Second-Generation Master Builder
Kitchens and bathrooms finished to a level most people only see in a new build — plus full gut renovations, finished basements, commercial build-outs and pools across Oakland and Macomb County. Managed by experienced project managers. Built by masters of the craft.
Kitchens and primary baths for the house you're staying in — plus full gut renovations, finished basements and pools across Oakland and Macomb County.
Residential work →
Custom commercial build-outs — medical and dental suites, retail, restaurants, offices and adaptive reuse, delivered around your operating hours and your opening date.
Commercial work →Who you're hiring
Rob Spinelli learned this trade the way it used to be learned — in the family, under a master builder, on the finish end of the work, where the standard is whether a miter closes and a tile line holds true across a room.
Southeastern Michigan has some of the oldest housing stock in the country, and it was built well. The production builders are busy with subdivisions and quality labor is short, which leaves the custom work, the finished basements and the full gut rehabs to the shops that want them. That's our lane, deliberately.
People put off renovations they can afford because they've heard the stories. Crews that start strong and disappear. Tile that was never laid out. Work that simply wasn't good — done once, done wrong, lived with. We built this company to be the answer to that, and we're glad to hand you the list of clients to call.
Who shows up
A license means somebody passed an exam and carries a policy. It doesn't mean they've ever hung a door, framed a wall or set a sheet of tile. Plenty of contractors haven't.
We're a licensed Michigan residential builder, fully insured — and everyone here came up in the trade, from the tradespeople to the owner, a second-generation master builder.
Experienced on custom work. Yours reviews the drawings — or works the design out with you when there aren't any — then holds the schedule, the trade sequence, the permits, inspections and site safety, and makes sure what you asked for is what gets built. Problems reach you with options and a number, not on a final invoice.
A qualified foreman is on your site every day it's open, running the work rather than checking in on it. He's why a problem becomes a phone call on Tuesday instead of a surprise at the walkthrough.
Masters of their craft, and the hands actually on your house. Tile, stone, trim, millwork, glass. They came up in these trades and have built together for years.
Almost everyone does. The tile, the trim, the millwork, the glass — the exact parts of your house you look at every day — go to whichever crew was free, and the contractor you hired has no real control over how they turn out. It's the single biggest reason finished work disappoints people.
Our finishers are our own. It's slower to staff and harder to grow, and it's the only version of this business a second-generation master builder was ever going to run.
Kitchens & bathrooms
The kitchen and the primary bath are the two rooms you live in hardest — and the two where cheap work shows immediately.
We build them the way they were drawn. Custom cabinetry. Book-matched slab and full tile packages, laid out before the first cut. Curbless showers, heated floors, templated glass. Your design ideas executed, not approximated.
Done properly, a kitchen or bath doesn't date and doesn't need doing again. That's the whole point of paying for finish quality, and it's what our clients across Oakland and Macomb County hire us for.
What we build
Kitchens and bathrooms are what we're known for and where most of our referrals come from. Full gut renovations, finished basements, commercial build-outs and pools round out the business — every one priced against the quality of the finish rather than the cheapest route to done.
For the house you're staying in. Layout changes, custom cabinetry, stone counters and full tile packages — sequenced with our own trades so the room isn't sitting unusable for a month.
View kitchen remodeling →02Primary suites, wet rooms, curbless and accessible showers, book-matched slab walls, heated floors and custom glass. The room that exposes a contractor fastest — and the one we're known for.
View bathroom remodeling →03Full gut rehabs and room-by-room renovation. The housing here was built well, and it's worth taking back to studs and finishing properly.
View home renovations →04Your builder poured the walls and left. We finish it — wet bars, theaters, gyms, guest suites and full baths, with egress and permits handled correctly.
View finished basements →05The specialty everything else is judged by. Large-format and book-matched slab, marble, mosaic, herringbone and heated floors — laid out before a single cut is made.
View tile & stone work →06Custom build-outs for medical and dental suites, retail, restaurants, offices and adaptive reuse. Delivered around your operating hours and your opening date.
View commercial construction →07Inground pool construction start to finish — excavation, shell, decking, coping, water features and the hardscape and surrounds that make it a room.
View pools & outdoor living →The one nobody finishes
Almost every new home in Macomb and Oakland County was delivered with an unfinished basement. It's the largest piece of unused space most families own.
