Construction & Home Renovation Company in Highlands Ranch, CO

Remodeling & general contracting in Highlands Ranch

Highlands Ranch is the Denver metro’s defining master-planned community: tens of thousands of homes built between the early 1980s and the 2000s, excellent schools and trails, and a housing stock now squarely in remodel territory. The first generation of Highlands Ranch kitchens, baths and basements is 20 to 40 years old, solid houses whose interiors are one thoughtful project away from matching what the community became.

As a licensed, insured general contractor based in nearby Greenwood Village, BH Builders manages every trade in-house or under one roof, so Highlands Ranch homeowners get a single point of contact, a fixed written scope, and one crew accountable from demolition to the final walkthrough. No juggling subcontractors, no finger-pointing.

Our services in Highlands Ranch

We handle the full range of residential remodeling and construction for Highlands Ranch homes:

• Kitchen remodeling: cabinets, counters, layouts and full renovations.
• Bathroom remodeling: walk-in showers, tile and full gut renovations.
• Basement finishing: bedrooms, baths, theaters and rental suites.
• Home additions: room additions, suites and second stories.
• Whole-home renovation: complete remodels, managed end to end.
• Decks & exterior work: custom decks, siding and outdoor living.
• Custom home building: ground-up homes to three stories plus basement, under our own Class C license.

Not sure where to start? See our remodeling pricing guide for honest cost ranges, or try any of the instant calculators linked above for a Highlands Ranch ballpark in about a minute.

Highlands Ranch homes we work on

Expect 1980s to 2000s two-stories, ranches and split-levels across Northridge, Southridge, Eastridge and Westridge. Two local specifics we navigate for you: Highlands Ranch is unincorporated, so building permits run through Douglas County rather than a city hall, and the Highlands Ranch Community Association reviews exterior changes, so decks and additions get an HRCA submittal alongside the county permit. We handle both.

Northridge to Backcountry: the four eras of Highlands Ranch

Highlands Ranch was built in phases from the early 1980s on, and each phase aged into remodel territory on its own schedule:

• Northridge and the original 1980s sections nearest C-470, the oldest homes, now 35 to 45 years old. Original kitchens, oak-and-brass baths, and basements that were often finished once, cheaply, in the 1990s and are ready to be done properly.
• Southridge, Eastridge and Westridge: the 1990s core. Two-stories and ranches with big unfinished basements and builder-grade everything. Basement finishes, kitchen remodels and primary-bath upgrades are the everyday projects here.
• The 2000s neighborhoods toward the south and west, younger homes where the first big project is usually the basement, followed by a kitchen that gets the island and the storage the builder plan skipped.
• Backcountry and the custom enclaves: the newest and largest homes, where projects run to covered outdoor living, lower-level entertaining space and the occasional ground-up custom build on a remaining lot. As a custom home builder licensed Class C, we take on those too.

Douglas County permits and HRCA review

Highlands Ranch is not a city. It is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, which means two things for your project. Building permits are issued by the Douglas County Building Division, not a Highlands Ranch office, and the county runs its own plan review, fee schedule and inspection scheduling, covered in the Highlands Ranch card of our permit guide. And the Highlands Ranch Community Association reviews exterior changes through its architectural process: decks, additions, windows, exterior materials and color. Interior remodels do not need HRCA approval; anything visible from the street or a neighbor’s yard usually does.

We file the county permit and prepare the HRCA submittal from the same drawings, so both reviewers are looking at the same project. Sequencing them correctly is the difference between a deck that starts in June and one that starts in September.

Projects that fit Highlands Ranch homes

Permits & building codes in Highlands Ranch

Most remodeling work in Highlands Ranch, anything touching structure, electrical, plumbing or mechanical systems, requires a permit and inspections. We handle the entire process so your project is code-compliant and on record, which protects both your safety and your home's resale value.

• Local permits. Highlands Ranch permits and inspections run through the Douglas County Building Division (Highlands Ranch is unincorporated) (100 Third St, Castle Rock, CO 80104 (Douglas County)). We file with them directly and schedule every inspection for you; typical review times for this office are on its card in the permit guide.
• The full Highlands Ranch permit picture. Fees, timelines, quirks and the documents you'll need are all covered in the Highlands Ranch section of our Denver-metro permit guide: including a free permit & fee estimator.
• How the fee compares. Our building permit fees by city table puts the metro's building departments side by side, each with its official fee schedule linked.
• Licensed trades. Colorado electricians and plumbers are state-licensed, you can verify any contractor's license through the Colorado DORA license lookup.
• Lead-safe work. Early Highlands Ranch homes brush against the 1978 lead-safe line; late-80s-onward stock is clear, we verify per home. See the EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting program.

Nearby communities we also serve: Littleton, Lone Tree, Castle Pines and Parker. Every city page links to that jurisdiction's own permit office, so you can see how the process differs a few miles down the road, or start from the complete service-area hub.

Why Highlands Ranch homeowners choose BH Builders

• Local & responsive: based minutes away in Greenwood Village, serving Highlands Ranch and the surrounding Denver metro.
• Licensed & insured, permitted and inspected on every job.
• One point of contact and a transparent, written price you approve before we start.
• Built to last: the motto we work by: Built on Dreams, Grounded in Craft.