Studio, by appointment
Little Rock
Arkansas
Arkansas
Where We Build · 03
Hillcrest — where renovation is a craft, not a category.
A historic neighborhood with real architectural character deserves builders who can read it. We renovate Hillcrest homes the way they were first built — by hand, with patience.
Hillcrest rewards the patient. Its craftsman porches, plaster walls, and hundred-year-old oaks make it one of Little Rock’s most loved neighborhoods — and one of its least forgiving places to build badly.
Renovating here is close, careful work: finding matching brick for an addition, keeping original floors through a kitchen rebuild, threading new systems through old walls without scarring them. It’s slower than tearing out and starting over. It’s also the only way the house still feels like itself when we leave.
If you have a Hillcrest home that needs to become more than it is — without becoming something else — that’s a conversation we’d enjoy.
What we build in Hillcrest
I.
Historic renovation
Craftsman and early-century homes brought to modern comfort — systems, kitchens, baths — while the character stays put.
II.
Kitchens & primary suites
The two rooms that change how a house lives. Rebuilt with materials that suit the home's age and your next thirty years in it.
III.
Additions that disappear
More room without a visible seam — matched brick, matched pitch, windows that look like they've always been there.
Common questions — Hillcrest
Do you have experience with older and historic homes?
Yes — a meaningful share of our renovation work is in homes over fifty years old. They ask different questions than new construction, and we've spent twenty years learning their answers.
What does a Hillcrest renovation typically involve?
Usually some combination of systems (electrical, plumbing, HVAC), a kitchen or bath rebuilt, and opening the plan where the house allows it. We start with an honest assessment of what the house needs versus what it wants.
Will the new work match the old house?
That's the entire point. We source materials to match — brick, trim profiles, floor species — and our subcontractors are chosen for exactly this kind of care.
— An invitation
If the house has been in your mind for some time —
it may be time to draw it.
Every residence begins with a conversation. No plans are required. No price is asked of you. We meet at your site, or over coffee, and we listen.
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