Calabasas Remodeling and Construction Without the Handoffs
Calabasas homeowners have no shortage of contractors to choose from. What they have a shortage of is contractors who show up, run the job personally, and finish at the number they quoted. The homes here are significant — gated estates in The Oaks, Mediterranean customs above the country club, hillside properties backing up to the Santa Monica Mountains — and they deserve better than a sales rep who disappears after the contract is signed. Nicodemus Construction has been building and remodeling homes across Southern California for more than three decades, and every project gets the same structure: David Nicodemus runs it, start to finish.
We come to Calabasas from the Ventura County side, and that matters more than it sounds. Our crews work the Conejo Valley and Calabasas corridor every week — Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, Hidden Hills adjacent neighborhoods — so a Calabasas project is not a long-haul job we squeeze in. It is our home range.
What Can We Build or Remodel for You?
Kitchens are our most requested project here. Calabasas homes built in the 1990s and 2000s often have kitchens that were high-end for their era but read dated now: heavy granite, closed sight lines, cherry cabinetry that darkens the room. We rebuild them with open layouts, custom cabinetry, natural stone and quartz surfaces, oversized islands, layered lighting, and integrated appliances. See the full kitchen remodeling process we run from layout through final walkthrough.
Yes — primary suites are the most common request. Walk-in showers with frameless glass, freestanding tubs, double floating vanities, heated floors, and book-matched stone are standard scope for us. We also update guest and hall baths, often as part of a whole-home refresh. Our approach to bathroom remodeling covers every project size.
Both. Calabasas lot sizes — especially in the older neighborhoods and on hillside parcels — support meaningful additions and detached accessory dwelling units. California's ADU laws apply here just as they do everywhere in the state, and we design and build accessory dwelling units and room additions that clear the City of Calabasas review process and match the architecture of the main home.
Yes. We provide custom home construction from site evaluation through certificate of occupancy, including hillside lots that need engineered foundations, caissons, and grading plans. Calabasas hillsides are demanding sites; we have built on comparable terrain across the Conejo Valley and Malibu canyons for decades.
The Calabasas climate is made for it. We build custom pools, patios, decks, outdoor kitchens, and fire features designed for entertaining-scale backyards — the kind of complete outdoor environments that Calabasas properties have the room to support.
Building in Calabasas: What You Need to Know
Calabasas is an LA County city with its own rules, and they shape every project.
The city runs its own Building & Safety division, and projects that change the exterior, add square footage, or touch hillside terrain can trigger additional planning review. We prepare complete submittals, respond to plan-check corrections, and coordinate inspections so the process moves.
The Oaks, Calabasas Park, Mont Calabasas, and the other planned communities each run architectural review on exterior changes — materials, colors, rooflines, landscape structures. We manage the HOA submission in parallel with the city permit so both approvals land before we break ground.
Much of Calabasas, particularly the hillside and canyon-adjacent neighborhoods, sits in a designated Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone. New construction and substantial remodels must meet Chapter 7A wildland-urban interface standards: ignition-resistant exteriors, ember-resistant venting, tempered dual-pane glazing, defensible-space landscaping. We build to these standards as a matter of course — they are the same rules we work under in Malibu and the Conejo hillsides.
Sloped parcels here need engineered grading, retaining structures, and drainage design, and often a geotechnical report before plans are approved. We coordinate the soils engineers and structural engineers as part of our scope, not as a surprise line item.
Calabasas Neighborhoods We Serve
Gated estates with high finish expectations and active architectural review. Kitchen and primary-suite remodels, outdoor living builds, and whole-home refreshes are the common scope here.
Established Mediterranean and traditional homes from the 1980s and 1990s, many now due for full interior updates and system replacements.
Smaller lots, older housing stock, and the most straightforward permitting in the city. Additions, ADUs, and full remodels do well here.
View lots along the Santa Monica Mountains edge, where fire-zone rules and slope engineering drive the design. This is terrain we know from decades of hillside work in the region.
Serving Calabasas from a Ventura County Base
Calabasas sits at the eastern edge of our service area, and we work it alongside the neighboring communities we have served for years: Agoura Hills directly next door, Westlake Village across the county line, Thousand Oaks up the 101, and Malibu over the hill on Las Virgenes. Wherever the project is, David manages it personally.
Start Your Calabasas Project
The first step is a conversation. David visits your home, walks the space, listens to what you want, and gives you an honest read on scope, timeline, and cost. No sales pitch, no pressure — just three decades of experience applied to your project from the first meeting.