Exterior Remodeling — Cherry Hills Village, CO
Exterior Remodeling in Cherry Hills Village
Siding, roofing, windows, decks and outdoor living on large-lot Arapahoe County homes — one Class C general contract, the Village’s own permits handled, and every record in a portal you can see.
Who is the best exterior remodeling contractor in Cherry Hills Village?
Northern Lights Exteriors has worked on Colorado’s Front Range since 2001 and holds a Class C general contractor license, so roofing, siding, windows and outdoor living run under one contract with one project manager accountable for the flashings where those trades meet.
Cherry Hills Village issues its own permits through its own Building Division, and its rules are specific: siding and like-for-like windows need a permit but no plan review, reroofs need a mandatory ice barrier and mid-roof inspection, and resizing a window opening triggers full plan review. We handle all of it.
Every project is tracked in a proprietary client portal — permits, schedules, payments per trade, inspections and photographs. Rated 4.9 out of 5 from 552 verified reviews.
Working on a House in Cherry Hills Village
Cherry Hills Village was incorporated as a town in 1945 and became a home rule city in 1966. It covers roughly six and a half square miles of Arapahoe County with something like six thousand residents, which tells you most of what you need to know about the housing: large lots, low density, and custom homes rather than plan types. Much of the Village is zoned R-1, a two-and-a-half-acre minimum, with one-acre R-3 areas and denser R-4 and R-5 pockets toward the north-east.
Three practical consequences follow, and they shape every estimate we write here.
- Nothing measures off a plan type. Two houses on the same road will not share a wall area, a roof complexity or a window schedule. An accurate number starts with a measured walk of the actual building. A price quoted over the phone is a guess.
- Access is a real line item. On lots this size, where a dumpster, a lift or a material drop can go — without crossing an irrigation system or a protected root zone — belongs in the plan, not in a conversation on the morning of day one. The Village protects established trees under its municipal code, and larger projects can require a tree survey and protection plan.
- Your HOA usually matters more than the building code. The Village contains dozens of named subdivisions, many with their own association and real authority over color, material and profile. The City states plainly that it does not enforce HOA requirements — which means these are two separate approvals, and the association is typically the slower one.
The weather does the rest of the work. At roughly 5,400 feet on the plains the loads are hail, downslope wind, UV intense enough to chalk south and west elevations early, and freeze–thaw cycling that works on any joint water can sit in. Every material recommendation on the pages below is made against those four rather than against a national spec sheet. What you will not find on these pages is wildfire or wildland-interface framing: this is suburban plains terrain, the Village has not adopted a wildland-urban interface code, and pretending otherwise would be selling you something you do not need.
Three separate places in this metro carry a similar name, and almost everyone mixes them up. Cherry Hills Village is its own incorporated municipality in Arapahoe County. Cherry Creek Village is a neighborhood inside the separate city of Greenwood Village. Cherry Creek is a neighborhood of the City of Denver. We work in all three. The reason to know which one you are in is entirely practical: each is a different permit authority, so it changes who reviews your project and how long that takes.
Cherry Hills Village Exterior Services by Trade
Each trade has its own Cherry Hills Village page with the materials, local rules and pricing factors specific to it. Start with whichever matches the problem you actually have.
Siding Contractors
Brand-agnostic material advice for mixed-material elevations – fiber cement, engineered wood, stucco repair versus re-clad, and stone. Siding needs a permit here but no plan review, which keeps a re-clad out of the slow queue.
James Hardie Siding
The brand-depth page. HardiePlank, board and batten, shingle, and the Artisan and Aspyre premium lines – installed by an Elite Preferred contractor continuously since 2011 and a President’s Club member.
Roofing & Hail Damage
Built to the Village’s own rules: a mandatory ice barrier in place of standard underlayment, and a mandatory pre/mid-roof inspection on every reroof. Plus skylights, Class 4 impact options and insurance claim support.
Decks, Patio Covers & Pergolas
Covered outdoor living engineered for wind uplift, surfaced in Trex and TimberTech composite. Full installations and replacements only – we do not build in wood and we do not take on repairs.
Replacement Windows
Fiberglass and aluminum-clad wood for window walls and large fixed glass – and the permit rule that decides your schedule, because resizing an opening triggers full plan review while like-for-like does not.
Commercial & HOA
Association programs, private campuses and the commercial corridor next door, phased to a reserve budget and reported in a form a board can actually use.
