Fort Mill, SC, 2025 — Kitchen
Same house.
Different life.
Valma is a design-build remodeler in the Carolinas. Kitchens, bathrooms, additions and whole-home renovations, drawn and built by one team, so nobody hands your project to a stranger halfway through.
Before
After
Most remodeling goes wrong before anyone picks up a hammer.
It goes wrong in the estimate that was never a real number, in the permit nobody filed until week six, and in the trades who arrive in the wrong order and undo each other’s work.
We design and build under one roof, which means the person who drew your kitchen is accountable for what it costs to build it. You get a dated schedule before we start and a written update every Friday until we finish.
Working across North Carolina and South Carolina since 2012 — Charlotte, Fort Mill, Rock Hill, Tega Cay, Lake Wylie, Indian Land, Waxhaw, Matthews, Pineville and Belmont.
Recent work
All projects
Tega Cay, SC, 2025 — Bathroom
A bathroom rebuilt from the substrate up
Waxhaw, NC, 2024 — Whole home
One schedule across eleven rooms
Lake Wylie, SC, 2025 — Outdoor
An outdoor room that survives the freeze-thaw
Matthews, NC, 2024 — Addition
480 square feet you cannot tell is new
Charlotte, NC, 2024 — Kitchen
A kitchen that had to fit through a service elevator
What we build
Six things, done properly, rather than everything done once.
Kitchens
Typically 10 to 12 weeksMoving walls, plumbing and electrical so the room works, not just refacing the doors.
Bathrooms
Typically 5 to 7 weeksWaterproofing done properly underneath, which is the part you never see and always pay for twice.
Whole-home renovation
Typically 6 to 9 monthsOne schedule, one crew, one person answering the phone, from demolition to the last coat.
Additions
Typically 4 to 6 monthsNew square footage that reads as part of the original house, not bolted to the side of it.
Outdoor living
Typically 6 to 10 weeksCovered porches, outdoor kitchens and decks built for the freeze-thaw cycle, not just for the photograph.
Basements and crawl spaces
Typically 6 to 12 weeksFinishing the space you already own, once the water and the humidity underneath it are dealt with.
How a project runs
In order, because the order is the whole job.
Walkthrough
We come to the house, measure, and talk about money on the first visit. If the budget and the brief do not meet, you find out then rather than after you have paid for drawings.
One visit
Design and selections
Drawings, elevations and a fixed scope. You choose cabinetry, tile and fixtures against a real allowance, so the number you sign is the number you pay.
3 to 6 weeks
Permits and schedule
We file the drawings, book the trades and hand you a dated schedule. This is the step most homeowners are never shown, and it is where delays are actually created.
4 to 10 weeks
Build
One project lead on site, the same person on the phone. You get a written update every Friday with what happened, what is next and anything that moved.
Per schedule
Punch list and warranty
We walk the job with you and write down everything, however small, then finish it before we invoice the balance. Two-year workmanship warranty from that date.
1 to 2 weeks
What clients say
They told us in the first meeting that our budget would not cover the addition and the kitchen in the same year. Nobody else had been that direct. We did the kitchen, and we are doing the addition now.
Kitchen renovation
We lived in the house the whole nine months. There was always a working bathroom and a working kitchen, because they planned it that way, not because we got lucky.
Whole-home renovation
The shower had been leaking into the wall for years and two people had already looked at it. Valma opened it up, showed us the photographs, and rebuilt it properly. Three years on, nothing.
Primary bathroom
The questions we get first
If yours is not here, call (629) 366-6162.
- A bathroom generally runs from the high five figures; a kitchen from the low six. The range is wide because most of the cost is structural and mechanical work you cannot see from a photograph. We give you a real number after the walkthrough, not a figure per square foot.
- A bathroom is around six weeks, a kitchen ten to twelve, a whole house six to nine months. We give you a dated schedule before work starts and tell you the same week if something moves.
- Usually not. For whole-home work we phase the job so there is always a working kitchen and at least one working bathroom. For a single-room renovation you stay put.
- We do, including the drawings the county needs and the engineering where it is required. You will get the inspection record at the end, which matters if you ever sell or file an insurance claim.
- Yes. We build from other people's drawings regularly. We will review them for constructability first and raise anything that will cost you money later.
- Workmanship is warranted for two years and we honour the manufacturer warranty on everything we supply. Call the same number you called during the job.
Start with a walkthrough.
An hour at your house, with measurements and an honest conversation about budget. No charge, and no drawings to pay for before you know whether the numbers work.