Renovation excellence near you.
Design-build renovations for homeowners across Washtenaw, Wayne, Oakland, Livingston, Monroe and Macomb counties. Transparent pricing. Real timelines. Craftsmanship that lasts.
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Six counties, one standard of excellence
Wright’s has built a reputation across Southeast Michigan on consistent quality and transparent communication — regardless of the zip code.
Expert renovations, done Wright
From kitchen transformations to whole-home remodels, we bring the same attention to detail and transparent process to every project.
Kitchen remodeling
Transform the heart of your home with custom cabinetry, premium countertops and thoughtful layouts.
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Create spa-like retreats with custom tile, modern fixtures and smart storage solutions.
Learn more →Basement finishing
Unlock your home’s hidden potential with finished basements, home theaters and rec rooms.
Learn more →Home additions
Expand your living space with seamless additions that match your home’s character.
Learn more →Decks & outdoor
Extend your living space outdoors with custom decks built for Michigan’s four seasons.
Learn more →Whole home remodel
Complete transformations managed with precision from design through final walkthrough.
Learn more →A clear path from idea to final walkthrough
No black-box estimates, no mid-project surprises. Every Wright’s project follows the same four-step framework, designed to keep you informed at every decision point.
Discovery call
A 30-minute conversation about your goals, budget range and timeline. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest read on whether we’re the right team for your project.
Design & proposal
On-site consultation with our design lead. You’ll receive a detailed scope, material allowances, line-item pricing and a realistic timeline — usually within seven business days.
Construction
A dedicated project manager, a single point of contact, and real-time progress updates through our client portal. You’ll always know what’s happening, what’s next and why.
Walkthrough & warranty
A detailed final walkthrough, a punch-list with zero outstanding items, and a written warranty on workmanship. Plus a year-out check-in to make sure everything still feels right.
Real homes. Real budgets. Real results.
A look inside a recent kitchen-and-living transformation in Ann Arbor’s Burns Park neighborhood.
The Burns Park Kitchen
Ann Arbor, MI · 1928 Tudor revival
Full gut renovation
A century-old kitchen, brought into 2026.
The homeowners wanted a kitchen that honored the Tudor’s original character while opening up sightlines and adding genuine workspace. We took the kitchen down to the studs, reframed for a wider island, custom-built cabinetry to match original millwork, and added a steel-and-glass partition that lets light flow but keeps the floor plans defined.
Real ranges. No surprises.
Premium renovation isn’t cheap, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Below are honest investment ranges based on our actual projects across Southeast Michigan. Most homeowners land near the middle.
Why ranges, not flat numbers? Every home is different. Layout complexity, structural surprises, finish selections, and your timeline all affect final cost. We give you a fixed proposal after the on-site consultation — no shifting numbers, no scope creep. Get a real estimate →
What makes us different from the typical contractor
After 15 years in Southeast Michigan, we’ve heard every horror story. Here’s how we built our process to be the opposite.
Answers before you ask
The questions homeowners ask us most often, answered plainly.
How long does a typical kitchen or bathroom renovation take?
Most kitchen remodels run six to ten weeks from demolition to final walkthrough. Bathrooms typically land between four and seven weeks. Whole-home and addition projects vary widely — we share a realistic timeline in your written proposal, not a wishful one.
Do you handle permits and inspections?
Yes. We pull every required permit in your municipality, schedule and coordinate all inspections, and keep records on file. You won’t be navigating Ann Arbor, Plymouth or Birmingham’s building department — that’s our job.
Can we live in the home during construction?
Almost always, yes. For kitchen remodels we help set up a temporary cooking station. For bathroom work in single-bath homes we coordinate carefully around schedules. Whole-home remodels are the main exception — those usually require a temporary move.
How do you handle unexpected issues behind the walls?
Older homes hold surprises — and most of ours are older homes. When we find something unexpected, we stop, document it, photograph it, present the options and the cost, and wait for your written approval before continuing. No verbal upcharges.
Do you offer financing?
We partner with several established home-improvement lenders and can introduce you during the proposal phase. For most premium projects, homeowners use a cash-and-HELOC combination — we’re happy to walk through the math with you.
What’s covered under your workmanship warranty?
Every Wright’s project comes with a written warranty on our workmanship for one full year. Material warranties pass through from the manufacturer. If something we built isn’t right, we come back and make it right — no negotiating.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes — Michigan Residential Builder License #2102236887, fully insured for general liability and workers’ comp, and EPA Lead-Safe certified. We’ll provide certificates of insurance before any work begins.
