What We Do

It depends on where you’re starting.

Design-build: you have a vision but no plans yet. One team carries it from idea to finished space.

Plans-in-Hand: you already have drawings from your own architect. Then Crescent Builds comes in as your construction partner.

Repair & Refresh: smaller work like a leaky window or a bathroom refresh. It runs on a shorter track separate from our full renovation projects.

Architect & Designer: you’re a design professional bringing us in as the build partner.

Not sure where you land? Tell us where your project is today and we’ll figure out the right fit together.

No. The Crescent Builds Repair & Refresh team takes on work as small as a leaky window or a door that won’t latch. Meanwhile, our design-build team leads whole-home remodels and additions. The scale changes; the craftsmanship doesn’t.

If you’re not sure your project is big enough to bring to a general contractor, ask anyway. Then we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit, or point you toward someone better suited.

A whole-home remodel rethinks the house as a system: layout, flow, and function across every room, planned and built together. By contrast, a phased approach tackles one space, or a few spaces, at a time.

Both are valid paths. Usually, the choice comes down to three things: budget, timeline, and whether you can live in the house during construction.

On one hand, doing everything at once is more efficient. We open walls, run systems, and mobilize crews once instead of repeatedly. As a result, it costs less and takes less time than the same scope spread across phases. But it’s a larger single investment, and it often means moving out for a stretch.

On the other hand, a phased approach spreads that cost over time, sometimes years, and may let you stay in the house. The tradeoff is efficiency: crews remobilize for each phase, and later work sometimes means opening up finished work from an earlier one.

All at once isn’t always realistic, and phasing is often the right call. Still, we’re happy to walk through both against your home, your budget, and how your family actually lives.

Yes: design, permitting, and construction. Design-build clients work with our design and permitting team from day one. We prepare drawings, manage permit submittal, and coordinate with the permitting authority. That might be Seattle SDCI, King County, or one of the surrounding cities.

On Plans-in-Hand and architect-led projects, your architect typically procures the building permit, though not always. We’ve also helped clients through that process when it made sense. Either way, Crescent Builds pulls the trade-specific permits. We also schedule and carry all inspections through to final approval, on both the building permit and the trades. We can also step in on interior selections or space planning if that support is useful.