AMN Construction · Selected work · Westside

Whole-house remodel · Westside, Santa BarbaraWestside.

The owners wanted everything new, and a real place to work from home. A new floor plan holds both.

A kitchen with pale blue-gray Shaker cabinets, black honed stone counters and backsplash, an undermount black sink below a pair of windows, a stainless range and chimney hood, a skylight in a raised ceiling, and stained oak floors — **The kitchen under its skylight: black stone counters, pale blue-gray Shaker cabinets**

The brief

Nothing in this Westside house was left as it was. The floor plan was redrawn, with a home office added; the skylights, custom cabinets, bathrooms and tile shower are all new.

The living room now opens wide to the kitchen. Eight months of construction, finished in 2026.

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A full-height wall of pale blue-gray Shaker cabinets with a stainless French-door refrigerator built in and tall pantry doors, beside a glass door to the garden

The refrigerator built into a full-height cabinet wall, by the garden door

A long bathroom with a tall blue-gray linen cabinet and matching vanity with a black top, large-format dark floor tile, and a glass-enclosed shower beside a window, lit by a skylight

The bath: tall linen cabinet, slate-dark floor, a glass shower under a skylight

A glass shower lined in large marble-look porcelain tile with a recessed niche and a window, above a black penny-round mosaic floor

Marble-look tile, a recessed niche, a black penny-round floor

A bathroom with marble-look floor tile, a blue-gray vanity with a black top and black bar pulls, a compact white toilet, and a window, with a dark-tiled shower beyond

A second bath: marble-look floor, black-topped vanity, wall-hung toilet

The constraint

The hardest part: moving walls so the new plan, home office included, would work.

Specification

What it is made of

Element	Specified
Counters	Quartzite, honed, in black
Cabinetry	Custom, in pale blue-gray, throughout
Daylight	New skylights over the kitchen and the baths
Floors	Stained oak
Shower	Marble-look porcelain, a recessed niche and a black penny-round floor

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Where it is

Westside, Santa Barbara

A short drive from downtown Santa Barbara. The pin marks the neighborhood, never the house.

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How a project like this is run

Whole-house renovations Project management in Santa Barbara Finish carpentry in Santa Barbara General contractor in Santa Barbara Owner’s rep in Santa Barbara

Built by Matt Newman. Licensed since 2001. Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, twenty years on this coast, and on every AMN site himself. One name on the contract. His story

Inquiries

Something like this, on your parcel?

Email the address to purchasing@amnbuild.com. Matt reads it himself and writes back within two business days.

Email Matt the address Or call Matt · 805 886 0988 Or leave your number: three short steps

Same dayMatt confirms he has it, and flags anything obvious that is missing.
Within two business daysA written reading of your parcel: jurisdiction, review bodies, an order of cost and the permit path.
Then nothing, unless you askNo follow-up sequence, no call from anyone else. The reading is yours to keep.

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