CUSTOM HOME BUILDERS IN PLYMOUTH, ANN ARBOR, AND NORTHVILLE

A home designed from the land up, and lived in for the rest of your life.

Architecture, construction, and full interiors led by one integrated studio — across Plymouth, Northville, Ann Arbor, Bloomfield, and the lake communities.

Building new is the most personal decision a family makes. It is also the one with the most places to come apart.

An architect draws a house. A builder prices it and it comes back well over. The plans get value-engineered by someone who was not in the room when they were designed. An interior designer arrives after framing and discovers the lighting plan cannot support what was imagined.

Eighteen months in, you are the only person who has been present for every decision — which means you are the only one who can catch what went wrong.

That is the job we take off your desk.

Personal and professional home builders in Ann Arbor MI and beyond
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For the family whose next home is their last home.

Our new construction clients are typically families who have already owned beautiful homes and now want to build one that is entirely their own — shaped by how they move, host, rest, and raise children.

We take on a small number of custom homes each year, typically on lots our clients already own in Plymouth, Northville, Ann Arbor, Bloomfield, and the lake communities of Southeast Michigan.

What we build

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  • Ground-Up Custom Homes

    Architectural design, construction, and full interior design for new single-family homes. Typically between 2,500 and 5,000 square feet.

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  • Teardown & Rebuild

    For families who love the neighborhood but have outgrown the home. We handle the architectural transition from the old to the new with the same discipline we bring to ground-up work.

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  • Estate & Multi-Structure Properties

    Main homes paired with carriage houses, guest wings, pool houses, and wellness structures — designed as one cohesive property rather than a collection of additions.

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A CLEAR NOTE ON INVESTMENT.

Our custom homes begin at $1,500,000, exclusive of land, and generally run $600 to $1,000 per square foot depending on scope, structure, and finish level.

That is a wide range and we would rather explain it than let you guess. A straightforward layout with restrained finishes sits near the bottom. Complex structure, custom millwork throughout, and a high-specification interior sits near the top. Two homes of identical square footage can be separated by more than a million dollars, and neither number is wrong — they are different houses.

Most builders will not put any of this in writing. We do, because we think the alternative is worse: a family spends six months falling in love with a design they were never going to be able to build, and finds out at the proposal.

If our range does not match what you had in mind, tell us anyway. We will tell you honestly what your budget can realistically build in this market, and if that is not us, we will point you toward someone good. We would rather be useful to you now than be the reason you wasted a year.

Seven phases.

Eighteen to twenty-four months.

One studio.

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What you can hold us to

Our five promises

You will never be handed off between a designer and a builder.

You will know your number before we break ground, and every change will be documented and approved before it is executed.

You will see your project every week in Buildertrend, without having to ask.

Danielle will be on your site. Michael will be on your site. Not a rotating project manager.

We take on a limited number of projects each year so that yours is one of them.

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A home worth the years it takes to build well.

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We take on a small number of custom homes each year. If yours is one of them, we'd like to meet you.