There is a version of your home that feels effortless. Where the light is always right, the spaces flow naturally, the kitchen works the way a kitchen should, and every room feels like it was built for exactly the life you’re living. That version isn’t a fantasy. It’s the result of a process done right, from the very first sketch to the final finish. At Stonewood and Revision, that process is all we do.

Two Companies. One Standard of Excellence.

Stonewood is a custom home builder based in Wayzata, Minnesota. For decades, we’ve been crafting and building custom homes throughout the Twin Cities, from lakefront estates on Lake Minnetonka to thoughtfully crafted family homes in the communities we know best. Every Stonewood home is built from the ground up, planned around a specific family, a specific lot, a specific vision.

Revision is our remodeling division, created to bring that same depth of craft and process to homeowners who love their location but need their home to evolve. Revision handles whole-home remodels, kitchen and bath renovations, additions, and the kind of structural transformations that most remodeling companies simply aren’t equipped to execute. Together, Stonewood and Revision represent the full arc of what a home can be: built from scratch, or reimagined entirely.

What connects Stonewood and Revision isn’t just shared ownership. It’s a shared belief: that the homes people live in should be planned and built with intention, that quality compounds over time, and that the process of getting there should be as clear and honest as the final result.

Craft It Right: Why Every Great Home Starts With a Better Question

The word “craft” means something specific in building and remodeling. It’s not a marketing term. It’s the disciplined work of understanding how a family actually lives, and then translating that understanding into a home that supports it — spatially, structurally, and built with lasting intention.

It starts, always, with questions. Not “What style do you like?” but deeper ones. How do you move through your morning? Where does your family actually gather, as opposed to where you wish they gathered? How do you entertain, and how often? What’s the first thing you want to feel when you walk through the front door? What do you want your home to say about how you live?

These questions matter because they shape everything that follows. A kitchen planned around how a family actually cooks is a completely different kitchen from one planned around how a family imagines they cook. A living room built for a family that gathers around the fire looks nothing like one built for a family that gathers around the screen. Getting it right is an act of listening before it’s ever an act of drawing.

At Stonewood, our planning process for custom homes is a genuine collaboration between client, architect, and builder, conducted over weeks and months before a single permit is pulled. We develop floor plans that reflect the way the sun moves through a site at different times of year. We think about ceiling heights not as defaults but as deliberate choices. We consider how a material will age, not just how it looks on a sample board.

At Revision, the planning process for remodeling projects follows the same discipline but applies it to a different challenge: working within an existing structure while creating something that feels entirely new. That means structural assessment alongside aesthetic vision. It means understanding what the home is doing well and what it isn’t, and making changes that honor the former while solving the latter.

Build It Right: The Craft Behind the Result

Planning resolves the questions. Building is where the answers become real. And in custom home building and high-end remodeling, the quality of construction is where projects either honor the vision or quietly betray it.

Stonewood has spent decades building custom homes throughout the Twin Cities with a commitment to construction quality that goes well beyond code compliance. We work with subcontractors who share our standards and have the experience to meet them. We build with materials selected for performance and longevity, not just appearance. And we manage the construction process with the kind of active oversight that ensures the home being built matches the home that was planned, detail by detail.

For Revision, the construction challenge is different but the standard is identical. Remodeling requires a particular kind of expertise: the ability to work within an existing structure, anticipate what you’ll find when walls come down, solve problems that weren’t visible in the planning phase, and maintain quality through the kind of complexity that new construction rarely faces. Revision’s team brings a custom builder’s depth of knowledge to every renovation, which is why our remodeling outcomes look and perform the way they do.

The difference between a remodel that still looks good ten years later and one that shows its age in five is almost never the vision. It’s the building. The way the tile was set. The way the trim was fitted. The way the cabinetry was installed. The way the mechanical systems were integrated. These things aren’t glamorous, but they’re the foundation of everything that is.

Live In It Well: What a Home Is Actually For

Custom homes and significant remodeling projects are investments. They involve real money, real time, and real disruption to daily life. But the measure of a great home isn’t the investment. It’s what the investment makes possible: a daily life that is genuinely better because of where and how you live.

This sounds simple. It isn’t. Most homes, even beautiful ones, fall short of this in some way. The kitchen that photographs well but doesn’t function for the way the family actually cooks. The primary suite that checks every box but doesn’t feel like a sanctuary. The living room built for entertaining but never for Tuesday evenings with the kids. These gaps between how a home looks and how it lives are the spaces where Stonewood and Revision work.

At Stonewood, “live in it well” is built into the custom home process from the start. Because we plan and build every home from the ground up, we have the opportunity to get every element right: the orientation of the home on the lot, the placement of windows for light and view, the flow between rooms, the proportion of spaces, the location of utility areas, the integration of indoor and outdoor living. Every decision is made with the end in mind: a home that feels effortless to live in because every decision that built it was made with intention.

