Ikaika is a Bend-based builder, grounded in craftsmanship, collaboration and a deeply intentional building process. Naturally Artistic and detail-oriented with decades of ‘bags-on’ experience, he brings both a builder’s intuition and a project manager’s discipline to every home he builds.

Around the age of 7 he would spend hours designing and building Lego structures, drawn to the logic and creativity of building. By the summers of middle school, he got his first job cleaning up job-sites while earning small opportunities throughout the day ‘building the fun stuff’. in his teenage years, under the mentorship of a custom home carpenter, eventually he earned a spot on the framing crew framing and self performing multiple trades on custom homes. Though he abhorred it at the time, his most cherished lesson was not being allowed to touch a nail gun until he learned to frame with his hammer only. That ‘fundamentals first’ mindset paved the way for every additional trade he would go on to master.

Ask anyone who knows Kaika, whether it’s optimistic curiosity or humble ambition, when he commits his mind to something it’s always with a “if we’re going to do this, then we’re going to do it well” attitude. That belief system of anything worth doing is worthy of our very best, helped broaden his skill set in becoming a commercial construction superintendent. for more than a decade Ikaika built a wide range of complex ground up projects ranging from schools, nuclear medicine facilities, boiler abatement/demolition, gas stations, car washes, multi-family housing, civil developments, multi-tenant commercial buildings and of course, custom homes. Ikaika was organically drawn back to custom homes where his perceptive eye for detail compliments discerning architectural details.

Years of on-site experience in the trenches with trade partners Affirmed a common theme - that while many builders can deliver a well-built home (duh, as they should) far fewer can deliver a well-run project. He esteems his relationships with his trade partners, architects, designers and clients which show through in his pragmatic project management and collaboration. This collaboration creates a building experience that appears effortless from start to finish. For Kaika, the process matters as much as the finished home - because the process of how something is built is just as important as what is built.

When Kaika isn’t working you can find him with his wife and two kids, mountain biking, snowboarding, summers on the lake or helping his wife sierra with their lifestyle store, Happen in Sunriver, Oregon.