Home Renovation Designers for Pebble Beach
Our Drafting & Design Services
With views for days, the famous Pebble Beach area has just about anything a homeowner could want, and we’ll design your home to complement the beautiful backdrop.
From traditional layouts to innovative floor plans, our design experts carefully listen to your vision for your remodel or build and then translate it into comprehensive digital and physical designs. We make sure your design reflects your preferences, down to the last detail, and complements your lifestyle. The design phase is where you get to finally dial in your ideal blend of aesthetics and functionality, and RDD will get everything mapped out so it’s ready to come to life.
We have experience with every kind of new construction or renovation, including kitchen remodels, bathroom overhauls, basement finishing, room additions, attic conversions, and more. If you have another kind of project in mind, give us a call, and our team will be happy to discuss!
Getting a remodel approved in Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach is not a city. It is unincorporated Monterey County inside the Del Monte Forest, and that means two separate approvals rather than one — a distinction that catches out most homeowners and quite a few builders.
The Pebble Beach Company's Architectural Review Board applies the Architectural Standards and Residential Guidelines for Del Monte Forest. That covers far more than how the house looks: excavation and grading, tree protection, parking, permitted working hours and site signage all sit inside it. Separately, Monterey County Housing & Community Development issues the land use and building permits.
Removing a native tree needs its own permit, and parcels in the coastal zone can add a further county requirement on top. We design against both tracks from the first sketch, because a set that satisfies one and not the other is a set that stalls.
These are estimates drawn from publicly available guidance as of August 2026, not a determination about your property. Confirm current requirements with the Pebble Beach Company ARB and Monterey County HCD before committing money or a schedule.
Designing for a Pebble Beach house
Pebble Beach housing runs from 1920s and 1930s forest cottages through mid-century work to very large contemporary custom homes, most of it on generous, heavily wooded parcels where the trees are as protected as the buildings.
That shapes the design work. Where a foundation can go is often decided by root zones rather than by the floor plan. Grading is constrained. Massing has to sit into a forest or coastal setting rather than assert itself against it. And on larger houses the drawing set gets correspondingly bigger — more structure, more detail, more coordination.
If your house has no original drawings, that is normal. We measure it and produce an as-built set first — and you own it afterwards.
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How a Pebble Beach project runs
Site visit and as-built measure. We come to the house, measure it, and record what matters later — framing, grade, protected trees, existing stairs, panel location.
Two-track constraints check. Before any design, we establish what the ARB guidelines and the County will each require. Running these in parallel rather than in sequence is what keeps the schedule sane.
Schematic design, then design development. Two or three options against your budget and the limits of the parcel, then the chosen one becomes the submittal package.
Construction documents, submittal and response. The full permit set, coordinated with your structural engineer — and we answer the corrections, not you.
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Whether you’re remodeling a room or need an entire house plan, partner with RDD in Pebble Beach for a stress-free, seamless drafting and design experience. Contact us to see what you can dream up today.