Los Angeles general contractor · Custom homes · Residential wellness

Built for living well in Los Angeles.

Custom homes, high-end remodels, and home wellness — saunas, steam, cold plunge — built by Akopi Builders across Bel Air, Brentwood, the Palisades, and Malibu.

Start a conversation The wellness wing
Arnwood — backyard with pool, pergola, and sunken lounge, architectural rendering
Arnwood, Los Angeles — architectural rendering
Est. 2014 CSLB #1112420 Led by Hovik Akopyan Bel Air to Malibu

Featured work — one project

Nearing completion — details first
Book-matched stone in a primary bath, as built
Primary bath — book-matched stone, as built

We publish finished work when it is finished. Until then: the details, shot as built — stone set to a hairline, a stair you could check with a square.

Stair in rift-cut white oak, as built
Stair in rift-cut white oak — as built
Steel window reveal on the west elevation, as built
West elevation — steel window reveal

What we build

  • Custom Homes

    Ground-up residences, drawing set to keys, one accountable builder.

  • Remodeling

    Whole-home transformations of significant properties.

  • Hillside Construction

    Caissons, shoring, retaining — building where the city climbs.

  • Outdoor Living

    Pools, pavilions, terraces — the house, continued into the climate.

Why architects call us back

Calm is a construction skill.

Drawings
The full set, read before pricing. Conflicts flagged in preconstruction, not framed into the house.
Permits
LADBS, Coastal, hillside ordinances — run in-house, scheduled honestly.
Hillside lots
A decade of caissons and export logistics on the steepest streets.
Sequencing
Long-lead bought early; finish work never waits on rough.
Architect communication
RFIs answered in days; weekly written reports; photos before close-up.
Structural steel detail, as built
Structural steel, set exactly to the drawings.
The room as drawn — architectural sheet detail

Scroll — the drawing becomes the room

The wellness wing

The day ends. The house knows what to do.

Heat · Steam · Cold

Three rooms. One ritual.

Heat

Custom saunas — cedar · hemlock · wood-fired
Arnwood — covered outdoor living room, architectural rendering
Arnwood, Los Angeles — architectural rendering

Heat-rated assemblies, hidden ventilation, controls that disappear. Built into the house, engineered like the rest of it. Custom saunas

Steam

Steam showers — vapor-sealed · stone-lined · silent
Steam drifting across a stone-lined surface

A steam room is a waterproofing problem before it is a luxury. We solve it in the drawings, then build it silent.

Cold

Cold plunge — chilled · filtered · indoor or out
Still, dark water of a cold plunge with faint ripple

Full wellness suites sequence all three — heat, steam, cold, rest — in one engineered wing of the home. Explore wellness construction

For architects and designers

Wellness rooms are where good drawings go to die — heat, vapor, and water in one assembly. We build them as drawn, and the rest of the house to match.

How we work with architects

How we work

  1. Consultation

    A first conversation at the property, drawings in hand.

  2. Design & Pre-Construction

    Budget, drawings reviewed, long-lead items identified early.

  3. Permits & Planning

    Approvals run in-house and scheduled honestly — LADBS, Coastal, hillside.

  4. Build

    Weekly written updates. Decisions surfaced early. Keys at the end.

“They rebuilt the whole house, and we always knew exactly where the schedule and the money stood.”

Jerry — whole-home remodel

“The backyard went from drawings to the place we live in. Every date they gave us held.”

Alex — outdoor living

“The kitchen is the room everyone walks into and stops talking.”

Allen — kitchen remodel

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