Custom Home Builder in Pacific Palisades, CA for New Builds & Fire Rebuilds
New Homes and Rebuilds Designed for Pacific Palisades Hillsides and Coastline
Westside Remodeling is a custom home builder in Pacific Palisades. We handle ground-up builds on land you've owned for years, and fire rebuilds for families who lost their homes to the fire. Both follow the same design-build process, so you get one point of contact working across design and construction, from the first sketch through the final walkthrough, whether you're building your forever home from scratch or restoring the one the fire took.
That one-point-of-contact process matters even more here, since many lots sit on steep hillsides with ocean or canyon views, and a plan built for flatter ground usually needs real changes to work. We design around your specific terrain from the start, so the home takes advantage of the view rather than losing it to a layout not built for the slope.
Rebuilding After the Pacific Palisades Fire
Pacific Palisades lost nearly 6,800 homes and buildings in the January 2025 fire, and rebuilding has since picked up real speed. As of mid-2026, more than 1,000 homes had started construction, though only a small number had been completed and occupied so far.
Permitting isn't the main holdup anymore. The city cut most of the usual red tape early on, so permits are now moving several times faster than before the fire. Even so, what actually slows most Pacific Palisades homeowners down today is insurance and financing, not paperwork at City Hall.
Homes built here must also meet stricter local building codes than before, including fire-hardening requirements such as Class-A rated roofing, fire-resistant stucco or cementitious siding, ember-resistant vents, and fire-rated or multi-pane window glazing. Getting all of that right is one more job on top of permitting, insurance, and financing.
Westside Remodeling builds to this code on every Palisades project, so it's part of the plan from day one.
Custom Home Builder Services in Pacific Palisades
A custom home involves more than a floor plan and a permit. Westside Remodeling is a full-service design-build contractor designing and building every part of a Pacific Palisades home as one project.
Design starts with how your family plans to use the home, then adapts to what your specific lot allows, since many properties here come with site conditions a flatter lot elsewhere wouldn't have. Our design team walks through layout, room placement, and finish selections with you as part of our design process, so the design responds to your site from the start instead of being adjusted onto it later.
A new build or fire rebuild means starting your kitchen from a blank slate, without having to work around a layout someone chose for you years ago. Our kitchen remodeling team designs the layout, appliances, and finishes around how your family actually cooks and gathers, built in from the start instead of adjusted later.
Cabinetry gets chosen alongside the kitchen design, not picked separately once construction is already underway. Every kitchen we build includes Dura Supreme cabinetry as standard, and our full line of custom cabinets also covers other rooms. If you only need new cabinets, not a full kitchen rebuild, our cabinet sales showroom can help.
Every bathroom remodel is planned around your layout, fixtures, and storage needs, whether you're starting from bare land or rebuilding after the fire, rather than being fitted into whatever footprint was already there.
Interior remodeling covers the living spaces beyond the kitchen and bath, and includes home offices, storage, mudrooms, and whatever your household actually uses day-to-day. On a hillside lot, that often means planning storage and flow around stairs and split levels instead of a single flat floor plan. That interior design work happens alongside the rest of the build, not as an afterthought.
Not every rebuild starts from bare land. If part of your home survived the fire and your plan is to keep and expand it rather than tear down and start over, our home addition services extend the same design-build process to that project.
Pacific Palisades' mild climate makes outdoor space worth building well. We design decks, patios, and outdoor kitchens that withstand coastal weather and salt air, specifying stainless steel and marine-grade materials that hold up against ocean air better than standard outdoor fixtures. That's especially true on bluff and Castellammare-adjacent lots, where salt exposure is heaviest.
Why Pacific Palisades Families Build with Westside Remodeling
Rebuilding or building new here takes more than someone who's good with a hammer. It takes a builder who's actually been through the specific hurdles a Pacific Palisades project runs into. Here's what that looks like with Westside Remodeling:
- Westside Remodeling was founded in 1985 and has worked as a design-build contractor in the Conejo Valley ever since, now bringing that same process to new construction and fire rebuilds in Pacific Palisades. We hold an active California contractor license, #1113678.
