JOHNSON COUNTY DESIGN-BUILD REMODELING
Basements built for gathering, hosting, and everyday living. We also remodel kitchens, bathrooms, and connected living spaces, with design and construction coordinated by Built by Design.
COMPLETED WORK
Explore the rooms, features, and decisions in these completed BBD projects.
Lenexa, KS
This finished Lenexa basement includes a custom bar, lounge, home gym, bathroom, built-ins, white oak flooring, brick accents, and warm modern finishes. The lower level is planned for both everyday use and entertaining.
Overland Park, KS
This Overland Park project pairs a finished lower level with a custom media wall, bar, bathroom, exterior updates, and outdoor living space. The design creates connected places for relaxing, hosting, and spending time outside.
Overland Park, KS
This Overland Park basement remodel includes a custom wet bar, lounge, bathroom, gym, office nook, pool table, and game room. The finished lower level gives the home more room for entertaining, workouts, guests, and everyday use.
WHAT WE BUILD
From full-home projects to lower levels, kitchens, bathrooms, and additions, the goal is the same: a finished space that feels like it always belonged there.
Finished lower levels, bars, lounges, guest spaces, gyms, media rooms, and basements that don't feel like an afterthought. See our Overland Park basement remodeling page.
Explore Basement Remodeling
For homes that need more than one room fixed. We help connect layout, finishes, function, and flow so the entire home feels considered.
Explore Whole-Home Remodeling
Custom kitchens built around daily use, entertaining, storage, lighting, layout, and the details people notice immediately.
Explore Kitchen Remodeling
Bathrooms with better planning, better materials, cleaner details, and a finished feel that goes beyond swapping fixtures.
Explore Bathroom Remodeling
Room additions, primary suites, second-story ideas, and larger living spaces planned so the home doesn't feel pieced together.
Explore Home Additions
Planning, selections, scope, and construction thinking brought together earlier so the remodel has a clearer path before work begins.
Explore Design-BuildHOW THE WORK GETS CLEANER
Mike oversees construction and project management. Kristen guides design direction. See how scope, selections, and construction come together in our design-build process.
We talk through the home, the goals, the pain points, and whether the project is the right fit.
Before anyone gets too attached to a finish or layout, the scope needs to make sense.
Selections, design direction, budget conversations, and build realities need to line up before construction starts.
The work should move with clear expectations, direct updates, and attention to what's happening inside the home.
HOMEOWNER VOICES
Real feedback from Johnson County and Kansas City homeowners on communication, planning, and how the finished space lives day to day.
“Any questions or issues that came up were promptly addressed and resolved to our satisfaction. ... They provided us a beautiful space that we will enjoy for years to come.”
“They have completed two major remodels for us. ... The communication was very good. We knew about every delay and why. ... As a repeat customer I will always use them for all my remodeling projects!”
“We weren't expecting such clear communication during the process, but we certainly got it! ... It honestly feels like we added another level to our house, not just a basement. Couldn't be happier with the outcome.”
PLANNING HELP
Clear answers make better decisions. Browse practical guides on cost, scope, timing, and the planning work that keeps remodels from drifting.
Basement planning
What to decide before you finish a lower level
Scope, layout, and details that keep the finished space from feeling like an afterthought.
Read guide
Kitchen cost
Compare kitchen estimates by scope
Compare allowances, exclusions, layout changes, and the costs outside a construction quote.
Read guide
READY TO TALK?
Tell us what you're planning, where the home is, and what needs to change. We'll respond within 24 hours to discuss project fit and the next step, including whether to arrange a home visit.
