Brookside's Tudors, colonials, and shirtwaists have survived a century of trends. Remodeling one is a responsibility — we treat it like one.
Est. 2020 · Harrisonville, Missouri · Serving Brookside
Brookside is about a thirty-five-minute drive from our shop, and it's the kind of neighborhood our finish carpenters ask to be sent to.
The homes between the Plaza and Waldo — the 1910s-to-1930s Tudors, colonials, and shirtwaists that make Brookside Brookside — were built by hand, with plaster walls, site-milled trim, and floor plans from an era of separate rooms. They are wonderful houses and unforgiving remodel candidates: every shortcut shows, because it sits next to a hundred years of work done properly.
That's why we like it here. Our crew's standard — trim profiles matched instead of approximated, tile laid by hand, transitions between old and new that you can't find afterward — is the standard these houses were built to in the first place. We open up compact kitchens, rebuild narrow bathrooms, and modernize how the house lives without sanding off its character.
A Brookside kitchen remodel is a different job than a suburban one. The original kitchens here were service rooms — small, closed, and tucked at the back of the house — and opening them to the dining room means working honestly with plaster, old framing, and whatever a century of previous owners left in the walls. We scope that reality up front, in a line-item proposal, instead of discovering it as change orders.
The rest of the house rewards the same care: bathrooms where new tile has to hold its own against original character, staircases and trim that deserve restoration-grade carpentry, and basements from the stone-and-concrete era that can still become real living space with the right moisture-first plan.
Yes — matching existing profiles is finish carpentry we take seriously, whether that means sourcing the right knives for new runs of trim or blending repairs into original work so the seam disappears. It's slower than nailing up stock casing, and in a house like this it's the only acceptable way.
We do. Remodeling permits in Brookside run through the City of Kansas City, Missouri, and we handle the permitting legwork and inspections as part of the project.
Often, honestly, yes — not because of the neighborhood, but because of what a century-old house can be hiding: original plumbing and wiring, plaster that has to be worked around or redone, and framing that predates modern code. We scope those realities in the consultation and price them as line items up front, so the number you approve is the number you pay.
"JD Build did a fantastic job on our addition. The trim work was superb and I will continue to use their services for all of our projects."Marci Pruett — Google Review
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