Whole-Home Remodeling In Longmont, CO

Helping Longmont Homeowners Build the Open, Connected Home They Deserve

Why Longmont homeowners choose Christie's for whole-home remodeling

Because Every Longmont Home
Deserves the Open, Connected Layout You've Always Wanted

For more than 25 years, Christie’s has helped Longmont homeowners confront a truth that becomes harder to ignore with every passing year: the house you bought before the price run-up is the house you’re staying in, and it deserves to actually work for you. The closed kitchen that cuts you off from the living room the second you start dinner. The primary bath that two adults can’t share without negotiating. The back door that opens onto a concrete slab you’ve been meaning to replace since the kids were small. None of it is small. And none of it gets better one room at a time.

At Christie’s Design/Build Remodeling, we know Longmont’s 1960s–1980s ranch stock the way you know your own floor plan, the load-bearing walls sitting exactly where you’d want an open kitchen, the undersized electrical panels that can’t handle a modern appliance load, the indoor-outdoor gap that Front Range summers make impossible to ignore. From the ranch neighborhoods near McIntosh Lake to the older grid around Old Town, we bring the structural know-how, the design continuity, and the honest upfront planning that turns a home built for a different era into one that fits the life you’re living right now.

In Business

25+ Years

Helping Longmont homeowners break through the closed ranch layout, build the primary suite they've earned, and create a home with one cohesive design language from the front door to the back patio.

Our Model

Design/Build

One connected team guiding your Longmont whole-home remodel from the first concept sketch all the way through the final walkthrough and sign-off.

Where We Work

Longmont, CO

Whole-home remodeling serving Old Town Longmont, McIntosh Lake, the West Side Historic District, and surrounding Longmont neighborhoods.

Peace Of Mind

5-Year Warranty

Backed by a warranty that covers your Longmont whole-home remodeling project long after the last coat of paint dries.

What Makes Whole-Home Remodeling Different In Longmont

When Longmont
Finally Feels Like It Was Designed For You

Whole-home remodeling in Longmont almost always starts at the same place: a 1960s–1980s ranch whose closed kitchen, undersized primary suite, and single back door to a concrete slab were designed for a different era of living, not the one your family is actually in. Opening that floor plan means structural wall removal, beam engineering, and systems upgrades that need to be sequenced before finish decisions make sense, because the wall cavities will be open anyway. We look at your floor plan, how your household moves through it, and where the layout is genuinely fighting you, then build a whole-home scope that fixes all of it at once instead of piecemeal. The result is a home that reads as one intentional design, not a ranch with better countertops.

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Longmont Homes, One Honest Plan

Longmont’s ranch homes from the 1960s through the 1980s were built with a floor plan logic that made sense then, and rarely works now. Each one carries its own structural patterns, mechanical age, and layout constraints. Understanding that starting point is what lets us build a whole-home plan around the house you actually own.

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Longmont Ranch Walls Worth Removing

In Longmont’s 1960s–1980s ranch homes, the wall between your kitchen and your living space almost always carries load, which means opening it requires beam engineering, HVAC rerouting, and a coordinated structural plan worked out well before demo day, not discovered once the wall is already gone. Mapping that out from the start is what keeps your project on schedule and your household out of the surprises nobody planned for.

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What Longmont's Ranch Walls Are Hiding

When walls open in Longmont’s ranch-era homes, original 100-amp panels running near their limit, plumbing lines past their service life, and HVAC systems configured for a closed floor plan that no longer exists show up consistently enough that we build pre-construction assessment around finding them, not stumbling across them mid-project. Addressing those systems alongside the visible renovation means your finished kitchen and primary suite are built over infrastructure that’s genuinely ready for the decades ahead.

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Specified For Longmont's Climate Realities

Longmont’s Front Range position delivers intense UV, hard freeze-thaw cycling through every shoulder season, and hail events that test exterior surfaces faster than most product warranties acknowledge. Any window replacement, indoor-outdoor transition, or finish material near south-facing glass needs to be specified with those actual conditions in mind. That’s what protects your investment through every season, not just the week your project wraps.

