Remodeling & Custom Home Features in Cleveland, Ooltewah & Chattanooga, TN

Bucktooth Handyman mascot carrying rolled building plans

Remodeling & Custom Home Improvements

Start With the Result You Want.

You don’t need a materials list, a drawing, or the right word for what you’re picturing. Most of these conversations start with someone standing in a room saying “I want it to feel different in here.” That’s enough to work with.

Master bathroom with freestanding tub and glass-enclosed shower
Kitchen with long island, stainless appliances and tiled backsplash

Master bathroom · Kitchen remodel

Bare wall stacked with tile and materials before the built-in TV wall was built
Finished built-in TV wall with sage green cabinetry, open shelving and a linear fireplace

Built-in TV wall: before · after

Kitchen with dark cabinetry, copper range hood and marble-look island
Walk-in shower tiled in large marble-look panels with glass screen
Bathroom with marble-look tub surround and dark vanity

Kitchen remodel · Bathroom remodels

Insured • Background-Checked Craftsmen • Two-Year Limited Workmanship Warranty

Better Than Before.

Remodeling isn’t replacing old materials with new ones.

It’s the difference between a bathroom you use and a bathroom you like. A wall that held a TV and a wall that’s the reason people sit in that room. Storage that exists and storage that fits what you actually own.

The materials are the easy part. What takes thought is understanding how you live in the space before deciding what to do to it.

How Far Does It Go?

Remodeling covers a lot of ground, from an afternoon of trim work to a bathroom that’s out of service for two weeks. Here’s the range, roughly in order.

Finish and detail work

Crown moulding, baseboards, door and window casing, custom millwork. The work that makes a builder-grade room look considered. It’s the least disruptive thing on this page and often the highest impact per dollar — a room with proper trim reads as finished in a way paint alone can’t manage.

Feature walls

Shiplap, board and batten, wainscot, accent walls, fireplace surrounds, custom TV walls with the cables where you can’t see them.

Usually one wall, usually a few days, and it changes the whole room. This is the most common starting point for people who’ve never hired anyone for anything beyond a repair.

Built-ins and custom storage

Entertainment centers, bookcases, mudroom lockers, window seats, home office storage, closet systems.

Built-ins are where custom actually earns its name. Furniture is sized for a warehouse; a built-in is sized for your wall, your ceiling height, and the stuff you own. Once someone has one, they usually want another.

Room-level updates

Bathroom refreshes — vanity, toilet, faucet, mirror, lighting, hardware, paint, and caulking, coordinated as one project instead of six separate errands.

Kitchen improvements — cabinet installation, hardware, backsplash, lighting, and finish work.

Also home offices, laundry rooms, entryways, and other rooms that stopped fitting how you use them.

These are real projects with a real timeline. We’ll tell you honestly what it looks like day to day before you commit.

One Thing Worth Mentioning

We don’t build additions. If your project means adding square footage to the house, that’s a different kind of company.

Everything else, just ask.

Bring Your Pinterest Board

Genuinely. Bring it.

Photos, screenshots, sketches on the back of an envelope, a link to something you saw in someone else’s house. Pictures communicate what words don’t, especially for style — “modern” means about nine different things and none of us mean the same one.

Two honest caveats. What you’re looking at was probably built in a different room with different dimensions, different light, and a different budget. We’ll tell you which parts translate and which don’t. And we’ll tell you what it would actually cost to get close, before you get attached.

Inspiration is a starting point, not a blueprint. That’s how it should be.

What Older Houses Hide

Remodeling opens things up, and opening things up occasionally finds something.

Plumbing somebody improvised in 1978. Framing that isn’t where it should be. Water that’s been getting somewhere quietly for years. Wiring that was fine by the standards of its decade.

It isn’t common and it isn’t a disaster, but it’s real, and it’s the main reason remodeling estimates need a walkthrough rather than a phone call.

If we find something nobody could reasonably have seen, we stop and show you before anything else happens — with options and a price, in writing, before we go further.

The Bucktooth Standard

Why Homeowners Call Us Back

Our craftsmen came up doing higher-scope construction work. That shows up in trim that closes tight, tile that lines up at the corners, and built-ins that look like they came with the house.

We listen before we recommend, we say what something will actually cost, and we keep the mess contained while we’re in your home.

Every craftsman is background-checked, and every project is backed by our two-year workmanship warranty.

More about Bucktooth

The Bucktooth Journey

Hiring a craftsman should be simple, transparent, and stress free. Here’s exactly what happens next.

1

Schedule Your Estimate

Choose a time online or give us a call.

2

We Visit Your Home

We listen first, answer questions, make recommendations, and define the project with you.

3

We Build Your Options

Most estimates are prepared onsite while we’re still there, then reviewed together at your kitchen table.

4

You’re In Control

Choose the option that’s right for you. No pressure. No surprises.

5

We Get To Work

We’ll schedule your project and deliver the Bucktooth Standard from the first knock until cleanup.

Learn More About The Bucktooth Journey

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes — vanities, toilets, faucets, mirrors, lighting, hardware, paint, and caulking, coordinated as one project rather than six separate errands. If your plan involves a new shower or moving plumbing, give us a call and we’ll talk it through.

We do kitchen improvements — cabinet installation, hardware, backsplash, lighting, and finish work. For a full gut-and-replace, give us a call and we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s a fit.

Yes, and it’s some of our favorite work. Entertainment centers, bookcases, mudroom storage, window seats, office storage — sized for your wall rather than for a warehouse shelf.

Please do. Photos communicate style better than words. We’ll tell you honestly which parts translate to your space and roughly what it takes to get close.

Yes. We’ll narrow it to options that work in that spot and in that budget, so you’re choosing between three good answers instead of four hundred.

It depends on scope. Trim work can be a day or two. A feature wall is usually a few days. A bathroom update is typically a couple of weeks. We’ll give you a real timeline with the estimate, not a guess on the phone.

Sometimes, in older homes especially. If we find something genuinely concealed, we stop, show you, and put the options in writing before anything else happens.

Yes — the same two-year limited workmanship warranty as everything else we do.

Warranty details

Yes. Insured, background-checked craftsmen, and a two-year limited workmanship warranty.

Cleveland, Ooltewah, Chattanooga, and the surrounding communities of Southeast Tennessee.

See our service areas

Proudly serving Cleveland, Ooltewah, Chattanooga, and the surrounding communities of Southeast Tennessee.