KHB’s in-house design team plans kitchens, bathrooms, and whole homes across the Central Valley — and then our crews build exactly what was drawn.
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KHB Construction’s in-house design team provides interior design and home design services across Modesto, Stockton, Ripon, Manteca, Tracy, and Turlock — space planning, kitchen and bath design, material and finish selection, lighting design, and full construction drawings. The difference from a standalone design studio: our designers work for a licensed general contractor (CSLB #1070537), so every drawing is buildable, priced against real construction costs, and carried through permits and construction by the same company.
You don’t hire us to make a mood board. You hire us to design a home you can actually build — on a budget you approve before construction starts.
Last updated: June 2026 · Reviewed by the KHB Construction team
Every selection is logged with real pricing as the design develops, so the budget and the design stay in agreement — no falling in love with a kitchen that costs double the plan.
Designed to the inch. White oak cabinet interiors with bronze hardware, from a KHB custom kitchen.
The classic remodel failure: a beautiful design that can’t be built on budget. A standalone designer hands you drawings and exits; the contractor bids them and the number lands 40% high; the redesign burns months. KHB closes that loop. Our designers sit next to our estimators and project managers — when they draw a wall coming out, they already know what the beam costs. When they spec stone, it’s priced that week.
The result is a design-build process where the design you approve is the project you get: same company, one contract, drawings through final inspection.
From drawing to detail. A handmade iron pendant, placed exactly where the lighting plan put it.
1. Design consultation. We walk your home, hear how you actually live in it, and frame a realistic budget range.
2. Concept & layout. Floor plans and elevations for the spaces that matter, with options where decisions are genuinely open.
3. Selections. Cabinetry, stone, tile, fixtures, lighting — chosen in order, logged with pricing, kept inside the budget you set.
4. Construction documents. Permit-ready drawings our own crews will build from — structural, electrical, Title 24 included.
5. Build. The same team carries the design through permits and construction, with the designers on call when field decisions come up.
The finished run. Iron lantern pendants over a working kitchen, exactly as designed.
Our design services are built to lead into construction — that integration is the whole advantage. If you only need drawings (for example, you have your own builder), talk to us: for the right project our team can deliver permit-ready design documents through our plans and permits service.
Design fees depend on scope — a kitchen design is very different from a whole-home plan with an addition. The design fee is quoted flat before we start, and because design and estimating run together, the construction price develops with the drawings instead of arriving as a surprise at the end.
Yes — most real projects keep something: the slab you love, existing cabinets worth refacing, a layout that mostly works. Good design isn’t maximal demolition; it’s knowing which moves change how the home lives and which just burn budget.
We produce the visuals each project actually needs — typically detailed floor plans and elevations, with perspective views for spatial decisions like islands, arches, and built-ins, so you can see the space before anything is demolished.
Decorators style finished rooms — furniture, art, soft goods. KHB designs the architecture of the room itself: walls, cabinetry, stone, lighting, plumbing locations — and then builds it. We’re happy to coordinate with your decorator for the final layer.
An in-house team of interior designers and design-build professionals working alongside our estimators and project managers — see our interior architecture page for how we approach the structural side of design.
Start with a design consultation — we’ll walk your space, talk through how you live in it, and frame what’s possible at your budget.
Or call (209) 528-0255 · CSLB #1070537