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Backed by the certifications that matter
Licensed builder
EPA Lead-Safe
Fully insured
5.0 Google rating
Inc. 5000 applicant
NARI member
NAHB member
A2 BBB accredited
Veteran discount
Energy Star partner
A renovation should feel like the house was always meant to be this way.
Wright’s design-build approach starts with a question most contractors never ask: how do you actually use this space?
Design before demolition
Most renovation problems are decisions made too late. A wall comes out, then someone realizes the new layout traps the refrigerator door against the island. A bathroom gets framed, then the vanity won’t fit the way it looked on paper. The team at Wright’s spends weeks before a single tool comes out — measuring, sketching, building 3D models, and walking through the design with the homeowner in the actual space.
That up-front investment is why Wright’s projects finish on time. The mistakes that derail timelines on other jobs get caught at the design table, where they cost an afternoon of revision instead of a week of demolition.
The philosophy is borrowed from the design-build tradition: one team, one accountability chain, one set of drawings. No architect blaming the builder. No builder blaming the architect. Just the people who designed it making sure it gets built that way.
The best renovations are invisible. You walk into the kitchen and it just feels right, and you cannot tell what was original and what was added.— Connor Wright, founder
Built for the long version of the story
A renovation is not the end of a story; it is a chapter. The kitchen renovated in 2026 will host Thanksgiving in 2042, and the materials, fixtures, and layout choices all need to age in good faith with the family using them.
Wright’s defaults to materials and finishes that look better with use, not worse — solid maple over particle-core cabinetry, full-slab quartz over sheet laminate, mortared tile over click-lock flooring. The premium adds 6 to 12 percent to the project cost and removes the need to renovate again in eight years.
Every kitchen project includes a 25-year cabinet warranty and a 10-year workmanship warranty. Every bathroom gets a Schluter-system waterproofing membrane, even though state code only requires a basic vapor barrier. Those choices show up in the line-item budget, never as hidden upgrades after the contract is signed.
The result is a finished space that still looks intentional ten years later — when the trends that drove the original design have moved on, but the underlying decisions still serve the people living in the house.
Honest budgets, written once
The proposal a homeowner signs is the price they pay, barring scope changes they request in writing. No allowances that magically double. No surprise change orders.
One project manager, one phone number
The same project manager owns the job from kickoff to punch list. No game of telephone between sales, design, and field. The homeowner texts one person and gets answers.
The house stays livable
Plastic zip walls, daily cleanup, dust filtration on every active job. Families can stay in their home through most projects without losing their sanity to construction dust.
Permits pulled, codes followed
Every project that requires a permit gets one. Every inspection gets passed. Resale appraisals look clean because the paperwork matches the work.
From one truck to a Southeast Michigan institution
Wright’s was built the way the best Michigan homes are built — slowly, on purpose, with the long view in mind.
The Wright’s Renovations story starts in 2021, when Connor Wright was nineteen years old, working construction jobs by day and reading building science textbooks at night. He had already noticed something that frustrated every homeowner in Southeast Michigan: the gap between what contractors promised and what they actually delivered was enormous, and nobody seemed interested in closing it.
Most of the failures were not about skill. The framers could frame. The tilers could tile. But the systems wrapping the work — the proposals, the timelines, the communication — were stuck in the 1990s. Homeowners signed contracts they did not understand, watched their kitchen demo turn into a four-month tarp tent, and got change orders that doubled the budget.
Connor’s bet was that premium design-build work could be delivered with the operating discipline of a software company — clear written scope, transparent pricing, daily status updates, photos uploaded to a client portal every evening. The hypothesis was that homeowners in Ann Arbor, Birmingham, and the surrounding communities would pay for that experience, because nobody else was offering it.
The hypothesis held. Wright’s grew from one truck to a full design-build team in under four years, with revenue compounding faster than the team could keep up with demand. Today the company operates from a 7,000-square-foot headquarters on Platt Road in Ypsilanti, runs 15 to 20 simultaneous projects across six counties, and still answers the phone the same way it did in 2021: with the person who can actually answer the question.
The full story is in the milestones below — and in the portfolio of finished projects across Southeast Michigan that documents the trajectory.
Wright’s Renovations founded in Ypsilanti
Connor Wright registers the LLC at nineteen, books the first remodel — a Saline kitchen — and begins the slow process of building a brand on word of mouth alone.
