Serving Utah County — Orem to Lehi
Basement Finishing & Remodeling in Utah County
Basements are what we know best — down to what it takes to make one a legal apartment you can rent. Kitchens, bathrooms, and whole-home remodels too, Orem to Lehi. Every service here lists what it actually costs, so you can find your number before you talk to anyone.
- Pricing Published Up Front
- Orem to Lehi
- One Point of Contact
Prices before the sales visit
Every service page carries a real range for that kind of work. You shouldn't need an appointment to find out what something costs.
Local service area
We're based right here, Orem to Lehi. Short drives mean same-day callbacks and punch-list items closed out quickly rather than batched into a monthly trip.
One point of contact
The person who prices your project is the person on site running it. Nothing gets lost in a handoff.
What we do
Services built around how people actually live
Kitchens, bathrooms and whole-home remodels, basement finishing, and the small repair list you've been putting off. Each one lists what it costs.
Basement Finishing
Your basement is already framed, already under roof, and already connected to utilities. Finishing it costs a fraction of building an addition and a small fraction of moving — and in a market this tight, that math is hard to argue with.
$35–$75 per finished square foot
Learn moreBasement Apartments
A rentable basement is the cheapest legal housing unit you can add to a house, because the foundation, roof, walls and utilities already exist. We build them permitted, so a lender, an appraiser, and an insurer can all see the unit.
$45,000–$110,000 for a complete legal unit
Learn moreDetached ADUs & Backyard Cottages
A standalone unit in the backyard: its own foundation, roof, kitchen, and address. Utah law now requires most cities to permit one on lots of 11,000 square feet or more. It's the more expensive of the two ways to add a rental, and sometimes it's the right one.
$190–$350 per square foot
Learn moreEgress Window Installation
An egress window is the code-required escape route from a basement sleeping room — and the thing that lets the room count as a bedroom when your house is appraised or listed. If you don't have one yet, it's the first move.
$3,500–$7,500 per window, installed
Learn moreKitchen Remodeling
Kitchens carry more daily friction than any other room. A bad layout costs you every single day — and it's the room buyers judge hardest when you sell.
$25,000–$85,000+ depending on scope
Learn moreBathroom Remodeling
Bathrooms are the least forgiving room in the house. Waterproofing that's done wrong doesn't announce itself — it shows up two years later as a stain on the ceiling below.
$12,000–$40,000+ depending on size and scope
Learn moreWhole Home Remodeling
Sometimes the issue isn't the kitchen or the bathroom — it's a floor plan built for how people lived in 1978. Whole-home remodeling reworks how the house actually functions.
Highly variable — most projects start around $60,000
Learn moreFlooring Installation
Flooring failures almost always trace back to what's underneath — an unlevel subfloor, moisture in a slab, or a missing expansion gap. We deal with the substrate first.
$4–$16 per square foot installed depending on material
Learn moreInterior Painting
Paint is the cheapest way to change how a house feels. It's also the job most often done badly, because the prep that determines the result is the part nobody sees.
$3–$7 per square foot of floor area for full interiors
Learn moreFinish Carpentry & Trim
Trim is what makes a room read as finished. Tight miters, consistent reveals, and proportion appropriate to the ceiling height are the difference between builder-grade and custom.
Quoted by project
Learn moreDrywall Repair & Texture
Bad drywall repair is worse than the hole. Matching existing texture and getting the paint to blend is what separates a repair you notice from one you don't.
$200–$1,200 for typical repairs
Learn moreHandyman Services
Most people have a running list of small jobs that never justify a full contractor call but never get done either. We do those — with the same care and the same written scope as our large projects.
Hourly or flat-rate by job, quoted before we start
Learn moreRental income
Can you legally rent your basement?
Statewide, yes — a unit inside your own home has been permitted since 2021. What stops most projects is local: owner occupancy, a registration separate from the building permit, parking counts, and in some cities a lot-size floor. We looked all nine of our cities up and published what each one requires, with the source for every claim.
Why Royal Blue Build
No surprises, starting with the price
Almost everyone who has remodeled has a story about a cost they didn't see coming. It usually starts the same way — with a number they had no way to check against anything.
Ours are on the website. Every service here carries the range it actually works in, so you can check a number without an appointment and without sitting through a pitch to find out.
After that, the number doesn't move without your say-so. Changes get priced and agreed before the work happens, not discovered on the final invoice.