Longmont, CO Neighborhoods

Whole-Home Remodeling Across
All of Longmont, CO

Longmont brings together a deep inventory of 1960s–1980s ranch homes, closed kitchens, undersized primary suites, and back doors that open onto nothing worth stepping out to, alongside Victorian and Edwardian properties near the West Side Historic District where character is real but modern function is long overdue. What nearly every remodel candidate here shares is the same gap: equity built before the price run-up, a floor plan designed for a different era, and a household that’s finally ready to fix all of it at once rather than move. At Christie’s Design/Build Remodeling, we look at how structural wall removal, layout reconfiguration, indoor-outdoor connection, and finish continuity work together across the whole home before any single decision gets locked in. The goal is a Longmont home where every room speaks the same design language, open, connected, and built for the way your family actually lives now.

Clover Creek

A Home That Grows Into the Family You Have Now

Whole-home remodeling in Clover Creek usually starts with a two-story that was built right, good bones, quiet street, schools your kids can walk to, but a layout that keeps the family fractured the moment everyone’s home at once. The kitchen is walled off, the primary suite is functional but forgettable, and the backyard connection that the walking paths and open space practically invite you toward just isn’t there yet. Because the HOA reviews exterior changes before permits move forward, working with a design-build team that knows how to navigate both tracks at once keeps the project moving instead of stalled. What shifts is the whole interior rhythm, opened, modernized, and finished with enough continuity that every room clearly belongs to the same house.

McIntosh Lake

The Lake Is Right There. Make the Home Match It.

McIntosh Lake homeowners chose this neighborhood for a reason, the water, the views of Long’s Peak, the way the light moves across the reservoir on a weekend morning, but the homes themselves often haven’t kept up with that setting, still carrying closed floor plans that turn their backs on the outdoors. A whole-home remodel opens that relationship up, connecting living areas to the lake-facing yard with wide-opening doors, covered outdoor transitions, and kitchens that finally see the rest of the house instead of hiding from it. Families here want a home that earns the view, where mornings feel easy, evenings extend outside, and the interior holds the same quality the surroundings already deliver. That kind of continuity, from front door through to the back patio, is what makes this neighborhood finally feel complete.

Terry Lake

Bring Your Ranch Home Into the Life You're Living Now

Homes in Terry Lake carry the bones of a good era, solid ranch footprints from the 1960s and 70s, generous lot sizes, and a neighborhood that’s quietly held its character for decades, but the layouts inside were built around a version of daily life that looks nothing like yours today. Closed kitchens, cramped primary baths, and a back door that leads to a concrete slab rather than an actual outdoor living space are the common starting points here. Whole-home remodeling in Terry Lake is about solving those structural and layout problems at once, opening the main level, expanding the primary suite, and building the indoor-outdoor connection that a Front Range lot like this genuinely deserves. When every room shares the same design language, the house finally feels like one cohesive home rather than a series of decades-old compromises.

Prospect New Town

Give Your Prospect New Town Home the Interior Only Your Family Could Dream Up

Prospect New Town was designed with real intention, mixed typologies, rooftop terraces, walkable streets, a neighborhood that actually feels like a community. But intentional architecture on the outside doesn’t mean the interior was built around your household’s particular rhythms. The live/work layouts, the townhome kitchens, the spaces that were spec’d for broad appeal, those were somebody else’s calls. Whole-home remodeling is how you make them yours: a kitchen and living space redesigned for the way you actually gather, a primary suite rebuilt with real function for two adults, and a finish language that runs cohesively from your front door to wherever the rooftop ends. Same extraordinary neighborhood. Finally, a home that fits like it was made for you.

Somerset Meadows

A Home That Lives Up to the Life You're Building Here

Somerset Meadows homeowners chose this community knowing exactly what they were after, the larger lots, the contemporary builds, the finishes that felt genuinely elevated from day one. What brings them to a whole-home remodel is usually something more personal: a floor plan that’s generous but doesn’t quite flow the way your family moves, spaces that were designed to impress rather than to live in, or an indoor-outdoor connection that the lot makes possible but the original build never fully delivered. Any exterior or structural scope here moves through HOA architectural review, which we handle in parallel with permitting so your project keeps moving.

