New spaces worthy of the house you chose to stay in.
Design and remodeling for Bedford homeowners, from the established streets of Pulpit Estates and Randolph Woods to the newer homes off South River Road. One team carries the project from the first sketch to the final walkthrough, fifteen minutes from Nashua.
Built in 1988. Still waiting for its signature.
Two out of three homes in Bedford went up between 1970 and 1999, and most of them share a kitchen: a U of oak cabinets against the back wall, a peninsula that turns the room into a hallway, a wall between the cook and everyone else, and a formal dining room that earns its keep twice a year. The house was built for the way families lived then. You live in it now.
We open the kitchen to the family room where the framing allows it and carry the load with a beam where it does not. We add the island the whole family lands on and the pantry the old layout never had. What stays is what makes the house yours: the proportions, the trim, the sense that the kitchen was always meant to be there.
Built for the chapter you are in.
Bedford is a town people move to on purpose and stay in. The house just has to keep up.
A full house
A kitchen with a seat for everyone, a bath that is not a morning bottleneck, and the extra room a growing family keeps asking for.
Two speeds of life
Quiet comfort on a weeknight, the whole family at the holidays. One home, crafted to be at ease at both.
Designed for you, not for everyone
Nothing built to suit the masses. Spaces designed around the way you live, and built to make the everyday better.
Built for a quick shower. Not for the end of a long day.
The primary bath was an afterthought when the house was framed: a shower you turn sideways in, a soaking tub that doubles as a shelf, one sink for two people, and a honey oak vanity under a strip of bare bulbs. Twenty-five years on, the grout has gone dingy and started to crack, the shower door never quite comes clean, and the sloped ceiling still gives half the room to the attic. It was sized for a family getting out the door in the morning, not for coming home.
We rebuild the room from the studs up. A closet next door gives up a few feet and becomes a real shower. The tub moves under a window where there is one to be had, and the dead space behind the eave wall becomes storage instead of air. Tile, lighting and cabinetry are chosen to last, and to look like they belong to the house.
Oak Hill’s craftsmanship truly impressed us. They went above and beyond to ensure every detail was perfect, often coming back to touch up areas that needed extra care. Their dedication to quality and use of high-end materials made all the difference in our remodel.
Every house has one room that never quite worked.
The formal living room nobody sits in. The family room with a fireplace from the year the house went up. Parents who need a place of their own, or a primary suite that could exist if someone finished the space above the garage. The house has the land and the bones for all of it. What it has been missing is a plan.
We design the addition or the rework from the first sketch, so the new room reads as part of the house and not a project attached to it. One set of drawings, one schedule, one crew, and the same care whether it is a fireplace wall or a whole new wing.
Decided on screen. Built once.
Everything about the project gets settled in design, so construction is the calm part.
See it before you commit
Photorealistic 3D renderings of the new room, in your house, with your light. The layout, the fixtures, the color of the cabinets: all decided on screen instead of on site, where a change costs a conversation instead of a crew.
One team, one conversation
Design and construction under one roof. The people who drew the room are the people who build it, so nothing gets lost in a handoff and there is one clear agreement before demolition starts.
Permits and inspections, handled
Bedford's Building Department wants two full sets of before-and-after drawings with the permit. Our design phase produces exactly that. We file, schedule the inspections, and keep the project moving.
What homeowners ask us first.
Do I need a permit?
For anything beyond paint and fixtures, yes, whether it is a kitchen, a bathroom or an addition. The town requires a building permit with before-and-after drawings, plus electrical and plumbing permits where those trades are involved. We prepare the drawings and pull the permits as part of the project, so you never deal with the permit counter.
Where do we start?
With a visit. We walk the house with you, talk about how you live in it and what is not working, and take the measurements and photos we need. From there come the drawings and a 3D model of the new room in your house, so every decision gets made on screen and agreed on before anything is torn out.
How long will the house be torn up?
Nothing is touched during design, which runs four to eight weeks for a kitchen or bath and eight to twelve for an addition. Construction on a full kitchen takes about six to ten weeks, a primary bath four to six, and an addition depends on its size, with the schedule set before the first day of demolition. While we are in your home we take pride in keeping it clean and treating it with respect. The work area is sealed off, the rest of the house stays yours, and we disrupt your daily routine as little as we can. Some projects need an adjustment here and there, but the aim is a build that is as smooth and stress-free as it can be.
Do we need to move out while you work?
For most renovations, no. We set up a temporary kitchen for a kitchen job, plan a bathroom around the other bathrooms in the house, and keep the work area sealed off so the rest of the home runs as usual. For a large-scale renovation, or an addition that extends into the rooms you live in, it is worth a conversation. Moving out for a stretch sounds like an inconvenience, but it lets the crew move faster and spares you from living in a job site, so the project finishes sooner and with far less stress.
Will it look like it belongs to the house?
That is the whole job. Rooflines, siding, window proportions and trim profiles are matched or complemented on an addition so nobody can date it from the street. Inside, cabinetry, tile and millwork are chosen to sit with what the house already has rather than fight it. The goal is a room that looks like it was always meant to be there.