Drive the stretch of Lewisville-Clemmons Road between Shallowford Road and Tanglewood Park and you pass neighborhoods built across five decades: brick ranches on big lots, two-story colonials from the subdivision era, and newer builds tucked into golf-course and cul-de-sac communities. Homes of those eras were typically designed for how families lived twenty or thirty years ago.
That gap is what drives higher-end remodeling in this part of Forsyth County. Higher-end remodeling here is rarely a flip-and-sell exercise. More often it’s a homeowner who has decided to stay put and wants the house to finally match the way they live. This post walks through what those projects actually look like in 2026: the scope, the sequencing, the decisions that matter, and how a fixed-price contractor approaches them.
Salem Builders is a licensed North Carolina general contractor (License L.86773) based in Winston-Salem. Lewisville and Clemmons are both in the heart of our service area, alongside neighboring Bermuda Run across the Yadkin River.
In our experience, higher-end remodeling in Lewisville and Clemmons is rarely about extravagance. It’s about three things:
The common thread is that the homeowner is planning to be in the house for a long time and wants the work to hold up as long as they do.
In our experience, this project is often a structural project disguised as a kitchen project. In homes built from the 1980s through the early 2000s, it’s common to find the kitchen walled off from the family room. Opening that wall generally means a load-bearing beam, engineering, permits, and rerouting whatever electrical, plumbing, or HVAC runs through it.
What the finished project typically includes: a large island with seating, a proper range wall with a real hood vented outside, a pantry (often carved out of a closet or a little-used dining room), and lighting designed in layers rather than one center fixture. Kitchen and bath remodeling is a core part of what we do, and the projects that go well are the ones where the layout gets solved on paper before a single cabinet is ordered.
In older homes, it’s common to find generous bedrooms attached to surprisingly small bathrooms — a tub-shower combo, a single vanity, and a closet that was fine in 1990. The higher-end version of this project typically borrows space from an adjacent closet or bedroom to create a walk-in shower, a double vanity, a water closet, and a real dressing area.
The details that separate a good primary bath from a great one are mostly invisible when it’s finished: waterproofing systems behind the tile, a properly sloped shower pan, a supply system sized for the fixtures, and ventilation that actually moves air outside rather than into the attic.
Where lots are larger — as they often are in this part of the county — additions tend to be more feasible than on tight infill lots. Common versions of this project include rear family-room-and-kitchen expansions, first-floor primary suites for homeowners planning to age in place, and covered outdoor living spaces that extend the season on a shaded lot.
An addition is the most involved project on this list. It typically means a survey, engineered foundations, tying a new roof into an existing one without leaks, matching or deliberately contrasting the existing exterior, and extending the home’s mechanical systems. Our additions and ADUs page covers the process in more depth, and our additions portfolio shows what this kind of project can do for an older home.
Some homeowners buy a well-located but dated house in Clemmons or Lewisville specifically to renovate it fully before moving in. Others have lived in a house for fifteen years and decide to do everything at once rather than room by room. Either way, a whole-home renovation is a sequencing exercise: systems first, then structure, then finishes. Done in the right order, the work can be considerably more efficient than the same scope tackled as separate projects over several years.
Every homeowner wants a number, and it’s fair to want one. Here’s the honest answer: the projects described above are genuinely different from one another, and where a specific project lands depends on the structural work involved, the mechanical rerouting, the finish level, and the condition of what’s behind the walls. A number quoted before a contractor has walked the house is a placeholder, not a price.
That range is wide because the projects are genuinely different, not because pricing is a mystery. What we can do is scope your project and put a fixed-price contract amount in writing for the agreed scope. Salem Builders works on fixed-price contracts — the price we agree on is the price you pay, and we don’t issue change orders unless you choose to add scope. We back the schedule the same way: our On-Time Completion Guarantee is in writing, crediting $500 per week off the final invoice if the project runs past the agreed completion date for reasons within our control. For a higher-end project where the budget matters, that certainty is often more valuable than a low opening bid that moves later.
Structural changes, additions, and most projects involving electrical or plumbing work will generally require permits and inspections. Requirements vary by scope and jurisdiction — Lewisville and Clemmons are their own towns inside Forsyth County — so confirm the specifics for your project before work begins. Your contractor should handle this, and should be able to tell you exactly which permits your project needs and who is pulling them.
Higher-end cabinetry, custom windows, and some tile and plumbing fixtures often carry lead times measured in weeks or months. A project that starts demolition before those items are ordered is a project that will stall with your kitchen in pieces. The fix is straightforward: long-lead items get selected and ordered before the start date, not after.
Homes in this area span half a century of construction practices. Opening walls in an older Lewisville house can reveal wiring, plumbing, or framing that needs attention before the new work goes in. A good contractor investigates before pricing — crawl space, attic, panel, existing plumbing — which can head off the most avoidable surprises.
Many homeowners stay in their homes during a remodel. That works well when the project is phased deliberately: a temporary kitchen set up before the real one comes out, dust containment between the work zone and the rest of the house, and a clear schedule so you know which weeks will be loud. It works poorly when nobody plans for it.
Higher-end projects run for weeks or months, and one of the most common frustrations homeowners describe from past projects is silence. Every Salem Builders client gets a written update with photos every Friday — what happened this week, what’s next, and anything that needs a decision. It’s a small thing that changes how a long project feels.
If you’re considering a kitchen, primary suite, addition, or whole-home renovation in Lewisville, Clemmons, Bermuda Run, or the surrounding Forsyth and Davie County communities, request a free on-site consultation. We respond within 2 hours, walk the house with you, and work on fixed-price contracts — so before any work begins, you’ll have a written fixed-price contract amount for the agreed scope. We’re typically booked 4–6 weeks out, so if you have a timeline in mind, it’s worth starting the conversation early.