Finishing it is the cheapest square footage you'll ever add — no footprint, no roof, no foundation work. Wet bars, home theaters, gyms, guest suites with code-compliant egress, full bathrooms, wine storage. We handle the parts nobody photographs too: moisture, insulation, ceiling height, soffits and permits.
Why remodels go wrong
These are the failures homeowners actually describe — and the specific thing we do about each one.
Tile that doesn't line up at the transitions. Miters that don't close. A slab seam in the middle of the wall. Caulk doing a carpenter's job. Nobody sues over it — you just look at it every day for twenty years.
Quality is the product here, so we make it checkable. Every project shown is our own work, exactly as it was handed over, and we'll give you clients to call before you sign. Layouts are set before the first cut. If a detail can't be executed properly you hear it at the estimate, not after it's installed.
A week lost because the electrician came before the framing inspection, then the tile crew was booked, then the counter template couldn't happen. Every gap compounds.
Trades are sequenced before the job starts, and they're people we've worked with for years. A project manager owns that sequence; a foreman on site sees the problem a week before the schedule does.
Renovations uncover things — bad wiring, a notched joist, a subfloor that won't hold large-format tile. That's the work. Discovering the cost at the end isn't.
You get a line-item estimate in writing before anything starts. The moment something falls outside it, you get a call with the options and the number — before it's built. Nothing is billed that you didn't approve.
Selected projects
Completed projects, 2024–2025. Click any photo to enlarge.
How a job runs
Every Mount Vernon project runs the same five steps, whether it's one bathroom or an entire building.
We meet you at the property, look at the actual conditions, and talk through what you want and what the building will allow. No sales call, no showroom.
Notes from the walkthrough become a line-item estimate, typically emailed within a day. Scope and price in writing before anyone swings a hammer.
A project manager holds the schedule, the permits and the inspections so the site is never idle waiting on someone. A qualified foreman runs the site itself, directing our tradespeople and holding the finish to standard every day the job is open.
Progress photos if you're not on site, and an immediate call — not an invoice surprise — the moment anything comes up outside the original scope.
We walk the job with you the day before completion so anything you want corrected is handled on the final day. Then the invoice, and the keys.
Where we work
Southeastern Michigan's established communities, where the housing is worth renovating properly.
Answers
We work throughout Southeastern Michigan, concentrated in Oakland and Macomb County with regular work in the Wayne County suburbs. That includes Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Troy, Royal Oak, Rochester Hills, Franklin, West Bloomfield, Novi, Sterling Heights, Shelby Township, Macomb Township, Clinton Township, Washington Township, St. Clair Shores, Grosse Pointe, Northville and Plymouth, among others.
Yes. Mount Vernon Construction Co. is a licensed Michigan residential builder and carries full insurance. A certificate of insurance and a list of client references are furnished on request — ask for both, from us and from anyone else you're considering.
Rob Spinelli learned the trade in his family, coming up under a master builder before running his own jobs. It matters because the finish standard he was taught is the standard this company still runs on — and because we do the work rather than subcontracting it out and marking it up.
Two roles, and they do different jobs.
A project manager oversees the project — the drawings or the design, the schedule and trade sequence, permitting, inspections, code compliance and site safety, and making sure what you asked for is what gets built. They manage the project; they aren't standing on the site all day.
A qualified foreman runs the site, every day the job is open. The foreman and our tradespeople are the masters of the craft — they do the work, hold the finish to standard, and catch what would otherwise turn up at the walkthrough.
Yes — commercial is a core line, not a sideline. Custom build-outs for medical and dental suites, retail, restaurants and offices, plus tenant improvements and adaptive reuse of existing buildings, scheduled around your operating hours. See commercial build-outs.
Yes. Inground pool construction is a full service line — excavation, shell, decking, coping, water features, and the hardscape and surrounds that turn a pool into an outdoor room. Because the same company handles the pool and the exterior work around it, the finishes actually relate to each other. See pools and outdoor living.
We meet you at the property and look at the actual conditions — no showroom appointment, no sales presentation. Notes from that walkthrough become a written line-item estimate, typically emailed the next day, so the scope and the price are in writing before any work begins.
Your project manager, from contract through closeout. They carry the schedule, the permits and the inspections, and they are the person you call when you want an answer about your job. On site, a qualified foreman is directing the work every day it's running. This is a deliberate structure rather than a handoff — nobody is passing you to a subcontractor who has never met you. If you're not on site you get progress photos; if anything changes, you get a phone call before it's built, not an invoice after.
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