will have European white oak floors throughout and white walls. We are installing a custom kitchen and see-through fireplace in the living room, which is now opened up to the new rear deck.

South Laguna Vintage Cottage Room Addition

I worked on this house a few years back where we completely remodeled the interior. We did a brand new custom kitchen, opened it up to the dining room and made the living room a little bit bigger.

This time around due to the fact that the owner’s children are now having children, we are adding a bedroom above the living room where the existing deck is. The size of the deck is the perfect size for a bedroom. To complete the look we added a balcony on the ocean side. The new bedroom will have a vaulted ceiling similar to what is in the current upstairs rooms.

Working on this vintage cottage has been rewarding. This cottage has had a long life and it’s exciting to be able to do this room addition to accommodate the homeowner’s growing family. The home will live on for generations to come.

Modern Luxury at the Beach

This home is a total transformation from what was originally on this lot in Orange County. The new design and architecture have transformed it into a modern, clean, open design with lots of windows and light.

The modern design with 25 foot sliding glass doors on both the first and second floors make it timeless because it’s always going to have that beautiful ocean view. As a designer and a licensed general contractor, it was my pleasure to take the client through the design phase and into the construction phase, personally overseeing every aspect to ensure the client has a peace of mind every step of the way.

Orange County home remodeling always gives the client the opportunity of many design styles to choose from. Architects and builders in Laguna Beach and Newport Beach have lots of opportunity with the aging homes in the coastal communities. It’s always fun to take older homes and update them, but it’s also wonderful to build them ground up.

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