Sound familiar?
Most builders sell you a process. You wanted a house.
The industry runs on allowances, change orders and a shrug at the end. Havenmark was started by a project manager who watched too many families pay twice for one house, and wrote a contract that makes the shrug impossible.
- Fixed price, fixed scope The number you sign is the number you pay. Site risk is priced before ground breaks, not discovered after.
- One architect, start to keys No handoff between the person who draws it and the crew who builds it — the drawing and the building answer to one desk.
- A weekly proof of work Every Friday: photographs, the schedule against the plan, and the spend against the budget. In writing.
A budget that moves is a plan that was never made.
2023 — 2026
Selected work
Six projects a year, photographed at handover. Full portfolio at the studio visit.
Whole-home remodels
Gut renovations re-planned around how you actually live — delivered in 14–20 weeks.
Architectural baths
Stone, glass and wet-room detailing installed to millimetre tolerances.
Custom homes
From your architect or ours. Six a year, never a seventh.
The process
Three conversations, then keys
The site consultation
Ninety minutes on your land or in your rooms. You leave with a written feasibility read and a budget band — free, and yours to keep.
The fixed contract
Drawings, selections and a price that already carries the risk. Sign once; nothing after it moves unless you ask.
The build, proven weekly
A finish date on the wall, a Friday report in your inbox, and a walkthrough that ends with keys.
We built once before — eleven change orders, seven months late. Havenmark handed us a fixed number at the first meeting and the final invoice matched it to the dollar. The house is the quietest thing we have ever owned.
The Friday report is the most underrated thing in construction. Twelve photos, the schedule, the spend — every single week for nineteen weeks. I never once wondered.
Our architect said it was the first builder to read the drawings to the last dimension. The atrium steel went in on a Tuesday and the glazing followed on Thursday. That is the whole review.
What a number looks like here
A Havenmark quote is a ceiling, not an opening bid. Ranges below are from last year's completed contracts — your fixed number follows the drawings.
Zero overrun, 84 builds running
The contract carries the risk; the contingency is ours, not yours. It has been tested by rock, water and one very determined frost — and held.
2026 ranges — design-build, fixed
Architectural kitchen$180–320k
Stone, cabinetry, glazing — 8–12 weeks on site
Primary suite + bath$140–260k
Structural, stone, wet room
Whole-home renovation$550k–1.2M
14–20 weeks, fixed contract
Custom home$2M–9M
From your architect or ours
Studio feasibility study$3,800
Written budget band, credited to build
Financing introductions through the valley's two private lenders, on request.
Will you really hold a fixed price on a custom home?
Yes — because the fixed number comes after the drawings and the site study are done, not before. The feasibility study prices the risk into the contract; 84 projects and zero overruns is what that discipline buys.
Do we need our own architect?
No. Half our clients arrive with drawings and half with a folder of photos. Our studio architect designs to the same contract either way — and the builder and the drawer share one desk, which is the entire point.
How long is the wait?
The studio takes six projects a year and is currently booking nine to twelve months out. A feasibility study can start within a month — it is the smart first spend on any site.
What if we want something smaller?
We say so and refer you out — honestly, and with two names. A $90k project deserves a builder whose machine fits it; pretending otherwise is how budgets break.
Build the house the valley talks about.
One conversation starts it — and the first one is free.
Havenmark Build · Lic. B-99214 · Fully insured · Studio: 4 Kiln Sq, Cedar Falls
Havenmark Build
4 Kiln Sq, Cedar Falls · Studio visits by appointment (555) 601-0110 · Licensed & insured