Luxury Design-Build in San Francisco
Design-Build for San Francisco
WDC is a San Francisco design-build firm built for projects that demand precision. We design it, permit it, and build it with a single team accountable for every decision from concept to completion
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WDC engages a limited number of ground-up builds and full-home renovations across San Francisco each year. Every engagement runs through Discovery — a fixed-fee design phase, refundable against the build.
Licensed, bonded and insured
We Do Construction Inc. is a licensed general contractor in San Francisco and builds under California contractor license CSLB #1096552 — B General Building and C-36 Plumbing, issued 2022, current and active. Verify at cslb.ca.gov. We carry a $25,000 contractor’s surety bond through Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company, workers’ compensation through State Compensation Insurance Fund, and general liability insurance. Founded in 2022 by Jacob Bachar, Founder and Principal.
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Four engagements. One discipline.
WDC headlines four project types — full-home remodels, ADU and garage conversions, outdoor architecture. Same team designs and builds every one.
01Full home remodels
Estate-level reframings. Structural reorganization, material restraint, design intent held end to end.
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02ADU & garage conversions
Detached architecture. JADU, ADU, and garage-to-ADU under SB9 — designed with the same discipline as the main house. Open-plan volumes, nano bifold openings to landscape.
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03Outdoor Living & Landscaping
Pools, pavilions, hardscape, drought-aware planting. Indoor-outdoor continuity, designed for night use.
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New construction
Open-concept ground-up homes. Single-volume living, structural openings to landscape, architect-led from site survey to certificate of occupancy.
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207 projects across 75 San Francisco neighborhoods: bathrooms on Russian Hill, kitchens and baths in the Outer Sunset, whole homes in Bernal Heights. Every point sits on its neighborhood, never on its address.
Two fingers move the map.
The neighborhoods we know best
- Outer Sunset11
- Pacific Heights10
- Russian Hill10
- Bernal Heights8
- Mission8
- Outer Richmond8
All 75 neighborhoods
- Outer Sunset11
- Pacific Heights10
- Russian Hill10
- Bernal Heights8
- Mission8
- Outer Richmond8
- Marina7
- Noe Valley7
- Dolores Heights6
- Parkside6
- Corona Heights4
- Cow Hollow4
- Lower Haight4
- Mission Terrace4
- Polk Gulch4
- Sunnyside4
- Telegraph Hill4
- Diamond Heights3
- Eureka Valley3
- Fairmount3
- Holly Park3
- Laguna Honda3
- Mission Dolores3
- Mount Davidson3
- Potrero Hill3
- Rincon Hill3
- Alamo Square2
- Buena Vista2
- Crocker Amazon2
- Dogpatch2
- Forest Hill2
- Golden Gate Heights2
- Hunters Point2
- Inner Richmond2
- Lake Street2
- Laurel Heights2
- Lone Mountain2
- Merced Heights2
- Mint Hill2
- Miraloma Park2
- Mission Bay2
- Oceanview2
- Panhandle2
- Peralta Heights2
- Presidio Heights2
- South of Market2
- Sutro Heights2
- Western Addition2
- Bayview1
- Bret Harte1
- Cathedral Hill1
- Central Waterfront1
- Chinatown1
- Clarendon Heights1
- Excelsior1
- Fisherman's Wharf1
- Forest Knolls1
- Fort Mason1
- Glen Park1
- Hayes Valley1
- Ingleside Terraces1
- Inner Sunset1
- Lower Nob Hill1
- Lower Pacific Heights1
- Midtown Terrace1
- Nob Hill1
- Northern Waterfront1
- Sea Cliff1
- Sherwood Forest1
- Showplace Square1
- South Beach1
- Stonestown1
- Upper Market1
- Visitacion Valley1
- West Portal1
Counts from our project records. Each point covers a few blocks.
Featured Projects
A short, growing portfolio of design-build work across San Francisco. Each project documented with the design intent, structural decisions, and material choices that shaped the outcome.
The Noe Valley Volume
The Marin Kitchen Study
The San Francisco Bath Atelier
Across California. Full-home remodels, ADU conversions, ground-up builds, and outdoor architecture.
