New spaces worthy of the house you moved out here for.
Design and remodeling for Pelham homes, from the older places along Mammoth Road and the Village Green to the acre lots that filled in off Route 38 and Sherburne Road over the last thirty years. Four of our recent projects are in town, eighteen minutes from Nashua.
Built in 1996. Still the kitchen it came with.
Pelham filled in late. Nearly three homes in four here went up after 1970 and almost a third since 2000, on lots big enough for a real yard and a septic field. The houses are bigger than the ones in the older towns, but the kitchens came from the same catalog: a run of cabinets along the back wall, an island that is really a peninsula, a breakfast nook nobody eats in, and a dining room one wall away that would make a far better pantry and mudroom. The house has the square footage. The kitchen was never planned to use it.
We start with the plan. The wall to the dining room or the family room comes out where the framing allows and a beam carries it where it does not. The island becomes a real one, with seating down the long side. The nook turns into the pantry and the drop zone the family actually needs. And the finishes get chosen for a house people intend to stay in: cabinetry built to last, counters that take a beating, and light where the cook stands.
Built for the chapter you are in.
Pelham is where people come for the land and the quiet, and stay for the long haul. 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.
The square footage is there. The bathroom never used it.
Pelham primary baths tend to be roomy and oddly useless: a corner tub under a block-glass window that gets used twice a year, a shower stall sized for one, a long vanity with two sinks and no drawers, and the beige tile and brass fixtures every house on the street got the same year. Twenty-five years on, the grout has gone gray and the fan has given up. It was built to pass an inspection, not to end a day in.
We rebuild it from the studs, and here the square footage works in your favor. The corner tub becomes a walk-in shower with room to move, or a freestanding tub takes its place by the window. The vanity gets real drawers and real light. New plumbing, proper ventilation, and tile and cabinetry chosen to last, so the room finally feels like the rest of 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.
You bought the lot for a reason. The house can grow into it.
Pelham lots have what the towns closer to the city do not: room. Room for the parents to have a place of their own without giving up the yard. Room to finish the space above the garage into a real primary suite. Room for a workshop or a barn that looks like it has always been there. Most houses here were never short on land. They were short on a plan for it.
We design the addition or the outbuilding from the first sketch so it reads as part of the house and not a project attached to it: matched rooflines and siding, window proportions that agree with the original, and one crew from drawings to final walkthrough. Setbacks, the septic plan and the Fire Inspector's review on an in-law suite get sorted in design, before anything is filed.
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
Pelham's Building Department wants four sets of drawings, a plot plan with the setbacks marked and an energy code application with the permit, and the Fire Inspector reviews additions and in-law suites before they are filed. 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 four sets of drawings and a plot plan, plus electrical and plumbing permits where those trades are involved, and additions and in-law suites get a review from the Fire Inspector first. We prepare the drawings and pull the permits as part of the project, so you never deal with the counter at Town Hall.
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. On a Pelham addition that means rooflines, siding, window proportions and trim profiles matched or complemented so nobody can date it from the street, whether it is an in-law suite off the side of the house or a barn at the back of the lot. Inside, cabinetry, tile and millwork are chosen to sit with what the house already has rather than fight it.