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Whole Home Remodel — Providence, Utah

A 1979 house taken apart one level at a time. We finished the basement first so the family had somewhere to live, then gutted the main floor over their heads.

Where
Providence, Utah
Scope
Whole home, both levels
Size
About 2,600 sq ft
5 bed, 3 bath
Cost
$189,000 in 2025
Timeline
Eight months
A note on the number. This job was bid in November 2024, and the total homeowner investment was $189,000. That is the real number, and it is what they actually paid. It is not, however, what this scope costs today. At 2026 material and labor prices, with enough margin to run a successful company that is still around and working in this valley in ten years, the same project prices at about $252,500. I would rather show you what you can really expect to pay for this scope than give you false hope with a number that is two years old.

This one ran eight months and took the house apart a level at a time. We finished the basement first so the family had somewhere to live, then gutted the main floor over their heads.

What We Found

A 1979 house. The owners had given it a cosmetic remodel when they moved in around 2017 — paint, flooring, that kind of thing — and the bathroom vanities had been replaced not long before we arrived. Underneath the cosmetics it was still a 1979 house, and it was squeaky underfoot on both levels.

The Basement, First

We changed the layout rather than working around it. New partition walls, a bedroom added to the two already down there, and the stairway reframed to run the opposite direction — that one decision is what made the rest of the floor plan work. Then a full kitchen with white shaker cabinets and quartz counters, a new laundry room with proper cabinets, and built-in shelving.

By the end of June it was finished and the homeowners moved down into it.

Then The Upstairs

The week after they moved down, we opened the main floor. Walls came out of the center of the house to make it one room. New electrical throughout, new plumbing in both kitchens, the laundry relocated, and both furnaces replaced.

The kitchen went charcoal with a quartz waterfall island and seating, across from a built-in wall with a linear fireplace. New stair railing, board and batten, a new front door and a new door on the garage side.

The Squeaky Floor

The floor moved everywhere you stepped, which is not what you expect from a 1979 house. When we opened it up we found out why. The subfloor was held down with staples and smooth-shank nails and no adhesive at all. Nothing was ever going to hold that still.

We replaced it the way it should have gone down in the first place — adhesive, the right fasteners, real blocking. It has been quiet since.

The Master Bathroom

The master bathroom was decided on partway through the upstairs, and it is the best room in the house now. We took the space out of the master bedroom to make it work: new plumbing, a tub added, a double vanity, a full eight-foot closet, and an engineered marble shower at roughly twice the footprint of the old one.

The other two bathrooms were left alone.

The Flood

About a week after the basement was finished and the family had moved into it, a supply line at a vanity let go overnight — a Saturday into a Sunday — and flooded the whole thing.

It was not our work and not a room we had touched. That vanity had been put in by someone else not long before we got there, and a piece of pipe had been cut short enough that the connection was under strain from the day it went in. It finally gave.

Their insurance brought in a remediation contractor to redo the flooring, drywall, paint and baseboards down there while we kept working upstairs. The homeowners handled it with more grace than I would have in their position. The job was already long, they had finally moved into their new space, and it went under water in a night.

Where It Landed

Five bedrooms and two kitchens across both levels, a master bathroom rebuilt from scratch, and eight months from the first day to the last. Finished in December 2025.

Start To Finish

Basement before the remodel, wood plank walls and dated finishes in a 1979 Providence homeBefore — the basement as we found itOriginal basement living area before demolition beganBefore — original basement living areaBasement demolition with a wall opened upDemolition beginsBasement stripped back with the original framing exposedBack to the original framingBasement taken back to concrete before the new layout was framedStripped to concreteNew partition walls framed to change the basement layoutNew partition walls, new layoutFraming for the new basement bedroomFraming the added bedroomThe basement stairway reframed to run the opposite directionThe stairway reframed to run the other wayBasement mechanical room and new framingMechanical room and framingDrywall hung in the finished basementDrywall hungBuilt-in shelving framed into the basement wallBuilt-in shelving framed inWhite shaker cabinets going in for the basement kitchenBasement kitchen cabinets going inFinished basement kitchen with white shaker cabinets and quartz countersWhite shaker and quartz, finishedWide view of the finished basement kitchenThe finished basement kitchenBasement kitchen island and pantry cabinetry, finishedIsland and pantryFrench doors opening into the finished basement spaceFrench doors into the basementNew basement laundry room with cabinetsThe new basement laundry roomUpstairs taken back to the studs after the basement was finishedUpstairs, back to studsWalls removed from the center of the main floor to open the layoutCenter walls outOriginal subfloor removed, floor joists exposedSubfloor up, joists exposedNew subfloor going down over the original joistsNew subfloor going downNew subfloor installed with adhesive and blockingAdhesive, proper fasteners, blockingMain floor framing with a skylight openingFraming and a skylight openingBuilt-in fireplace and shelving wall framed outThe built-in wall framed outElectrical and plumbing rough-in on the main floorElectrical and plumbing rough-inThe built-in fireplace wall drywalledBuilt-in wall drywalledOpen main floor taped and textured before paintTaped and texturedNew front door and entry from the brick exteriorNew front doorOpen concept main floor before finishes went inOne room, before finishesCharcoal kitchen cabinets set on the main floorCharcoal cabinets setFinished white built-in wall with a linear fireplaceThe built-in wall, finishedNew stair railing installed at the top of the basement stairsNew stair railingBoard and batten accent wall finished and paintedBoard and battenNew exterior door on the garage side of the houseNew door, garage sideMain floor kitchen with appliances installedAppliances inThe linear fireplace running in the finished living roomThe fireplace runningFinished main floor kitchen with a quartz waterfall island and seatingQuartz waterfall islandKitchen backsplash and faucet detail, finishedBacksplash and faucetNew tub in the rebuilt master bathroomThe master bathroom tubDouble vanity and the new eight foot closet in the master bathroomDouble vanity and the new closetWide view of the finished main floor kitchenThe finished kitchenFinished kitchen island looking through to the living roomKitchen through to the living roomFinished living room with the built-in wall and fireplaceFinished living room

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