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National Custom Builders Council
A custom mountain home at dusk, its windows lit beneath a snow-covered peakA desert modern home, glass walls open to the terraceA coastal home at dusk in Naples, FloridaA shingle-and-stone home in New Canaan, ConnecticutA coastal contemporary home in San Diego, California

Great homes start with great builders.SM

A council of America’s leading custom builders, raising the standard of home building since 1997.

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I The Council

Your builder, backed by the best.

Members learn from one another: methods, materials, lessons from real projects. Every member builds better for it. And wherever you are building, there is a member who knows your market.

16Member firms
1997Convening since
Evening light on the stone and glass elevation of a completed custom home
Highline Partners · Mountain WestPhotography to be credited
The lit pool and covered outdoor rooms of a member-built coastal home at dusk
Kurtz Homes · Southeast
II Selected work

Homes from members across the country.

Where the mountains rise, the desert opens, and the land yields to the sea.

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III

Membership is reserved for builders whose work holds up before the most discerning audience there is: their peers.

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A private wellness suite: a lap pool under a timber ceiling
PracticePhotography to be credited
IV Insights

Planning the private wellness suite.

Steam, cold plunge, lap pool, gym: the decisions worth settling before drawings begin, and the ones that can wait.

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II Two days on a member’s jobsite. The Council III What a market teaches its builder. Practice
V Established. Local. Enduring.

Meet the members and the places they build.

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