Licensed California general contractor (CSLB #972213) with our office on Ventura Blvd in Woodland Hills, a short drive south of Granada Hills — full-scope home remodels handled end-to-end, LADBS permits through final inspection.
Hillstar Construction is a licensed Granada Hills home remodeling contractor. Our office sits on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, a short drive south of Granada Hills, which means a real person is on your property for the first site visit. We work across Granada Hills proper, Knollwood, Balboa Highlands, Porter Valley, the Kagel Canyon foothill blocks, and adjacent 91344 and 91394 addresses on full-scope interior renovations, multi-room remodels, whole-home gut remodels, and coordinated inside-and-outside projects — including preservation-grade remodels inside the Balboa Highlands Eichler Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. The same in-house team handles design, LADBS permits, framing, all trades, cabinetry, tile, flooring, lighting, and finish work. Every project starts with a free on-site consultation, a written scope, and a realistic permit-plus-construction timeline. Licensed and insured since 2010, CSLB License #972213.
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Every Granada Hills home remodel starts with an honest conversation about scope. A targeted multi-room remodel — kitchen, a primary bathroom, family room, and a couple of supporting spaces — sits in a different design and permit lane than a whole-home gut remodel that pulls walls, reworks the floor plan, and touches the exterior. We match design decisions to the home's architectural language. Granada Hills leans heavily on post-war single-story ranch homes built from the late 1950s through the 1970s, with the distinctive Balboa Highlands cluster of Joseph Eichler mid-century modern homes (1963–1965, designated HPOZ), scattered Spanish Colonial Revival, and an active modern-farmhouse remodel wave reshaping flat-lot ranches.
Design deliverables include detailed drawings, material and fixture selections, a written cost breakdown, and a realistic permit-plus-construction timeline before any demolition. For scope that touches the exterior — new windows, stucco recoloring, siding changes, roof replacement, front-yard hardscape reconfiguration — we map the LADBS permit path. For homes inside the Balboa Highlands HPOZ we also map the Cultural Heritage review layer, and for hillside-adjacent lots on the north edge of Granada Hills we account for LA Baseline Hillside Ordinance standards.
The value of a full-service remodeling contractor on a Granada Hills project is that every trade and every permit track is lined up before the first wall comes down. Design, structural, rough trades, finish work, HPOZ coordination where applicable, and any HOA coordination all follow one plan — which is the difference between a remodel that finishes clean and one that drags on.
Our in-house crew manages demolition, framing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, drywall, tile, cabinetry, flooring, and interior finish work. When a remodel extends into new square footage or structural expansion, we coordinate directly with the same team that handles home additions and new ADU construction, which keeps the entire build under one roof and one schedule.
Remodeling inside a Granada Hills home often means working with 1950s–1970s framing, plaster-over-wood-lath walls, galvanized supply lines, and pre-modern electrical. Balboa Highlands Eichler homes have their own construction-era realities — post-and-beam frames, radiant-slab floors, and original single-pane glass that demands careful preservation or purpose-specific upgrades. We open walls carefully, document what we find, and plan around existing conditions. Finished areas of the home stay protected throughout construction with dust barriers and daily cleanup.
Permit jurisdiction for a Granada Hills home remodel runs through LADBS. The Valley branch on Sepulveda handles plan check and inspections. Interior-scope remodels outside the HPOZ are typically a straightforward LADBS plan check. Whole-home scope on a Balboa Highlands Eichler home routes through Cultural Heritage review in parallel with the LADBS permit. Lots on the north edge of Granada Hills touching the Santa Susana foothills fall under the LA Baseline Hillside Ordinance for any exterior-footprint changes, and small Porter Valley HOAs near the Porter Ranch boundary route exterior-visible scope through their architectural-review committees.
A well-executed Granada Hills home remodel transforms how the property reads from the street and how the family lives inside it. Open floor plans, upgraded kitchens and bathrooms, modern lighting, refreshed flooring, new window and door packages, and — when scope includes exterior — new stucco color coats, roof replacement, and updated landscape coordination compound into a house that looks fully new while still reading as the home the family already knows. Eichler-home remodels in Balboa Highlands take a different direction — preserving the post-and-beam architecture, original glass proportions, and mid-century material palette while bringing plumbing, electrical, waterproofing, and fixtures up to modern standards.
