Project Inspiration
What Your Irvine Home Could Become
Serving Irvine homeowners across Woodbridge, Northwood, Turtle Rock, University Park, Quail Hill, and the Great Park neighborhoods. Remodeling in Irvine means clearing your village's architectural review as well as city plan check, and we handle both, so your project moves instead of stalling.
Irvine is a city of well-planned neighborhoods and homes that were built with quality in mind. As homeowners settle in and families grow, those spaces often need updating to match modern tastes and how people actually use them today. That's where we come in.
Many Irvine homes were built with functional but dated kitchens. We redesign the layout, replace cabinetry, install stone countertops, and modernize the whole space while working within the footprint you already have.
From Woodbridge to Turtle Rock, Irvine homeowners are refreshing builder-grade bathrooms with custom tile, frameless glass, freestanding tubs, and updated fixtures. We handle full scope, including plumbing and electrical.
Irvine's Great Park and newer planned neighborhoods are seeing a wave of homeowners who want to personalize their space top to bottom. We manage complex, multi-phase renovations under one contract, no juggling required.
Irvine backyards are often underutilized. We design and build outdoor kitchens, covered patios, pergolas, and clean hardscape environments that extend your living space and hold up year-round in the SoCal climate.
Looking for something specific? We also build ADUs in Irvine, and handle concrete work and pool decks.
Irvine homeowners have high expectations. They're organized, they do their research, and they don't want to babysit a contractor. We're built for exactly that kind of client.
We use a structured project communication process so you always know what's happening, what's next, and what decisions need your input. Calls returned the same day. Issues surfaced before they become problems. No guessing required.
California Contractor License #1140564. Full general liability and workers' comp coverage on every project. We pull permits through the City of Irvine and follow all local code requirements. Your investment is protected.
You work with the owner from estimate to final walkthrough. We coordinate all trades, deliveries, and inspections ourselves. You're not managing anyone. You're just watching your home get better.
We prepare City of Irvine plan check sets and complete village HOA architectural packets in-house, and run both tracks in parallel. In Irvine that paperwork is what separates a project that moves from one that sits for months.
Irvine is not a city you can remodel from a generic playbook. Nearly every home sits inside a master-planned village with its own architectural guidelines and review committee, and the villages were built across roughly five decades. Which village you live in determines what your home needs, what you are allowed to change, and how long approval takes.
University Park, Turtle Rock, Woodbridge, Northwood, and El Camino Real date from the late 1960s through the 1980s. These homes were well built and they sit on the deepest lots in the city, but they carry the layout thinking of their era: kitchens closed off from the family room, compact primary baths, and original fixtures that are now four decades old. This is where we do our most dramatic work. Opening the kitchen wall and reworking the primary bath transforms how these houses live without touching the footprint.
Westpark, Quail Hill, and Shady Canyon homes are newer and generally larger, so the work tends toward finish upgrades, primary suite reworks, and outdoor living rather than structural change. Portola Springs, Cypress Village, Eastwood, Stonegate, Orchard Hills, and the Great Park neighborhoods are the newest and the densest. Those homes do not need remodeling in the traditional sense yet; what owners there usually want is personalization, backyard buildout, and getting more usable space out of a compact lot.
This is the part that catches Irvine homeowners off guard. Your village association almost certainly requires architectural approval for anything visible from outside or anything structural, and an incomplete submittal can add months. Every village has its own guidelines on exterior finish, roofing, colors, and placement.
We prepare the architectural packet ourselves, with scaled drawings and material specifications, and we submit to the association in parallel with city plan check rather than waiting for one to finish before starting the other. We also prepare submittal packets for HOA boards directly as part of our regular work, so what we hand in is in the format reviewers expect to see.
Anything that moves walls, plumbing, gas, or electrical goes through the City of Irvine's plan check. The process is thorough but predictable when the drawings are right the first time. Correction cycles are where remodel schedules actually slip, and avoiding them is the practical reason to have one licensed contractor own the drawings, the submittal, and the build rather than coordinating separate parties yourself.
Every home is different, but you deserve real numbers before anyone steps foot in your house. These are the typical ranges we see on Irvine projects.
| Project | Typical Range | Typical Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen refresh | $15,000 to $30,000 | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Full kitchen remodel | $50,000 to $90,000+ | 6 to 10 weeks |
| Guest bathroom refresh | $12,000 to $25,000 | 3 to 4 weeks |
| Primary bathroom remodel | $35,000 to $65,000+ | 4 to 6 weeks |
| Backyard transformation | Scoped per project | Varies |
| ADU construction | $40,000 to $300,000+ | Weeks to months by type |
Budget additional time up front for village HOA review and city permits. Want a number for your specific project? Try our instant project estimator or read our Orange County remodel cost guide.
We come to your Irvine home, walk the space with you, and listen to what you actually want. Within days you get a detailed, itemized quote, not a vague per-square-foot number.
We finalize selections and scope, then handle both approval tracks at once: City of Irvine plan check drawings and your village's HOA architectural packet.
Work follows a written schedule. We coordinate every trade, contain dust and debris to the work area, and send you updates before you have to ask for them.
We walk the finished project together and handle every punch-list item before we call it done. Our office is in Lake Forest, so we stay easy to reach afterward too.
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"We bought our home in Northwood knowing we'd want to update the kitchen eventually. When we finally pulled the trigger, we called three contractors. ProHome was the only one who gave us a detailed written estimate without us having to chase anyone down. The project ran clean, the crew was professional, and The team kept us informed throughout. Our kitchen is now the room we spend the most time in. Worth every penny."
Based in nearby Lake Forest, ProHome Remodels is just minutes from Irvine and serves homeowners throughout South OC. We know these communities and we're close when you need us.
Tell us about your project and we'll schedule a free on-site estimate. No pressure, no obligations.