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Custom home builder in Pacific Palisades, the family firm that has built here for twenty years.
Coastal residences, hillside lots, additions and whole-house remodels, and, since the fire, full rebuilds. Addition Building & Design is a family-run design-build firm: one team from the first drawing to the keys.
Photograph · the Palisades hillside from the air
The Palisades
This neighborhood is personal.
The canyons, the light, the ocean at the end of the street: the reasons people build in the Palisades are the reasons the building is hard. Lots climb, soils move, the coast weathers everything, and the city looks closely at every set of drawings. Palisades families have hired us over the past twenty years for exactly that work: custom homes on the hillside, coastal residences, and the additions and whole-house remodels that turn a good house into the one they keep. One of them interviewed twelve contractors before choosing this firm, and has sent us his neighbors since.
Since January 2025 the work has also meant rebuilding. Five Palisades homes are under way with us today: three on the hillside above Paseo Miramar and two on the flats below the village. The same team, the same engineering, the same standard.
The work here
Built for these hills, and for the coast below them.
Pacific Palisades Hillside
A whole-home renovation on the hillside: the decks and balconies rebuilt, the rooms opened to the light.
Palisades primary suite
Part of a whole-house remodel and addition for a family who stayed.
Paseo Miramar, the hillside
A full rebuild on a canyon lot above the bay, under way now. The Ross family on their site.
Hillside and oceanview
Caissons, a floor deck over the slope, and the view the house was designed around.
Under way now
Five Palisades homes, one family-run team.
We take on four to five new projects a year on purpose, and this year most of them are here. Street names for now; house numbers on the owners' say-so.
- Paseo Miramar, the hillsideFramed, August 2026
- Paseo Miramar, two more lotsUnder way
- Swarthmore AvenueUnder construction
- Via de la PazUnder construction
What a Palisades build involves
Three things every Palisades project runs through.
Permits
Custom homes in the Palisades go through the City of Los Angeles and its hillside review, which we have run for years. Rebuilds after the fire have a dedicated, expedited path, and like-for-like designs move through it fastest. We design with the right path in mind from the first sketch. Already holding approved plans? We build from them.
Terrain
Caissons, retaining structures, soils reports and slope setbacks. Mike Ross has managed hillside foundations across Los Angeles for four decades as the builder, with his structural engineers and the foundation contractors he hires.
The code
California's wildland-urban interface code sets the standard for roofs, vents, glazing, eaves and decks in the Palisades. We detail every home to it, custom or rebuilt, so it never arrives as a surprise or a change order.
A Palisades voice
We hired Addition Building & Design to completely remodel our house in the Palisades and build a new addition to convert our house to a more open flow design. This addition was complex and Mike, the owner, and his team nailed it. Never any issues with any of the inspectors due to Mike's attention to detail. Mike was committed and present at the site all the time to ensure a timely completion and quality project.Jeremy and Adriana Sagi · Pacific Palisades · addition and whole-house remodel
A family firm
You get the people whose name is on the firm.
Four to five projects a year is the only way a family can stay personally involved in every build, and it is why the leadership of this company is on your site through every phase. A builder with forty years in Los Angeles, a daughter carrying the firm forward, and one phone number: 310.617.2722.
Questions Palisades families ask us
The answers you need before you commit.
Both. A custom home on a lot you have just bought and a rebuild after a loss run through the same team, the same engineering and the same code. The difference is the permit path, and we know both. Rebuilding after the fire, in its own words.
It depends on your lot, your plans, and how quickly permits move, which is exactly why your builder matters. We give you an honest schedule for your specific property before you commit, not a generic promise.
We do not quote a number before we have seen your lot. What we do is build a line-item, fixed scope before you commit, tell you exactly when that price locks, and put every change in writing before it happens. What moves a Palisades number is on our cost page.
It is California's wildfire building standard for areas like the Palisades: ignition-resistant materials, protected vents and eaves, tempered glazing, and decks detailed for embers. We design to it from the first sketch.
Yes. We prepare a detailed, line-item scope your adjuster can work from and stay involved through the claim, so the rebuild you are paying for matches the home you are getting.
Because it is the only way the family can stay personally involved in every build and hold to the budget we quoted. You get the principals of the firm, not a rotation of project managers.
Pacific Palisades
- 01Custom homes in the PalisadesThe town page: our work here, twenty years of it
- 02Rebuilding after the fireBurned lots, like-for-like rebuilds, the City's rebuild path
- 03Building from approved plansRTI sets, architect-designed homes, the builder's read
- 04What a rebuild costsThe ranges, the costs estimates leave out, the settlement gap
Private Consultation
Begin with a conversation.
We take on a select number of significant projects each year. If you are considering a custom estate, a hillside build, or a full transformation, we would be glad to walk the property with you.