Custom Home Builder Serving Omaha & Eastern Nebraska
One builder for the whole thing — plans, engineering, permits, foundation, framing and finish. We build custom homes on acreages west of Omaha, infill lots inside the city, and everywhere in between across Douglas, Sarpy and Cass County.
A house drawn around your lot, not pulled off a shelf
Most new homes going up around the Omaha metro come from a catalog. A production builder picks three or four plans that pencil out, drops them on whatever lots are left in the subdivision, and hands you a finish-selection sheet. That works if the plan happens to fit how you live. If it doesn't, you spend the next twenty years working around someone else's floor plan.
We start from the opposite end. We walk your lot, look at where the sun comes from and where the grade falls, and then work with our architects and engineers to draw a house that suits both. A walkout that actually walks out. A garage deep enough for the truck you own. A kitchen sized for how many people really end up standing in it.
Because we're a general contractor rather than a design firm, we're pricing the house while it's still being drawn. That's the difference between a set of plans you love and a set of plans you can afford to build — you find out before the engineering is finished, not after.
- Typical build
- 8–14 months from permit
- Lot types
- Acreage, infill, subdivision
- Design
- Architect & engineer included
- Estimate
- Free, valid 30 days
New construction, start to finish
Every phase is carried by one company, so nobody hands you a phone number and tells you to call the next trade yourself.
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Custom homes on your lot
You own the ground, we build the house. Acreages around Waterloo, Springfield and Louisville, and infill lots inside Omaha and Bellevue where the setbacks are tight and the plan has to be drawn to fit.
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Spec homes
Homes we plan, permit and build to sell. If you're looking in the Plattsmouth or Cass County area, ask what we have coming out of the ground — buying early means you still get to make selections.
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Specialty & accessible builds
Single-level layouts, wider halls and doorways, curbless showers, ramped or grade-level entries. Built in from the drawings rather than retrofitted after the fact, which is both cheaper and better looking.
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Plans, engineering & permits
We coordinate the architect and structural engineer, produce the stamped plan set, and file with the City of Omaha, Bellevue, Papillion or the county — whichever jurisdiction your lot falls in.
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Site work & foundations
Excavation, footings below Nebraska frost depth, poured walls, drain tile, backfill and final grade. The part of the house nobody photographs is the part that decides how it ages.
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Framing through finish carpentry
Framing, roof, windows, siding, interior trim, stairs, built-ins and cabinetry. The same crew that sets your trusses is the one detailing your casing.
Built past code on purpose
Local code is the legal minimum, not a quality target. On a house you plan to own for decades, the minimum is the wrong place to stop.
You talk to the builder
Not a sales office, not a rotating project manager. The person who prices your home is the person on site while it's going up, and the person who answers when you call two years later.
Priced before it's drawn to death
We put real numbers against the plan early and keep updating them as the drawings develop, so the budget conversation happens while changes are still cheap.
Nebraska weather built in
Footings below frost line, roof and truss design for local snow load, wall assemblies detailed for the swing between a 100° July and a -10° January. It's a specific climate and it punishes generic details.
Licensed and insured in two states
Licensed in both Nebraska and Iowa and insured to $1M per occurrence, $2M annually — which matters whether you're building in Elkhorn or across the river in Council Bluffs.
Licensed in Nebraska & Iowa · Insured to $1M per occurrence / $2M annually · Free estimates, valid 30 days · Permitting & design handled for you
Request a Free EstimateFrom a bare lot to the final walkthrough
You always know what phase you're in, what happens next, and what it costs before we get there.
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Walk the lot, set a range
We meet on your property, talk through the house you have in mind, and give you a realistic price range based on the lot, the square footage and the level of finish. No obligation and nothing to sign.
Free · First conversation
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Design and engineering
Our architects draw the plan and revise it with you until it's right. The structural engineer sizes the framing and foundation for your specific soil and span conditions.
Stamped plan set
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Final price and permits
With finished drawings we lock the contract price, then file for the building permit with your city or county and schedule the required inspections.
Fixed price · Permits filed
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Construction and walkthrough
Dirt work, foundation, framing, mechanicals, finish. You get regular updates and a job site that's picked up at the end of the day, then a punch walk before you take the keys.
Managed start to finish
Building homes across the Omaha metro
We're based in Plattsmouth, twenty-five minutes from downtown Omaha, which puts most of the metro inside a comfortable daily drive. That matters more on a custom home than on any other project we take: a house under construction needs the builder on site regularly, not once a week when the route works out.
Every jurisdiction out here reviews plans a little differently. A lot inside Omaha city limits gets a different review than an acreage in unincorporated Sarpy County, and Bellevue, Papillion and Gretna each have their own quirks around setbacks, stormwater and inspection sequencing. We file the paperwork and sit through those reviews so you don't have to learn the difference.
Towns we serve
- Omaha
- Elkhorn
- Waterloo
- Bellevue
- Papillion
- La Vista
- Gretna
- Springfield
- Plattsmouth
- Louisville
- Murray
- Council Bluffs
Don't see your town? We travel for the right project — ask and we'll tell you straight whether we're a good fit.
Check availability in your townWhat homeowners ask before building
If yours isn’t here, call or text — we’d rather answer it than have you guess. More on our general FAQ page.
Do I need to own a lot before I call you?
- No. Plenty of our first conversations happen before there's any ground under the project. If you're still shopping, bring us the listings — we can tell you what a lot will cost you in dirt work, utilities and foundation before you commit to it, which is often the difference between two lots that looked identical on paper.
How much does a custom home cost in the Omaha area?
- It depends far more on the lot and the level of finish than on square footage alone. A flat infill lot with city utilities at the curb starts in a very different place than an acreage that needs a well, a septic system and four hundred feet of driveway. That's why the first visit is about giving you a realistic range for your specific site rather than a price per square foot that falls apart on contact with reality.
How long does it take to build?
- Most custom homes run eight to fourteen months from permit to keys, plus the design and permitting phase ahead of that. Weather is the biggest variable in eastern Nebraska — a wet spring can push the foundation schedule by weeks, and we'd rather tell you that up front than promise a date we can't hold.
Do you work with my architect, or do you provide one?
- Either way works. We have architects and structural engineers we've worked with for years and can run the whole design phase in-house. If you've already got drawings or a designer you like, we'll price from their plans and coordinate with them through construction.
Can you build on an acreage without city utilities?
- Yes, and a lot of what we build falls into that category. Well, septic, propane, buried electric and a driveway that survives a Nebraska freeze-thaw cycle all get scoped and priced as part of the project rather than treated as somebody else's problem.
Who handles the permits and inspections?
- We do. We prepare the submittal, file with the correct jurisdiction — City of Omaha, Bellevue, Papillion, Gretna, or Douglas, Sarpy and Cass County for unincorporated land — and schedule every required inspection as construction reaches it.
Other things we build
We're full-service, so most projects end up touching more than one of these. One contract, one crew, one point of contact.
Consultations and estimates are always free
You deserve to know exactly what to expect before any work begins. Tell us about your project and we'll walk you through the scope, the range and the realistic timeline — no pressure, no obligation.
- Licensed in Nebraska & Iowa
- Insured to $1M per occurrence / $2M annually
- Free estimates, valid 30 days
- Permitting & design handled for you
Talk to the builder
(402) 258-2224Call or text with a rough idea of what you want to build. We answer with real numbers, not a sales pitch.
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