A design-build studio in Madison, Wisconsin · Kitchens, baths, and whole homes (555) 041-2100
A design-build studio in Madison, Wisconsin

Home, the way you actually live it.

Kitchens, baths, additions, and whole homes, designed around your mornings and built by our own crews. One team, one fixed number, one door to knock on.

Since 2009 · 240+ projects Fixed pricing before demolition Illustrative demo figures
Why design-build

The designer and the builder answer to the same name

Most remodels go wrong in the gap: an architect draws a dream, a contractor prices a different one, and the homeowner referees. At Wrenhouse there is no gap. The person who sketches your kitchen sits twenty feet from the person who will build it, the design is priced as it is drawn, and the number you sign in the Refine phase is the number you pay.

We are a twelve-person studio, deliberately. Our own carpenters, our own project managers, and a design director who will talk you out of expensive ideas that will not earn their keep.

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Designers and homeowners reviewing material samples and floor plans at a long oak table in the Wrenhouse studio
What we build

Five ways to fix a house

Every service runs the same arc: Design, Refine, Build. One crew, one number, and a two-year warranty in writing.

Kitchens

The room that runs your house, planned around how your household actually cooks, lands, and gathers.

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Bathrooms

Small rooms with the highest stakes in the house. Waterproofing you never see, materials you touch every day.

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Whole-Home Remodels

When the whole floor plan is the problem. One design logic carried through every room, one crew, one number.

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Additions

New square footage that looks like it was always there, from foundations to the last siding course.

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Lower Levels

The cheapest square footage you own, finished to the same standard as your main floor and dry by design.

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Not sure where to start?

Our investment guide puts honest budget tiers in public, so you can place your project before you ever talk to us.

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How it works

Design. Refine. Build.

Three phases, in order, with the price locked before a single wall opens. It is the least dramatic way to remodel a house, which is the point.

01

Design

We audit how your household actually lives, then draw priced concept options. You choose a direction knowing what each one costs.

Weeks 1 to 8
02

Refine

Selections, engineering, and permits lock into one fixed proposal. The number you sign is the number you pay.

Weeks 6 to 12
03

Build

One dedicated crew, a published schedule, Friday photo updates, and a standing weekly walkthrough until the last coat dries.

Weeks on site vary by scope

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Recent work

Stories, not slideshows

Every Wrenhouse project publishes its facts: square footage, weeks on site, investment band, neighborhood. Proof you can read, not just scroll.

Remodeled kitchen with sage green cabinets, honed stone counters, and white oak open shelving in warm morning light
01 · Maple Hill

The Maple Hill Kitchen

A 1962 ranch kitchen that fed four people from one outlet. We took down the wall to the dining room, ran a nine-foot island down the middle, and gave the cook a window.

Square feet310
Weeks on site9
Investment band$140k to $180k
NeighborhoodMaple Hill

Illustrative demo figures; not a real project record.

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Renovated lakeside living room with deep spruce green built-in bookshelves, white oak floors, and golden hour light
02 · Lakeview

The Lakeview Whole Home

A 1948 lake house taken down to what was worth keeping, then rebuilt around the water: one long sightline from the front door to the shoreline.

Square feet2,400
Weeks on site26
Investment band$380k to $460k
NeighborhoodLakeview

Illustrative demo figures; not a real project record.

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The studio in numbers

Seventeen years of Madison mornings

17 Years designing and building in Madison
240+ Projects delivered by our own crews
96% Clients who would hire us again
12 Craftspeople on staff, not brokered

Illustrative figures for a fictional demonstration studio.

What clients say

Neighbors first, references second

The number they gave us in March was the number we paid in October. After two contractor horror stories from friends, that alone felt like magic. The kitchen being beautiful was almost a bonus.

Dana R.Kitchen remodel, Maple Hill · Fictional demo review

Every Friday at 4pm, photos and a plain-English note about what happened that week and what happens next. I never once had to call and ask what was going on. That is worth real money.

Erik and Lena H.Whole-home remodel, Lakeview · Fictional demo review

They drew the tile on the wall and made us stand in the taped-out shower before anything was ordered. Six weeks later the room matched the drawing. Nineteen years I waited for this bathroom.

Miriam K.Primary bath, Orchard Street · Fictional demo review

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Numbers out loud

We publish our investment tiers. On purpose.

Remodeling has a secrecy problem, and secrecy is expensive. Our guide names three honest tiers and what moves a project between them, before you ever pick up the phone.

Tier one $75k to $140k

The Refresh

One room, transformed inside its existing walls. The layout stays; everything you see and touch changes.

Tier two $140k to $260k

The Reworking

The plan itself changes: walls move, rooms trade jobs, and the house starts working the way you live.

Tier three $260k to $500k+

The Whole House

Multiple rooms, additions, or the full floor plan, rebuilt to one design logic under one contract.

Illustrative demo ranges, not quotes.

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From the journal

What we tell friends at dinner parties

Start here

Tell us about your house.

A first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Bring your questions, your rough budget, and the thing about your house that drives you crazy.

Start a conversation Or call the studio: (555) 041-2100