More room without moving — room additions, second stories, and primary suites, engineered and permitted on the correct LA or Burbank side, matched to your existing home. CSLB #1021284.
CSLB #1021284 Licensed & InsuredLicensed Since 20165.0★ Google (45 reviews)
On-site visit · zoning review · fixed-price proposal
Licensed California Contractor · CSLB #1021284
Room Addition Contractor in Toluca Lake, CA: Right Image Builders (CSLB #1021284) builds room additions for 1930s–50s traditional, Spanish and ranch homes on generous lots between the studios across the village around Riverside Drive, Toluca Woods and the Burbank side along Clybourn Avenue, with its own crew and permits through LADBS or the City of Burbank, depending on which side of the city line your parcel sits. Plan on 2–4 months of design, engineering and plan check, then 3–6 months of construction. One fixed written price after a free on-site estimate.
Licensed general contractor, CSLB #1021284, licensed since 2016, 5.0★ Google (45 reviews), 4.9★ Angi (103 reviews). Office in Valley Glen, about 15 minutes from Toluca Lake. Planning ranges by tier and neighborhood are in the room addition cost guide.
Right Image Builders is a licensed general contractor for room additions and home additions in Toluca Lake — we add square footage to your existing home instead of forcing you to move. Room additions, second-story additions, and primary suites, fully engineered and permitted on the correct LADBS or City of Burbank side of Toluca Lake's split jurisdiction and matched to your home's architecture. CSLB #1021284, insured, a short drive away in Valley Glen. Free on-site consultation: (818) 210-4544.
The typical Toluca Lake house is a 1,800–2,800 sq ft 1930s–50s traditional on an 8,000–10,000 sq ft lot, and the room that is missing is usually a primary suite, a second living space or a home office. A well-built addition gives you the extra bedroom, the primary suite, the bigger kitchen, or the second story you need, and it does it on the leafy, private street you already chose, minutes from Warner Bros. and Universal.
Right Image Builders is a licensed general contractor based in Valley Glen, a short drive from Toluca Lake. An addition is a serious structural project — new foundation, framing tied into the existing house, roof and systems extended, all engineered and permitted. We manage the whole thing: architectural plans, structural engineering, permits, and construction, under one written fixed-price contract and one accountable company.
Toluca Lake's defining quirk shapes every addition here: the neighborhood is split between the City of Los Angeles and the City of Burbank, and which side your parcel is on decides which city permits and zones the addition. We confirm that first. The homes — affluent traditional and Spanish houses — are built for high-finish work, and the art is in making the new square footage look original: matched rooflines, stucco, and windows, not bolted on.
A new bedroom, family room, home office, or expanded living space extended off the existing house — new foundation, framing, roof, and systems, tied cleanly into your Toluca Lake home and permitted on the correct LA or Burbank side.
Add the primary bedroom, walk-in closet, and en-suite bath that many of Toluca Lake's older traditional and Spanish homes were never built with — a high-return addition that transforms how the house lives.
When the lot is tight or you want to keep the yard, we build up. Second-story additions require careful structural engineering to carry the new load on the existing foundation — exactly the work a licensed contractor engineers and permits.
A Toluca Lake bump-out adds a few hundred square feet to a kitchen, dining room or primary bath, with its own foundation, a matched roof line and exterior, permitted like any other addition.
Every addition is designed, structurally engineered, and permitted through the correct jurisdiction for your parcel — LADBS or the City of Burbank. We coordinate the architectural and structural plans, manage plan check, and carry the project to signed-off final inspection.
Matched rooflines, stucco texture, window styles, and floor heights so the addition reads as part of the original home. The difference between an addition that adds value and one that looks tacked on.
Professional, licensed and insured, and we put that in writing at every step, because a remodel is a trust decision before it is a construction decision.
California general contractor license CSLB #1021284 (General Building B), active since 2016, with general liability and workers' compensation insurance. Check the license yourself at cslb.ca.gov before you sign anything, with us or anyone else.
The proposal lists what is demolished, what is built, which finishes are included and which permit covers it. If it is not written down, it is not in the job.
When walls, floors or roofs open up we photograph what is behind them and send you the pictures. Anything beyond the scope is priced in writing before the crew continues. You never find out from the invoice.
California law caps a home-improvement deposit at $1,000 or 10 percent of the contract, whichever is less. We follow it. Progress payments follow the work, and the final payment comes after your walkthrough.
We submit the plans, meet the inspector and close the permit. You get the closed-permit record, which is what a buyer, an insurer or an appraiser will ask for.
The people who estimate the job are the people who build it. No subcontractor hand-offs, no call center; your project lead answers the phone during the job and after it.
