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Building Custom Homes in HERMOSA BEACH, CA
We understand why you’re drawn to building a custom home in Hermosa Beach, CA. The energy here is vibrant yet relaxed—laid-back luxury at its finest. With its walkable streets, ocean breezes, and effortless blend of creativity, health, and surf culture, Hermosa embodies an easygoing but inspired lifestyle—youthful, connected, and alive with coastal charm.
While we could build anywhere, we choose to design and build homes in Hermosa Beach because we love creating spaces that reflect this modern coastal way of life. The South Bay is our home, and our passion lies in crafting residences that balance sophistication with a sense of freedom—tailored down to the smallest detail, from the texture of the kitchen tile to the light that filters through your windows in the late afternoon.
Most people see building a home as stressful, but we thrive on the process. We enjoy the art of coordination—whether it’s sourcing handcrafted materials, installing panoramic ocean-view glass walls, or timing every phase of construction with precision. These challenges are part of the creative rhythm of building something lasting and personal—a home that captures the spirit of Hermosa Beach.
Our Design-Build Process for Hermosa Beach Homes
Foundation to Furniture
Our design-build approach brings architecture, design, and construction together as one unified team. Instead of juggling multiple contractors or conflicting ideas, you get a single, cohesive vision. From the foundation all the way to the final furnishings, every element of your home is thoughtfully considered—materials, finishes, furniture, and all the subtle details that make a space truly your own.
Stress-Free Project Management
Permitting and compliance in Hermosa Beach can be challenging, but White Sands excels at navigating this terrain. From city approvals to coordinating hillside deliveries, we handle the complexities for you. The result is a clear, streamlined process with fewer surprises and a faster path to completion.
Start Your Home Journey Today
If you’re ready to bring your dream home to life, White Sands is the Hermosa Beach custom home builder you can rely on. Schedule a consultation and experience how smooth, transparent, and enjoyable the building process can be.
Anatomy of an Arched Window
There’s more to a beautiful arch than the curve. From proportion and framing to materials and surrounding details, every element plays a role. Here are our best-kept secrets to getting the details right.
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Our latest install at Seaside French Transitional gave us the perfect excuse to rethink the entry into a sandroom. And yes, you heard that right: a sandroom.
When you live by the beach, sand is simply an unavoidable part of the lifestyle. Instead of fighting it, we designed a dedicated space to make coming home from the beach a little more practical. A place to drop the sandy towels, shake out the beach bags, and transition from barefoot beach days to home.
Beautiful enough to be part of the house, functional enough to handle everything that comes with living by the ocean.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Architecture: @jfournierdesign
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
Styling: @emilyedithbowser
Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes, Luxury Interior Design, High End Construction, Seaside French Transitional, Coastal Interiors, Beach House Design, Custom Home Design
Sometimes the bones are already there and your space just needs a little love.
For this home, we kept what was working and gave the spaces a fresh point of view through a new palette, layered textiles, thoughtful furnishings, and a collection of beautiful objects.
Let this space be a great reminder that sometimes good design is knowing what to keep, what to change, and where a little can go a long way. For design assistance on an upcoming project, let’s connect!
Interior Design: @whitesandsdesignbuild
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
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A little tour through a few of the homes we’ve had the privilege of designing and building over the years.
From the 4th Street Project and Coastal Chic to the Beach Brownstone, High End Modern, and Casa Caldia, no two homes are ever approached quite the same way. The common thread? Thoughtful design, intentional materials, and a build process that brings the vision all the way through to reality.
Swipe to view a few of our favorites.
Design/Build: @whitesandsdesignbuild
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
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A little look at what’s been keeping us busy lately. 🤍
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The mood board behind our Seaside French Traditional kitchen
It perfectly captures the calm, classic essence of seaside living: layered neutrals, weathered woods, soft textiles, and subtle nods to coastal living.
Relaxed but elevated, traditional but not expected. It really is the kind of home that feels effortlessly collected and will be just as beautiful years down the road.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Architecture: @jfournierdesign
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
Styling: @emilyedithbowser
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The living room of our Seaside French Transitional is where the home’s European influence and coastal ease really come together.
Soaring vaulted ceilings create a sense of volume, while the dramatic arched window wall draws your eye straight to the natural light beyond. We kept the furnishings soft and relaxed with linen upholstery, organic textures, and a sculptural travertine coffee table, allowing the architecture to remain the star.
