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Stardem builds residential and commercial work across Northern California — custom homes, considered remodels, and commercial spaces that hold up under daily use.
We organize the studio around three capabilities. Every project is led by a single superintendent and closes with the same one-year walkthrough, regardless of which side of the house it sat on.
Custom homes & estates
Ground-up custom homes, secondary residences, and accessory dwellings — built with the patience of a long view.
Tenant fit-outs & ground-up
Hospitality, retail, and workplace projects where a delivery date is a fact, not a goal — with finish quality that holds up under daily use.
Considered remodels
Whole-home and primary-floor remodels for owners who'd rather build into a place they love than leave it. Lived-in throughout, where possible.
We turn down more work than we take, and we keep the projects we deliver under one roof — same superintendent, same standard, opening day to year-one walkthrough.
A 1923 industrial laundry, structurally re-shored and turned into fourteen flats that keep the bones honest.
A specialty coffee bar built into an old printer's shop — concrete poured around the original press footings.
Numbers can flatter or distract. These four describe what we want a prospective owner to know about how we operate, and they're the only ones we keep current on the home page.
Every Stardem project — residential or commercial, ground-up or remodel — moves through the same four phases, with the same superintendent leading each one to its handoff.
We learn the site, the budget, and the people. No drawings yet — just questions, walks, and a candid feasibility memo.
Schematic through construction documents with the architect. Cost modeling runs in parallel so the drawings stay buildable.
Final drawings, trade buyout, permits, and a schedule built around real lead times — including the things you can't see coming.
Weekly owner meetings, transparent change-order process, and a full one-year walkthrough after move-in.
Stardem closes a project the way they open one — patiently, in person, with a clipboard. The walls and the relationship both still hold.
We take a small number of new projects each year. Send us the basics — site, scope, an honest budget — and we'll come back inside a week with a candid read on whether we're the right fit.