Backyard Office Builders for Kansas City Homes

• Custom backyard offices — a detached office for one or two people, sized to your lot and your city's caps, with the desk, windows and heat pump planned together.
• Backyard studios and flex buildings — art, music, podcast and home-gym rooms built for the light, sound or floor the work needs.
• Backyard offices with a bathroom — a half bath or more, scoped around the plumbing and ADU rules in your city.

Every office is built to the dimensions your lot and city allow and finished on site into a conditioned room. We do not sell kits or flat-packs, and we do not drop off a storage shed and leave.

The published prices for pods and backyard sheds leave out most of what makes a room usable in January and July — typically the foundation, the trench to the house, heating and cooling, and the permit (product-by-product prices).

When we price a backyard office, those items are in the proposal from the start:

The structure is built by our building crew — in its shop for most offices, then set on your lot with compact delivery equipment made for tight backyards, or built on site where size or access requires — and finished on site by our licensed trade partner.

Our modeled planning ranges, built from national line-item costs and local permit fees, for a conditioned, permitted building before any plumbing, are about $22,000–$50,000 for 10×12 and $30,000–$68,000 for 12×16. A half bath in a 12×20 building models at about $47,000–$121,000. The cost guide shows every line — foundation, shell, insulation, heat pump, power, permit — and how they compare with published pod and shed prices.

Plan on a permit for a heated, powered office at any size: every city here that addresses wiring requires one. Beyond that, the cities disagree:

• Kansas City, Missouri limits most detached accessory buildings to 200 sq ft and 10 feet tall.
• Overland Park does not allow home businesses in accessory buildings and caps all detached accessory buildings at half the house's floor area.
• Olathe allows a home occupation in an accessory building with up to two clients at once, and allows ADUs with only a building permit.
• Leawood requires a permit for every accessory building, with no exemption.
• Lenexa requires a 20-foot rear setback in R-1 for accessory buildings over 200 sq ft or 10 feet tall.

Our city-by-city rules page covers 19 jurisdictions on both sides of the state line. We build across the Kansas City metro, on both the Missouri and Kansas sides.

The expensive mistakes in a backyard office are decisions made too late: a room too small for two people on calls, a west window that glares on the screen every afternoon, a trench dug without a data conduit, a mini-split twice the size the room needed. Our backyard office planning guide walks through size, foundation, insulation, heating and cooling, power, internet, daylight, acoustics, plumbing and permits in the order you should decide them.

Two downloads help you get specific:

• Proposal-comparison checklist — the questions to ask any builder, so bids compare line for line.
• Example project briefs — three households, three scopes, with conceptual layouts.

We check your city's rules for your address first, then design, itemize the proposal, handle the permits, build through the inspections and walk you through the finished building. The custom backyard offices page lists each step.

More about who we are and who builds your office is on our About page.

Start your proposal. Tell us your address and what the room is for; we will check your city's rules before we draw anything.