Whole-Home Renovation Oregon | Complete Property Transformations

This is the firm's signature offering. Most contractors do kitchens or bathrooms. Many specialize in additions or exterior work. Martin Kribs Interiors + Grounds does something different: complete property transformations that reimagine how a home lives from front door to back fence, treating interiors and grounds as one cohesive environment. This is what four decades of resort-level work has prepared.

A whole-home renovation isn't a kitchen followed by a bathroom followed by landscape work. It's a single design vision applied to the entire property. The interior spaces flow. Materials and colors relate. Sight lines connect inside to outside. The landscape doesn't feel tacked on—it's an extension of the home. This integration is what distinguishes a truly transformed property from a series of disconnected upgrades. It's the difference between a home that was remodeled and a home that was reimagined.

What Is a Whole-Home Transformation?

A whole-home transformation considers the entire property as a single integrated design project. It's not a series of disconnected remodeling projects executed in sequence. Instead, a unified design vision is applied across all spaces—interiors, finishes, spatial flow, outdoor living, landscape, hardscape, and site relationships.

This might include: reimagining the main living spaces, completely renovating kitchen and bathrooms, restructuring the flow between indoors and outdoors, designing new outdoor living areas, reworking the landscape and grounds, upgrading systems and mechanical infrastructure, reconfiguring entries and circulation, and creating cohesive material and color palettes throughout.

Everything is designed together and built under one contract with one team. This coordination is where the magic happens. A kitchen island relates to a dining table which connects to a deck which opens to the landscape. Transitions feel intentional rather than accidental. The home feels like it was conceived as a whole, not assembled from parts.

Interior Design

Exterior Transformation

Who This Is For

Discerning Homeowners

Whole-home renovations are for homeowners in the $600K-$1.5M+ property range who want comprehensive transformation, not piecemeal upgrades. These are clients who understand that design quality compounds—that a beautifully integrated home is worth more than a collection of nice components.

Transplants From Premium Markets

Many of our whole-home clients are transplants from higher-cost markets—Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle. They've experienced premium design-build services in those markets and expect that level of rigor and sophistication in Oregon. They're not looking for the cheapest solution. They're looking for the right solution.

Our Cost-Plus Model

We execute whole-home renovations using AIA A103-2017 cost-plus contracts. Here's how it works: Before construction begins, we develop a detailed Control Estimate that projects the cost of the complete transformation, broken down by phase, trade, and element. This estimate is based on specifications, detailed design documentation, and subcontractor pricing.

Once approved, construction proceeds with actual costs tracked monthly against the estimate. You see every invoice—every subcontractor, every material delivery. The principal's project management time—Martin's oversight, coordination, value engineering, and decision-making—is billed transparently within the Cost of the Work. There are no hidden markups. If we discover value engineering opportunities that reduce cost, you benefit. If unforeseen conditions require additional investment, we discuss and document changes before proceeding.

For whole-home renovations, typical budgets range from $75,000 to $250,000 or more, depending on scope, size, and finish level. This range reflects the breadth of possibilities: a focused renovation that improves key spaces within an existing footprint versus a comprehensive transformation that includes structural changes, additions, complete interior reimagining, and landscape redesign.

The Design-Build Advantage for Major Renovations

Single-Source Accountability

With traditional project delivery, an architect designs and a contractor builds. When something doesn't work—a spatial relationship that feels off, a material that doesn't perform as expected, a detail that's impossible to execute—there's finger-pointing. Who's responsible? Design-build eliminates this. One team owns both the design vision and the execution. If something isn't working, we fix it without delay or blame.

Design Intent Preserved

In traditional delivery, design gets diluted through value engineering, bidding, and contract negotiations. By the time the project is built, it often bears little resemblance to the original vision. Design-build preserves intent. Martin's design vision is implemented by his team, using his specifications and his quality standards. Compromises are made consciously, never accidentally.

Collaboration, Not Adversary

Traditional design-bid-build creates an adversarial relationship: the contractor wants to minimize costs, the designer wants to maximize quality, and the owner is caught between them. Design-build aligns incentives. We profit by managing the project well and delivering quality. There's no profit motive to cut corners or engineer away features. Our success is your satisfaction.

Efficiency & Responsiveness

When design and construction are integrated, decisions get made quickly. If field conditions suggest a better solution than originally planned, we can pivot without drawing change orders or negotiating with external contractors. This responsiveness saves time and cost while producing better outcomes.

Serving the Willamette Valley

We serve whole-home renovation clients throughout Oregon's Willamette Valley and surrounding regions. This includes Corvallis, Philomath, Albany, Salem, Eugene, and the premium wine country communities of the Eola-Amity Hills and Dundee Hills, where many clients maintain properties alongside their urban residences.

Let's talk about your property

Whether you're exploring possibilities or ready to move forward, a conversation is the right first step. We'll walk your property, understand your goals, and explore what's possible.

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