HDR Remodeling

David Keyes

2023-07

HDR was truly an amazing company to partner with on our home addition project. They were on time, on schedule, and on budget - super rare in this space. The design is exactly what we envisioned and couldn't have been better, and the build team executed it to spec. The addition is top quality and we are so thrilled with it!

Stacey Murphy

2024-04

I couldn't be more happy with the work that was done on my house by HDR, which included moving the kitchen to a different area of the house to make it bigger and also enlarging a bedroom. Their design idea was great and a big improvement on what I had originally planned. Working with Andres (Sensitive Information HIdden), the project manager, was the lease stressful experience during a remodel I've ever had despite this being the largest project I have done thus far. They were able to keep within budget and I had absolute confidence they would take care of everything in a timely fashion. I highly recommend them, if you want a stress free and quality remodel work.

Jerry Barush

2023-11

Total redo of the only bathroom in the house - 8 weeks without a toilet/shower...they were sensitive to the issue and got it done on time - even with a 2 week Covid delay in the house. They were professional, very communicative and responsive to our comments from the design phase through the construction phase. We intend to use them again for our next house project.Service: Bathroom remodeling

Ben Chess

2021-05

HDR helped us remodel our kitchen and two bathrooms. They were extremely professional and responsive throughout the whole process and did a beautiful job. They are a design-build firm meaning that they handle everything in-house - they employ both the architects and the contractors. They project manage everything. The whole schedule, all parts, all subcontractors, are all handled for you.Our architect, Milton, was great to work with - very responsive to our needs and vision for what the spaces should look like. He did a lot of research for us and always presented various options for how to accomplish the look we wanted - and at various price points. He helped us make all the big and small design decisions. Our contractor, Alberto, was amazing. We met weekly to review progress and answer any questions. Any problems we noticed or things we wanted changed were handled promptly. Even our neighbors noticed how prompt and hard-working our crew was. These are not the typical contractors where you mentally double the estimates they give you for project completion. They estimated 4 months for our project and finished 2 weeks early.I think you pay a premium for such a high-touch service and so you may take the gamble for someone cheaper who may or may not be as reliable, honest, or hard-working. But if you want the peace of mind for a project that will be on time, on budget, and high quality, HDR is a great option. I highly recommend them!Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Paint indoors, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Repair flooring, Drywall repair

Steven Aelfcyning

2022-05

My wife and I have used HDR for several projects over a period of many years, and we have been delighted with the transformation of our home and our lifestyle as a result. HDR provided needs analysis, designs, coordinated permits, did all of the carpentry, and managed subcontractors for plumbing, electrical, and tile work. We couldn't be more pleased with the results, and we continue to work with them as more ideas come to us.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Fan installation, Tile work replacement, TV mounting, Paint indoors, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation, Repair flooring, Drywall repair

Liz Trainor

2024-04

I worked with HDR in remodeling our kitchen, bathroom and the creation of a bar off our living room area. HDR is a class act! They are professional, knowledgeable and creative. For a quality remodel, choose HDR!

Linda Ajello

2023-11

We recently had HDR remodel our bathrooms and our laundry room. All of the people working for HDR were very professional and responsive to our questions and concerns throughout the process. We were kept in the loop through the entire process. We are really happy with how the project came out and would highly recommend HDR to anyone looking to do a remodel.Services: Bathroom remodeling, Remodeling

Bob Gill

2023-08

HDR did a full renovation of our old kitchen beyond a simple remodel. It was a large project, and they were there every step of the way. The planning was very detailed, and everything was set before anything was started. HDR was in constant communication with us during the whole project and kept us informed of every step. The staff was great and so were the contractors, their resourcefulness and determination with getting everything we wanted and doing it correctly was amazing. Also, their promptness in appearing on the job and willingness to cart things away as well as to clean up the site was greatly appreciated. In addition, the clarity with which they issued both invoices and change orders made the job go faster without hassles.Our kitchen turned out great and we are thoroughly enjoying it.