We work close to home, Orem to Lehi, which is how we know which neighborhoods have panels that need upgrading before a basement finish will pass and which homes were built with plumbing already stubbed in. The person who prices your project is the person on site running it.
We're a new company, and we'd rather earn the job by being useful today than by inventing a track record.
Where we work
Nine cities, Orem to Lehi
We're local to all of them. Shorter drives mean same-day callbacks, quicker punch-list follow-up, and real familiarity with the housing stock in each city.
Orem, UT
84057 · 84058 · 84059 · 84097
A deep inventory of 1960s–1990s ramblers, split-entries, and two-story homes, most built with full basements that the original builder left unfinished.
Vineyard, UT
84059 · 84058
Almost entirely new construction from 2015 onward — townhomes, tract homes, and higher-density product built on the former Geneva Steel site.
Lindon, UT
84042
A mix of older homes on generous agricultural-era lots and newer subdivisions from the 1990s and 2000s, with unusually large lot sizes for the valley.
Pleasant Grove, UT
84062
A genuine split — century-old homes around the historic downtown core, mid-century houses through the middle of town, and 1990s-through-2010s subdivisions climbing the east bench.
American Fork, UT
84003
Early-1900s homes near Main Street, a large mid-century core, and steady subdivision growth from the 1990s through today on the north and east sides.
Cedar Hills, UT
84062
A tightly clustered build-out, most of it between roughly 1995 and 2010, producing larger two-story homes with full walkout or daylight basements on sloped bench lots.
Highland, UT
84003
Large homes on generous lots, built predominantly from the mid-1990s through the 2010s, with high ceilings and expansive unfinished basement footprints.
Alpine, UT
84004
Custom and semi-custom homes on large foothill lots, many built from the 1990s onward, with a meaningful share of true custom construction and higher-end finishes.
Lehi, UT
84043 · 84045
An extraordinary range — historic homes near downtown alongside enormous 2005-and-newer subdivisions in Traverse Mountain, Holbrook Farms, and the Thanksgiving Point corridor.
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Basement Apartment or Backyard ADU? An Honest Comparison
They rent for about the same. One costs roughly four times more to build. Here's how to tell which one your lot actually argues for.
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Learn moreWhat Does a Detached ADU Cost in Utah County?
Real ranges for a backyard unit, and the four site conditions that move the price more than any finish decision you'll make.
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Learn moreFinish Your Basement So It Could Become an Apartment Later
Three decisions at rough-in cost nearly nothing now and are effectively impossible later. You don't have to want a rental for them to be worth making.
Basements · 7 min read
Learn moreHow Much Does It Cost to Finish a Basement in Utah County?
Real numbers, what moves them, and the four line items that blow up budgets when nobody plans for them.
Basements · 9 min read
Learn moreBasement Egress Window Requirements in Utah
If you want a legal basement bedroom, this is the requirement that decides whether you get one.
Basements · 7 min read
Learn moreIs a Basement Apartment Legal in Utah County?
The rules vary by city and sometimes by parcel. Here's how to find out what applies to you before you spend money.
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Learn moreFrequently asked questions
- What does a remodel actually cost?
- Kitchens generally run $25,000 to $85,000 and bathrooms $12,000 to $40,000, with finish level doing most of the moving inside those ranges. Every service page on this site lists its own range, and the assistant will narrow one to your project in a few minutes without anyone coming out.
- How much does it cost to finish a basement?
- Most basements in this area run $35 to $75 per finished square foot, so a 1,000 square foot basement typically lands between $35,000 and $75,000. Bathroom count, whether plumbing is stubbed in, egress window work, and finish level are what move you within that range.
- What areas does Royal Blue Build serve?
- Utah County, Orem to Lehi — Orem, Vineyard, Lindon, Pleasant Grove, American Fork, Cedar Hills, Highland, Alpine, and Lehi. Being local to all of it means short drives, fast callbacks, and knowing the housing stock well enough to spot what a given house is likely to need. A little further out, call anyway and we'll talk about it.
- Do you charge for estimates?
- No, and there's no charge for the walkthrough either. For small jobs we can often quote from photos without coming out at all.
- Do you handle permits?
- Yes, where the work needs one — we pull it, schedule the inspections, and meet the inspectors. It's part of the job rather than a line item you have to think about.
Ready to talk about your project?
Get a real number you can plan around — no appointment needed to find out roughly what your project costs, and no pressure when you do.
- Pricing Published Up Front
- Orem to Lehi
- One Point of Contact