Design-Build · Southern California
Design-build homes from Bel Air to Malibu. We handle the entitlements, the architecture, and the construction, so one team carries the work from an empty lot to the day you move in.
The record
Seventy years of Southern California, on your project.
How we work
Most projects hand you off twice. First to an architect, then to a contractor, and you are left managing the gap between them. PlantekWest is both. One team draws it, prices it, permits it, and builds it, so nothing gets lost in translation and you have a single number to call.
See what we do
We find out what a site will really allow before you spend on design, working with the city, engineers, and the Coastal Commission when the lot calls for it.
Architecture and interiors drawn around how you actually live, priced as we go so the budget never blindsides you.
We prepare the drawings and walk them through plan check, including the hillside and coastal reviews that stall most projects.
We build it and manage every trade, and we answer to you, not the subcontractors.
Services
Not sure your project pencils out? A feasibility study puts real numbers on it, with the city, engineers, and financial consultants, before you commit to design.
Now building · ADUs
An accessory dwelling unit turns unused space into rental income, a place for family, or a studio of your own. We design it, permit it, and build it, the same team and the same standard as our custom homes, at ADU scale.
Free download
The checklist we run before anyone draws a line. Budget, site, utilities, and approvals, with the questions that catch expensive problems while they are still cheap to fix.
Your checklist is downloading now. We will follow up with a note from the team.
Clients
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They walked us through entitlements we were terrified of and never once made us feel out of our depth. The house came in on the vision and on the plan.
One point of contact from start to finish. They represented us to the city and the contractor so we did not have to.
Detail we did not know to ask for. The kind of firm that has clearly done this a hundred times.
The firm
Sandy Burga and Octavio Rezende have spent decades on Southern California's most demanding sites. Hire PlantekWest and they are the ones on your project, not a junior team you never meet.
Partner
Raised in Peru in a family of developers and builders, Sandy pairs an architect's eye with an owner's-representative discipline. She founded LALESA, a nonprofit that designs and builds community projects in Peru.
Architect
An award-winning architect who began in hospitality design at Hirsch Bedner, Octavio is a hillside-home specialist known for interiors of exacting detail, from residences to displacement yachts.
Good work takes time. Excellent work takes experience and attention to detail.
Same-day Zoom consultations. Offices in Santa Monica and Fullerton, building across all of Southern California.