Refined, but not overly formal. Layered, but never overdone. Exactly how we want a coastal home to feel.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Architecture: @jfournierdesign
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
Styling: @emilyedithbowser
Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes, Luxury Interior Design, High End Construction, Seaside French Transitional, Coastal Interiors, Living Room Design, European Inspired Interiors
Two takes on the classic white kitchen.
While both start with a light, neutral foundation, the details take them in very different directions. Comment your favorite of the two below.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
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One of the most valuable things a designer brings to a project is the ability to see problems before they become problems.
Before a cabinet gets built that doesn’t function the way you need it to. Before a lighting plan leaves a room feeling flat. Before a material transition looks awkward. Before a decision becomes expensive or impossible to change.
We’re constantly thinking several steps ahead, looking at how each decision will affect the next one and how the finished home will actually function.
Because you’re not just paying us to make things beautiful. You’re paying for the experience to know what to look for, what to question, and what to solve before you ever have to think about it.
That’s just one of the many values of thoughtful design.
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Behind every design is a designer, a vision, a process, renderings, and eventually, a final result.
We’re taking you along for the journey of creating this Manhattan Beach Coastal Walk Street home. Follow along as we share more of this project. You won’t want to miss it.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
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We’re so excited to finally share our Seaside French Transitional—and this kitchen might just be one of our favorite spaces in the home. She is dreamy.
Designed with the ease of coastal living in mind and layered with European influence, the kitchen brings together warm caramel-toned custom cabinetry, Calacatta marble, a sculptural plaster range hood, hand-finished zellige tile, woven rattan, and aged brass. Every detail was chosen to feel collected, considered, and anything but expected.
And perhaps our favorite part? This may be a spec home, but it was designed to feel anything but. From the bespoke appliance garage to the intimate banquette tucked alongside the kitchen, every element was given the attention you’d expect from a completely custom home.
A very special project, and one we’re so happy to finally share with you.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Architecture: @jfournierdesign
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
Styling: @emilyedithbowser
Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes, Luxury Interior Design, High End Construction, Seaside French Transitional, Custom Kitchen Design, European Inspired Interiors, Coastal Luxury Homes
Let’s be honest, not every project budget can accommodate every dream piece and that’s okay. Good design is about knowing where the investment will have the greatest impact.
When we need to make room in the budget, there are certain areas we’re much more comfortable pulling back on without compromising the overall feeling of the home.
Looking for design assistance on your next project? Let’s connect
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
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Timeless design isn’t about creating a home that looks untouched by time. It’s about creating one that grows more beautiful with it.
We start with strong architecture, thoughtful proportions, and natural materials. From there, we layer in craftsmanship, texture, and pieces that feel collected rather than prescribed.
Trends have a place, but they shouldn’t dictate the foundation. The most enduring interiors feel considered without feeling overly designed and, best of all, still feel like you years from now.
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We know it can be hard to see the vision when you’re staring at hundreds of samples, finish options, drawings, and inspiration images. A marble sample is just a marble sample. A cabinet door is just a cabinet door. On their own, it’s almost impossible to picture how everything will eventually come together.
But that’s where our expertise comes in.
We’re not looking at each decision individually. We’re looking at how every material, finish, proportion, color, and architectural detail will interact with everything around it and how it will ultimately feel as a complete home.
So if you’re looking at a table covered in samples thinking, “I have no idea how this is going to look,” trust us. We see it. We have the vision. And bringing that vision to life is exactly what we’re here to do.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Architecture: @jfournierdesign
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
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Seaside French Transitional | Before + After
From a pile of dirt to the finished home, this transformation was all about creating something that felt refined without feeling overly formal. We layered classic French influences with the ease of coastal living, soft materials, natural textures, timeless details, and a palette that lets the architecture breathe.
Stay tuned for a glimpse at the inside coming soon.
Design/Build: @whitesanddesignbuild
Architecture: @jfournierdesign
Photography: @laurentaylorcreative
Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes, Luxury Interior Design, High End Construction, Seaside French Transitional, Coastal Interiors, Transitional Design, Custom Home Design
Three places.
One common thread.
Beautiful architecture has a way of slowing you down.
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