Every Granada Hills project passes LADBS final inspection where required and is backed by Hillstar Construction's workmanship guarantee. We walk through the finished home with you, confirm every detail meets the agreed scope, and address any final punch-list items before we consider the project closed.
Most Granada Hills remodels wrap with a fresh interior painting package so the new layout reads as complete when the paint goes on last. Full-exterior-inclusive remodels often add a new stucco color coat and roofing updates at the same time, so the inside and outside of the home finish together.
Yes. Granada Hills is part of the City of Los Angeles, and LADBS handles every residential permit here. The Valley branch on Sepulveda processes Granada Hills plan check and inspections. We handle the full submission and inspection coordination directly with LADBS so the homeowner doesn't have to navigate the process.
A pure interior remodel on a non-HPOZ Granada Hills property is just the LADBS plan check — no separate architectural review. Three pathways can layer on: homes inside the Balboa Highlands Historic Preservation Overlay Zone route through Cultural Heritage review for work that affects character-defining Eichler features; lots on the north edge touching the Santa Susana foothills fall under the LA Baseline Hillside Ordinance for exterior-footprint work; and small Porter Valley HOAs near the Porter Ranch boundary route exterior-visible scope through their architectural-review committees. We identify which pathway applies at the design phase and manage the submissions so the homeowner isn't coordinating between tracks.
Balboa Highlands is a designated LA Historic Preservation Overlay Zone covering roughly 100 Joseph Eichler mid-century modern homes built 1963–1965 in Granada Hills. If your home sits inside the HPOZ boundary, a whole-home remodel affecting character-defining features — post-and-beam ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass, atriums, original wood paneling, low-sloped or flat roof lines — requires Cultural Heritage review in addition to the LADBS permit. Remodels that preserve those features while updating plumbing, electrical, waterproofing, HVAC, kitchens, and bathrooms typically pass HPOZ review cleanly. Additions, exterior reconfigurations, or character-altering interior work require a more careful design submission and more review time. We confirm HPOZ boundary status and map the full review pathway at the first visit.
Most of Granada Hills sits on flat Valley floor. Lots on the north edge of the neighborhood, especially in the Kagel Canyon foothill area, climb into the Santa Susana foothills and fall inside the LA Baseline Hillside Ordinance. Exterior-footprint changes on those lots face additional height, grading, cut-and-fill, and export-dirt standards on top of standard LADBS rules, and slope drives foundation engineering cost. Interior-only remodels on hillside lots don't usually trigger hillside-specific review, but any exterior work — window additions, decks, siding changes, roof replacements — does. We walk every hillside lot before quoting so the engineering and access cost are priced into the scope from day one.
For targeted scope — one wing, one floor, a kitchen-plus-primary-suite phase — yes, routinely. We use dust barriers, seal off active construction zones, protect finished areas, keep the jobsite clean at end of day, and sequence trades so at least some portion of the home stays livable. For true whole-home scope that pulls plumbing, electrical, and HVAC back to rough-in across every room — and especially for Eichler HPOZ preservation work that needs careful control of dust and environmental conditions — most Granada Hills homeowners either relocate for the active-construction months or plan a livable-wing phasing strategy with us at the start. We walk through both options at the consultation.
A focused multi-room remodel — kitchen, primary suite, and a couple of supporting spaces — typically runs $175K to $425K in Granada Hills at the finish level most homeowners expect here. A full whole-home remodel with comprehensive interior work and meaningful exterior scope (windows, stucco, roof, front-yard hardscape) typically runs $425K to $1.2M. Ground-up gut remodels with custom detailing commonly reach $1.2M to $2.5M. Balboa Highlands HPOZ preservation work trends higher on the scale because preservation-grade materials, original-glass repair or replacement, and Cultural Heritage review add meaningful cost and timeline. Whole-home scope is typically 9 to 24 months from kickoff to certificate of occupancy, with permit review and any HPOZ or hillside-overlay review accounting for a meaningful share of the total.
Lior and his team were extremely courteous, prompt, and worked hard to make sure every element was exactly what we were looking for.
— Ian, October 2022Lior and his crews worked diligently to repair, replace and refurbish our home damaged by a burst pipe.
— Fern Somoza, February 2019
