Design & Build Your Custom Home
Fully Custom or Semi-Custom. Create Your Perfect Home.
Your dream home starts here. KRM Custom Homes is your Des Moines-based partner in turning your vision into reality. With a range of fully custom and semi-custom options, our design-build process is simple so you can enjoy the journey.
Choose Your Custom Home Option:
Fully Custom Design
Luxury homes. Expertly designed. Completely yours.
Semi-Custom Floor Plans
Time-tested designs. Tailored details and finishes.
Design Without Limits: The Fully Custom Experience
The KRM approach begins with a blank slate—giving you the freedom to design a home that reflects your lifestyle. No limits. Just imagination.
Need some inspiration? We’ll help with that too. We will take your ideas, your budget, and your timeline to help you craft the unique home of your dreams. At each stage, we’re here to be your partner, bringing your exact vision to life.
We build homes at any price point, delivering an unmatched combination of quality, certainty, and efficiency in every project.
The Fully Custom Advantage:
Limitless design
You’re free to create beyond preset plans.
Expert partnership.
You’ll benefit from 20+ years of local custom home building experience and guidance.
Uncompromised quality.
We use only top-of-the-line materials for every build, ensuring quality and longevity.
Fixed, upfront pricing.
You’ll never face hidden costs or unexpected changes. Your final price is set once your plans and specs is complete.
Explore Our Luxury Home Wish List
Ready to explore what’s possible? Download our luxury home wishlist today!
The Semi Custom Home Building Process
If you value speed, cost certainty, and starting with a proven design foundation, our semi-custom path is the ideal solution. You begin with one of our highly popular and expertly optimized floor plans.
This significantly cuts down on design time, allowing us to deliver your home faster without sacrificing personalization.
The Semi-Custom Advantage:
Guaranteed timeline.
Starting with a proven layout simplifies the process, helping us get you into your home faster.
Custom finishes.
Make your home yours. You control the interior and exterior finishes, fixtures, and colors.
Efficient design.
With structural planning in place, you can focus on what you’re most excited about: the interior and exterior design.
Cost certainty.
Our pre-optimized floor plans allow you to have predictable costs from the first meeting.
Start Your Semi-Custom Build
Explore our proven floor plan layouts today.
Your Custom Home Building Journey
Ready to design and build your dream home in under a year?
Our refined process ensures fast turnaround times and firm move-in dates — without ever compromising quality. We’ll walk with you through every stage, making sure you understand and enjoy the journey from start to finish.
Wondering what to expect? We’ve laid it out here.
Let’s Design the Perfect Interior
Interior design is essential to creating the perfect luxury home. We’ll help you think through your home’s layout, lighting, and personal touches from the very beginning. Our project managers are skilled guides through the process, eliminating the stress of doing it yourself or hiring a separate team.
Looking for ideas? Visit our showroom and watch our “Ask Amanda” video series for more design inspiration.
Explore the Possibilities:
What Our Customers are Saying
There’s no other builder we’d trust to build a quality home with such integrity. From start to finish, the experience was fantastic—they went above and beyond to make us happy and build the home of our dreams. We had high expectations, and they exceeded them. We love our forever home!
Amanda S.
Urbandale, Iowa
“We built our first home with KRM as newlyweds who were anxious to build a home for us to raise a family in. We were nervous and somewhat clueless as to what we had got ourselves into. We never felt overwhelmed or that we had made the wrong decision. Our first home was perfect, and we felt so fortunate that we chose KRM. Eight years later, we decided to sell our first home and relocate to Grimes so our kids could go to school at DC-G, where my husband grew up. After looking to buy an existing home and not finding what we wanted, we decided to build again. We met with three different builders and ultimately decided that KRM was once again the right choice for us.”
Joe & Carin
GRIMES, Iowa
Building with KRM was an exciting process. We ended up with a high quality, beautiful home. They were very patient through the entire decision making process. They listened to what we wanted and they gave excellent advice when we were not sure what we wanted. The team is a well-oiled machine. So happy we built with KRM. We love our home.
Lisa
Grimes, Iowa