Our Longmont Whole-Home Remodeling Process

The Ranch That Finally Works the Way You Do

Whole-home remodeling in Longmont carries more complexity than most homeowners expect, especially when 1960s–1980s ranch homes almost always need structural beam work at the kitchen-to-living opening, full electrical panel replacement, and systems upgrades before finish work can begin, all running alongside City of Longmont permit review and HOA approval in newer subdivisions. Our process keeps design, permitting, and construction connected from the very first conversation, so nothing stalls and the finished home feels cohesive, considered, and genuinely built around how your family lives now.

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Initial Assessment

Every whole-home remodel in Longmont starts with an honest look at how a compartmentalized ranch floor plan is working against your family right now, closed kitchen, no sight lines, rooms that simply don’t connect the way you need them to. We walk the layout, assess what’s behind the walls structurally and mechanically, and understand how each space relates before any design decision gets made.

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Scope, Budget, Goals

We build the project around your real priorities, your budget, and what your Longmont ranch’s existing 1960s–1980s structure is genuinely capable of becoming. Together, we map the biggest friction points, the walled-off kitchen, the undersized primary suite, the systems running past their service life, and define the full scope before anything gets locked in.

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Room-by-Room Design Plan

With your priorities clear, we develop a coordinated plan across every room, structural wall removals, panel upgrades, HVAC rezoning, lighting, materials, and indoor-outdoor connections all resolved together before construction begins. Every decision ties back to the whole home, so your kitchen, primary suite, bathrooms, and living spaces share one design language rather than reading like separate projects done at different times.

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Planning & Permitting

Before demolition begins, Christie’s coordinates City of Longmont Building Inspection permits, HOA architectural review where it applies, material lead times, and trade sequencing. Getting those tracks organized early keeps each phase moving without unnecessary gaps. The same plans that shaped the design guide every crew on site, straight through final inspection.

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Construction Begins

Your Longmont home shifts room by room as structural walls come down, panels get upgraded, plumbing reroutes, and flooring, cabinetry, and trim all advance in one coordinated sequence. One team holds the full vision, whether that means opening a closed ranch kitchen, transforming the primary suite, or reconfiguring the whole floor plan at once.

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Review, Sign-Off, Done

When construction is complete, we walk through every finished space in your Longmont home together and review the details side by side. We’re checking that the kitchen opens into the living area the way it was planned, the primary suite feels cohesive, and one consistent design language carries from the front door all the way through the indoor-outdoor transition. That’s the home your ranch always had the potential to be.

Our Longmont Whole-Home Remodeling Process

The Ranch That Finally Works the Way You Do

Whole-home remodeling in Longmont carries more complexity than most homeowners expect, especially when 1960s–1980s ranch homes almost always need structural beam work at the kitchen-to-living opening, full electrical panel replacement, and systems upgrades before finish work can begin, all running alongside City of Longmont permit review and HOA approval in newer subdivisions. Our process keeps design, permitting, and construction connected from the very first conversation, so nothing stalls and the finished home feels cohesive, considered, and genuinely built around how your family lives now.

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Initial Assessment

Every whole-home remodel in Longmont starts with an honest look at how a compartmentalized ranch floor plan is working against your family right now, closed kitchen, no sight lines, rooms that simply don’t connect the way you need them to. We walk the layout, assess what’s behind the walls structurally and mechanically, and understand how each space relates before any design decision gets made.

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Scope, Budget, Goals

We build the project around your real priorities, your budget, and what your Longmont ranch’s existing 1960s–1980s structure is genuinely capable of becoming. Together, we map the biggest friction points, the walled-off kitchen, the undersized primary suite, the systems running past their service life, and define the full scope before anything gets locked in.

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Room-by-Room Design Plan

With your priorities clear, we develop a coordinated plan across every room, structural wall removals, panel upgrades, HVAC rezoning, lighting, materials, and indoor-outdoor connections all resolved together before construction begins. Every decision ties back to the whole home, so your kitchen, primary suite, bathrooms, and living spaces share one design language rather than reading like separate projects done at different times.

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Planning & Permitting

Before demolition begins, Christie’s coordinates City of Longmont Building Inspection permits, HOA architectural review where it applies, material lead times, and trade sequencing. Getting those tracks organized early keeps each phase moving without unnecessary gaps. The same plans that shaped the design guide every crew on site, straight through final inspection.

