KITCHEN RENOVATIONS, WHOLE HOME RENOVATIONS AND CUSTOM HOMES
ONE STUDIO DESIGNS YOUR HOME, BUILDS IT AND FINISHES IT
NO HANDOFFS BETWEEN DESIGNER AND BUILDER. NO SURPRISES IN THE BUDGET. NO PROJECT YOU HAVE TO MANAGE YOURSELF.
Serving Plymouth, Ann Arbor, Northville and the surrounding communities of Southeast Michigan.
The problem with most high-end renovations isn't the craftsmanship. It's the gap.
A designer draws the home. A builder prices it. It comes back over budget. Someone has to decide what gets cut — and that someone is you.
Six months later the millwork doesn't match the drawing, the schedule has slipped twice, and the designer and the contractor are each explaining why it's the other one's fault.
You did not sign up to be a project manager. You signed up for a home.
WHAT WE BUILD
three kinds of projects. one team on all of them.
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Signature Kitchens
From $250,000
The kitchen, and every room it opens into. Architecture, custom cabinetry, stone, lighting, appliances, and final styling.
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Whole-Home Renovations →
From $1,000,000
Structural reconfiguration and full interior design, every room resolved together rather than one at a time.
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Custom Homes →
From $1,500,000
Ground-up construction on your land, from architecture through move-in day.
Who We Are
YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE TO MANAGE YOUR OWN RENOVATION.
Clark and Aldine is a licensed design-build studio in Plymouth, Michigan. Danielle leads design. Michael leads construction. The same two people who draw your home are on site while it is built — and the same team stays through furniture, lighting, and final styling.
Nothing is handed off. Nothing gets lost in translation. There is no one to blame, because there is no one else.
WHAT YOU CAN HOLD US TO
OUR FIVE PROMISES
You will never be handed off between a designer and a builder.
You will know your number before we break ground, and every change will be documented and approved before it is executed.
You will see your project every week in Buildertrend, without having to ask.
Danielle will be on your site. Michael will be on your site. Not a rotating project manager.
We take on a limited number of projects each year so that yours is one of them.
From first conversation to move-in day.
A clear path, and you always know which part of it you're standing in.
Step 01 — Conversation and Fit
A clear path, and you always know which part of it you're standing in.
Step 02 — Design and Pre-construction
Architectural plans, interior direction, material selections, and a line-by-line proposal. Every major decision resolved before anyone picks up a hammer.
Step 03 — Build and Reveal
A structured pre-construction phase means the budget is resolved before demolition, not discovered during it. Every change is documented and approved before it is executed.
A small number of projects
We take on SEVEN projects a year. Fewer homes, more attention, and the two people you hired actually on your site.
Explore Recent work
Where architecture, atmosphere, and daily life come into one line.
We take on a small number of projects each year. Each one is built around its family — their routines, their rituals, and the way they want to feel at the end of a long day.
The work is easier to understand than it is to describe. See what a finished project actually looks like.
QUALITY IS NOT A LUXURY.
It is the standard.
ONE TEAM, START TO FINISH
Design, construction, and interiors under one roof. Nobody to coordinate. Nobody to referee. No drawing that arrives at the job site and turns out to be unbuildable.
YOUR NUMBER, BEFORE WE START
A structured pre-construction phase means the budget is resolved before demolition, not discovered during it. Every change is documented and approved before it is executed.
A SMALL NUMBER OF PROJECTS
We take on seven projects a year. Fewer homes, more attention, and the two people you hired actually on your site.
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The Build Together Podcast
Conversations on building — homes, businesses, and lives worth building well.
Hosted by Michael and Danielle Gutelli, Build Together explores what it actually takes to design, build, and operate at a high level — in the home, in the business, and in life. Honest conversations with the people who do this work well.