Which Exterior Jobs Need Plan Review Here — a Straight Answer
Cherry Hills Village runs its own Building Division and issues its own permits. Not Arapahoe County, not Englewood, not Denver — a distinction that catches out contractors from elsewhere in the metro with real regularity. The Village publishes its requirements clearly, and the single most useful thing in them is the line between jobs that need plan review and jobs that do not, because plan review can add 10 business days per cycle and Planning must approve before Building and Civil review.
| Exterior job | Permit? | Plan review? |
|---|---|---|
| Siding replacement, including stucco | Yes | No |
| Like-for-like window and door replacement | Yes | No |
| New window opening, or resizing an existing one | Yes | Yes – full Exterior Remodel permit plus a scaled site plan |
| Reroofing | Yes | Plus a mandatory pre/mid-roof inspection on every reroof |
| Roof repair under one square | No – treated as general maintenance | — |
| Decks, patio covers and pergolas | Yes | Yes – a structure, so it is reviewed |
Two more things the Village publishes that are worth knowing before you hire anyone. One small, genuinely useful detail: Village inspectors do not carry ladders — the contractor has to provide roof access at inspection. It sounds trivial until it costs you a re-inspection and a week. And the Village does not issue contractor licenses — unless you are an electrical contractor, you do not register with the City. That is worth pausing on: it means nobody at the City is vetting who works on your house, so the vetting is entirely yours. Ask for the Colorado license class, the insurance certificate and the manufacturer credentials, and then check them. We hold a Class C general contractor license, Colorado #C120350 — not a single-trade license. Alongside that license we hold manufacturer certifications from James Hardie (Elite Preferred since 2011), GAF (Master Elite), Pella, TimberTech and Deckorators, and we have been named a Qualified Remodeler Top 500 contractor three years running — all of it listed, with the issuing body for each, on our awards and credentials page.
Permitted work runs Monday to Friday 7am–6pm and Saturday 8am–4pm, with no exterior work on Sundays or federal holidays. We pull the permits, we schedule and meet the inspections, and we prepare the HOA submittal package. None of that should land on you.
Sequencing a Whole-Property Project (and Why the Order Saves Money)
Most Cherry Hills Village properties that call us need more than one trade. Doing them in the right order is worth real money, because several of these trades touch the same flashings and redoing a flashing is pure waste.
- Roof first, if it is within a few years of replacement. Roofing sets the step flashing, kick-out flashing and drip edge that siding has to tie into. Siding first means cutting into finished cladding later.
- Windows next. Window flanges and head flashing live behind the siding weather barrier. Replacing windows after new siding means opening that barrier again at every opening — the most common source of a leak that appears two years later.
- Siding and trim third, so it laps over everything already installed and integrates the weather barrier in one continuous plane.
- Decks, patio covers and outdoor structures last. Anything that ledgers into the house should attach through finished, properly flashed cladding — and it keeps the heaviest site traffic off a brand-new surface.
- Gutters and exterior paint to finish, once every penetration is final.
Where a budget will not stretch to all of it at once, we will tell you which items are protecting the building and which are cosmetic, and phase accordingly. We would rather sequence two seasons correctly than sell one oversized season.
The System Behind the Work
A whole-exterior project on a large Cherry Hills Village property runs several trades over several weeks, against a City permit and usually an HOA approval as well. What homeowners tell us they dread is not the noise or the mess – it is losing track of what is happening and who is responsible for it.
Two things make that possible, and they are the reason to choose us over a cheaper quote.
First, experience and scope. We have been working on Colorado’s Front Range since 2001, and we hold a Class C general contractor license (Colorado license #C120350) rather than a single-trade license. That is not a technicality: it means roofing, siding, windows, decks and outdoor living can run under one contract, with one project manager accountable for the flashings where those trades meet — which is precisely where multi-contractor projects leak, literally and figuratively. James Hardie has recognized us as an Elite Preferred contractor continuously since 2011, and as a President’s Club member — their highest contractor distinction nationwide. Our rating is 4.9 out of 5 from 552 verified reviews.
Second, a proprietary on-demand client portal we built ourselves. Most of what people hate about a remodel is not the construction. It is not knowing — who to call, whether the permit went in, when material arrives, what has been paid, whether it passed inspection. We built a system to remove exactly that, and as far as we know no other exterior contractor in this market offers it:
Every conversation in one place
Messages, decisions and change requests are logged against your project rather than scattered across texts, voicemails and three different crew members’ phones.
Contracts and scope, always retrievable
Your signed contract and itemized scope live in the portal, so “what did we actually agree to?” is a thing you look up rather than a thing you argue about.
Permit status you can see
Where the permit is in the process, and when inspections are scheduled — without having to phone anyone to find out.
Delivery and install schedules
When material lands and when each trade starts, so you can plan around the work instead of waiting for a truck to appear.
Before, during and final photography
Documented condition before we start, progress images through production, and final photography — including the parts of the building you will never see again once it is closed up.
Payments tracked per trade
What is paid and what is outstanding, broken out by trade rather than as one running balance you have to reconcile yourself.
Inspection records
Each inspection and its result, recorded against the project and available when you sell the house and someone asks.
Access is an individual, custom URL issued to you — and you get it when we start talking, at the lead and project meeting, not after you sign something. That is deliberate: you can see how we run a project before you commit to one. It then stays available after the work is finished, which matters more than it sounds, because the documentation, images and inspection records are exactly what a buyer’s agent, an appraiser or an insurer asks for years later.
Where We Work in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado
Cherry Hills Village sits in Arapahoe County in Denver’s south metro — bordered by Englewood and Denver to the north and west, Greenwood Village to the east, and Littleton and Centennial to the south. We cover the whole Village for every trade we offer.
