Transforming Homes, Creating Retreats
Your Home Improvement Contractor of Choice
Welcome to Build & Blossom Home Improvement, your home improvement contractor of choice for your remodeling and outdoor living needs. My name is Emily Waytoti and I am a licensed home improvement contractor. My background is in design, construction, and installation of green spaces and built elements. I have worked for over a decade of designing and managing home improvement projects.
Indoor-Outdoor Living
I am originally from Florida and grew up in California and have an indoor-outdoor lifestyle focus in my work. I created Build & Blossom Home Improvement out of my passion and expertise for interior remodeling – ‘build’ – and landscape design outdoor living – ‘blossom’. Build & Blossom Home Improvement is unique compared to traditional general contractors since I support homeowners with both remodeling and outdoor living spaces projects. By providing homeowners with any interior or exterior construction services, I am able to provide cost-effective one-stop shop expertise. Even when focusing primarily on remodeling your most important and high-use indoor living space, there may be opportunities to visually and physically connect your indoor and outdoor spaces to enjoy indoor-outdoor living.
Home Improvement for Indoor-Outdoor Living
The project below shows how opening up the wall and adding french doors lets the light to pour in and extends your dining area out to the new deck. This is a great example of comprehensive interior and exterior combined to enhance your indoor-outdoor living.
Remodeling Services
As a general contractor, my remodeling services can help you design and build any type of home improvement project. This includes upgrading your kitchen, renovating your bathroom, creating a home office, carving out space to generate rental income, or making changes to age in place. This versatility and breadth of experience makes me your home improvement contractor of choice.
Outdoor Living Services
My outdoor living services will transform your outdoor spaces into inviting spaces for you to relax, entertain, and enjoy outdoor hobbies. I use a landscape design approach to design spaces that include green, natural, landscapes in harmony with patios and hardscaping, decks and other outdoor structures, and elements such as outdoor lighting. My goal is to work with you to design and build usable space that extends your homes living area into the outdoors.
Personalized Home Improvement Service
My approach to home improvement is to provide my clients with top-tier and personalized design-build services. I will be your one point of contact and will guide you through every step of your home improvement projects. I will keep you updated by sending you photos of key steps in the process. Please check out my about me page to learn more.
Design Your Spaces for Life
I consider myself different from most designers and general contractors designers. I focus on both form and function. My approach to remodeling and outdoor living is to create beautify living spaces ‘for life’ or to be lived in. I marry aesthetics and functionality through space that considers minimum space requirements for tasks, storage needs, traffic flow, and designing for multiple uses. I apply my creative problem solving, design, and construction skills to to help you identify smart solutions and configure your space to achieve whatever your goals may be.
Design-Build
I have a design-build business model. I provide personalized, in-house, and seamless support to my clients across all design and construction phases. In addition to designing for life using smart layouts to maximize functionality, as your general contractor I am simultaneously thinking ahead to practical construction implications. For example, I am thinking about the practical feasibility and cost considerations of structural changes such as moving interior walls, opening exterior walls, and implications for electrical and plumbing changes, duct work, and code requirements.
Dedication to Quality
As your licensed home improvement contractor, my role is to supervise and coordinate all of the necessary trades, services, labor and materials, so you don’t have to. I do this with unwavering focus on quality work and making sure no corners are cut. I do this by sourcing quality and appropriate materials and supervising a team of tradespeople that do quality work.
Building Trust
I think of remodeling as a trust industry, and I build your projects, and also my business, by building trust. I do this by demonstrating integrity in all that I do, consistently delivering quality work, and dealing fairly with clients and workers. Some contractors will turn a quick profit by cutting corners and burning bridges. Build & Blossom Home Improvement is a local business and most of my clients are through word of mouth referrals. I rely on and take pride in your positive referrals, whether you contract me for additional work or recommend me to a neighbor or friend.
Value Creation
My business model is based on value creation for homeowners through smart investment of your remodeling or renovation budget. We all have limited budgets and competing priorities. I work with my clients to help you prioritize and sequence your home improvement projects. I will point out opportunities I see to cost-effectively add value and longevity to your home by building in flexibility and multiple uses to your designs. My goal is to help homeowners consider the here and now as well as possible changes in priorities or needs considering life stages and resale value.
