Project Expectations — Estimated Timelines & Budgets
Let’s plan your ideal home
At Godfrey Design-Build, we work with homeowners to create spaces that improve homes and how our clients live in them. A key part of this process is to create realistic expectations and ensure crystal clear communication between you and our team. We want to make sure that when you decide to move forward with a project, you know exactly what to expect.
Most of the questions we receive from prospective clients revolve around how long projects will take and how much they will cost. While you’ll always know an estimated timeline and cost prior to signing on the dotted line, we know that having a general understanding of timeline and budget when even considering a remodel is crucial.
While every single project we work on is unique and will have different timeline and budget constraints, below we’ve laid out what you can expect on average.
Project Timelines
We work hard to offer a realistic and straightforward timeline to all of our clients.
Your timeline will depend on the size and particulars of your project. Additionally, each stage of the project has a lot of moving pieces that could affect the timeline. This includes permits, material orders, and subcontractor timelines.
We’ll always do our best to keep you fully in the loop as we work on your project, making you aware of any major delays or adjustments so you can plan accordingly.
What you can expect on average
- Consultation & Pre-project: 2-4 weeks
- Design Phase: 4-8 weeks
- Selections Phase: 6-10 weeks
From there, construction will begin. Depending on the type of project, the length of the Construction Phase will vary greatly:
- Kitchen: 9-13 weeks
- Bathroom: 5-8 weeks
- Basement: 8-14 weeks
- Addition: 3-6 months
- Whole Home: 4-8 months
Budget
While it isn’t possible to provide an accurate budget range without first gathering knowledge specific to your project, we can offer a guideline:
Questions on timelines, budgets, or anything else? We’d love to answer them.
Reach out at (978) 867-0400 or by contacting us online.
What We Do
Everything we do at Godfrey Design-Build is to help make your life easier. Whether that’s straightforward communication, an easy process, or projects that positively impact your life, we want you to enjoy the remodeling process and the final results.
When Godfrey Design-Build works on a design-build home remodeling project, we:
- Manage the entire project from beginning to end
- Work closely with you during every stage
- Get to know you and your vision, timeline, and budget
- Assemble a skilled team of experienced professionals and define each person’s role
- Create schedules and set deadlines for each phase of your home remodel
- Anticipate possible problems and solve them before they start
- File for and obtain all necessary permits.
Working with the talented team at Godfrey Design-Build is the best way to bring your vision to life.
At Godfrey Design-Build, we can help remodel…

About Godfrey Design-Build
Pat Godfrey founded Godfrey Design-Build in 2015 to help homeowners throughout the North Shore area make their perfect home a reality.
By combining his extensive experience in construction and degree in economics, Pat is able to develop solutions to challenging problems, keep projects on track, and produce outstanding results that his clients love.
Let’s get started on your new project
Godfrey Design-Build is ready to plan, design, and construct your new space.