Luxury renovations
Kitchens, primary suites, additions, and full reimaginings, built with new construction precision.
- Varies
- Project timeline
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- Upfront schedule planning
- 1 team
- Dedicated project lead
The best lot in Charlotte might be the one you already own. We transform established homes with the same precision, budgeting discipline, and craft as our ground up builds.
Renovation with new construction discipline
Renovation is harder than new construction. You're working inside an existing structure, with existing systems, surprises behind every wall, and a family that often still lives in the house. Most renovation horror stories trace back to a contractor who treated that complexity casually.
We bring new construction discipline to renovation work: a real pre construction phase with invasive investigation where it matters, engineering review before demolition, and a sequenced schedule that keeps your home livable, or tells you honestly when it won't be.
What we renovate
Our renovation work centers on substantial transformations rather than cosmetic refreshes:
- Whole home renovations, floor plans rethought, systems replaced, every surface renewed
- Kitchen transformations, layout changes, custom cabinetry, professional grade appliances
- Primary suite and bath renovations, the rooms that change how a house feels daily
- Additions, new wings, second stories, and expansions that look original to the home
- Outdoor living, covered porches, summer kitchens, and pool houses built to house standards
- Historic and established home updates in Charlotte's older neighborhoods
Respecting what makes your home worth keeping
Charlotte's established neighborhoods, Myers Park, Eastover, Dilworth, Plaza Midwood, hold homes with proportions, materials, and detail work that simply don't get built anymore. A renovation should extend that character, not erase it. We match existing trim profiles, source compatible masonry, and design additions that read as if they were always there.
Where the home's bones deserve better systems, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, insulation, we replace them properly while the walls are open. Renovating twice is the most expensive way to renovate.
The renovation budget conversation, had honestly
Every renovation carries unknowns, that's the nature of opening up an existing structure. The difference is how a builder handles them. We carry explicit contingency in every renovation budget, investigate the highest risk areas before contracting, and price discovered conditions transparently when they appear. You will never get a vague "it's going to be more" from this team.
Before we start, you'll know what's fixed, what's allowance, what's contingency, and what would trigger a change order. During the build, every change is documented and approved by you before work proceeds.
What homeowners ask us
It depends entirely on scope, a primary bath renovation and a whole home transformation are different projects by an order of magnitude. After a consultation and walkthrough of your home, we'll give you a realistic range, then a line item budget with explicit allowances and contingency during pre construction.
Often, yes, with honest caveats. For kitchens, suites, and additions we sequence the work to keep the rest of the home livable. For whole home renovations, we'll tell you plainly if moving out for a stretch will save you months and money.
Timeline varies with scope, permitting, and what we find when walls open. After a walkthrough and pre construction phase, we'll give you an honest schedule for your project.
Yes, all of it. Charlotte permitting, HOA architectural review, and historic district approval processes are part of our pre construction phase. We've worked through them across the metro and build the timeline around them.
That's the entire point. We match rooflines, trim profiles, masonry, and proportions so the addition reads as original. If a seamless match isn't achievable with available materials, we'll show you that before design is finalized, not after framing.
Trusted by Charlotte homeowners
5.0
Average client rating · 28 reviews
Max Built built our home in Weddington and stayed on budget the entire way through. Our project lead was on site every week and picked up the phone when we called.
Sarah T.
Weddington, NC
We did a whole home renovation in Myers Park. They treated it like new construction, not a patch job. Inspections passed clean at every stage.
Michael R.
Myers Park
Honest numbers from day one. When we changed cabinet selections mid build, they showed us the cost in writing before anything moved forward.
Jennifer K.
Lake Norman
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