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Construction Begins

Your Longmont home shifts room by room as structural walls come down, panels get upgraded, plumbing reroutes, and flooring, cabinetry, and trim all advance in one coordinated sequence. One team holds the full vision, whether that means opening a closed ranch kitchen, transforming the primary suite, or reconfiguring the whole floor plan at once.

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Review, Sign-Off, Done

When construction is complete, we walk through every finished space in your Longmont home together and review the details side by side. We’re checking that the kitchen opens into the living area the way it was planned, the primary suite feels cohesive, and one consistent design language carries from the front door all the way through the indoor-outdoor transition. That’s the home your ranch always had the potential to be.

What Longmont Homeowners Want From Their Whole-Home Remodel

A Home That
Earns the Equity You Already Have

Whole-home remodeling in Longmont is often about closing the gap between a structurally sound ranch and the open, connected home your family actually needs right now. The closed kitchen, the undersized primary suite, the back door that exits to a concrete pad instead of a real outdoor living space, these aren’t separate problems, they’re one floor plan that was never designed for how you live. Longmont homeowners want a single coordinated plan that solves all of it at once, with design continuity held across every room from the first conversation through the final walkthrough.

Indoor-Outdoor, Finally Connected Here

The Ranch, Finally Working For You

Longmont homeowners who bought before the price run-up now have real equity, and a floor plan that was never designed for how they actually live. Opening the kitchen, transforming the primary suite, and finishing the basement under one coordinated plan means the whole house improves together. That's the investment that actually makes sense when moving up isn't a realistic option anymore.

Ranch Layout, Finally Opened Up

Layout, Systems, Finishes, All Once

Longmont's 1960s–1980s ranch homes were built with closed kitchens, compartmentalized living rooms, and walls that haven't served anyone well in decades. Carefully removing the right structural walls, with the beam engineering and rerouted HVAC that honest layout changes actually require, can make the whole house feel open, connected, and finally right for how your family lives today.

Ranch Storage, Finally Done Right

Every Room Holds What You Need

Longmont's ranch homes were delivered with reach-in closets, a shelf or two for a pantry, and no real drop zone for the gear a full Colorado household accumulates, and that original design makes itself felt every single morning. Built-in mudroom cabinetry, a primary closet treated as a finished room, a pantry sized for how you actually shop, and purpose-built organization throughout can put the square footage your home already has to genuine use.

One Finish Language, Every Room

From Kitchen To Every Corner

When a Longmont ranch gets touched in pieces, counters one year, flooring the next, you end up with rooms that feel like separate decisions rather than one home. One trim profile carried through every doorway, cabinetry that speaks the same language from the kitchen to the primary suite, and flooring that flows without a jarring seam are what bring it all together. The goal isn't uniformity; it's a home that finally reads as one intentional whole.

Longmont's Climate, Finally Planned For

Longmont's Reality, Designed Around You

Longmont's Front Range climate, intense UV, freeze-thaw cycling, hail seasons, and big temperature swings, is harder on surfaces, windows, and exterior-adjacent materials than most homeowners expect until a previous remodel ages poorly. What performs through that reality is a different conversation than what simply looks sharp on day one. Climate-aware material selections mean your remodeled home still feels right three winters and several hail seasons from now.

What To Consider When Planning A Longmont Whole-Home Remodel

Bring This Ranch
Into the Life You're Living Now

In Longmont, the whole-home conversation usually starts when you realize the ranch you bought was designed for a completely different way of living, a closed kitchen that walls you off the moment cooking begins, a primary suite that’s never had enough room for two people to move comfortably, and a back door that opens to a concrete slab with no real connection to the yard beyond it. These 1960s and 1980s floor plans have good bones, but the compartmentalized layouts weren’t built for how families actually spend their time together. Before landing on a single finish or fixture, it’s worth stepping back and thinking clearly about what the whole house needs to become, and what it should feel like the first morning it finally does.

If you couldn't move, and most Longmont owners can't right now, what would this house need to become?

