KC Pavilion Builders builds custom cedar, Douglas-fir and timber-frame backyard pavilions across the Kansas City metro and installs the kit you buy. Installations are performed by our Kansas City partner crew — a family-owned, brothers-run team that installs every project itself with no subcontractors and reports more than 50 years of combined experience building outdoor structures here. The crew that measures your yard is the crew that builds your pavilion. This page explains who does what, how a project goes, where we build, and why half of this site is planning facts with sources attached.
Who builds your pavilion
Our install crew is a Kansas City–based, family-owned outdoor-structure builder. One crew, not a rotation of subcontractors: the same people do the design meeting, the footings, the framing and the roof. They build in cedar and Douglas fir on 8×8 posts with 4×12 beams, with real shingled roofs over sheathing and tongue-and-groove ceilings, and they have been through Johnson County and Northland HOA architectural reviews many times — they provide the drawings and material specs those committees ask for.
What we say about the crew on this site is limited to what they publish about themselves and what we have verified. We do not display review counts, ratings, founding dates, warranty terms or license numbers we cannot point to; when we can, we will.
How a project goes
- Free 30-minute on-site design meeting. Measurements, a look at the existing patio and the access, and a conversation about size, roof, ceiling and features.
- Written design and a fixed price. The price you sign for is the price you pay — no upcharges at the end, no surprises mid-build. Deposit at signing, progress payment on delivery, balance at completion. Financing through LightStream by Truist is available.
- HOA and permit. Drawings and specs for architectural review; the city permit and the electrical permit where your size and scope require them.
- Build. One to two weeks on site; six to ten weeks from signing to finished.
Where we build
The partner crew serves 29 cities on both sides of the state line: Leawood, Overland Park, Mission Hills, Prairie Village, Fairway, Olathe, Shawnee, Lenexa, Mission, Roeland Park, Merriam, Westwood and Kansas City on the Kansas side; Parkville, Weatherby Lake, Lee's Summit, Liberty, Kearney, Kansas City, Independence, Blue Springs, Raytown, Grandview, Belton, Raymore, Gladstone, North Kansas City, Riverside and Smithville on the Missouri side.
Why we publish the rules
Most pavilion builders tell you to call for a quote. We would rather you arrive at the design meeting knowing what your city allows, whether your slab will work, and what the number is likely to be — because a homeowner who knows those things makes better decisions and wastes less of everyone's time. So this site carries:
- A permit and footing matrix for 13 metro jurisdictions, read from each city's and county's official code pages, with the access date on every row and a plain list of what we could not verify online.
- An existing-patio guide that explains why a slab is not a footing and what the three real options cost.
- A cost guide and an Instant Estimate built on our published pricing and a line-item model whose version and evidence date are printed on every result.
How we source. Every consequential number on this site links to where it came from — a city code section, a manufacturer's manual, a national cost guide with its date — and says what kind of number it is: our published price, a national estimate, a kit list price, or an assumption we are still validating. Permit facts are re-read when cities change codes (Lee's Summit moved to the 2024 codes on October 1, 2026; Parkville in January 2026). Model versions and corrections are logged below.
Photos. Job-site photographs on this site are genuine photographs of work installed by our crew, used with permission. Concept renderings are labeled as such. We do not present stock imagery as our work.
What this site is not. It is not engineering. The guides explain what the codes say and how we approach a site; they do not size beams, approve your slab or replace a permit reviewer. When a page has had a licensed professional's technical review, it says so by credential and date.
Corrections log
- 2026-09-30 — Site launched. Permit matrix read from official sources on this date; cost model v0.1.
Contact
Get a quote to set up a free on-site design meeting. For a correction to anything on this site, use the same form and start your message with "Correction."