Whole-home transformations
Home Remodeling in the Phoenix Valley
Remodeling a whole house one room at a time is how projects take five years and still never feel finished. Planning the whole house at once — then executing room by room in the right order — is how a dated Valley home becomes the home you actually wanted. Masizo Development & Restorations remodels complete homes across Gilbert, Mesa, and the Phoenix Valley: layout changes and wall removals, kitchen and bath renovations, electrical and plumbing updates, and all the finishes, under one Arizona contracting license (AZ ROC #336058).
And because older houses hide their history inside their walls, we bring something most remodelers cannot: a restoration license (AZ ROC #347030) and IICRC certification, so the old leak, rot, or mold your walls have been concealing gets fixed mid-stream by the same crew — instead of stopping your project while you search for a second contractor.
- 28 years · since 1998
- AZ ROC #336058
- AZ ROC #347030
- CA LIC #1107781
- IICRC certified
- Insured
- BBB A+ accredited
The plan
Plan once, remodel in sequence
A whole-home remodel is less a bigger version of a kitchen remodel than a logistics problem: trades must arrive in the right order, and work in one room depends on decisions in another. Moving a laundry room changes plumbing runs; opening a wall changes electrical routing; new flooring should land after the dust-making trades, not before.
So we start with the whole plan, even when the work will be phased. In the free consultation we walk every room with you, capture what the house needs (and what it merely wants), and build a written scope with an order of work: typically demolition and structural changes first, then rough plumbing and electrical, then insulation and drywall, then the finish sequence — cabinets, counters, tile, flooring, paint, trim, fixtures. You see the sequence before anyone swings a hammer, so you know what happens when, and why.
Layout changes
Layout changes: the remodel that changes how the house lives
Most Valley homes built in previous decades were drawn as a set of separate boxes — closed kitchen, formal dining room nobody uses, hallways that eat square footage. The highest-impact move in most of our whole-home projects is spatial, not cosmetic: removing or opening walls so the kitchen, dining, and living areas work as one space.
When the wall in question is load-bearing, the job is engineering before it is carpentry: the loads that wall carries have to move into a properly sized beam and posts, with footing checked underneath, under permit and inspection. We plan that structural work as part of the design, not as a surprise. Beyond wall removal, layout work includes reframing rooms to better sizes, converting awkward spaces into pantries, offices, or laundry rooms, and building closets and built-ins where the original plan never provided them. If what you need is more square footage rather than rearranged square footage, that conversation becomes a room addition.
Systems
The systems behind the finishes
A remodel that re-skins a house without touching its systems leaves the worst problems in place. As part of a whole-home scope we update what is inside the walls while they are open — the only cheap time to do it:
- Electrical: panel capacity for modern loads, added circuits, relocated and added outlets, recessed and task lighting, ceiling fans where Arizona rooms need them.
- Plumbing: replacing aged supply lines and angle stops, relocating fixtures for new layouts, updating drains while the floor is open.
Many of the houses we remodel date from eras whose wiring and piping standards would not pass today's code. We are not alarmists about old houses — most of what we find is serviceable — but when the walls are open is the moment to replace what is at the end of its life, and we tell you plainly which is which.
Hidden damage
What is behind the walls — and why it does not stall our jobs
Open enough walls in older East Valley homes and you will eventually find one of three things: a slow plumbing leak that has been wetting a wall cavity for years, rot where water got in around a window or roof penetration, or mold where moisture lingered. For a finish-only remodeling crew, that discovery is a full stop — work halts, a remediation company is called, your schedule now belongs to someone else's calendar.
This is the specific problem our dual licensing solves. Masizo is an IICRC-certified restoration contractor (AZ ROC #347030) as well as a general contractor (AZ ROC #336058): when hidden damage turns up, we show it to you, price the fix in writing, and — once you approve — dry it, remediate it, and rebuild it with the same crew, inside the same schedule. The moisture source gets corrected, not covered with new drywall. No other item on this page saves our clients more time than this one.
After damage
Remodeling after damage — and insurance-funded upgrades
Some remodels do not start with a wishlist; they start with a flood or a fire that tore rooms back to the studs. If your home is already opened up by damage, you are closer to a remodel than you think: the demolition is done, and the rebuild has to happen anyway. We handle the restoration and the rebuild as one project, document everything for your insurance claim, and — where you choose — quote the difference between restoring what was there and upgrading to what you would rather have. The claim process and its documentation are covered in detail on our restoration page.
Permits & pricing
Permits, inspections, and change orders — the unglamorous part done right
Whole-home remodels almost always involve permits: structural changes, new circuits, moved plumbing. We prepare the drawings the city needs, pull the permits, and schedule every inspection, so the finished project has a paper trail — which matters enormously when you sell.
On cost: remodels evolve, and the honest way to handle that is before-the-fact pricing. Any added work, whether you asked for it or the house demanded it, is written up and priced before it is performed. You approve it or you decline it; either way, the number never appears for the first time on a final invoice.
Living through it
Living through it (or better, not)
If you will live in the house during the remodel, we plan the phasing around a functioning household: dust containment between work zones and living zones, a working bathroom at all times, the kitchen kept alive as long as the sequence allows and reopened first. It is still a construction site, and we will be honest about the loud weeks.
If you are buying a fixer, the better play is remodeling between closing and move-in: an empty house means faster work, lower cost, and zero family disruption. Call us while you are still in escrow — we can walk the house, scope the project, and have permits moving so the remodel starts the week you own it.
Credentials
Who you are hiring
Masizo Development & Restorations has built, remodeled, and restored Arizona homes for 28 years, serving Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, Tempe, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Fountain Hills, and Paradise Valley. Licenses in plain, checkable text: Arizona general contracting license AZ ROC #336058, Arizona restoration license AZ ROC #347030, California license CA LIC #1107781; IICRC certified; insured.
See completed projects in the portfolio and client accounts on the reviews page. If a single room is the real project, start at kitchen remodeling or bathroom remodeling. Otherwise, book the free consultation — we will walk the whole house with you. Call (602) 909-7630 or send the details.
Good to know
Remodeling questions, answered.
Can you remove a wall to open up the floor plan?
Usually, yes. Non-load-bearing walls come out with modest effort; load-bearing walls need an engineered beam to carry what the wall was holding, plus a permit. We determine which kind you have during the consultation and plan the structural work accordingly — an open plan is one of the most common requests we build.
Who handles the permits?
We do — applying, posting, and scheduling the city inspections. As a rule of thumb, layout changes, structural work, and new electrical or plumbing need permits; paint, flooring, and like-for-like fixture swaps usually do not. We sort that out per scope so nothing in your remodel is unpermitted work that surfaces at resale.
What happens if you find mold or water damage inside a wall?
We fix it and keep building. Masizo holds an Arizona restoration license (AZ ROC #347030) and IICRC certification alongside its contracting license (AZ ROC #336058), so hidden damage is dried, remediated, and rebuilt by the same crew — priced and approved by you before the work, not discovered in a change-order ambush.
Can you remodel the house before we move in?
Yes, and it is the easiest version of the project for everyone — no furniture to protect, no family routing around dust barriers, faster trade access. If you are buying a house you plan to remodel, call us before closing so the plan and permits are ready the day you get keys.
Will I know what extra work costs before you do it?
Always. Anything added mid-project — whether you requested it or the walls revealed it — gets priced in writing first, and you decide before the work happens. No surprise line items at the end.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes: Arizona general contracting license AZ ROC #336058, Arizona restoration license AZ ROC #347030, California license CA LIC #1107781, IICRC certified, insured — with 28 years of Arizona building behind the licenses.