When trading up means stepping into a $611,000+ market you can no longer reach, staying put stops being a compromise and starts being a choice. The real question is what staying actually looks like. Not which room to patch first, but what the whole floor plan needs to do for your family, the sight lines, the morning flow, the evenings when everyone lands in the same space without feeling stacked on top of each other. Starting from that picture makes every scope decision easier.
There’s a version of this that almost every Longmont ranch owner knows: you stop seeing the wall between the kitchen and the living room because you’ve navigated around it for so long. The cramped primary bath, the back door that opens to a concrete slab going nowhere, the electrical panel that trips when two appliances run at once, these things become invisible through repetition. It’s worth writing them down honestly, because the ones you’ve stopped mentioning are usually the ones that matter most to fix.
Phasing feels like the cautious move, but in a 1960s or 1970s ranch, it can cost you more in the long run. Once walls are open for the kitchen, the electrical panel is right there. Once the floor is pulled up for new flooring, the continuity question is already in play. The whole-home approach isn’t about spending everything at once, it’s about making decisions in the right sequence so you’re not paying to undo earlier choices two years from now. Worth thinking about what you actually want before deciding how much to take on at once.
The finish line isn’t a punch-list sign-off. It’s the first dinner where you’re in the kitchen and still part of the conversation. It’s the Saturday morning when you slide the door open and the patio feels like it belongs to the house. It’s the moment your primary bath stops being something you tolerate and starts being a room you actually want to be in. Keeping that picture in mind, the felt version of done, not the technical version, is what helps you stay grounded when the decisions get complicated.

Our Reviews

What Longmont Families
Trusted Us to Open Up

Choosing a whole-home remodeling partner in Longmont means trusting one team with the closed-off ranch layout, the aging systems behind the walls, and every room your family moves through daily. Our team brings honest planning, clear communication, and design continuity from the first structural conversation through the final walkthrough. Our Longmont clients’ reviews show exactly what that accountability feels like.

Areas We Service Across Longmont

Helping Longmont Homes
Finally Open Up and Breathe

From the character-rich streets near Old Town and the West Side Historic District to the 1970s and 1980s ranch neighborhoods that make up the heart of Longmont’s owner-occupied core, every home here carries the same quiet tension, a closed-off floor plan that was never designed for the way your family actually gathers. Christie’s approaches whole-home remodeling in Longmont as one connected project, pairing structural wall removals and kitchen-to-living integration with primary suite transformations, systems upgrades, and indoor-outdoor connections that hold up through Colorado’s freeze-thaw seasons, all under a single design-build process that keeps your trim profiles, flooring, and hardware finish consistent from the front door through to the back patio. Whether the goal is opening that compartmentalized ranch kitchen, converting an underused bedroom into the primary suite you’ve always wanted, or finally replacing a concrete slab with a covered outdoor space worth actually using, every decision is shaped around your home, your neighborhood, and the years still ahead. The result is a house that feels like one intentional place, not a collection of rooms that got updated at different times.

Other Areas We Service

Broomfield County

Frequently Asked Questions About Longmont Whole-Home Remodeling

Questions Before You
Rebuild The Whole Home

Whole-home remodeling in Longmont often starts when the ranch you bought for the neighborhood, the lot, and the price has quietly stopped working for the life you’re living inside it, the closed-off kitchen, the undersized primary suite, and the back door that opens onto nothing worth stepping out to. Longmont’s 1960s–1980s ranch stock is structurally solid, but those floor plans were built for a completely different era of living. These are the questions Longmont homeowners ask when they’re ready to fix all of it at once, without moving.

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How do I know if a whole-home remodel makes more sense than just selling and buying something else?

