DESIGN · BUILD · SUPPLY · REMODEL
From First Ideas to Final Details
A coordinated path through design, premium material selection, construction and installation.
YOUR PROJECT PATH
Six coordinated stages.
01 · Project Brief
Share your location, plans or photos, scope and priorities. We identify the services and team your project needs.
02 · Design & Planning
Develop the layout and design direction. Confirm the scope and applicable approvals before site work.
03 · Materials & Specifications
Confirm premium materials, finishes, hardware and dimensions through project specifications and approved samples.
04 · Construction & Production
KWA Home leads new construction; MIT Construction leads remodeling. Winrun coordinates manufacturing and supply with the project schedule.
05 · Installation & Handover
Coordinate delivery and installation, review the finished details and record any remaining items.
06 · Aftercare
Winrun products include an 8-year warranty and lifetime maintenance support under the order terms. U.S. construction and remodeling follow their project agreements.
BEFORE WORK BEGINS
Know what is being agreed.
Scope & responsibilities
Confirm the included design, construction, material supply and installation services, with the responsible company identified.
Materials & approvals
Confirm the material schedule, hardware selections, samples and applicable project approvals.
Schedule & aftercare
Winrun product lead time is up to 45 days, with the starting point and delivery arrangements specified in the order. Site construction has its own agreed schedule.
STAGE DETAIL
What happens in each stage.
Brief and site review
The property, access, existing conditions and the constraints that shape scope. For remodel work this includes what we can already see will need attention behind finished surfaces; for ground-up work it includes slope, drainage and how services reach the lot. Nothing is priced before this happens.
Design and selections
Layout and specification resolved together, because choosing a finish in isolation from how it will be built is what creates change orders. Long-lead items are identified here so they can be released early rather than discovered during installation.
Permits and approvals
Drawings submitted, reviewed and corrected through however many rounds are necessary before a permit is issued. This stage is most predictable when the first submission is complete rather than optimistic.
Construction or remodeling
Work sequenced around inspection milestones — foundation, rough services, insulation, close-up, final. Each holds up the next, which is exactly why realistic schedules include the pauses.
Supply and installation
Made-to-order millwork arrives against the installation date, labelled by room, then scribed, levelled and adjusted on site. Fit and reveal are resolved here, not specified away earlier.
Handover and aftercare
A walkthrough with a punch list, documentation for what was installed, and clear terms for what is covered afterwards. Product warranty and maintenance scope are stated in your order documents.
YOUR DECISIONS, AND WHEN THEY ARE DUE
Six deadlines that protect your schedule.
Final layout, before drawings
Once shop drawings are issued, changes cost revision time; once released to production they cost material. Moving a wall on paper is free.
Appliance and fixture specifications
Cabinet dimensions are built around actual appliances. A range or sink selected late can invalidate surrounding runs.
Finish approvals
Veneer, laminate, lacquer and hardware need sign-off in daylight, ideally against physical samples rather than a screen.
Tile and lighting quantities
Ordered late, they arrive after the surface is ready; ordered thin, they cause partial installations when breakage is accounted.
Drawing approval date
The single biggest lever on your finish date. Everything downstream — production, shipping, installation — moves with it.
Access and site decisions
Delivery windows, protected work paths, whether you stay in the property, and how pets, parking and neighbours are handled during the noisy weeks.
CHANGES AND HANDOVER
How scope changes are handled, and what you receive at the end.
Changes are documented, not absorbed
Anything discovered behind finished surfaces, or any change you request mid-build, is priced and agreed in writing before the work continues. We will not quietly absorb it and hope you do not notice, and we will not proceed on a verbal nod and invoice you later.
Milestone-based payment
Payment points are tied to defined stages of work, stated in the agreement rather than improvised. Large deposits before any work exists are a warning sign in this industry, not a standard.
A real punch list
At practical completion we walk the project together and record everything outstanding, with dates. A punch list is not an admission of failure — it is how a finish gets from “nearly” to done.
Documentation at handover
Product and finish schedules, warranty terms, care information and, where relevant, permit sign-offs and inspection records. Future you — or the next owner — will need all of it.
Clear scope. Clear accountability.
Service scope
KWA Home is not an architecture or design firm: we do not offer architectural design to the public, we do not stamp drawings, and we do not perform structural engineering.
Licensed professionals
The design stage on this page is coordination and specification — plans and any structural calculations are prepared and stamped by California-licensed design professionals, and we submit them and build to them.
Project responsibility
Construction runs under KWA Home, CSLB #1145730, and remodeling under MIT Construction, CSLB #964155 — see who does what across our three companies.