Elizabeth Sundstrom

2023-07

We've hired HDR for two remodeling projects. Between projects there was a change of ownership and some staff turnover. Yet the quality of the work remains superb. HDR works diligently to satisfy customer needs, wants, and budgetary requirements. Before either project began, they notified neighbors and left their contact information should any problems occur. Once the projects were underway, HDR met deadlines, acted in a professional manner, left the work spaces clean at the end of each workday, and responded immediately to our calls and emails. HDR consistently goes above and beyond to ensure client satisfaction. What we appreciated most was not having to manage subcontractors or worry about any problems that arose. We would hire them again without reservation.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Bathroom remodeling, Paint indoors, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation, Kitchen remodeling

Shakib Tarin

2023-08

Working with HDR Remodeling as an electrical contractor was an absolute pleasure! From start to finish, the experience was nothing short of exceptional. The team's professionalism and expertise were evident throughout the entire project. My points of contact on our last project were Omar and Alberto, who helped make the project run smoothly from start to finish.

Christopher Berner

2023-07

We used HDR Remodeling to redo one of our bathrooms, as well as do a conversion of the downstairs floor of our house. While there were a few delays in the construction schedule, they were very professional in handling everything and the work was high quality. We're very happy with the result!

Courtney Kaplan

2023-05

HDR was a great partner in remodeling our two bathrooms. I appreciated the inclusive design/build partnership that made the project run smoothly. The design team heard our ideas and helped us pick things to make them a reality. They set expectations every step of the way and kept meetings focused and clear. They also helped us get questions answered quickly.During the build phase, our project manager was great. He kept us in the loop about what was going on and who we could expect each day. He clearly explained any issues or open questions and gave us options. Also, he kept the site tidy (we were not living on site but I appreciated that things were neat every Friday). He did a great job of running the day-to-day.The project went smoothly and we're happy with the final outcome! Thank you, HDR!Services: Bathroom remodeling, Remodeling

Rebecca Novick

2022-05

We had an amazing experience with HDR. They did a substantial kitchen (and other rooms) remodel for us and we loved working with them. They were professional, thorough, and responsive. They coordinate between all the different workers amazingly well and everyone in our house was kind and thoughtful and respectful. We love our new kitchen and would work with them again any time.Service: Kitchen remodeling

Carl Tsukahara

2022-05

As many of you know, the most critical parts of any remodel are the quality of the work, the collaboration with the GC and the responsiveness should any follow up issues occur. We used HDR for a major kitchen and window remodel and they did a fantastic job in all of these areas and in fact, went far a beyond our expectations on follow up and a commitment to customer satisfaction. Kevin and team do a great job and I recommend them as great partners.Service: Remodeling

Gene Banman

2023-05

HDR Remodel was recommended to us by Remodelers Advantage, an industry association. HDR's sales guy, their architect and their general manager all impressed us and now, after the job is done, we are still impressed with them. We did have some issues with the foreman managing our job. Things were missed or incorrectly done and not caught. When escalated these issues were always made right and this manager is no longer with the company. As we wrapped up the job, the newly assigned foreman has been excellent. In the end the job was top notch and everything was made perfect.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Bathroom remodeling, Exterior structural repairs, Repair water fixtures, Roof repair, Exterior painting, Remodeling, Interior structural repairs, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation, Roof installation, Repair flooring, Kitchen remodeling

Elizabeth Carty

2022-05

HDR has been my go-to house projects team for 10+ years. Starting with a complex bathroom remodel, then a collection of smaller projects like a deck and floor replacement and last year a major kitchen remodel.This group is highly professional, executes on time and does beautiful work. They carefully select their subcontractors and hold them accountable for their quality.Most importantly, they partner with me as the homeowner, listening carefully to my desires and concerns and address them promptly. They stand by their work and I would not use anyone else.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Paint indoors, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation, Repair flooring

Andres Montoya

2021-05

We hired HDR for drainage work and a home remodeling project. They were super responsive, worked with us to come up with a plan that met our most important needs and was within our budget and ultimately delivered high-quality work that we are very happy with to this day. Working with a design-build firm is a little more expensive but in our opinion is worth it in the long run because of the efficiencies and synergy it brings to the whole process. Highly recommend working with HDR!!Services: Install flooring, Paint indoors, Exterior painting, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Repair flooring

Claudia Haase

2022-05

We are tremendously grateful we decided to partner with HDR for our remodel. Prior to this project, we had little experience with such a large undertaking. We remodeled our kitchen, 2.5 baths, installed floors throughout, new paint throughout the interior, and updated the fireplace. Summarizing our overall experience with HDR:*Timely:* Despite our initial shock of the timeline, there was significant progress each day. It is clear they had optimized each phase given their years of experience with project management.*Communication:* The HDR manager had consistent, weekly update meetings which allowed us to hear the progress and resolve any unexpected issues. They would loop in the additional team members when needed. They were proactive, responsive, and quickly resolved our issues.*Experts:* We appreciated the expertise HDR brought to the project, in terms of choice of brands/materials and sketches.*Professionalism:* With rising material costs, unexpected supply chain delays, trying to do a remodel in a pandemic, as well as unexpected surprises during the project, HDR’s professionalism helped alleviate our concerns.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Tile work replacement, Paint indoors, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation, Repair flooring, Drywall repair