- As your general contractor, we hold the single prime contract for your project. Each trade we bring on carries its own required license, and we're responsible for coordinating their work, so you're not left managing separate agreements with designers, subcontractors, and inspectors yourself.
- We coordinate directly with LA city and county permitting on your behalf and help you pull together the documentation lenders and insurers ask for.
- Because design and construction happen under one roof, fire code requirements are built into the design from day one rather than being added to the plans after the fact.
Westside Remodeling has received the Professional Remodeler Big 50 Award and the Guildmaster Service Excellence Award, recognition for the exceptional craftsmanship behind every project.
The company is also an NKBA (National Kitchen & Bath Association) member and a member of the Malibu-Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce. Our work has been featured in Architectural Digest, LA Home and Remodeling, and the LA Times.
Local Landmarks and Our Work in Pacific Palisades
Pacific Palisades sits between the Santa Monica Mountains and the coast, stretching from bluff-top streets along PCH to hillside neighborhoods above the Village. Here's a closer look at a few landmarks nearby, and a project Westside Remodeling recently completed in the area.
Riviera Country Club has anchored the neighborhood since 1927, and many luxury homes nearby are designed around the same long views its members have kept for a century. Palisades Village, the community's retail center, reopened this year after more than a year of closure following smoke damage and extensive cleanup, another visible sign of the neighborhood's recovery. Along the coast, homes near Will Rogers State Beach and Will Rogers State Historic Park deal with salt air and marine moisture year-round, which is part of why material choice matters here as much as the floor plan does.
A Completed Project in Palisades Highlands
Westside Remodeling recently completed a kitchen and primary bathroom remodel in the Palisades Highlands, replacing a dated, builder-grade kitchen with a bookmatched quartz waterfall island, two-tone cabinetry, and a professional-style range. The homeowner's own review said the work was done "exquisitely, with great attention to detail."
Ready to Start Building in Pacific Palisades?
Every lot here comes with its own conditions, and the right next step toward your dream home is usually a conversation about your specific property before anything else. Bring us your address, whether it's a lot you've owned for years or one you're rebuilding on, and we'll walk through what your site actually needs before you commit to a design.
Modern Kitchen Remodel in Pacific Palisades, CA
Westside Remodeling transformed a dated, builder-grade kitchen into a sleek contemporary space for a homeowner in the Palisades Highlands neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, California, as part of a combined kitchen and primary bathroom remodel. The kitchen's centerpiece is a dramatic bookmatched quartz waterfall island with a matching full-height backsplash, paired with two-tone cabinetry, a professional-style range, and updated lighting throughout.
Why the Client Wanted This Remodel
The kitchen was original to the home — honey-toned oak cabinets, a plain tile backsplash, and dated lighting that no longer matched the rest of the house. The client wanted a fully contemporary kitchen built around a dramatic natural-stone feature, along with an updated primary bathroom, to bring the whole home current.
Project Scope
- Bookmatched quartz waterfall island with a matching full-height backsplash wall
- Two-tone cabinetry — dark wood-tone base cabinets with white upper cabinets
- Professional-style range with a stainless steel hood
- Floating open shelving
- Updated pendant and recessed lighting
- New engineered wood flooring
- Primary bathroom remodel completed as part of the same project
How Westside Remodeling Delivered It
Westside Remodeling rebuilt the kitchen around a dramatic bookmatched quartz feature, carrying the same slab up the wall as a full-height backsplash and floating shelves for a continuous, high-end look. The team paired it with two-tone cabinetry, a professional-style range and hood, updated lighting, and new flooring, completing a primary bathroom remodel alongside the kitchen work.
“We did a remodeling of the kitchen and the master bathroom. The work was done exquisitely with a great attention to details. The staff is very competent and lovely.”
— Verified GuildQuality survey response, Palisades Highlands Homeowner, Pacific Palisades, CA
