Luxury Remodeling in Garden Grove

Most of Garden Grove's homes date from the 1940s and 1950s, small one-story wartime tract houses with pitched roofs, followed by the one-story California Ranch homes of the 1950s and 1960s, whose sliding doors open onto patios. The streets run on a grid with no hillsides, so a backyard project here is seldom a question of slope or wildfire. What shapes it instead is the ground and the code: a majority of the city is subject to liquefaction, the eastern third along the East Garden Grove-Wintersburg Channel lies in FEMA Flood Zone A, and the zoning code fixes where a pool, its equipment and an outdoor counter or fire pit may sit. Additions and most accessory structures must also match the house in roof type, pitch, color and material, so a pool house or cabana reads as part of the original home.

The majority of homes date from the 1940s and 1950s and follow the wartime tract style, small one-story houses with pitched roofs on concrete perimeter foundations, while homes of the 1950s and 1960s were mostly one-story California Ranch designs with sliding doors leading to patios, and in some neighborhoods large lawns and deep setbacks give a more rural feel. Single-family zoning runs in R-1 tiers with minimum lots of 5,000, 6,000, 7,200, 9,000, 11,000 and 15,000 square feet. The main house keeps a rear setback of 20 percent of lot depth up to 25 feet, a single-story addition may reach to within 10 feet of the rear property line only if 1,000 square feet of usable open space remains in the required rear yard, the same open space applies when detached accessory structures go in, and uncovered pools do not count toward the 50 percent lot coverage cap.

One team designs, permits and builds every project, and our own crews self-perform the work, so the people who plan your Garden Grove project are the people on site building it.