
As a design build contractor in Santa Cruz CA, we specialize in bringing your construction and renovation visions to life. Our comprehensive services encompass every stage of the design build process, ensuring seamless project delivery and exceptional results.
Our Services
Every project begins with a conversation — a consultation where we discuss your goals, the site, budget, and overall feasibility. From there, we outline a clear design path tailored to your project. Our design services can stand alone, allowing you to explore and refine the vision without any immediate commitment to construction.
In the design phase we balance form, function, and context to create spaces that feel right, flow well, and connect naturally to their surroundings. Because our design is intentional at every level, the aesthetic emerges organically: clean, harmonious, and enduring.
We blend architectural insight with hands-on building experience, designing with a builder’s mindset from day one. The result is a home that performs beautifully, is efficient to build and maintain, and grows comfortably with the people who live in it — purposeful in every detail, and beautiful because of it.
Design



Design sets the vision — building brings it to life.
Whether we create the design together or you come to us with plans already in hand, our construction process is built to deliver clarity, precision, and consistency. We integrate directly with the design phase — refining details, identifying challenges early, and aligning everyone around the same vision before a single stake goes in the ground.
At Stump Development, construction isn’t just execution; it’s craftsmanship. We understand how every material, connection, and sequence impacts the final home, from the foundation to the finishes. By combining hands-on oversight with trusted trades and fabricators, we ensure that quality is intentional, not accidental.
When design and construction operate under one roof, we eliminate the typical disconnect between drawings and the job site. Decisions happen quickly, communication stays clean, and the build moves forward without unnecessary friction. Even when working from outside plans, we apply the same rigor — ensuring the design is fully realized in the field.
Great building is more than finishing a project; it’s creating a home that performs beautifully, feels cohesive, and stands the test of time.
Build



Design + Build
When design and construction work together, the results speak for themselves.
Our design-build approach unites creative vision and hands-on execution under one team, ensuring continuity, clarity, and efficiency from concept to completion.
At Stump Development, the same minds who design the home help build it. This alignment removes the disconnect that often exists between architects, builders, and clients — ideas move directly into action, challenges are addressed early, and every decision supports both design intent and construction reality.
The result is a smoother process, stronger cost control, and a finished home that feels cohesive and intentional at every level. We manage the full journey — concept, permitting, budgeting, and construction — with transparent communication and a shared commitment to quality.
Design + Build isn’t just a service; it’s how we ensure that what’s imagined on paper performs beautifully in the real world.



While many projects can be delivered directly through our in-house design-build process, some projects benefit from the expertise of a licensed architect. In those cases, we partner with Barc Architecture, bringing 40+ years of architectural experience and a long-standing collaboration that supports our seamless, integrated workflow.

