Kitchen Renovation
Sunroom
Primary Bath
Entry & Foyer
Living Room
We help homeowners make better building decisions — and then we build them.
Tell us what you're considering and we'll respond with a written scope, real cost ranges, and a clear next step. No sales call required.
The most important decisions in a renovation
happen before construction begins.
Our role is to help you evaluate the home, understand what's possible, identify what could go wrong, and create a realistic plan — before anyone starts swinging a hammer. That process is where most contractors skip ahead. It's where we start.
Every Nexus project is personally led by Johnny Nguyen from planning through completion. You won't be handed off to a project manager you've never met — the same person who evaluates your home, discusses your budget, and plans your scope remains actively involved throughout construction.
That's owner-side thinking applied to residential work. We've been navigating construction decisions since 2014, first on the development side, now as the contractor our clients wish they'd found sooner.
We're equally at home helping a homeowner renovate a Minneapolis duplex and managing a high-end custom renovation with an architect and structural engineer. The scope changes. The process doesn't — written scope, daily documentation, weekly reports, one accountable partner.
Whatever your project looks like, we start with a conversation about your goals, your timeline, and your budget — before anyone commits to anything.
Detailed case study — including before & after documentation, structural decisions, and material selections — coming upon project completion.
Johnny NguyenFounder
I came to contracting from the owner's side. As a commercial real estate developer, I hired a GC for my own home renovation — someone I figured I could evaluate given my background. What I found over time was a pattern I hadn't anticipated: progress payments moving faster than the work, bids that didn't survive independent review, and a communication gap that left me with strangers in my home and no clear picture of what was happening.
Going direct to subcontractors taught me two things: there's a deep pool of excellent tradespeople who rarely get to show what they can do, and the difference between a good renovation and a great one has almost nothing to do with the work itself. It's communication. Defined milestones. Photos that document what's happening inside your walls before they're closed. Progress you can see and verify — not just trust.
That experience is why Nexus operates the way it does. Written scopes. Daily photo documentation. Friday progress reports. Clear milestone payments. These aren't differentiators we invented — they're what I needed and couldn't find when it was my home on the line.
We review every submission and follow up within one business day with a written response — not a sales pitch.