We Started on the Water and at the Workbench
Marine taught us hardware that lasts, fasteners that don’t fail, and materials that survive Louisiana sun. Cabinetry taught us patience, finish, and the arithmetic of a square corner. Most contractors come from one of those schools. We came from both, and we still work from both. That’s the foundation of every custom home we build.
What We Build
New Custom Homes
New residential construction across South Louisiana. Waterfront lots, inland lots, lots with a view that costs more to build for. We work to the parish flood elevation, the Gulf wind load, and the architectural language of where you’re building. Materials and methods are selected for the site, not the catalog.
Demo and Rebuild
Established neighborhoods, established setbacks. We take the storm-tired bungalow or the inherited fixer down to the slab and put something built to today’s code in its place. We work in writing with the parish from day one — historic guidance, drainage, elevation certificate, all of it documented. The new house respects the street it sits on.
Master-Planned Community Work
We know how the architectural review boards run. We know what an HOA design committee actually reviews and what they wave through. We arrive with the submittal package complete, not learning the rules in front of you. If your community has a design language, we already speak it.
Where We Build
Louisiana water and the neighborhoods near it. Our active service area:
- Lake Pontchartrain north shore — canal lots, traditional Northshore architecture, Old Mandeville to Madisonville and west
- Tchefuncte River — waterfront and just-off-water construction
- Tickfaw, Blind, and Amite Rivers — inland waterway construction with the flood elevation and dock interface those rivers require
- Lake Maurepas and the Diversion Canal area — coastal-swamp interface, V-zone construction, marine-grade material requirements
- Capital Region — Baton Rouge, Ascension, Livingston, the Capital Region’s older neighborhoods and newer subdivisions
- River Parishes — east bank and west bank, established neighborhoods and master-planned new developments
Statewide license, statewide insurance. We work outside this list when the project calls for it; this is just where we concentrate.
Materials and Methods
Cypress, White Oak, Local Hardwoods
Every custom home starts in our cabinet shop. Kitchens, vanities, mantels, built-ins, and trim are hand-finished from cypress, white oak, and the local hardwoods that move correctly in Louisiana humidity.
Marine-Grade Hardware Where It Matters
Fasteners and hardware on waterfront construction come from the marine side of our experience. Stainless where it has to be stainless, hot-dipped where hot-dipped is enough, never the cheap-substitute that makes the warranty call two years in.
Code-Fluent in the Floodplain
The parish floodplain administrator, the elevation certificate, the V-zone load path, the wind rating that survives the next named storm — these are the documents we keep at the front of the project file, not the back. If your lot is in a special flood hazard area, you want your contractor to read that book.
How a Custom Home Project Runs With Us
- Initial site walk. Free. We meet you at the property. You tell us what the house needs to be.
- Schematic and budget. We draft an initial layout and a budget that matches the lot, the parish, and what you said you wanted.
- Drawings. Architectural drawings, structural where required. Cabinetry layouts in parallel.
- Permitting and parish review. We pull the permits and handle the architectural review committee submittal where one exists.
- Construction. Phased. Foundation through dry-in through finish. You see the project weekly.
- Cabinet install and finishing. The cabinet shop work lands in the house. We hand off only when every joint reads correctly.
- Final walk and warranty. Punch list with you, walk with you, close-out paperwork. The phone number stays the same after sign-off.
A Few Honest Notes
- The portfolio is in person. We keep a physical portfolio and a referral list at the office. Ask, and we’ll walk through both before any work begins.
- No advance payments. We don’t ask for one and we wouldn’t take one.
- In-house cabinetry isn’t optional. It’s how every project starts and how every project finishes. If you’re shopping a quick build, we’re probably not your firm.
- Master-planned community work is contract-by-contract — we’ve been through the review process in most of the major subdivisions around Lake Pontchartrain and the Capital Region. Ask and we’ll talk through fit.