Serving McCormick Ranch, Scottsdale
Home Remodeling in McCormick Ranch
Kitchens, bathrooms, and whole-home updates for McCormick Ranch homes, planned around your POA's approval process.
Serving McCormick Ranch, Scottsdale
Kitchens, bathrooms, and whole-home updates for McCormick Ranch homes, planned around your POA's approval process.
McCormick Ranch was one of Scottsdale's first large master-planned communities. Kaiser-Aetna bought the roughly 4,200-acre ranch in 1970, and the McCormick Ranch Property Owners' Association was incorporated in 1972. Today about 27,000 people live there, around the lakes, golf courses, and greenbelt paths.
Much of the housing dates from the community's first two decades, so a remodel here usually means updating a house that has already had a long life. Original kitchens tend to be closed off from the family room. Bathrooms often still have their first tub-and-shower combinations. Plumbing, electrical panels, and insulation may need attention once the walls are open.
We start with what the house has now and what you want it to do. Then we plan the work in an order that makes sense, especially if you'll be living in the home during construction.
Taking out or reworking the wall between the kitchen and family room is a common request. Whether a wall can come out depends on what it carries, so we check that before anyone designs around it.
Replacing a tub with a walk-in shower, swapping dated tile, and adding better ventilation and lighting to bathrooms that haven't changed in decades.
Older wiring, aging plumbing, and thin insulation can turn up during demolition. We'd rather talk about that possibility at the start than surprise you halfway through.
Anything that changes the outside of the house goes to the POA first, so we build that review into the schedule.
The McCormick Ranch POA's Architectural Control Committee reviews any change to the exterior of a property, including structures and landscaping, and approval has to come before work starts. Exterior paint needs an application too, even for pre-approved colors. If your home is also part of a sub-association, the POA asks you to get that association's approval first.
Interior work is a separate question for the City of Scottsdale. Remodels with little or no structural change, and additions under 1,000 square feet that aren't on a second floor, may qualify for over-the-counter plan review. Plumbing, electrical, and mechanical work carry their own permits. We confirm which approvals your project needs before the schedule is set.
Tell us which rooms aren't working for you, and we'll talk through a sensible starting point for your McCormick Ranch home.
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