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Remodeling in White Plains, New York.

Custom kitchens, primary baths, cabinetry and architectural millwork for Gedney Farms, Highlands, Rosedale and the downtown high-rises.

Family owned, 35+ years in Westchester. Fred personally manages every trade on every job.

Renovating in White Plains

White Plains is two renovation markets in one city: the single-family neighborhoods of Gedney Farms, the Highlands and Rosedale, and a growing stock of downtown condos and co-ops.

The houses are largely prewar and midcentury with the usual findings behind the plaster. The apartments come with building rules, alteration agreements and elevator windows that dictate the schedule as much as the scope does.

We work in both, and the planning differs completely. A Gedney Farms colonial is a structure and systems conversation. A downtown condo is a logistics and compliance conversation.

What White Plains clients are building

House kitchens and baths

Full renovation in prewar and midcentury homes, with plumbing and electrical updated while the walls are open.

Condo and co-op renovation

Work sequenced around building rules, insurance requirements and service elevator hours.

Primary suite baths

Slab stone, curbless showers and heated floors, built over completely new rough plumbing.

Custom cabinetry

Built-ins and kitchen cabinetry measured to the actual walls, which matters as much in an apartment as in a house.

Lower levels

Family rooms, gyms and guest space with waterproofing and ventilation handled before finishes.

Painting and plaster

Crack repair, skim coats and finishes appropriate to plaster walls.

Work from Westchester homes

Dining room with coffered ceiling and wainscoting
Dining room · Coffered ceiling
Butler's pantry with plate rack and marble backsplash
Butler's pantry · Prep kitchen
Book-matched marble bath with freestanding tub
Primary bath · Marble
White kitchen with marble island
Kitchen · Marble island
Glass-walled wine room with oak racking
Wine room · Glass enclosure

What will it cost?

Fair question, and the one most contractors dodge. Here is how we handle it.

Just ask. It takes a few minutes.

Call or email a short description of what you are thinking. Photos help, and so does a rough sense of the finish level you have in mind. We will give you a ballpark on the spot. No obligation, no sales pitch, no sitting through a presentation.

Want a tighter number? Fred walks the house. The more we can see, the closer the figure gets, because in these houses the surprises are behind the walls, not in the catalog.

Below marketSome jobs we come in under the going rate, usually where the layout stays put and the systems behind the wall are sound.
At marketMost White Plains projects in Westchester land about where you would expect for the finish level.
Above marketSlab stone, structural changes and full custom millwork cost more. We tell you why before you commit to any of it.

Published price ranges are averages, and averages fit almost nobody. Your house, your finishes and what we find when the wall comes open decide the real number. One short conversation gets you an honest one.

White Plains questions

Do you pull permits in White Plains?

Yes. Work is permitted through the City of White Plains Building Department, with inspections at rough and final stages. We file, carry and schedule.

Can you work in a downtown condo or co-op?

Yes. That means an alteration agreement, building insurance requirements, protected common areas and scheduled elevator access. We plan around those rules from day one.

Do you work in Gedney Farms and the Highlands?

Yes, across the city. Those neighborhoods are mostly prewar and midcentury houses, where systems and structure usually make up more of the scope than the finishes do.

Serving Westchester County

ScarsdaleRyeBronxvilleLarchmontHarrisonPurchaseChappaquaBedfordArmonkMamaroneckPelhamNew RochelleEastchesterYonkersRye BrookPort Chester

See also kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling and custom cabinetry and millwork.

Start with a walkthrough.

Tell us what you are thinking and we will come back within 24 hours with a ballpark, or come walk the house for a firm written scope and schedule.