Emily Dahm

2021-05

We hired HDR Remodeling to do a feasibility study to determine if our home addition project was possible within our budget. While we ultimately learned that our project was not possible, we were very pleased with HDR Remodeling and their work. Kevin, Ashley, and the entire team were just fantastic to work with. They were friendly, honest, professional, responsive, and clearly had paid attention to our budget. If we ever have another home project, HDR Remodeling will be our first call. We could not recommend them more highly.

Atasi Uppal

2022-05

HDR shepherded us through our first remodeling experience, and we really appreciated their professionalism and quality work. We added a bathroom where none existed, and we worked closely with Kevin, Ashley and Julio through the design and construction stages. All of them were considerate, hands-on and professional throughout. Julio's honesty and incredible work ethic really stood out. Additionally, the subcontractors they brought in were considerate of our space and time given we had two young kids running around the house during most of the construction process. We are in love with our new master bath, which is both beautiful and functional. Thanks HDR!Service: Remodeling

Spencer Wei

2023-08

Great experience working with HDR. The project turned out even better than we had expected and it was completed on-time. The HDR team is thorough, detail-oriented, and highly professional.

Dr. Benjamin Fife

2021-05

HDR did a wonderful job on our kitchen. They were personable, savvy, timely and all around a pleasure to work with. A 10 out of 10 experience.When there were minor issues that came up with a cabinet after almost 2 years of use HDR was great about repairing the issues free of charge and quickly. They really stand by their warranty and are just as responsive to warranty issues as they are during the construction process.Service: Remodeling

Michael Robin

2021-05

My wife and I are thrilled to emphatically recommend HDR Remodeling to anyone considering them for a remodeling project! After interviewing several local full-service remodeling companies, we hired HDR to lead our whole home remodel, a significant 10-month project that brought our 1923 dilapidated Oakland home into the 21st century. We were sold by their warmth and professionalism, innovative perspective, and confidence to get the job done within the parameters we had in mind. I still remember our first meeting with Kevin (Head of Design & Sales), sitting in our living room, listening attentively, providing the affirmations we were hoping for while carefully offering important and sobering reality checks. The honesty and sincerity we perceived in that first meeting never wavered throughout the entirety of the project. Our main takeaway from this whole experience: Things will go wrong. At the end of the day, you want to work with people you trust.HDR took care of everything – the structural design and architecture, plans and permitting, interior/exterior design and aesthetics, project management, budget management… you name it, they did it. We considered trying to manage the project ourselves and assemble our own group of contractors and subs, architect, engineer, designer, etc. – and while this may have saved some money, we are so grateful to have instead gone with HDR for the comprehensive ownership of this complicated project. While the initial budget for our scrappy vision of the project may have been lower, I’m confident the eventual result would have been more expensive, taken longer, and been full of headaches that were all mitigated by HDR’s leadership and experience. For anyone debating on this approach, unless you have extensive remodeling experience yourself, we strongly advise you to let HDR take the reins!Specifically, I want to call out a few qualities that were deeply appreciated throughout the process. Everyone working at HDR (we primarily engaged with Kevin, Chris, Milton, Ana, and Alfredo) was honest, direct, collaborative, empathetic, and flexible. All problems came with a variety of potential solutions with pros/cons to weigh. They listened to our preferences and were very thoughtful with regards to buy-ups, buy-downs (budget balancing), advising where we could save and when it was worth spending a bit more. They were clean, thorough, attentive to detail, and as reliable as you could hope for in this wildly volatile industry. A project this size with this duration is bound to have its issues, and everyone was always pleasant to deal with even (and especially) in the hardest moments. On multiple occasions, they fixed problems at their own cost without trying to negotiate, went above and beyond in upgrading certain designs or materials without charging us, and were always transparent with pricing and options when we had to eat a change order. Don’t get me wrong – anyone taking on this kind of project should expect the timeline and budget to exceed the original projections – but this was way less painful than we feared, largely due to HDR’s professionalism and savvy.Our project was quite massive for a relatively small Rockridge home. In 2017, we bought a 2 bed, 1 bathroom, 1500 sqft, split-story home that had significant damage requiring remedy (we were fully aware of upon purchase!). Roughly 1 year after we first engaged HDR, we moved back into our 3 bed, 2 bath, 1900 sqft home with the polish and preferences we always dreamed of. Suffice it to say HDR did a phenomenal job with everything. We would absolutely work with HDR again on our next project, and encourage you to give them a call!Lastly, given how glowing this review is, I want to make clear that we were not incentivized to write this review in any way, and these are our sincerely held feelings about the good people at HDR.Service: Remodeling

