Our Projects Across Southern California
Our projects are real homes we designed, permitted and built — ADUs, kitchens, bathrooms, whole-house renovations and the rooms in between. H&A My Design is a licensed design-build general contractor, family-owned for more than 20 years. Serving Southern California and the surrounding areas.
Licensed & bonded California general contractor — CSLB #999603. Every photograph below is our own work.
What Our Projects Show You
Anyone can publish a mood board. What follows is a record of finished work: thirty-five homes, grouped by the kind of job they were, each one opening into its own photo gallery.
Photographs Of Finished Homes
Every image is a house we built or renovated, photographed after completion. None of it is stock photography, and none of it is a computer rendering dressed up as a result.
The Whole Job, Not One Angle
Most galleries run to twenty, thirty or sixty photographs. You see the rooms that photograph badly as well as the ones that photograph well.
Grouped By Work Type
ADUs, kitchens, bathrooms, whole-home renovations and individual living spaces each have their own section, so you can go straight to the work that matches yours.
How To Use This Page
Find the section closest to your own plans, open two or three galleries, and pay attention to the details that are hard to fake.
- Tile layout and where the cuts land
- Cabinet reveals and consistent gaps
- How floors meet walls, stairs and thresholds
- Lighting placement, not just fixture choice
- Whether the whole room works, not just the hero shot
ADU And Garage Conversion Projects
Detached units, attached builds and garage conversions completed across the region.
Kitchen Remodeling Projects
Fifteen completed kitchens, from single-room refits to kitchens opened into the living space.
Bathroom Remodeling Projects
Primary bathrooms and powder rooms, rebuilt from the substrate up.
Whole-Home And Multi-Room Renovations
Projects where most of the house changed, not one room.
Living, Dining And Bedroom Projects
Living spaces, bedroom suites and the rooms people forget to plan for.
What Each Type Of Project Involves
The five groups above are not just a filing system. Each type of work carries its own permits, its own risks and its own timeline, and knowing the difference helps you read our projects properly.
ADUs And Garage Conversions
A second home on the same lot, with its own foundation or a converted garage, its own utilities, kitchen and bathroom, and a full permit set. Garage conversions typically take three to five months to build and detached units five to eight, once permits are issued. See our ADU builder page.
Kitchens
The most-used room in the house and the most complicated to get right: plumbing, gas, electrical, ventilation and cabinetry all meet in one small footprint. Layout changes usually drive the budget far more than finishes do. See kitchen remodeling.
Bathrooms
What matters most in a bathroom is invisible: waterproofing, the slope to the drain and proper ventilation. The photographs show the tile, but the membrane underneath decides whether it lasts. See bathroom remodeling.
Whole-Home Renovations
Structure, systems and finishes changing across most of the house at once, usually while the family lives elsewhere. On a job this size the order of work is the whole job. See whole-home remodeling.
Living Spaces And Bedrooms
Rooms where lighting, flooring continuity and built-in storage do the heavy lifting. They are often the quickest projects to complete, and the ones where small decisions show the most. See living room remodeling.
Something Not Listed Here
Additions, second stories, structural changes and new construction are covered on their own service pages. If your plans do not fit neatly into any of these groups, that is normal — most real projects combine two or three of them. A kitchen remodel often turns into an open-plan renovation, and an ADU frequently arrives alongside work on the main house. Tell us the whole picture and we will scope it as one project rather than several.
How To Judge A Contractor By Their Work
Photographs reward a careful eye. These are the things worth looking for in any builder’s gallery, including ours.
Look at the edges, not the middle
Where tile meets a wall, where cabinetry meets the ceiling, where flooring meets a threshold. Finishing is decided at the edges.
Count the photographs
One immaculate angle proves very little. A full gallery means the contractor is willing to show the whole room.
Check the lighting plan
Well-built rooms have lighting placed deliberately: over work surfaces, in the right layers, on separate switches.
Ask what is behind the finish
Waterproofing, framing and ventilation never appear in photographs, and they are what decides how long the work lasts.
See whether the style varies
A builder who only ever produces one look is delivering their taste. Our projects range from traditional to contemporary because the houses did.
