General Contractor in Brentwood, CA

Dick Minium Construction is a general contractor serving Brentwood, CA, building and renovating fine homes for owners who hold the work to an uncompromising standard. If you are looking for a general contractor in Brentwood, CA for an architecturally significant home, a residential addition, or a renovation built to the architect's drawings, this is the workshop to call. We work with owners, their architects, and collectors, and we bring more than thirty years of experience to in-depth, highly personal custom work. One call, 310.392.6622, puts the project in front of people who understand the drawings and the intent behind them.

Our General Contractor Services in Brentwood, CA

As a general contractor in Brentwood, CA, we organize the work through three doors into one workshop: Build, Install, and Keep.

• General contracting for fine homes. Ground-up and whole-house renovation of architecturally significant homes, built to the drawings and faithful to the architect's intent.
• Residential additions and home renovation. New rooms, new wings, and reworked plans. Many owners here are adapting their houses to how they actually live, and we handle the engineering and the finish with equal care.
• Custom kitchen and bathroom remodeling. Cabinetry, stone, fixtures, and lighting selected with the owner and architect, then built as drawn.
• Hardscape and landscape construction. Terraces, walls, pools surrounds, and plantings that extend the architecture into the site.
• Custom art installation. Large sculpture, suspended work, private galleries, and art lighting, with the structural engineering the pieces need. Work is engineered, hung, and lit as a single scope.
• Estate management. Ongoing upkeep and readiness of the homes we built or renovated, including leak detection and elimination, dry rot repair and window restoration, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, and scheduling other trades. The house is watched.

Why Brentwood, CA Homeowners Choose Us

We are a premier contractor of fine homes, residential additions, and unique architectural spaces. Our clients require uncompromising invention, engineering, and aesthetic perspective, and we have patience for that kind of work. We are not ordinary builders. The projects we take on are in-depth and highly personal, and we have spent more than thirty years learning how to carry an owner and architect from drawings to a finished house without losing the intent along the way.

Brentwood rewards that approach. Owners here invest in their houses and expect the work to hold up to scrutiny. We explain the job in specifics: what gets built, in what sequence, by whom, and what it costs, so you can make decisions with the full picture in front of you.

The same discipline applies after the build. Through estate management, we keep the homes we built or renovated in a state of readiness, from leak detection to window restoration to scheduling other trades. One call covers the whole house.

Serving Brentwood, CA and Nearby Areas

Dick Minium Construction is a Westside Los Angeles workshop. Alongside Brentwood, we serve Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and West Hollywood, CA. Across all of these areas the work is the same: Build, Install, and Keep, carried out for owners, architects, and collectors who expect the drawings to be honored.

General Contractor Questions We Hear in Brentwood, CA

Do you work from the architect's drawings, or do you design in-house?

We build to the drawings. Your architect sets the intent; our job is to execute it with the right engineering, materials, and craftsmanship. Where the drawings leave a question open, we raise it with the owner and architect before work proceeds, not after.

Can you handle art installation as part of a renovation?

Yes. Large sculpture, suspended work, private galleries, and art lighting are a core scope for us, not an afterthought. We provide the structural engineering the pieces need, so the work is engineered, hung, and lit by the same team that built the walls holding it.

What does estate management include?

Estate management is the ongoing upkeep and readiness of the homes we built or renovated. It covers leak detection and elimination, dry rot repair and window restoration, electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, and scheduling other trades when a specialist is needed. The house is watched, and you make one call when something needs attention.

Do you take on smaller projects, like a single kitchen or bathroom?

Yes, when the standard of work matters to the owner. Custom kitchen remodeling and custom bathroom remodeling are regular scopes for us. Say a homeowner in Brentwood, CA wants a kitchen rebuilt around specific stone and cabinetry details from their architect; that is exactly the kind of personal, drawing-driven project we are built for.

How do additions work on an existing house?

A residential addition starts with the existing structure and the architect's plan for extending it. We handle the engineering, the tie-in, and the finish so the new work reads as part of the original house rather than an attachment. Matching materials and detailing is achievable with careful sourcing and a close reading of the original construction.

Get Started

If you need a general contractor in Brentwood, CA for a fine home, an addition, a renovation, or the art inside the house, call 310.392.6622. We will talk through the drawings, the scope, and the sequence, and you will know exactly who is building your house and how. One call opens all three doors: Build, Install, and Keep.

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