San Francisco DBI, Marin County, Coastal Commission. Permit fluency in each.
Same team designs, permits, and builds. CSLB Lic. # 1096552.
Real Projects. Real Results.
Explore examples of completed remodeling and construction projects across San Francisco. View before-and-after transformations and see how thoughtful planning and execution make a difference.
Why Choose
We Do Construction
- Same principal accountable from concept to walkthrough
- Architecture, engineering, permitting, and build under one roof
- Permit fluency across San Francisco DBI, SF Planning, and the Coastal Commission
- Weekly site report. Monthly OAC. Transparent change-order log.
- Material restraint. Architecture-led, not catalog-led.
A note from Jacob.
Two minutes on how WDC engages a project — what we look for in the first conversation, how we hold the timeline, and why the same team designs, permits, and builds.
Same team designed and built it.
Three clients on outcomes — full home, kitchen, full renovation. The discipline that shows up in the brief is the discipline that finishes the walkthrough.
“From the first call to the end of the job, Jacob and his team were incredible. Pricing, timelines, and workmanship clearly defined — no surprises.”
“Israel spent time on what I was looking for. Luis and his crew were outstanding. Angelica's design suggestions were invaluable and on point.”
“Jacob handled everything from demolition to the final touches with professionalism and care. The workmanship is top quality, the price was fair, the crew was professional and clean.”
Four phases. Disclosed timeline. Sign-off at every boundary.
Discovery to walkthrough on a published schedule. The black hole between contract and completion is what most clients fear — disclosed phases close it.
Discovery
Engagement brief, site visit, scope alignment. Fixed fee. No design work begins until program and budget are agreed.
Design
Schematic to construction documents. Three review milestones. Sign-off at each before progression.
Permit
Submittal, jurisdictional review, revisions, approval. We carry the relationship with planning and building staff.
Build
Mobilization to walkthrough. Weekly site report, monthly OAC, transparent change-order log. Same team designed and builds.
ADU and garage conversions run shorter (~42 weeks). Outdoor Living scopes vary by phasing.
Read the full processIn design and under construction.
Two SF projects currently in WDC’s active book. Editorial documentation publishes when each project completes its final walkthrough.
Eight service areas. Permit fluency in each.
WDC engages residential design-build across San Francisco, Marin, and the East Bay. Selected jurisdictions only — permit relationships matter.
San Francisco
Pacific Heights
Noe Valley
Sausalito
Berkeley
Mill Valley
Cole Valley
Daly City
Outside this list? WDC reviews projects in adjacent jurisdictions case by case. Submit the application below and the principal will respond on jurisdictional fit.
Frequently asked.
Six things prospective clients ask before Discovery. Pricing, permits, timeline, change orders — the questions that decide whether design-build is the right structure for your project.
Yes. We manage all permitting through the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI), including architectural drawings, structural engineering coordination, and inspection scheduling. Simple interior remodels clear in 4–10 weeks; full-home and structural scopes typically run 8–14 weeks, and complex ADU work can take up to 20.
Yes. We offer a free initial consultation to assess scope and provide a ballpark range. A detailed estimate requires a Discovery phase — fixed fee, no design work begins until program and budget are agreed.
Depends on scope. For full-home renovations we typically recommend temporary relocation during active construction phases. ADU builds and room additions can often be staged to minimize disruption.
ADU and garage conversions: 12–18 weeks of build — about 42 weeks total with design and permit. Kitchen remodels: 6–10 weeks of build. Full home renovations: 28–52 weeks of build, plus 18–30 weeks of design and permit — about 70 weeks contract to walkthrough. Disclosed on the timeline at engagement.
Fixed-price contract. Discovery is a fixed fee. Design is transparent hourly with a not-to-exceed cap. Construction is a fixed contract with a transparent change-order log — you see every adjustment in writing before it is approved.
A dedicated WDC project manager — same team from Discovery through walkthrough. Weekly site report, monthly Owner-Architect-Contractor meeting, transparent change-order log. The same team that designed it builds it.
Have a question we haven’t answered? Discovery is a 90-minute conversation, fixed fee.
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