Custom Built-Ins in Blaine, MN — Mudroom, Office, Media Wall
Your Blaine house has a garage entry where everything lands on the floor, a spare room that is now an office, or a living room wall waiting for real storage.
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Custom built-ins in Blaine, MN are mostly three jobs: mudroom lockers and a bench by the garage door, a desk wall in a home office, and a media wall with cabinets and shelves. JMB Builders, a licensed Minnesota contractor based in Zimmerman, builds them on site in Blaine's older ramblers and its 1990s–2000s and new homes, paint-grade or stain-grade. Priced per project; send photos and we reply within one business day, or book a free in-home estimate.
- Priced per project
- Lockers, desks, media walls, bookcases
- Built on site and trimmed to the room
In Blaine's 1990s–2000s homes and its newest builds, the door from the garage usually opens into a laundry or a short hall with a few hooks on the wall. That is where most built-in requests start: lockers with a bench, cubbies for boots, and a shelf above for the things that come in with the groceries. We build them to the wall between the door and the laundry, and fit them around the trim that is already there.
Home offices are the second. A spare bedroom gets a desk wall with drawers, upper shelves and a spot for the printer, built to the window and the outlets. The third is a media wall in the family room or, in the older ramblers and split-entries, the lower-level rec room, with cabinets for the equipment and the TV mounted between shelves.
Every built-in is plywood boxes screwed into the studs, face frames, shelves with a hardwood nosing, and trim that matches the house: crown carried across the top, base returned into the ends. New wiring for lights or outlets is done by a licensed electrician before the boxes go in. We build in Andover and Spring Lake Park too.
Get a written quote for this job
Three photos and a sentence is enough: a reply within one business day, or ask for a free in-home estimate. Or text the photos to 763-204-2099.
What you supply
- Photos of the wall straight on with a tape across it, and the ceiling height
- What it needs to hold: coats and boots, files and a printer, a TV and gear
- Paint-grade or stain-grade, and the hardware you want
- Your TV mount if one goes in the wall; we install it
- Painting is quoted as a separate line — or leave it primed and caulked and paint it yourself
What JMB supplies
- A sketch to your measurements with locker, desk or bay sizes
- Plywood boxes on a leveled base, screwed into the studs
- Face frames, doors on concealed hinges and drawers on full-extension slides
- Lockers with hooks, a bench with cubbies or a lift-up lid, and a shelf above
- Desk tops at writing height with a grommet for cords
- Crown, base and casing fitted to match the room
- Openings for outlets and cable, with any new circuit wired by a licensed electrician
- Photos of the finished built-in in your job folder
How it is priced: per project
Quoted in writing from your photos, with a reply within one business day. What moves the number:
- Width and height of the built-in and the number of lockers, bays or drawers
- Doored cabinets and drawers vs. open shelves and cubbies
- Paint-grade vs. stain-grade
- A bench with cubbies vs. a bench with a lift-up lid
- Working around a door, window, register or laundry hookups
- Lights or outlets in the built-in, with the electrical by a licensed electrician
A photo of the wall with a tape measure across it and a note on what it needs to hold is enough to sketch it and price it.
How long it takes
A row of mudroom lockers with a bench: two to three days. A desk wall or media wall: three to five days on site. Painting after.
How your project works
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Send photos, get a written quote
Send three photos of the space and a sentence about what you want. You get a clear, itemized reply within one business day. Prefer a look in person? A free in-home estimate is always an option.
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Pick materials, or bring your own
We help you choose profiles and materials that fit the house and the budget, or match your existing millwork exactly — or you buy the door or trim yourself and we install it. Everything is confirmed before the crew is scheduled.
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Clean, precise installation
The crew shows up on time, protects floors and furniture, and installs with tight joints and consistent reveals. Photos of the finished work go in your job folder.
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Walkthrough and invoice
We walk the finished work with you. If anything is not right, we fix it before we call the job done. Then one invoice, paid by check or direct deposit — no card fees, no payment links.
Situations and options
Mudroom lockers by the garage door
Open lockers with hooks, a bench with cubbies or a lift-up lid, and a shelf above, built to the wall between the garage door and the laundry.
Home office desk wall
A desk top at writing height between drawer bases, with upper shelves or cabinets, a cord grommet and room for the printer, built to the window and outlets.
Media wall
Base cabinets for the equipment, shelves on each side and the TV centered between, in the family room or a lower-level rec room.
Custom Built-Ins in Blaine, MN — Mudroom, Office, Media Wall: questions, answered
Can you build mudroom lockers by the garage door in my Blaine house?
Yes, it is the built-in we are asked for most in newer homes. We build lockers with hooks, a bench with cubbies or a lift-up lid, and a shelf above, to the wall between the garage door and the laundry. Send a photo of that wall with a tape across it.
How deep should mudroom lockers be?
Deep enough to hang a winter coat without it sticking past the face, and shallow enough to keep the hall open. In a tight entry we make the bench and lockers shallower and add more hooks. We sketch it to your space and you approve the sizes before we build.
Can a built-in desk go in a spare bedroom?
Yes. We build a desk wall with drawer bases, a top at writing height, upper shelves and a grommet for cords, fit to the window and outlets. It is screwed to the studs, so it does not move, and if you sell later it reads as a feature of the room.
Can you wire lights or outlets into a built-in?
Yes, with a licensed electrician doing the electrical. We plan where the wire runs and cut the openings, and the electrician installs the circuit. If the work needs a permit, we check with the City of Blaine building department and it is pulled.
Paint-grade or stain-grade built-ins, which should I pick?
Paint-grade matches painted trim and costs less: poplar face frames on MDF or plywood boxes. Stain-grade is hardwood plywood with solid edges in oak, maple or another species so the grain shows. Painting or staining is quoted as a separate line, or you can finish it yourself.
Do you build custom built-ins in Andover and Spring Lake Park too?
Yes. JMB Builders is a licensed Minnesota contractor based in Zimmerman, and we build in Blaine, Andover, Spring Lake Park and across the Twin Cities metro. Send photos and we reply within one business day.
Recent JMB work, from our job log
59 installs recorded across 30 Twin Cities communities since Dec 2025. Window and door installs for homeowners and the builders we work with. Counts come straight from our job log; no customer names.
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