A small number of custom homes and whole-house renovations each year in Edmond, Nichols Hills, and Oklahoma City — built under one builder's direct supervision, start to finish.
Since 2007 · More than 200 homes
The premise
Fewer houses, watched more closely.
Most of what goes wrong in a custom home goes wrong quietly — a framing detail nobody caught, a flashing decision made by whoever was on site that morning, a selection ordered before anyone checked the opening. None of it shows up in a rendering. All of it shows up in ten years.
Kensington takes a deliberately limited schedule so the person whose name is on the company is the person walking the job. Every trade partner is vetted, carries their own general liability, and names us as additional insured. Nothing is subbed to whoever is cheapest that month.
What we do
Three ways we work.
Custom Homes
Ground-up construction on your lot or ours, built to an architect's drawings — for the Edmond, Nichols Hills, and north Oklahoma City estate market.
Renovations
Whole-house and major-scope remodels: additions, kitchens and primary suites, structural reworking, and full restorations of older homes worth restoring.
Pre-Construction
Lot evaluation, feasibility, and real budget work before you commit — done alongside your architect, so the drawings and the number arrive at the same place.
Portfolio
The work, room by room.
Selected rooms and elevations from homes built by our principal. Client houses are shown by the work, not by the address.
Arched steel windows · stucco and cast stone
Glass rail · limestone deck
Black steel windows · steep slate gables
Symmetrical elevation · slate roof
Stained plank ceiling · stone columns
Covered loggia · pool and spa
Blackened steel canopy
Outdoor living off the pool deck
Single slab · unlacquered brass
Coffered ceiling · integrated wine storage
Full-slab marble · professional range
Brass pot filler · marble backsplash
Masonry oven · reclaimed brick
White oak floors · steel doors beyond
Dark cabinetry · open shelving
Apron sink · inset cabinetry
Stone chimney to the ridge · steel gallery
Stacked stone · stained plank ceiling
Stacked stone · black steel doors
Weathered oak built-ins · cast stone surround
Painted millwork flanking the firebox
Glazed on three sides
Plaster vault · paired chandeliers
Coffered ceiling · commissioned art
Sightline through the house
Chandelier over a single run
Open to the living room
Built-ins · twin fixtures
Steel shower enclosure · marble throughout
Slipper tub · book-matched marble
Steel-framed wet room
Marble bench · recessed niche
Mitred marble · polished nickel
Full-height marble surround
Steel doors to the terrace
Hand-blocked paper · plaster crown
Papered feature wall
Herringbone floor · forged iron balustrade
Glass enclosure · marble surround
Painted built-ins · steel window
Panelled wall · iron balustrade
Blackened steel and white oak
Brass over the open run
Unlacquered brass on painted inset doors
Applied lattice on a barn track
Black lacquer · white oak floor
Papered walls · floating stone vanity
Fitted cabinetry and open shelving
Brass and blackened steel
Wood-slat ceiling above
Adjustable painted millwork
How it goes
Six stages, in order.
A custom home is a sequence. Skipping ahead is how budgets break.
Feasibility & Budget
Before drawings are finished: lot review, soils and drainage, utilities, setbacks, and any HOA architectural control. We put a real number against your program — not a per-square-foot guess — so you find out early whether the house you want fits the site and the budget.
Design & Selections
We work alongside your architect and interior designer while the drawings develop, pricing assemblies as they're decided. Selections are made and ordered ahead of the trades that install them — the single largest source of delay in custom work.
Contract & Permitting
A written agreement with defined scope, allowances you can actually see, and a change-order process agreed before anyone needs it. Permits pulled with the City of Edmond or Oklahoma City; trade partner insurance and lien waivers on file before a truck arrives.
Construction
Continuous on-site supervision, not a monthly drive-by. Structural, mechanical, and envelope details are verified before they're covered. You get regular photo updates and a schedule that reflects what's actually happening on the job.
Punch & Closeout
A walk-through with a written list, cleared before you move in rather than after. Manuals, warranties, paint schedules, and as-built information handed over in one organized package.
Warranty
A first-year warranty with a real point of contact, plus a walk at eleven months to catch anything that has moved or settled while it's still covered.
About
The company.
Kensington Building Co. is a builder's company. Its principal has been building in central Oklahoma since 2007, with more than 200 homes completed. Kensington is the entity that residential work now carries forward under. The company takes on custom homes and serious renovations in the Edmond and Oklahoma City estate market.
That record also includes thousands of multifamily units delivered as a commercial general contractor. It is not what Kensington builds — but it is where the discipline comes from. Buyout, scheduling, and cost control run at a scale most custom builders never see, brought back down to one house at a time.
The model is deliberately narrow. Kensington superintends; it does not self-perform. Every trade on the job is an independent specialist chosen for that scope, carrying their own general liability with Kensington named as additional insured. What Kensington provides is the judgment in between — sequencing, detailing, cost control, and someone accountable standing on the site.
We take a limited number of projects a year so that the person who sells the work is the person running it. You walk the job directly with the builder — from the first look at the lot through the eleven-month warranty visit.
Contact
Start a conversation.
If you have a lot, a set of drawings, or just a house in mind, get in touch. You reach the principal directly — not a sales office.
- Telephone
- 405.696.6979
- Office
- 3126 S Boulevard St, Ste 337
Edmond, Oklahoma 73013 - Service area
- Edmond · Nichols Hills · Oklahoma City
and surrounding communities