Home Remodeling & Renovation Company Collier Hills, GA

Scroll through listings in Collier Hills and you’ll see the same phrase over and over: built in 1940, lovingly added onto over the years. That’s not real estate flattery, it’s an accurate description of the neighborhood. Collier Hills has long been Buckhead’s front door from the south. Most of its first houses went up between 1937 and 1941, and its original cottages have been quietly expanded by owner after owner ever since. If you’re renovating here, you’re almost certainly continuing a project someone else already started decades ago.

The neighborhood sits on the border between Buckhead and Midtown, along I-75, Northside Drive, and Collier Road, named for the Collier family, whose homestead sat near what’s now the corner of Peachtree and Collier Road, and whose antebellum grist mill ran off Tanyard Creek.

NewSong Renovations is a design-build renovation contractor, so the people drawing your plan are the people who’ll be on site building it. On a Collier Hills house that’s already been added onto once or twice, that’s what keeps a new addition, or a full home remodel, from becoming just one more mismatched era stacked onto the last.

What’s Behind the Walls in Collier Hills

The neighborhood’s original housing is compact and consistent: American Small Houses and cottages from the 1930s and 40s, with split-levels and Colonial Revivals filling in alongside them along Collier Hills’ rolling streets. Given how many of these homes carry an addition or two, expect original 1930s-40s construction, plaster and older wiring, in one part of the house, and a different, later era of construction in whatever’s been added on since.

Split-level homes here have their own structural logic: staggered floor levels rather than one continuous floor plate, which changes how an addition, a basement project, or a systems upgrade actually gets planned compared to a single-story cottage.

For homes that haven’t seen a full systems update, expect knob-and-tube or early wiring, cast iron plumbing well past its useful life, and a foundation that’s been sitting in Georgia red clay since before World War II. That’s simply what eighty-plus years and multiple rounds of expansion leave behind.

Renovation and Addition Services in Collier Hills

Home additions carry real weight here, since so much of the neighborhood’s existing character is already the product of additions done by prior owners. A new addition on a Collier Hills cottage has to work with a structure that may already be one or two additions deep, not just with the original 1940 house.

Kitchen remodel and kitchen renovation in the older cottages usually means reworking a space sized for a much smaller mid-century household, often by opening into an addition already sitting behind the original kitchen. Bathroom remodel and bathroom renovation follow the same pattern in homes that haven’t been updated: an original bathroom rarely has the plumbing to support a modern layout without real rework.

Whole-home renovation and whole-house remodel projects are common in Collier Hills. That kind of home remodeling, bringing an entire house, original cottage and later additions together, onto one set of current systems, is often the only way to stop treating the house as several different eras stitched together. Second-story additions work well on the split-level and Colonial Revival homes with room to build up; basement remodel and basement finishing potential depends heavily on the specific lot and its proximity to Tanyard Creek, which is worth checking before finalizing any below-grade plan.

Exterior renovation and interior renovation both benefit from the neighborhood’s established, tree-lined character; new work reads best when it matches what’s already there rather than adding a visibly newer layer. A porch addition or screened porch suits the neighborhood’s original cottage style well. An ADU, or accessory dwelling unit, is worth considering on the larger split-level lots. And while Collier Hills carries no historic designation, a house built in 1940 and added onto three times still deserves the same careful, systems-first approach as a historic home renovation, even without the formal label. Any remodeling company you bring in should treat it that way from the first walkthrough.

Tanyard Creek and What It Means for Site Work

Tanyard Creek runs along Collier Hills’ eastern edge, and its floodplain is a real, documented consideration for this specific stretch of the neighborhood. The creek has a history of flooding in heavy storms, and during the September 2009 floods the city’s Tanyard Creek combined sewer overflow facility overflowed into it.

That history matters directly for renovation planning. Before finalizing an addition, a basement project, or any new construction close to the creek, it’s worth checking the property’s floodplain status with the City of Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management. This isn’t a concern for every Collier Hills lot, but for homes near Tanyard Creek Park and the creek itself, it’s a real factor that belongs in the design conversation from day one, not something discovered mid-project.

How We Work

NewSong Renovations runs design and construction as one continuous process rather than two separate handoffs. On a house that’s likely already been through one or two rounds of expansion, that continuity is what keeps track of what’s original and what’s been added, without losing anything between the planning phase and the crew on-site.

We require homeowners to move out during major renovations, and that’s part of the first conversation, not something that comes up as a surprise later. Opening walls in an eighty-year-old cottage, especially one with additions to account for, isn’t something a family can safely live through, and we’d rather lose the job than tell you otherwise.

The process starts with an honest look at your specific house, what’s original, what’s been added, and whether the lot has any floodplain considerations to plan around.

Ready to talk about your Collier Hills home?

Whether you’re continuing a renovation someone else started decades ago, or planning the first real addition your cottage has had in years, that conversation starts with a look at what’s actually there.

Schedule a conversation with our team.