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The brief
Everything, or the joins will show
San Carlos sits east of Mission Gorge below Cowles Mountain, and it is mostly tract housing from the sixties and seventies. Solid plans, dated surfaces, and usually one or two rooms already updated by a previous owner.
That is the trap in a partial remodel. Do the kitchen and leave the floors, and the new work advertises the old. Here the decision was to strip both storeys at once and specify a single palette across the whole plan.
It costs more up front and less overall, because every trade mobilises once rather than three times, and nothing new has to be protected while something else is torn out beside it.
Strip-out · During
