General Contractor & Remodeler in Los Gatos, CA

Down in the flats around downtown and the Almond Grove, the houses are old and they show it in the good way — Victorians and Craftsman bungalows on narrow lots, detached garages down a side drive, original windows, deep trim profiles, front porches that define the street. The Town takes what those streets look like seriously, and work that changes the front of one of these houses gets looked at closely. Inside, they have the problems old houses always have: a kitchen tucked in a back corner, a single bathroom squeezed under a stair, and additions from previous decades that were never done properly.

Up in the hills it is a different trade. Lots fall away, driveways are steep, and the roads are narrow enough that where the dumpster goes and how material gets to the site is a real part of the plan, not a detail. Decks up here are structure, not decoration — posts, footings, drainage and the way water moves down the slope all matter more than the railing style. Additions often step down the hill rather than out, and retaining and grading become part of a job that started as a kitchen. If you own a hillside house in Los Gatos, the honest conversation about access and site work should happen on day one.

R Twyns Construction is family run and has been licensed since 2007 — CSLB #896811. Tim Reynolds owns the company, his VP Ben works hands on. We build our cabinets and do our finish carpentry in house, which is what an older Los Gatos house needs most: casing, base, wainscot and built ins milled to match the profiles already in the room instead of the closest thing available. On the hillside side of town we handle the decks and outdoor living work along with the addition itself, so one crew owns the whole thing.