First full design-build team
Wright’s hires its first project manager and design lead. The company expands from kitchens and bathrooms into whole-home renovations and starts taking on additions.
Platt Road headquarters opens
The team moves into the current Ypsilanti office and shop space. A dedicated design studio gives homeowners somewhere to review materials, finishes, and renderings in person.
Geographic expansion across all six counties
Wright’s takes on its first projects in Oakland and Macomb counties. Active projects span Washtenaw, Wayne, Oakland, Livingston, Monroe and Macomb — a 60-mile radius from headquarters.
Director-level leadership team
Katherine Anderson joins as Director of Strategic Operations; Will Sujek joins as Director of New Business. The company crosses 30 finished projects per year and a 5-star average across more than 30 verified reviews.
Inc. 5000 application year
Wright’s submits for the 2026 Inc. 5000 list on the back of multi-year revenue growth. The team continues to scale toward a stated long-term target of $10M annual revenue by 2028 to 2030.
Every Wright’s project comes with these as standard
The line-item budget covers every box below before a single optional upgrade is discussed. No nickel-and-dime add-ons. No surprise allowances.
Design & planning
In-home design consultation
A 90-minute session at the homeowner’s house with the design lead and project manager. Measurements taken, photographs catalogued, scope documented in writing the same week.
3D renderings of the proposed space
Photorealistic models the homeowner can walk through before demolition starts. Edits are unlimited during the design phase, included in the base proposal.
Materials and finishes selection meeting
A guided session at the Platt Road design studio. Cabinet samples, countertop slabs, tile boards, plumbing fixtures, and hardware all reviewed in person under matched lighting.
Permit drawings and code review
Stamped construction drawings for any project that requires a building, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical permit. Filing handled by Wright’s; the homeowner never visits the municipal office.
Construction & protection
Dust-controlled work zones
Zip-wall dust barriers installed before demolition. Air scrubbers run for the duration of any dust-generating work. Daily sweep and HEPA vacuuming.
Floor and surface protection
Ram board on every walking path. Stair tread covers. Furniture pads on anything that stays in the work zone. The house gets handed back in the same condition as the un-renovated areas.
Daily on-site project manager
The same project manager who scoped the job walks the site every day, sends a photo update by 5 p.m., and handles any homeowner question within one business day.
Final punch list and walk-through
Before final payment, the homeowner and project manager walk the finished work line-by-line. Anything that does not meet the agreed standard gets fixed before the invoice closes.
Local knowledge from the ground
Renovating in Ann Arbor is not the same as renovating in Birmingham. Different housing stock, different permitting offices, different design vocabularies. Here is what the team has learned working in each.
Renovating in Ann Arbor
Burns Park · Old West Side · Water Hill · Lower Burns Park
Ann Arbor’s historic housing stock is the most challenging in the region — and the most rewarding. Burns Park craftsman bungalows from the 1920s. Old West Side Victorians from before the turn of the century. Mid-century moderns near the University. Every block tells a different architectural story, and every renovation has to honor that story without freezing the home in amber.
The team has completed projects across all four Ann Arbor neighborhoods, and the through-line is the same: solve the contemporary functional problem (kitchen too small, master bath too cramped, basement unfinished) without erasing the character that made the homeowner buy the house. Original trim profiles get matched. Plaster walls get repaired, not replaced. Hardwood floors get woven in, not patched.
The Ann Arbor permitting office is one of the more thorough in Southeast Michigan, especially for projects in the historic districts. Wright’s handles every filing, every inspection appointment, every revision request. The homeowner never reads a code section.
Read more about Ann Arbor projectsRenovating in Birmingham
Quarton Lake · Poppleton Park · Pembroke · Holy Name
Birmingham is the fastest-growing market for Wright’s, and it is also the most architecturally varied. Quarton Lake’s 1920s Tudors sit a few blocks from Pembroke’s mid-century ranches, which sit a few blocks from the new-construction transitionals north of 14 Mile. A renovation strategy that works in one neighborhood will look out of place in the next.
The premium expectations are also higher. Birmingham homeowners specify the finish materials before the first design meeting. They have already toured the showrooms. They know what they want from Waterworks, from Wolf, from Subzero, from Visual Comfort. The job of a Birmingham renovation team is to execute that vision with zero compromise on detail, which is exactly the project size Wright’s specializes in.
