You don’t stay in business for 44 years without learning to adapt to changing times. Mark Bitter at Kustom Floor Designs in Great Bend has seen his business grow over the decades but customer service and quality products have remained a constant.

Kustom Floor Designs got its start as Kustom Builders in 1979, when Bitter and a partner started building new homes. The business was located on North U.S. 281 and later moved to K-96 where True Value is now. They moved to the current location at 1515 Main Street in 1996.

“We started out building custom homes and doing remodeling. And then after the flood in 1981 we added the floor-covering side and grew that into commercial flooring all over the state. We’ve continued to grow both sides of it,” he said.

Kustom Floor Designs still has construction crews and new construction projects, along with cabinetry for kitchens and baths. There are sales people scattered all over Kansas, from Topeka to western and northern Kansas.