Custom homes, built and managed by one company

A custom home has forty trades. You should answer to one.

We build the house, we make the cabinetry and millwork in our own shop, and we can run the whole project, architect to punch list. One team, one contract, one number to call when you have a question about your own home.

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FIG. 1 Who you actually manage. Same house, same forty trades; the difference is how many of them are your problem.

The failure mode

On most custom homes, the person tying it all together is you. The architect draws, a builder bids, a cabinet shop is hired on the side, and the gaps between them become yours to referee.

Nobody owns the whole thing. When the millwork doesn't fit the framing, you're the one on the phone finding out whose fault it is.

The general contractor of your house shouldn't be you.

How it works

01 / PLAN

Design and preconstruction

Scope, budget, and schedule settled before the first wall goes up, by the team that will actually build it.

02 / BUILD

One team on site

The general contractor and our own millwork shop, not a chain of subcontracts that points fingers when something doesn't line up.

03 / FINISH

Built by the people who built the house

Built-ins, trim, cabinetry, and hardware, made and installed by us. Punch list closed, warranties filed, keys handed over.

Client portal

You'll always know where your project stands.

Schedule, budget, change orders, contracts, warranties, and a photo log from the site every day it's worked. One login, from the first drawing to the last coat of paint.

portal.eclipsebuild.com OAK HOLLOW / WHOLE-HOME BUILD
Foundation pouredMAR 04
Framing completeAPR 18
Dry-in: roof and windowsMAY 09
Cabinetry & millwork installIN PROGRESS
Trim out and paintJUL 30
Punch list and handoverAUG 22
  • Milestones you can actually readNot "rough-in." The stages that decide whether the house is on time.
  • Every dollar, as it movesBudget, invoices, and change orders approved in one place, with a signature that means something.
  • A photo log, dailyWhat got built, the day it got built. Yours to keep when we're gone.
  • Contracts and warranties, filedTwo years from now, when a cabinet hinge needs a part number, it's still there.

Selected work

Before, and after.

BEFORE
AFTER

Hillsborough Farmhouse

Whole-home build + millwork

Hillsborough, NC

A new farmhouse on an open lot. Framing through finish carpentry by one team, with the cabinetry and trim made in our own shop.

BEFORE
AFTER

Trinity Park Renovation

Gut renovation + addition

Durham, NC

A 1920s bungalow taken back to the studs and extended. Old footprint, new house, original trim profiles matched in the shop.

BEFORE
AFTER

Lake House

Custom build + built-ins

Chapel Hill, NC

A lakeside house with built-in storage and paneling throughout. Designed, built, and installed without a single outside cabinet subcontractor.

Who you're hiring

Two companies. One contract. No daylight between them.

Acoustics, design, millwork

Brett Acoustics

Design, acoustic engineering, and the custom cabinetry, paneling, and architectural millwork built in our own shop. Twenty years of work that had to fit and had to last.

Construction, site, trades

[Paul's company]

General contracting and finish carpentry across the Triangle. Licensed, insured, and on the site every day the house is being built.

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Tell us about the house.

Send us the site, the budget, and what you're trying to build. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team for it, and if we're not, who is.

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