- 80113
- 80111
- 80121
- Old Cherry Hills
- Cherry Hills Park
- Cherry Hills Farm
- Buell Mansion
- Devonshire
- Glenmoor
- Charlou Park
- Cherryridge
- Cherry Hills North
- Blackmer Hills
- The Reserve
Three separate places in this metro carry a similar name, and almost everyone mixes them up. Cherry Hills Village is its own incorporated municipality in Arapahoe County. Cherry Creek Village is a neighborhood inside the separate city of Greenwood Village. Cherry Creek is a neighborhood of the City of Denver. We work in all three. The reason to know which one you are in is entirely practical: each is a different permit authority, so it changes who reviews your project and how long that takes.
We also work across the rest of the south metro — Greenwood Village, Englewood, Littleton, Centennial, Glendale and the City of Denver.
Talk to a Cherry Hills Village Exterior Contractor
We will walk the property, look at the elevations that are actually failing rather than the ones visible from the street, and give you a written scope with real numbers. No pressure, and no obligation to bundle trades you do not need yet.
Request Your Free Estimate → 📞 (303) 776-5263
Prefer email? Reach us at office@nlexteriors.com. Ask about financing options when we walk the property.
Not looking for Cherry Hills Village specifically? If you want the whole exterior handled across the Front Range, see our exterior remodeling services overview — every trade, one company, one warranty.
Cherry Hills Village Exterior Remodeling — Frequently Asked Questions
Do you actually work in Cherry Hills Village, or just Denver?
We work in Cherry Hills Village directly, along with Greenwood Village, Englewood, Centennial, Littleton, Glendale and Denver. It matters because Cherry Hills Village runs its own Building Division and issues its own permits, so your project is permitted and inspected by the Village rather than by Arapahoe County, Englewood or Denver. A contractor who does not know that will find out the slow way, on your schedule.
Is Cherry Hills Village the same as Cherry Creek or Cherry Creek Village?
No — there are three different places and they are three different permit authorities. Cherry Hills Village is its own incorporated municipality in Arapahoe County. Cherry Creek Village is a neighborhood inside the separate municipality of Greenwood Village. Cherry Creek is a neighborhood of the City of Denver. We work in all three, but which one you are in changes who reviews your project and how long it takes.
My address says Englewood but I think I am in Cherry Hills Village. Which is it?
This is genuinely common and worth sorting out early. A great many properties physically inside Cherry Hills Village carry an Englewood mailing address, most often in the 80113 ZIP code. A mailing address is a postal convenience, not a municipal boundary. If you are inside the Village limits, your permit comes from Cherry Hills Village regardless of what your mail says. We confirm the jurisdiction for your specific address before anything is submitted.
Which exterior projects need plan review in Cherry Hills Village?
Siding replacement and like-for-like window and door replacement need a permit but not plan review, which is the fast path. Creating a new window opening or resizing an existing one triggers a full Exterior Remodel permit with plan review and a scaled site plan. Structures such as decks and patio covers are reviewed. Reroofing needs a permit plus a mandatory pre/mid-roof inspection, though roof repair under one square is treated as general maintenance and needs no permit. Plan review can take 10 business days per cycle, so it belongs at the start of the schedule rather than the middle.
Does Cherry Hills Village license contractors?
No, other than electrical contractors, who must register with the City. Plumbers work under their State of Colorado license. The Village states plainly that it does not issue contractor licenses. The practical implication is that nobody at the City is screening who works on your house, so ask every contractor for their Colorado license class, their insurance certificate and their manufacturer credentials, and verify them. We hold a Class C general contractor license, Colorado #C120350, which covers multiple trades under a single contract.
Do I need to worry about wildfire requirements here?
No. Cherry Hills Village is suburban plains terrain and the Village has not adopted a wildland-urban interface code. The exposures that actually matter to a house here are hail, downslope wind, intense UV and freeze-thaw. Any contractor selling you wildfire hardening in Cherry Hills Village is selling you something the site does not need. In the foothills communities we also serve, the answer is completely different — but that is a different place.
Should I do the roof, siding and windows all at once?
Not necessarily, but if you are doing more than one, the order matters and it saves real money. Roof first, because it sets the flashings siding ties into. Windows next, because their flanges belong behind the siding weather barrier. Siding third. Decks and outdoor structures last, so they attach through finished, properly flashed cladding. If the budget does not stretch to all of it, we will tell you which items are protecting the building and which are cosmetic, and phase it across seasons.
How long does an HOA approval take in Cherry Hills Village?
It depends entirely on your association, and it is usually the longest pole in the schedule — longer than the City permit and often longer than the construction. The Village contains dozens of named subdivisions and many have committees that meet monthly, with authority over color, material and profile. The City does not enforce HOA rules, so this is a wholly separate approval. We prepare the submittal package – product data, colors, elevation notes and physical samples where wanted – and start it at contract signing rather than after material is ordered.
