Trusted Remodeling Experts
Home Renovations & Remodeling, Lake Norman, NC
Designed for How You Live, Built for Your Wellbeing
2023 National Custom Home Builder of the Year
30+ Years of Design-Build Experience
Green Building Leadership
Building with Wellbeing
From a Single Room to the Whole Home
You can picture it. Living Stone makes it real. Whole-home renovations, additions, kitchens, baths, and basements for Lake Norman and the surrounding communities, built to a custom-home standard and as healthy as they are beautiful.
Our Work
Our Lake Norman Renovation Services
Whole-Home Renovations
A complete reimagining of how your home looks, flows, and performs, uniting every room under one cohesive design.
Kitchen Remodels
The kitchen is the heart of the home. We design and build kitchens that balance the way you actually cook and gather with the finish quality our custom homes are known for.
Bathroom Remodels
From a refreshed primary bath to a curbless, aging-in-place shower, we craft bathrooms that pair everyday function with lasting, well-built design.
Home Additions & ADUs
More room to live, a primary-suite addition, a second story, a garage apartment, or an accessory dwelling unit, designed to look like it was always part of the home.
Basement Remodels
Turn your unused basement into a living space that works. A family room, guest suite, home office, or gym, finished to the same standard as the rest of your home.
Historic & Architectural Renovations
Renovating an older or architecturally distinct home takes a special skill set. We take care to match materials and detailing to the existing structure, so new work ties in seamlessly.
A Healthier Way to Renovate
A renovation should do more than update how a room looks. It should make the home healthier to live in. For 30+ years, Living Stone has renovated homes to improve air quality, energy performance, and comfort while we’re already inside the walls. We’re bringing that same building science to Lake Norman.
Built to a Higher Standard
While the walls are open, we improve insulation and air sealing, upgrade ventilation, and specify low-VOC finishes and formaldehyde-free materials. These are the healthy-home practices behind our Energy Star and NC Green Built credentials, applied to the home you already own. It’s at the core of everything we build.
Eight Levels of Service
From the first conversation through design, pricing, construction, interior finishes, and post-project warranty, Living Stone is your single point of contact at every stage. Learn more about Eight Levels of Service.
Our No Regrets Promise
We measure success simply: every client should reach move-in day feeling they made the right choice in every aspect. Design, budget, process, and relationship. That standard shapes every decision we make on your behalf.
From Concept to Completion
Home Renovation Process
Whether you’re refreshing one room or transforming the entire home, Living Stone handles the full range of home renovations at Lake Norman and the surrounding communities.
Discovery & Assessment
We start with your vision, your budget, and your home. We evaluate the existing structure, layout, and systems to understand what’s possible.
Architectural Design & Selections
Construction
Your dedicated project manager oversees the full remodel, handling all permitting and inspections from demolition to completion, with user-friendly project-management software so you always know where things stand.
Final Walkthrough
We walk through every inch of the finished remodel with you before handover. Our post-project warranty and client care program means we remain your builder long after the work is done.
Where Vision Becomes Reality
Featured Remodels: Our Award-Winning Portfolio
NAHB BALA, GOLD
Black Mountain NC
Rhodo Reno
Sean Sullivan’s own home, a 1960s rancher untouched for nearly 40 years, transformed into a high-performance home with geothermal HVAC, energy recovery ventilation, and hidden solar, all while preserving the original footprint.
Western NC
Homestead Revival
A classical revitalization that preserves the charm of the original home while blending old and new into an elegant, energy-efficient transformation.
Asheville NC
Aging in Place
A historic Beaverdam farmhouse thoughtfully reconfigured for lifelong living, adding a main-floor master suite without changing the home’s original footprint.
industry recognition
Recognition
& Awards
NAHB National Custom Home Builder of the Year
2023
NAHB Green Builder of the Year (National Recognition)
2023
#1 Custom Home Builder in NC — Home Builders Digest
2023
Best in American Living Award — Custom Owner's Suite
American Residential Design Awards (ARDA) — Bronder Residence & Hawks Nest Residence
From Our Families
Stories From the Homeowners We’ve Renovated For
Start Your Renovation
Ready to Renovate Your Lake Norman Home?
Building a custom home is a significant investment. A discovery call is an opportunity to discuss your goals, timeline, and priorities while learning how our design-build process delivers a seamless experience from concept to completion.
Love Where You Live
Why Renovate Your Lake Norman Home
Invest in the Home You Love
For many Lake Norman homeowners, renovating beats relocating. You keep the location, the lot, and the waterfront or neighborhood you already love, and you invest in making the home itself work the way it should for your family. A thoughtful renovation can boost your home’s value, improve its energy efficiency, and transform a dated layout into spaces designed around how your family actually lives, often with less disruption and cost than buying and moving.
Unlock Your Home’s Potential
Lake Norman is the largest man-made lake in North Carolina and one of the most sought-after places to live in the Charlotte metro, pairing 520 miles of shoreline with easy access to the city, top-rated schools, and a strong, steady housing market. The towns around the lake hold a wide mix of homes including established lakefront properties with great bones, golf-community residences, and family homes ready for their next chapter, and whatever the scope, the right design-build partner turns an aging house into a home you’ll love for years.
Common Questions
FAQs About Renovating Your
Lake Norman Home
How much does a home renovation cost at Lake Norman?
Renovation costs vary based on the age and layout of your home, the scope of work, and your finish selections. We provide transparent, line-item pricing after a discovery meeting and on-site assessment, so you know the real numbers before demolition begins.
How long does a home renovation take?
Timelines depend heavily on scope. A focused single-room renovation runs very differently from a whole-home project. Permitting, the age of the home, and the extent of finish selections all affect the schedule. We map out a realistic timeline in our first conversations.
Do you do whole-home renovations, or just single rooms?
Both. Living Stone takes on focused renovations as well as whole-home transformations and additions. Because we’re a full design-build firm, we’re especially well suited to larger, more complex renovations where design, structure, and finish all need to work together.
Are you based at Lake Norman?
Living Stone is based in Western North Carolina, with offices in Asheville and Cashiers, and we serve homeowners at Lake Norman and the surrounding communities. You get an established, award-winning design-build team bringing over 30 years of proven process to your project.
Can a renovation really improve my home's air quality and energy efficiency?
Yes! With walls already open, we can improve air sealing and insulation, upgrade ventilation, and specify low-toxicity materials and finishes. It’s the same building-science approach behind our Energy Star and NC Green Built work, applied to your existing home.
What is Living Stone's "Whole Living" approach?
Whole Living is our philosophy that a home should be as healthy as it is beautiful. It means smart air filtration, low-toxicity paints and finishes, eco-friendly sealants, and energy systems designed for our climate. In a renovation, it’s the difference between a home that simply looks updated and one that’s genuinely healthier to live in, something you can see, breathe, and feel in your utility bills.