Bethany Home Remodeling & Additions

Bethany is a newer, upscale planned community in unincorporated Washington County, known for larger homes and families who invest in expanding and elevating the way they live. Masters Construction is the design-build team for Bethany homeowners who want to add real square footage. We rework how a home flows and raise the finish level of indoor and outdoor space.

Everything runs under one roof, from architectural design through the final punch list. Every project starts with design and 3D visualization studio, so you can walk the design before construction begins.

Home additions and bump-outs, deck-to-room conversions, custom deck construction, covered outdoor living rooms, and poured-concrete patios and hardscape extensions round out our Bethany work. We also handle full design-build remodels of kitchens, primary suites, and whole-home interiors.

Most Bethany projects we take on combine two or three of these scopes \u2014 because that\u2019s what it takes to genuinely change how a home lives.

Residential permits here are issued by Washington County Building Services for unincorporated addresses. Parcels annexed into Beaverton or Portland go through city review instead. The first thing we confirm is which office owns your lot.

• Interior kitchen and bath remodels that stay inside the existing footprint typically clear plan review in about two to four weeks. Additions, structural work and second stories generally take six to twelve weeks, because they need engineered drawings and a planning review covering setbacks, height and lot coverage. Bethany adds one step most Washington County neighborhoods do not.
• Much of it sits inside planned communities with active homeowners associations. Their design review has to be approved before the county package is worth submitting. North Bethany parcels can also carry community-plan standards and stormwater conditions that affect where an addition or a covered structure can land.
• Masters Construction runs the whole track, from measured existing-conditions drawings and construction documents to structural engineering coordination. We handle the HOA submittal, the county submittal, written responses to plan-review comments, and every inspection from footing through final. You never chase a correction notice or schedule an inspector yourself.
• Because we price the project after design and engineering are complete, the permit set and the contract describe the same building. That keeps a Bethany project on schedule once demolition starts.

Bethany is newer than almost anywhere else in Washington County, built mostly between the 1990s and the 2020s. Two-story homes on modest planned-community lots make up most of it. These are opportunity remodels, not rescues.

Framing is conventional and sound, panels are usually adequate, insulation and windows are serviceable, and there is rarely knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized plumbing or asbestos to deal with. What dates these houses is the plan and the finish level.

Kitchens were built with builder cabinetry, a peninsula rather than a working island, and a wall between the cooking space and the family room.

Two-story entries take volume away from the rooms around them. Primary baths repeat the same corner tub, small shower and cultured-marble vanity from house to house. Bonus rooms above the garage are unfinished or underused, and the lots are tight enough that going up or reworking the existing footprint usually beats pushing out.

Our typical Bethany scope is an engineered beam to open the kitchen, custom cabinetry and millwork, a rebuilt primary suite, and a covered patio with heat and lighting.