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Your 10 Simple Steps From Your Dream Home

This is your DREAM Home - it should be FUN!!

DREAM Homes. SIMPLIFIED

This is your new home -- this should be fun! Our 10 simple steps to your Dream Home make home building simple and painless, so you can relax and enjoy the wonderful journey.

1. Visit A Red Door Location

If everything you see on our website seems just too good to be true, do yourself a favor and comes see our furnished model homes located in Raleigh, Fayetteville, and Greenville!

2. Pick Your Dream Home & Personalize It

We give you the ability to make any of these homes uniquely yours. Once you choose your Dream Home, you can select one, of at least three, available architectural looks for your new home (Classic, Brick, Craftsman and Farmhouse). From …

3. Review Your Free Investment Snapshot

Your friendly Red Door - Dream Home Consultant will present a FREE comprehensive Investment Snapshot for your perfect home including your personalization choices so you know line by line how we arrived at the price. We are always here to …

4. Identify & Evaluate Your Land

If you don't have land, we can help you find the perfect homesite in your desired area. Once you have land we offer a FREE Land Evaluation. This enables us to confirm your selected home will work on your land …

5. Your Plan Review and Color Selections Meeting

Once you have made a decision to have Red Door Homes build YOUR Dream Home, the real fun begins at the Plan Review and Color Selections Meeting. Here you get to Personalize your home by choosing the colors and finishes. …

6. Your Construction Experience Meeting

Keeping you well informed throughout the entire build is just the Red Door way. In your Construction Experience meeting you will meet with your personally-assigned Builder to:

Make sure everyone is working toward the same vision
Review your project and discuss any …

7. Close Your Construction Loan

Okay... as soon as your financing is secured, your construction loan will close--and that triggers the Pre-Construction phase of permitting and other activities prior to building your Dream Home. Wow, that step was easy!

8. Watch Your Home Being Built

Now the real fun and excitement begins. Watch and enjoy the progress as your new home, which you played a major role in designing, takes shape before your eyes. Your Builder is gonna keep you up to speed on the …

10. Move-In

Welcome home! Once every detail of your home has been approved by you and the Red Door staff, you can move in your belongings and start living the life you imagined in your new Dream home. YOU DID IT!

Hear from our Homeowners

Allen and Kay from the Winterville Office were amazing throughout this process! They both have always been just a phone call or email away. Just like everything there are good days and bad days but the good days definitely outweigh the bad days. I would recommend Red Door to anyone. Yes there were delays and other problems that came up as you should expect but Red Door stayed on top of the problem and most of the time caught and fixed things before I even had time to contact them! These guys are awesome and if you're on the market please give them a call. Allen and Kay from the Winterville Office were amazing throughout this process! They both have always been just a phone call or email away. Just like everything there are good days and bad days but the good days definitely outweigh the bad days. I would recommend Red Door to anyone. Yes there were delays and other problems that came up as you should expect but Red Door stayed on top of the problem and most of the time caught and fixed things before I even had time to contact them! These guys...

Jumario A. , Winterville, NC

We searched and searched for a solution for a home that allowed us to build on the site of our current very old home that was affordable, timely and professional and couldn't be happier with our choice to have Red Door Homes as our builder. We searched and searched for a solution for a home that allowed us to build on the site of our current very old home that was affordable, timely and professional and couldn't be happier with our choice to have Red Door Homes as our builder.

Tara F. , Smithfield, NC

It went very well. We are on step four with the land. It has been a great experience working with Red Door thus far. It went very well. We are on step four with the land. It has been a great experience working with Red Door thus far.

Reginald B. , Winterville, NC

Ely and Lillian Hill share their experience building with Red Door Homes after moving into their new home on family land. They discuss why they chose Red Door, the communication throughout the process, and the customizations that made their home unique. Red Door Homes specializes in affordable custom homes built on your land across North Carolina and South Carolina. From choosing your plan to final move-in, our team works with you every step of the way. Ely and Lillian Hill share their experience building with Red Door Homes after moving into their new home on family land. They discuss why they chose Red Door, the communication throughout the process, and the customizations that made their home unique. Red Door Homes specializes in affordable custom homes built on your land across North Carolina and South Carolina. From choosing your plan to final move-in, our team works with you every step of the way.

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The quality of the material in the house and the workmanship of the contractors were above what we originally expected. The quality of the material in the house and the workmanship of the contractors were above what we originally expected.

Joseph L. , Orrum, NC