Rebecca Silbert

2022-05

HDR was great. We've done three construction projects in the past decade, two of them with different contractors and this most recent one with HDR, so we know when things aren't done well. HDR was responsive, they listened, and they did great work. Nothing is ever perfect - there was one sub that didn't do a good job. We didn't have to complain; HDR was on it and they made the sub come back and redo the work. That's the sign of a good contractor.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Paint indoors, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation, Repair flooring, Drywall repair

Madison Brewer

2023-05

Last year my husband and I decided that our old home needed some love but we had no idea where to start. Enter Team HDR! We first met with architect Kevin Mond who toured our home and listened to our concerns, offering advice on which projects to focus on and which to prioritize for a future date.This initial meeting led to a 9+ month relationship with nearly the whole team, beginning with Kevin followed by brilliant designer Milton Tong whose innovative, forward thinking design work helped us dial in all of our ideas into two cohesive designs to iterate from, and ending with one of the best construction project manager’s we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, Julio Perez, who creatively iterated on and meticulously executed the design for our dream home.The care and dedication shown to us throughout every stage of this project, including all of the design pivots we made to improve the structural integrity and enhance the design without sacrificing what makes this home aesthetically pleasing, was above and beyond. The result, our dream home. An incredible space where our family can grow and within our home and not out of it. Special shout out again to Kevin and Milton for sharing their passion for design from start to finish, to Wendy Miller (HDR’s brilliant accounting manager) for her kindness and attention to detail, and Julio for being with us every step of the way, guiding us through every detail of the construction, answering thousands of questions, and, most significantly, creatively problem solving the challenges we unearthed during demo. We could not have dreamed up this beautiful space without all of you.If you’re considering a major remodel we highly recommend this team — you will be in very caring hands. And when it comes to your home, that kind of care makes all the difference.Service: Remodeling

Richard Libby

2023-07

We remodeled two bathrooms to upgrade fixtures and improve access for a mobility impaired individual. Midway through we added replacement of some exterior siding to remove dry rot. The project was well run and everyone was professional in every way. The final results are exquisite.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Bathroom remodeling, Exterior structural repairs, Exterior painting, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation, Fan repair

Ramona d'Viola

2021-05

As a homeowner, and a design/build devotee, it's always a pleasure to work with companies who excel at what they do. The team at Berkeley's HDR Remodeling check all the boxes.From reimagining interiors into purposeful, functional, and aesthetically beautiful spaces – to creating flexible and adaptable home environments that enhance your lifestyle, the pros at HDR Remodeling are incomparably talented.Honest, professional, and trustworthy - works for me all day long.Services: Tile work installation, Install flooring, Paint indoors, Exterior painting, Remodeling, Drywall installation, Plumbing fixture installation

Robert Lenton

2022-05

I have known HDR Remodeling for many years, not as a customer, but as a collogue. There are dedicated to their customers, employees and their community. Kevin and Chris work hard to constantly improve their business. The award winning team designs and builds exceptional spaces. I have not only seen the pubic side of the business, but also the inside workings and I know integrity is a core value.

Temescal Kitchen and Bath

2021-05

I got my start as a designer with HDR, and I cannot recommend them enough! They treat their employees and subcontractors great and genuinely care about each and every client. Their quality and attention to detail set the bar for ever contractor I've worked with since. I continue to enjoy collaborating with them any chance I get because I know the results will be top notch!

Anita Wong

2019-05

We had HDR remodel our kitchen, master bath and fireplace hearth. They excel in coordination during construction to give us the best result in a timely fashion. Their attention to detail is terrific. Even with a few bumps they were able to finish on time. Best of all, they guarantee their work after it is finished and are very prompt should you have any questions or problems. Very reliable!