Home Builder Digest

When it comes to home design in the American South, tradition is king. And few areas are as steeped in Southern tradition as the Palmetto State. That gave us the first clue to finding the best South Carolina custom home builders: we had to look for styles where the Old South was on display. Next, […]

With its beautiful, rural Midwestern scenery and a big bang for your buck, the Hawkeye State is a smart place to build a luxury custom home. Iowa has been ranked third in the nation for affordability by the U.S. News & World Report in a survey comparing median housing prices against median family incomes in […]

Kentucky has many beautiful luxury homes — and the highly skilled builders to make them. The wealthy and exclusive communities and developments in and around Louisville, the state’s largest metropolitan area, feature high-end homes and sprawling luxury estates with all the upscale details expected of a million-dollar mansion. Lexington, Kentucky’s second city, is also home […]

From Birmingham’s upscale suburbs to the blue waters of the Gulf Coast, Alabama is a great place to build the custom home of your dreams. This is a list of the best contractors in the Yellowhammer State, who build private custom homes and luxury estates in Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook, Orange Beach, Fairhope, and more.

Louisiana is home to diverse historic architecture, from stately Southern mansions, to charming New Orleans cottages, to French Acadian estates. While there is so much history and soul in the state’s historic homes, there are always new custom homes going up that both carry on and upend the region’s building traditions.

“Portland was green before green was hip,” says the personal finance website WalletHub, which ranked Portland among its top 10 green cities in the United States. But the news didn’t surprise the locals. Long before Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification and net-zero energy construction became common terms, environmentally conscious residents of The […]

From the Northland suburbs of Kansas City and the historic urban neighborhoods of St. Louis to the lakeside developments in the Ozarks, Missouri certainly has its fair share of beautiful custom homes. It’s not surprising then that the Show Me State also boasts a world-class stock of elite custom home builders. This list of the […]

When the subject is custom homes in Arizona, the challenge isn’t finding ace home builders who enjoy monumental success. It’s about finding too many and agonizing over which are the 15 who stand out from dozens of big names. Why does the Grand Canyon State have so many top-tier home builders? For one thing, so […]