For a lot of Longmont homeowners, that question answers itself pretty quickly when you look at what you’d actually be buying. With the median sale price well above what 68% of households here can afford, trading up usually means trading out, leaving the neighborhood, the schools, the yard you finally got the way you like it. If you bought before the price run-up, you’re sitting on equity that can fund the home you actually want, in the city you’ve already chosen. That’s not a consolation, that’s a genuinely smart financial path.
Most projects in Longmont’s ranch-era stock follow a pretty consistent arc: structural wall removal between the kitchen and living space, a primary suite expansion (often by converting a small adjacent bedroom), at least one secondary bath update, and a real indoor-outdoor connection to replace what’s usually just a back door to a concrete slab. Layered into that is the systems work, electrical panel, HVAC zoning, plumbing rough-in, that makes sense to handle while the walls are already open. We also make flooring, trim, and hardware decisions for the whole home at once, so every room reads as part of the same thought.
Not necessarily, but it depends on the phase. Structural and systems work, wall removals, beam installation, panel replacement, is genuinely disruptive, and those phases are hard to live around safely. Once the rough-in is done and finish work begins, a lot of families find a rhythm that’s manageable. Our job is to sequence the project so the most disruptive phases are concentrated and short rather than spread out over months. Kitchen access is usually the biggest daily friction point, so we plan around that specifically from the start.
A full whole-home scope, structural work, systems upgrades, kitchen integration, primary suite, and indoor-outdoor connection, typically runs six to twelve months from permit approval through punch-list. That range reflects how much structural and systems work is involved, what the permit timeline looks like, and whether any HOA approval is needed for exterior scope. We’re transparent about timeline from day one and build the sequence around your life, not the other way around.
In Longmont’s 1960s–1980s ranch homes, they almost always are. That’s not a surprise we discover mid-project, it’s something we assess and plan for during the pre-construction phase, before any scope is finalized. When a wall needs to come down, the solution is engineered beam work: properly sized, properly supported, permitted and inspected. It adds real value to the floor plan and it’s done right the first time. We’d rather have that conversation upfront than hand you a change order after demolition starts.
For any exterior work, windows, roofing, siding, additions, outdoor structures, yes, HOA approval needs to happen before the city permit is submitted, not after. The sequencing matters: going to the city first and HOA second can create delays or force reversals that cost time and money. We navigate both tracks simultaneously during pre-construction so you’re not waiting on one while the other sits idle. If you’re in an older core Longmont neighborhood without an HOA, that removes one layer, but the city permit process still applies to all structural, electrical, and plumbing work.
Because not all estimates include the same things. A low number often excludes design fees, permit costs, and a contingency buffer for what’s found inside the walls, which in Longmont’s ranch stock is almost always something. A premium whole-home project with structural work, systems upgrades, and quality finishes included in the all-in number will land meaningfully higher than a teaser estimate. We walk you through the full picture from the first conversation so nothing catches you off guard after demolition begins. Honest numbers upfront are better for everyone.
Longmont gets real Colorado weather, UV exposure that fades and warps finish materials near south-facing glass, freeze-thaw cycles that crack anything that wasn’t spec’d for it, and hail that shows up unannounced. For outdoor transitions, that means composite decking over natural wood in most cases, powder-coated aluminum for structural frames and pergola systems, and door hardware rated for exterior Colorado conditions. On the interior side, we think carefully about flooring species and finish near exterior doors, the zone right at that threshold takes more wear than anything else in the house. We specify for how Colorado actually behaves, not how it looks in a catalog.

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Fall In Love With
Your Longmont Home Again

When your Longmont ranch has the lot, the neighbors, and the equity you’ve built over years, but a closed-off kitchen that cuts you off from everyone the moment you start cooking, a primary suite that’s never really fit two adults, and an indoor-outdoor connection that’s basically just a back door, the home you have and the home you want are two very different things. You can’t afford to trade up at today’s prices. You don’t have to. Christie’s Design/Build Remodeling handles the structural work, the City of Longmont permitting, and every finish decision under one coordinated plan, no surprises mid-project, no disconnected rooms. One team, one cohesive vision, and a Longmont home that finally fits how you actually live.

Our Other Remodeling Services

Kitchen
Remodeling

Basement
Finishing

Home Additions
& ADUs

Bathroom
Remodeling

Deck
Construction

Outdoor
Living Spaces

From The Blog

Your Longmont Home Deserves
Answers That Match Where You Are Now

Planning a whole-home remodel in Longmont means reckoning with what 1960s–1980s ranch construction was never built to handle, from removing the load-bearing wall that keeps you trapped in a closed kitchen, to catching up on aging electrical panels, selecting materials that genuinely hold up against Colorado’s freeze-thaw cycles and hail, and moving through City of Longmont permits with confidence. Our blog gives you the honest, practical guidance to make that process feel clear instead of overwhelming.