How Our Projects Get Built
The photographs are the last five percent. Everything that decides whether a project goes well happens long before a camera comes out.
One Contract, One Team
Design, engineering coordination, permits and construction sit under a single agreement, so there is nobody to blame when a detail falls between two trades. It is the reason our projects finish rather than stall.
Drawings First
We draw the work, price it from a defined scope and agree it in writing before demolition starts.
Permits Filed Properly
Structural, plumbing, electrical and envelope work is permitted and inspected. Unpermitted shortcuts surface at resale.
Selections Locked Early
Tile decides the substrate and cabinetry decides the plumbing rough-in, so selections are made before those stages rather than during them. You can see the results of that discipline in the alignment of the finished rooms.
A Showroom To Decide In
Our showroom at 6723 Variel Avenue, Canoga Park lets you see materials at full size instead of on a screen.
Honest Reporting
When something is found behind a wall, you get photographs, options and a written price before we carry on.
Where Our Projects Are
The work on this page sits across the whole region rather than one neighbourhood, which is deliberate.
Across The Region
These homes are in the San Fernando Valley, on the Westside, in the South Bay, out towards Orange County and up into Ventura County. Different jurisdictions, different building departments, different inspection cultures — and the same standard of work in each.
Older Housing Stock
Much of what you see here started as a post-war house with small rooms, tired systems and previous unpermitted work. Handling that well is most of the job in this part of California.
Find Work Like Yours
If you are planning a specific type of project, the service pages go into detail: ADUs, home additions, major remodeling and new construction.
Visit In Person
Photographs only go so far. We can walk you through the materials and, where a client is willing, discuss projects comparable to yours during the consultation.
Bring Your Own Reference Images
Saved photographs from anywhere are useful. They tell us about your taste far more accurately than a conversation about style ever does, and they give us something concrete to price against.
Ask About A Specific Project
If one of the galleries above is close to what you have in mind, mention it when you call and we can talk through what that job actually involved, what it cost to solve and how long it took.
Start Your Own Project
Tell us what you are planning and we will walk your house, explain what the work really involves and put a written scope in front of you before any drawings begin.
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What Our Projects Cannot Tell You
A gallery is a flattering format, so it is worth saying plainly what photographs leave out.
They Do Not Show The Budget
Two kitchens that look similar can differ by a factor of three once cabinetry, appliances and structural work are counted. We do not publish per-square-foot pricing because it misleads more often than it helps. Pricing follows a defined scope, after we have seen the house.
They Do Not Show The Schedule
Design and permitting frequently take as long as construction. A gallery compresses months of plan check, long-lead orders and inspections into a single image.
They Rarely Show The Before
Most of these homes began with small rooms, failing systems and previous unpermitted work. That starting point is the part of our projects that homeowners recognise, and it is the part cameras skip.
They Cannot Show The Structure
Waterproofing, framing, flashing and ventilation are invisible in a finished photograph and decide everything about how long the work lasts. Ask about them — of us, and of anyone else you are considering.
Homeowner Experiences
Hear directly from Southern California clients who trusted H&A My Design with their custom homes, ADUs, and additions.
Walk the finished home — navy kitchen with brass fittings, an open living space and a new double-vanity bathroom.
“We’re extremely happy with the results. Without a shadow of doubt, we’ve already recommended them to other neighbors.”
“Everybody was phenomenal to work with, a pleasure to have. Totally fair and wonderful company and great family.”
“H&A made the entire process transparent. Having one GC manage blueprints, city permits, and the build was night and day.”
“Their Canoga Park showroom made selecting our cabinets, quartz, and fixtures so easy. Finished right on schedule.”
“Converted our garage into a 2-bedroom rental. Flawless craftsmanship and leased immediately after final inspection.”
See the full before and after — the original kitchen, the opened-up living space and the finished bathrooms.
“From 3D plans to final city sign-off, H&A handled everything. No surprise change orders, no stress.”
“Built a modern ADU for my parents. The accessibility and aesthetic details exceeded all our expectations.”
Serving Southern California
Licensed throughout Los Angeles & Ventura Counties. HQ Showroom at 6723 Variel Ave, Canoga Park, CA.
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