Hello.

           Welcome to Rebus.

We're a Minneapolis, Minnesota based design-build firm with a specialty in remodeling and expertise in residential.  Clients like design-build because it provides a single entity for estimating, budgeting, designing and building.  We use a Greener, more sustainable Approach.

A key difference between Studio Rebus and our competitors is our budgeting and design process.  It's the exact opposite.  Most firms design first and bid second.  This often leaves the client with drawings they can't afford to build.  Using a technique called unit price conceptual estimating we can fashion a budget to guide the design process.  We work with you to draft a provisional program.  That answers the questions, "What do we want to happen in these spaces?"  "How big do they need to be?"  "How should they relate to each other and the larger world?"  "What level of Green are we committed to?"   With a program we can budget.  With a budget we can design.  Our approach significantly reduces the variance between budget and bid.  Our approach avoids deadends.    

Check out our new service offering : Greener is greener.  A Stairway Approach to help you make your home more energy efficient, more sustainable with a smaller carbon footprint.  Greener?  Healthier for your family and healthier for our planet.  greener?  A Greener approach almost always has a lower life cycle cost leaving your wallet greener.

Our Greener approach is a stairway.  Why?  Because leaping is hard -- stepping is easy.  Start modestly.  We'll work with you to develop a multi-year plan.  As you count the benefits -- take the next step.

For those who throw their hands up whenever they see a Greener offering, ask yourselves, "Is the status quo viable?"  "Is it sustainable?"  A Greener approach almost always has a slightly higher initial cost, but its operating cost is almost always lower.  Are you an investor or an impulse buyer?  Please review our page, 'G = g : a case study'.  A spreadsheet will walk you through the numbers.  Studio Rebus hopes you'll see our point.

You're invited to call us to discuss your remodeling project.  We prefer to work in Minneapolis.  Keep the transportation times short.  Keep the carbon footprint smaller.  But we do work throughout Minnesota.

All designs, photos, sketches, schematics and text on this site are Copyright, 2009 Studio Rebus Incorporated.