Services

New Construction

We will help with every phase of new construction including lot selection, design, budgeting, pricing, and interior and exterior product selection.

It’s our goal to protect the environment and conserve energy resources while giving you a beautiful home to live in and enjoy.

Remodeling and Additions

We offer additions or remodels to existing homes. Kitchens, baths, basement finish and any other you can think of. Call us to adjust sticky doors, repair rotted wood, fix roof leaks or take care of other home repair projects.

Design

We will help with every phase of construction including lot selection, design, budgeting, pricing, interior and exterior product selection.

We offer design and construction of new homes and additions or remodels to existing homes. Kitchens, baths, basement finish and any other you can think of. Call us to adjust sticky doors, repair rotted wood, fix roof leaks or take care of other home repair projects.

It’s our goal to protect the environment and conserve energy resources while giving you a beautiful home to live in and enjoy.

Woodworking Shop

The Iowa Home Crafters shop can customize and personalize your project in a variety of ways. From a unique fireplace mantel to an entire kitchen, Craig Holden can literally do anything related to wood working and fine furniture.

Projects that have come out of our shop include: cabinets of all kinds, custom entry doors, bath accessories (like towel bars and paper holders), counter tops, interior doors, furniture repairs, tables, chairs, light fixtures, all sorts of moldings, picture frames, you name it. We have even taken a 1928 upright piano and converted it into an entertainment center, entry table, two clocks, and an interactive wall display. The piano keys were used in a custom entry door!

Wood carving and stained glass work can also be done.

We use native Iowa woods that have been milled and kiln dried right at our facility in Ames. We also use FSC certified plywood and formaldehyde free particle board in our projects.

Lumber Milling

Iowa Home Crafters has the unique ability to mill and process its own wood for use in our projects. We also offer some woods for sale to the general public as well as custom milling and drying.
Our logs come to us as a result of tree damage, blow down, death or tree service removal. None of our wood is cut just for the lumber.

Every log we acquire is numbered and its history recorded in our Log log. As we saw the log we code each board so we can tell you the story of each piece of wood – where it came from, why it was turned into boards and how old it was.

From the saw mill the wood is stickered and set out to air dry for at least six months. From there the wood goes into our solar/wood heated kiln to be carefully brought down to the proper moisture content.
The wood is then sorted for quality. The best pieces are used in our projects or offered for sale to the general public. All scraps from the milling are used to heat the kiln in the winter months. We use the entire log!

Give us a call if you’re having a tree removed that you think may have the potential to become a beautiful piece of custom work.

Home Performance

We can seal air leaks and upgrade your insulation to make your home more energy efficient.

We’ll administer a blower door test and evaluation of your homes energy use.

Using The Center on Sustainable Communities existing home evaluation tool, we can evaluate your entire home for its environmental impact and make suggestions to help prioritize home improvement projects.

New windows improve your homes comfort and efficiency.