Birmingham’s building department is responsive, but the inspection schedule is tight. Wright’s project managers schedule inspections at the framing stage and again at finals — both with at least two days of buffer, because catching a no-show inspector early can save a week of crew downtime.
Read more about Birmingham projectsThe materials standard every Wright’s project meets, no exceptions
Premium finishes look the same on day one. The difference shows up at year five, year ten, year fifteen. Wright’s specifies for that horizon.
Cabinetry
Solid wood face frames, plywood boxes, soft-close hardware on every drawer and door. Particleboard cores are not used on any visible cabinetry, anywhere.
- Box construction: 3/4-inch plywood, dovetailed drawer joinery
- Face frames: Solid maple, cherry, oak, or specified hardwood
- Hardware: Blum or Hettich soft-close, full-extension undermount
- Finish: Conversion varnish or catalyzed lacquer, 5-step process
- Warranty: 25-year warranty on the box, 5-year on doors and drawer fronts
Countertops
Full-slab natural stone or porcelain. Seams placed strategically, polished by hand on the underside of the edge profile. No laminate. No cultured marble.
- Quartz: Cambria, Silestone, Caesarstone — 3cm thickness standard
- Natural stone: Granite, marble, soapstone — sealed before final walk-through
- Porcelain slab: Dekton or Neolith for indoor-outdoor continuity
- Edge profiles: Eased, mitered, full bullnose, or specified profile
- Templating: Laser templating on every job, no field-cut surprises
Tile & waterproofing
Schluter-Kerdi waterproofing on every shower, even when code does not require it. Tile lines align across every plane of the room.
- Waterproofing: Schluter-Kerdi membrane, full envelope
- Setting materials: Polymer-modified thinset, never premixed mastic
- Grout: Mapei Flexcolor CQ or Laticrete Permacolor Select
- Layout: Plumb-and-square dry-fit before any setting
- Substrate: Cement backer or Schluter-Ditra, never green board
The full specification book is part of every proposal
Wright’s proposals include a line-item materials specification down to the SKU and manufacturer. Nothing is hidden behind allowances.
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Credentials
Trust signals, certifications, awards. Four-up shows abundance without overwhelming.
Quick stats
Four numbers, four labels. Strong as a band beneath a hero or above a CTA.
Service categories
Top-level service buckets. Each opens to deeper content downstream.
The people you’ll actually work with
Wright’s is small enough that the founder still answers the phone and the design lead still walks the site. Here’s who you’ll meet.
Connor Wright
Connor started Wright’s at 19 with a single truck and a clear belief: Southeast Michigan deserved better than the typical contractor experience. Today he leads a team of designers, project managers and crews — and still personally meets with every new client during the discovery phase.
Katherine Anderson
Katherine runs the systems that keep your project on time and on budget. If your timeline holds, it’s because of her.
Will Sujek
Will leads design consultations and turns conversations into clear, written proposals. University of Michigan economics. Ross MBA.
A few projects we’re proud of
Real homes, real renovations, real before-and-afters across Southeast Michigan.
Built around the things that actually matter
We’re not just contractors — we’re your neighbors. Based right here in Ypsilanti, we know what Southeast Michigan homeowners need.
Licensed & insured
Michigan License #2102236887. Full coverage for your peace of mind.
Real-time updates
Project visibility through our client portal — twenty-four hours a day.
Transparent pricing
Detailed proposals with line items. No hidden fees. No surprises.
“Connor and his team transformed our outdated kitchen into a space we love. Communication was excellent throughout — we always knew exactly what was happening.”Sarah M.Ann Arbor, MI · Kitchen remodel client
5.0 stars · 30+ verified reviews
A few words from homeowners across Southeast Michigan.
I had Wright’s Renovations out to remodel my 1960s outdated bathroom, and everything came out beautifully. From the start, the communication was excellent.
Wright’s Renovations took our new condo that was stuck in the early 1990s style-wise and updated it to a modern look. It was an incredible transformation.
Wright’s Renovations completely renovated our new Plymouth Condo and did an awesome job. They made the entire process seamless.
Talked to a lot of teams before we chose Wright’s. Love the results. Worked with my vision, budget and schedule. We are very happy with the outcome.
Connor and his team did an amazing job with our basement remodel. Transparent, honest, fair and communicative throughout.
We had a wonderful experience with Wright’s Renovations, start to finish. They renovated our attached garage into two beautiful new spaces.
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