Whole home remodel in Plymouth Township, MI

A house still wearing its original wallpaper

Walk through the before photos and the pattern repeats. Ivy print paper wrapped the kitchen, climbing roses covered the master bath, and carpet ran wall to wall through rooms that wanted hardwood. Brass framed the shower and brass hung the light fixtures. The bones were never the problem. The two-story foyer, the big windows and the open sight lines were all worth keeping.

Plymouth Township is full of colonials from this era, and most share the same to-do list. The finishes that were standard when the neighborhood went up, oak spindles, brass hardware and wallpapered walls, are now the first things a buyer or an appraiser notices. Fixing one room at a time can leave a house arguing with itself for a decade. Handling the whole list at once resets the clock everywhere, and it spares you from paying for six separate mobilizations.

The owners were not shopping for a single fix. They wanted kitchen remodeling, bathroom renovations, flooring, railings, trim and paint handled as one project by one team, so no new finish would sit next to a dated one.

Before

What Wright’s rebuilt, floor by floor

The kitchen came down to bare walls. Crews removed the soffits and reclaimed that ceiling space for full-height cabinets, then reframed the wall between the kitchen and the dining room to open the cooking line to the rest of the main floor. A vented hood, new countertops and a tile backsplash finished the room. Curious what a full kitchen gut involves? This project is a fair preview.

Before

After

Upstairs, the master bath lost its tub on purpose. In its place went a walk-in shower on GoBoard prep behind frameless glass, floor tile set over an uncoupling membrane, a new vanity and a framed-in linen closet. Walk-in shower conversions are the most requested change in our bathroom work, and this one shows why. The closet next door grew too, once the wall separating the walk-in from the hall closet came out and a 36-inch door went in.

Before

After

Sequencing is the quiet work on a job like this. Wright’s handled permitting and inspections during preconstruction, then brought licensed electrical, plumbing and HVAC subcontractors through ahead of the finish trades. The kitchen picked up a vented hood and updated circuits, the master bath got relocated supply and drain lines, and smoke detectors came up to code across the house. None of that shows in an after photo, and all of it decides how the house holds up.

The rest of the house got the connective tissue. New hardwood runs through the main living areas, with vinyl plank and carpet where each made more sense. Every staircase railing came out and went back in as oak posts and rails over black metal balusters. New baseboards and door casing followed, then fresh paint on every wall, ceiling, door and trim line in the home.

How the finished house reads now

Stand in the foyer today and the floor is one uninterrupted run of hardwood from the front door through the kitchen. The railings match on every level. Light walls replaced pattern, a sputnik-style fixture replaced the brass lantern, and the kitchen answers in two tones, warm gray uppers over deep blue bases.

After

The railings were one line item on the proposal. They read like the signature on the whole house.

Replaced in full, matched across every staircase and the balcony overlook.

In the master bath, a backlit mirror now does the work the roses used to. Each room reads calm because everything in it was chosen at the same time, which is the quiet advantage of a whole home scope. You can browse more finished projects, including other remodeling in Plymouth and the surrounding townships.

The smaller rooms kept pace. The fireplace picked up new surround tile under a freshly stained mantel, the laundry room gained tile, cabinets and a utility sink, and both home offices got custom-built desks sized to their walls. Even the back room came out of it with workout mats and new wafer lights. On a whole home scope, the last handful of rooms is where focus tends to slip, so those rooms go into the contract like everything else.

Where a project like this goes next

Plenty of clients phase their work. A finished main floor this year becomes basement finishing next year, then home additions or deck construction once the family outgrows the footprint. Meet the team behind the work and see how each service connects to the next.