If you're rebuilding, we respond in five business days.
A dedicated Los Angeles intake for families rebuilding after the January 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires. Interior design, FF&E, and owner's representation — tuned to your insurance timeline, not ours.
Sources: Cal Fire January 2025 Palisades and Eaton fire reports; LADBS permit tracking; estimates from industry analysts.
The established Westside design firms are capacity-capped with twenty-four to thirty-six month waitlists. A rebuild family does not have that runway. Insurance ALE clocks are running; permit windows are closing; lives are being lived in rentals.
Our LA studio opened in 2026 with a specific intent: to serve rebuild families who reach us third or fourth — after the top-tier firms have either declined or queued them — with a faster assessment, a more disciplined scope document, and a design language that recovers the character of what was lost rather than replacing it with something that photographs well on the day the keys turn over.
We will not be the right fit for every rebuild. We are the right fit for families who want their new home to feel as rooted in the land as the one they lost — lime plaster, reclaimed beam, Spanish tile, collected interior, garden rooms that breathe — now with the fire-resistant envelope, the defensible landscape, and the whole-house systems they should have had all along.
Three steps, tuned to your timeline.
Assessment
A thirty-minute call with our LA studio lead. We take your insurance timeline, the permit status, your architect's availability, and your non-negotiables. No scope document required. We tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.
Scope
Within two weeks of assessment: a written scope document, a phased fee proposal, a candid construction timeline, and a list of the trade partners we'd bring to your project. You share it with your builder and your architect; decisions follow.
Start
Design kickoff within thirty days of signed engagement. Full concept and schematic design inside ninety days. FF&E specification and procurement start in parallel — because rebuild lead times do not allow sequential phases.
Four things we commit to.
Response within five business days
Every qualified inquiry — not a form that disappears. A member of our LA studio reviews within a business day; a response from the studio lead within five.
Honest fit
If we're at capacity, or if your project wants a vocabulary we don't speak fluently, we tell you — and where possible, refer you to one of the trusted firms in our network. Your rebuild timeline cannot wait on our diplomacy.
Patina, not polish
Our design intent for rebuild homes is to recover what was lost — the weathered beam, the hand-troweled plaster, the collected interior that a photograph cannot manufacture — and to add only what quietly improves it.
Insurance-timeline literate
We have worked inside insurance carrier constraints, Appendix Q compliance, fuel-mod coordination with LA County Fire, and the ALE-clock pressure on families. We design to the timeline, not against it.
The rebuild program.
Design intent
- ◆Recover character — salvaged beam, reclaimed hardware, collected vintage that survived off-site.
- ◆Restraint over drama. The rebuild is not a second chance to start over; it is a chance to come home.
- ◆Patina from the start — lime plaster, hand-troweled finishes, aged stone, honest materials.
- ◆Indoor-outdoor dissolve preserved — loggia, courtyard, garden rooms that were the reason you bought the lot.
- ◆Collected interior — custom millwork, antique finds, bespoke furniture, no catalog rooms.
Systems we integrate
- ◆Class A roofing and non-combustible cladding — integrated with design intent, not bolted on.
- ◆Ember-resistant venting, sealed eaves, and compliant attic construction.
- ◆Defensible landscape coordinated with LA County Fire fuel-mod requirements.
- ◆Whole-house MERV-16 filtration and sealed-envelope HVAC for long-term smoke resilience.
- ◆Hardened utility infrastructure — buried service, backup power, on-site water.
- ◆Integrated security — fiber perimeter, biometric entry, disguised safe rooms.
Send us your situation. We'll respond in five days.
One form. You tell us the neighborhood, your architect if you have one, and what the home felt like. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team — and if we're not, whom to call.