Where We Build
Custom Home Builder in Chino Hills
On the hillside lots of Vellano and the estate pockets around it, Chino Hills offers what coastal Orange County cannot: land. BSHP Construction builds ground-up custom estates here — engineered for the slope and specified for the inland climate.
Vellano first
For a custom home builder in Chino Hills, Vellano is the centre of gravity: a guard-gated community of hillside custom lots above a championship golf course, with a design review process that has real authority over massing, materials and landscape. We treat that review the way we treat coastal committees — as the front of the programme, with its own critical path.
Gated-site logistics follow the same logic. Access hours, staging, deliveries and trade counts are agreed with the association in advance, so the build runs to a plan the community has already accepted.
Hillside engineering, inland edition
These are slope lots. Graded pads, cut-and-fill balance, retaining structures and drainage are what the geotechnical report governs here, and the view a lot promises is earned by the engineering below it. Excavation sequencing and shoring get planned around how much of the hill can safely be open at one time.
None of this is exotic to us — it is the same discipline our ridge-top coastal work demands, applied to a different soil report.
Heat, sun and the building envelope
Inland summers run well past anything the coast sees, and the envelope has to be designed for it: orientation and shading studied early, glazing specified for solar gain rather than salt, insulation and mechanical zoning sized honestly for the load.
Outdoor living turns toward the evening here. Shaded terraces, water, and western exposures handled with intent are what make a Chino Hills estate usable through the summer rather than in spite of it.
The wildland edge
Parts of Chino Hills border open hills, and parcels near that edge carry fire-hardening and defensible-landscape requirements. Those are design inputs, not afterthoughts — material selections, venting details and the landscape plan account for them from the first drawings.
Run from Irvine, present on site
Our office is in Irvine, close enough that senior supervision is on the Chino Hills site as a routine, not an event. The trade bench is the same one that builds our coastal work, held to the same documentation and the same standard of finish.
Proof
A completed estate, photographed in full
Rather than describe the standard, we publish it. Sixty-eight photographs of a ground-up Newport Coast build, room by room.
Common Questions
Questions we get asked
Do you build in Vellano?
Yes. Vellano’s design review, hillside grading conditions and gated-site logistics are ground we know first-hand, and we build the programme around them from the first week rather than discovering them mid-project.
What does a hillside lot change about the build?
The foundation system, the retaining and drainage scope, and the sequencing of excavation. The geotechnical report governs all of it, which is why we put geotechnical certainty — and a budget that reflects it — at the front of preconstruction.
Are there wildfire-related requirements?
Parcels near the open hills typically carry fire-hardening and defensible-space requirements. We design to them from the start — materials, venting, glazing and the landscape plan — rather than retrofitting them into a finished design.
Do you build outside the gates as well?
Yes. Vellano is the best-known address, but we take on estate lots across Chino Hills where the site and the program warrant a ground-up custom build.
How closely can you supervise a project this far from the coast?
Our office is in Irvine — close enough for senior leadership to be on site routinely — and the project carries full-time site supervision regardless. Distance is a logistics fact, not a quality variable.
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