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A white living room with a brass chandelier, a grasscloth media wall, built-in shelves and a stone coffee table

Beyond the Build

The house is finished. It is also empty.

The floors are in. The cabinetry is installed. The lighting is chosen. But none of those decisions tell you how the rooms will actually live once construction is over.

Beyond the Build starts where the build ends.

It is everything that goes in after: furniture, rugs, lamps, drapery, artwork, bedding, decor and the layers that make a new house feel like home.

What we take off your plate

Furniture & space planning

Rugs & lighting

Custom drapery

Artwork

Bedding & pillows

Decor & styling

Ordering & receiving

Installation

One plan. One timeline. A finished home.

A new kitchen with a coffered wood beam ceiling, black steel windows, and three brass and glass pendants over a marble island

The plans do not show you this part.

The plans tell us where the walls go. They do not tell us how you will live between them.

Where the furniture sits. What fills a twenty-foot wall. How a two-story window gets treated. Where you need another layer of light. What belongs in the corner you did not know would feel empty.

Those are not finishing touches. They are the decisions that turn the rooms you built into the home you pictured.

A showroom in Waukee with a paneled white oak cabinet standing over stacks of folded wool and jute rugs.

You keep what you love.

We start with what you already own.

Some pieces move straight in. Others need a different room, new upholstery or something around them to make them work.

And when something truly does not fit the new house, we will tell you.

You do not need to start over. You need a home where the old and the new look like they were always meant to be together.

We work with the house that's already taking shape.

Beyond the Build works alongside your builder and their design team, without taking over the construction design.

We review the finishes already selected so the furniture, rugs, drapery, artwork and other layers work with the house being built.

If we join while construction is underway, we can also flag built-in decisions that will affect the furnished rooms—lighting locations, window treatments, hardware or other details—while there may still be time to address them.

We advise where the furnishings and the build meet. Your builder and their design team keep ownership of the construction.

When should you call us?

While you are building

We plan and order while construction is underway, coordinating the furnishing timeline with the build.

Instead of moving into an empty house and furnishing it room by room over the next two years, you move into a home that already feels considered.

After you close

That works too.

Live in the house first. Learn what you use, where everyone lands and what the rooms actually need.

Then we come in and finish it with you.

Tell us about the house.

Where you're building, who you're building with, where you are in the process and what has already been chosen.

That's enough for us to start.