At Revision, “live in it well” is often the motivation for the remodel itself. Homeowners come to us because something about their home isn’t working, and it’s affecting the quality of their daily life in ways small and large. Our job is to find that something, understand it fully, and fix it at the level it needs to be fixed, whether that means reconfiguring a floor plan, raising a ceiling, rebuilding a kitchen from scratch, or restoring the connection between the interior and the landscape outside.

The Stonewood and Revision Process: From First Conversation to Final Reveal

Whether you’re building a custom home with Stonewood or completing a major remodel with Revision, the process follows a similar discipline. It begins with listening and ends with a walkthrough of a finished space that matches, or exceeds, what you imagined at the start. The steps between those two points are where the quality lives.

• Initial Consultation. We start with a conversation, not a pitch. We want to understand who you are, how you live, what you love about your current situation, and what you want to change. For Stonewood custom home projects, we also talk about sites, timing, and the broad parameters of the build. For Revision remodeling projects, we walk your home together and look at it with fresh eyes.
• Discovery and Vision. Before any planning work begins, we invest time in understanding the full scope of your vision, your priorities, your lifestyle, and your budget. This is where the project’s direction gets established, and it’s where we ask the questions most builders and remodelers skip over. Getting this phase right is what makes everything that follows easier and better.
• Plans & Selections. Working with our architectural partners, we develop plans, elevations, and material selections that translate your vision into a buildable reality. For Stonewood custom homes, this is a comprehensive architectural process. For Revision remodeling projects, it includes structural assessment alongside aesthetic and functional planning, ensuring that what we’re proposing is not just beautiful but genuinely executable within your existing home.
• Transparent Budgeting. Before construction begins, you receive a detailed, honest budget. No vague allowances written to keep the number down. No surprise costs that appear once work is underway. We build in realistic contingencies, we explain them clearly, and we commit to a number we can stand behind.
• Pre-Construction Planning. The period before the first nail is driven is where construction quality is determined. We finalize all selections, confirm all lead times, sequence the work intelligently, and make sure every trade knows what’s expected and when. This phase is where most building and remodeling projects go wrong. It’s where we make sure they go right.
• Construction with Active Oversight. Throughout the build or renovation, your project manager keeps you informed at every stage. You know what’s happening, what decisions are needed, and where things stand. For Stonewood custom homes, this means consistent site visits and structured communication. For Revision remodeling projects, it means daily presence in your home, careful protection of the spaces not under construction, and the kind of active problem-solving that complex renovation work always requires.
• Final Walkthrough and Handoff. We don’t consider a project complete until every detail has been reviewed with you, every question has been answered, and every finish meets the standard established at the beginning. The final walkthrough is a celebration of what was built or renovated, but it’s also a commitment: we stand behind our work, and we want you to love the result for years to come.

Why Minnesota Homeowners Choose Stonewood and Revision

Minnesota has a remarkable culture of home. People here take their homes seriously, because they spend real time in them, across all four seasons, through winters that test a building’s quality and summers that reward thoughtful indoor-outdoor living. The homes that perform over decades in this climate, that look and feel as good in February as they do in July, are the ones built with real craftsmanship and genuine attention to how they’ll be lived in.

Stonewood custom homes are built for this climate and this culture. We understand Minnesota’s thermal and moisture demands, and we build to exceed them. We understand the way families here use outdoor spaces and we build homes that connect to them beautifully. We understand the light across the seasons and we orient and window homes to take advantage of every hour of it.

Revision remodeling projects are approached with the same regional understanding. Many of the homes we renovate throughout the Twin Cities were built in eras when energy performance was an afterthought, when kitchens were built for a different kind of family life, and when the relationship between interior and exterior was almost an accident. Revision brings these homes into the present without erasing what made them worth keeping in the first place.

Custom Home Building and Remodeling Done the Right Way

The building and remodeling industry is large and varied. There are production builders who build the same home hundreds of times with minor variations. There are contractors who take jobs at any price point and manage quality accordingly. There are renovation companies that specialize in cosmetic updates and call them transformations. Stonewood and Revision are none of these things.

Stonewood is a custom home builder in the truest sense: every home we build is conceived from scratch, for a specific client, on a specific site, with a process that begins with genuine listening and ends with a home that couldn’t have been built for anyone else. We don’t build on spec. We don’t have standard floor plans. Every Stonewood home is an original.

Revision is a custom remodeler with the same commitment to specificity. We don’t have a remodeling formula. We don’t apply the same kitchen layout to every project or specify the same materials across every renovation. Every Revision remodeling project begins with the unique reality of a particular home and a particular family, and it ends with a result that honors both.

What Stonewood and Revision share, beyond ownership and values, is a conviction that custom building and remodeling done at the highest level is one of the most meaningful investments a family can make. Not because of what it does to property values, though that matters. Because of what it does to the quality of daily life, to the experience of coming home, to the way a family inhabits and loves the space it lives in.