A whole-home remodel in Brandon typically runs $75,000 to $150,000 for a selective renovation and $150,000 to $300,000 for a full gut, with projects taking 3 to 9 months. CraftLine Remodeling is a licensed and insured Florida design build contractor handling complete house renovations across Brandon, Bloomingdale, Valrico, and the FishHawk area of Hillsborough County.
Brandon Whole-Home Remodel Costs
| Whole-Home Scope | Typical Cost | Construction Time |
|---|---|---|
| Selective remodel (kitchen, baths, flooring, paint) | $75,000 to $150,000 | 3 to 5 months |
| Complete renovation (full gut, layout changes, systems) | $150,000 to $300,000 | 5 to 9 months |
For the room-level numbers behind a whole-home budget, see our kitchen budget guide and bathroom cost guide, or start with the free cost calculator.
Renovating Brandon’s Suburban Homes
Brandon’s housing boom ran from the 1980s through the early 2000s, and a whole-home remodel here usually means modernizing a perfectly solid but dated suburban house. The defining trait is compartmentalized floor plans: a kitchen walled off from the family room, formal living and dining rooms nobody uses, and a warren of small spaces. The most requested Brandon whole-home project opens those walls into a connected great room, then updates the kitchen, baths, flooring, and finishes throughout. Larger lots in Bloomingdale, Valrico, and FishHawk Ranch support more ambitious additions and primary-suite expansions. These are slab homes, so we engineer beam work for wall removals and permit everything through Hillsborough County. If you love your Brandon location but the layout feels like three decades ago, a whole-home remodel is usually a better value than moving. When the problem is square footage rather than layout, our Brandon home additions page covers adding a room or a full suite instead.
What a Complete Remodel Includes
- Full design, space planning, and open-concept conversions
- Kitchen, all bathrooms, flooring, and interior finishes
- Structural beam work for wall removals, engineered and permitted
- Electrical and plumbing updates to Hillsborough County code
- One licensed team, one schedule, and one point of accountability
What Goes Into a Brandon Whole-Home Remodel Budget
On a whole-home project the kitchen and bathrooms carry the largest share of the budget, followed by flooring that runs continuously through the house, interior paint and trim, and any structural work to open up the layout.
Systems are where older homes surprise people: electrical panels, rewiring, repiping, and HVAC updates can be necessary once walls are open, which is exactly why we assess them during design rather than mid-construction. Permitting and any required engineering complete the picture. In Brandon’s slab-built suburban homes, the engineered beam work needed to open compartmentalized floor plans into a great room is a defining cost factor on a whole-home job.
How Your Brandon Whole-Home Remodel Runs
A Brandon whole-home project runs about four to six weeks of design, selections, permitting, and engineering, then three to nine months of construction. We build the structural and inspection steps into that schedule up front.
How a Brandon Whole-Home Budget Splits by Room
A whole-home number is intimidating until you break it apart. Most of a Brandon complete remodel is really two or three big rooms plus the work that runs through the whole house. These are CraftLine’s own Tampa Bay ranges by room, and they are the same numbers we publish on our individual cost guides.
| Scope | Typical Tampa Bay Cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen, mid-range | $25,000 to $45,000 | Semi-custom cabinets, quartz, minor layout change |
| Kitchen, high end | $45,000 to $80,000 and up | Custom cabinetry, structural changes |
| Primary bathroom, mid-range | $25,000 to $40,000 | 8×10 typical, new layout |
| Guest or hall bath | $18,000 to $28,000 | 5×8 typical, same layout |
| Flooring throughout | $3 to $6 per sq ft installed | LVP, waterproof, slab friendly |
| Interior paint, whole house | $2,800 to $6,500 | 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft home |
Add the whole-house items that do not belong to any one room, such as electrical panel work, repiping if the house needs it, HVAC, and impact windows if you are doing them. Those are what separate a $150,000 selective remodel from a $300,000 complete one. Price your own combination in the free cost calculator.
The Two Brandons, and Why They Get Different Quotes
The older Brandon core off Brandon Boulevard and Bloomingdale Avenue is mostly 1970s and 1980s concrete block ranch. Those homes are compartmentalized, with a formal living room nobody uses, a separate dining room, and a kitchen walled off from the family room. The whole-home remodel there is a structural project. You are removing walls, adding headers, and often upgrading a panel that was sized for a very different set of appliances.
Bloomingdale, Valrico and FishHawk Ranch are a different animal. Those homes are 1990s and 2000s, already open, with good bones and adequate systems. A complete remodel there is a finish project: cabinets, counters, flooring, baths, paint and lighting, with far less money disappearing into things nobody sees. Same whole-home scope, meaningfully different price. Valrico gets its own treatment on our Valrico whole house remodeling page, which covers repipe, panel, roof and window work alongside the finishes on those bigger lots.
Sequencing a Brandon Whole-Home Remodel So You Can Stay in the House
Most Brandon families want to live in the house through at least part of the job. That is workable if the sequence is built for it. We run the work in zones, typically starting with the bathrooms so there is always a working one, then the kitchen with a temporary setup in the garage or dining room, then flooring and paint last so finished surfaces are not being walked on by trades. Any structural or panel work gets scheduled as a defined block rather than dragged across the whole project.
The honest version: a full gut with structural changes is very hard to live through, and the families who try usually wish they had moved out for four to six weeks in the middle. A selective remodel of two or three rooms at a time is livable, and it is what most Brandon homeowners actually do.
Hillsborough County Permits and Inspections
Brandon is unincorporated Hillsborough County, so everything files with the county rather than the City of Tampa. A whole-home remodel usually means several permits running together: building for any structural or wall work, electrical, plumbing and mechanical. Each carries its own rough-in and final inspection. On a 1970s or 1980s house, wall removals need a signed engineering detail for the beam. We hold all of it, and the inspection calendar is our problem rather than yours.
What Homeowners Say
CraftLine holds a 5.0 rating across 93 Google reviews. We are a licensed and insured Florida contractor and an active member of NARI Tampa Bay. You can see recent kitchen, bath, and whole-home projects across the area in our project portfolio.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is a whole-home remodel cheaper than moving in Brandon?
Often, yes, once you factor in agent fees, closing costs, and higher current mortgage rates. Remodeling lets you keep your location and lot while getting the layout you actually want.
Can you open up the compartmentalized layout of an older Brandon home?
Yes. Converting walled-off kitchens and formal rooms into a connected great room is our most common Brandon whole-home request. We engineer and permit any structural beam work.
How long does a Brandon whole-home remodel take?
A selective renovation runs 3 to 5 months; a full gut runs 5 to 9 months depending on structural scope.
Do you serve Bloomingdale, Valrico, and FishHawk?
Yes. We cover Brandon and the surrounding Hillsborough County communities, and we permit through the county for all of them.
Can I live in my Brandon home during a whole-home remodel?
Through a phased or selective remodel, usually yes. Through a full gut with structural work, it is rough. We sequence baths first so one always works, keep the kitchen block as short as possible, and do flooring and paint last. Most families who do a full gut move out for the four to six busiest weeks.
What order should the rooms go in?
Structural and systems work first, then bathrooms, then kitchen, then flooring and paint across the whole house. Doing finished floors before the heavy trades are out is the most common way to pay for the same floor twice.
How many permits does a whole-home remodel need in Brandon?
Typically several running in parallel through Hillsborough County: building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical, each with its own rough-in and final inspection. We pull and schedule all of them.
Get Your Free In-Home Estimate
Your location is great. Your layout does not have to stay stuck in 1995. Schedule a free quote or call (813) 522-4359. We will walk your space, talk through your budget, and give you a real number, not a guess.