ABOUT US
The name comes from a house
Not a place we're from. A plan built again and again, by a father-and-son crew who wanted to get it right every time.
WHERE IT STARTED
Before Robin started a firm of his own, he'd already helped build hundreds of homes. Alongside his father, in Lexington, Kentucky, not watching from the sidelines, but on the crew: framing, running trades, learning the parts of the job no one can teach you from a set of drawings. Between them, they offered several spec home designs to buyers over the years. One outsold every other plan they built. Buyers kept choosing the Roxbury, not because it was priced differently, but because it looked and felt different: an intentional floor plan that made sense the way you actually moved through it, vaulted ceilings where a flat one would have been faster, crown molding with a level of detail most builders skip, finishes that read as more considered than the house next door. It wasn't the flagship because it was the flashiest option on the list. It was the flagship because buyers could tell someone had actually thought it through
Roxbury was the plan people kept choosing because it was clearly, deliberately considered. We still build to that standard.
WHAT IT TAUGHT US
Two very different careers led to this company, and both still run it. Building hundreds of homes in Lexington taught Robin something most contractors never get the chance to learn: which design decisions buyers actually notice, and which ones just add cost. That's not a lesson you get from a design degree or a single project. It's a lesson you get from watching people choose one house over another, hundreds of times, until the pattern becomes instinct. Laura's path ran the opposite direction. A licensed CPA with a master's degree in accounting, she built and ran her own eight-person accounting practice, then spent years working as an outsourced CFO for mid-sized businesses, building and monitoring the kind of realistic budgets an owner could actually run a company on. By the time she started pricing renovations, she'd already spent a career making sure numbers held up under pressure. Neither of us set out to become a design-build firm. We just noticed that between the two of us, we already had the two things a renovation is most likely to get wrong.
DESIGN, BUILT IN
Robin didn't learn design in a classroom. He built it hundreds of times.
Before California, Robin helped his father build hundreds of homes in Lexington, including the plan that outsold every other one they offered, because of details most builders skip entirely. That instinct for what makes a home feel considered wasn't taught. It was proven, house after house, by which ones buyers actually chose.
BUDGET, AUDITED
Laura doesn't estimate a budget. She's spent a career keeping them honest.
A licensed CPA with a master's degree in accounting, Laura built and ran her own eight-person accounting practice and later worked as an outsourced CFO for mid-sized businesses, creating and monitoring the realistic budgets those owners actually ran their companies on. A number from Roxbury gets the same rigor.
WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU
You've likely worked with a contractor before who was good at one of these things and not the other, beautiful instincts, unreliable numbers, or the reverse. We started this company because we didn't think you should have to choose.
Every project we take on still runs on the same standard that made one plan outsell all the others in Lexington: the details you'd never think to ask for, done anyway, until the whole thing reads as considered. We just also send you a budget update every week while we do it.