An addition is structural work on the home you already own — the contractor you choose matters more than on any cosmetic remodel. Whoever you interview, ask for the same six things we put in writing on every Toluca Lake project:
Every Toluca Lake addition starts with the parcel — and here that means two questions at once: what your lot allows, and which city's rules apply. How much floor area you can add, and the front, side, and rear setbacks you have to keep clear, are set by the jurisdiction your home sits in. A ground-floor addition trades yard for square footage; a second story adds space without shrinking the lot — the right choice depends on your goals and your lot.
Because Toluca Lake is split between the City of Los Angeles and the City of Burbank, additions are permitted through LADBS on the LA side or the City of Burbank Building and Safety Division on the Burbank side. The Toluca Lake village and the Toluca Woods edge both sit in this split zone, minutes from Warner Bros. and Universal. Confirming your parcel's side before we design is exactly the kind of detail that separates a local contractor from an out-of-area bidder — and it matters most on additions, where plan check and structural review are more involved than a simple remodel.
The first thing we do at the free consultation is confirm your jurisdiction, pull your zoning, and tell you honestly what's buildable — square footage, height, and setbacks — before you spend a dollar on design. Based a short drive away in Valley Glen, Toluca Lake is home territory for us, on either side of the line.
Right Image Builders prices a room addition in Toluca Lake the same way every time: a free on-site visit, a measured scope, the LADBS requirements checked for your address, and an itemized fixed price in writing within a few business days.
Hidden conditions are priced in writing when they are found, not on the final invoice; the number you sign is the number you pay, and the final payment follows your walkthrough.
For planning ranges before the visit, see the room addition cost guide.
Our full home remodel was a massive undertaking. Right Image Builders handled it all — demo, framing, plumbing, electrical, tile, painting. One contract, one crew, one point of contact. I cannot overstate how rare that is in LA.
Most Toluca Lake additions need 2–4 months of design, structural engineering and plan check, then 3–6 months of construction for a ground-floor room or suite and 4–6 months for a second story. The Burbank side and the LADBS side run on different plan-check clocks, so we confirm which jurisdiction your parcel is in at the first visit and file accordingly; the construction phase itself is the same on either side of the line.
We visit your Toluca Lake home, confirm which jurisdiction your parcel is in, pull its zoning, and tell you honestly what you can build — square footage, height, setbacks — and which addition fits your goals and budget.
We produce architectural and structural plans, submit through LADBS or the City of Burbank depending on your parcel, and manage plan check — with a written fixed-price proposal set before construction begins.
One crew builds the addition to signed-off final inspection, matched to your existing home. Final payment is due only after your walkthrough approval.
Tell us what you want to add and we'll get back to you within 4 business hours. We'll confirm which side of the line your parcel is on and what it allows before you spend anything on design.
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(818) 210-4544We had a tiny living room that opened onto a covered patio we never really used. Right Image Builders designed and built a full family room addition in its place — 400 square feet, vaulted ceiling, skylights, and bifold doors to the garden. It completely changed how we live in this house. You can't tell it's an addition — it looks like it was always there.
Our full home remodel was a massive undertaking. Right Image Builders handled it all — demo, framing, plumbing, electrical, tile, painting. One contract, one crew, one point of contact. I cannot overstate how rare that is in LA.
They walked me through every permit requirement and handled it all himself. The project finished on budget and exactly to spec. My BuildZoom contract check confirmed everything — these guys are top 1% for a reason.
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Read the answers →Yes. Right Image Builders is a licensed California general contractor, CSLB #1021284, with general liability and workers' compensation insurance; verify the license in minutes at cslb.ca.gov under "Check a License" and ask us for the insurance certificates. The Toluca Lake estimate is free and on site, done by the project lead who will run the job, and the itemized fixed-price proposal follows within 3–5 business days.
Right Image Builders, a licensed general contractor (CSLB #1021284) based in Valley Glen about 15 minutes from Toluca Lake, builds room and home additions across the village around Riverside Drive, Toluca Woods, the Burbank side along Clybourn Avenue under one fixed-price contract: design, permits through LADBS or Burbank, and construction by one crew, with final payment only after your walkthrough. 5.0★ on Google (45 reviews) and 4.9★ on Angi (103 reviews).
Not without your written approval. The fixed price covers the scope we agreed, the LADBS permit and the inspections; if the house in Toluca Lake hides a problem, you get a written, priced change order before the crew touches it, and the final payment is only due after your walkthrough. Current planning ranges are in the room addition cost guide.
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Free consultation and zoning review. Written fixed-price proposal. One licensed team from design and permits — on the correct LA or Burbank side — through to a finished addition matched to your home.
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