Approach
How I approach the work.
One long page per subject, in my own words, on how I take the work on and what I have learned doing it. Start at the door you are standing in front of.
Build
The architect's drawings, built to the millimetre.
Architectural Home Styles
If you own a home on the Westside of Los Angeles, you live inside a century of architectural ideas. I have spent more than thirty years building, renovating…
Custom Bathroom Remodeling
A custom bathroom remodel is one of the most demanding projects a fine home can take on, because it combines plumbing, waterproofing, stone, lighting, and…
Custom Home Construction
Building a fully custom home is the most personal construction project you will ever take on, and the way you organize it determines everything that follows.…
Custom Kitchen Remodeling
A custom kitchen should begin with the house it lives in and the way you actually use it, not with a catalog. On this page I walk through the kitchen…
Hardscape and Landscape Construction
Hardscape and landscape construction covers everything outside your walls that still deserves real architecture: pools, patios, terraces, outdoor kitchens…
Hiring a Contractor
Hiring a general contractor for an architecturally significant home is not the same decision as hiring one for a standard remodel. The stakes are personal…
Home Renovation
Home renovation covers everything from a single kitchen to a whole-house transformation, and the right approach depends on the home you own. On the Westside of…
Residential Additions
A residential addition asks more of a builder than almost any other project, because the new work has to live beside the old without apologizing for itself. I…
Install
Art hung, lit and engineered to last.
Custom Art Installation
Custom art installation inside a home is construction work first and art handling second. A ton of rolled steel, a glass ceiling, or a room built around an…
Keep
The house watched by the people who know it.
Estate Management Services
Estate management services keep a significant home in the condition it earned on the day it was finished. If you own an architecturally ambitious house, upkeep…
Leak Detection
Water rarely announces itself where it enters a home. It travels along rafters, down framing, behind plaster, and shows up as a stain two rooms away from the…
Contact
Tell me about the house.
A call is the fastest way. If you would rather write, the form reaches me the same day. Architects and designers are welcome to send drawings.
Dick Minium Construction, Los Angeles, CA
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