Concept website by Piedmont IT Advisors — a work sample. Halloway Builders is a fictional custom home builder.

A luxury custom craftsman home built by Halloway Builders in Charlotte, glowing at dusk

Built by hand,with the price settled before we start.

Custom Homes · Remodels · Kitchens & Baths · Outdoor Living

What are you planning?
Fixed price in writing before we break ground
One point of contact, from first walk to final walkthrough
Licensed and insured in North Carolina

Halloway Builders, in one line

One builder, one contract, one person who answers the phone.

Halloway Builders is a Charlotte custom home builder and remodeler. We build a small number of homes each year and take remodels one at a time, so the people you meet at the first walkthrough are the people on your job site. The price is fixed in writing before work begins — and the person who signed it is the person you call.

A craftsman's hands fitting a solid oak cabinet door during a kitchen remodel

Homes & Remodels

What We Build

Four kinds of work, all under a fixed-price contract and all run by the same small crew. If your project isn't a fit, we'll tell you at the first walk — and suggest who might be.

A stately traditional brick Halloway custom home under Charlotte's oak canopy
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Custom Homes

From the lot walk to the final walkthrough: one contract, one fixed price. We build a handful of homes a year in Charlotte's established neighborhoods.

  • Lot and plan review before you commit
  • Fixed-price contract, in plain language
  • Weekly updates with photos
Explore Scope & Pricing →
A Halloway builder reviewing plans with a couple inside their framed home under renovation
02

Whole-Home Remodels

Additions, structural changes, and full-floor renovations — planned around how you'll live in the house while we work, or timed for while you're out of it.

  • Additions and structural work
  • Phased plans for occupied homes
  • One schedule, agreed in writing
Explore Scope & Pricing →
A warm Halloway kitchen with white oak cabinetry, a marble island, and brass fixtures
03

Kitchens & Baths

The rooms that get used hardest, built with materials that hold up: solid wood, stone, and tile set by our own crew — not handed off and hoped for.

  • Custom-built cabinetry
  • Stone and tile work
  • Design help included from the start
Explore Scope & Pricing →
A Halloway screened porch with a stone fireplace and cedar ceiling at dusk
04

Outdoor Living

Porches, decks, and outdoor kitchens built like the rest of the house — framed right, flashed right, and finished to match what you already have.

  • Screened porches
  • Decks and pergolas
  • Outdoor kitchens and fireplaces
Explore Scope & Pricing →

Projects & Plans

Explore Sample Projects

Browse the kinds of projects we build, with the starting price in the open — the way it should be. Filter by the work, the size, or the style of the neighborhood.

Project Type
Size / Scope
Style
The Ashford — a painted brick and stone craftsman home with a steep front gable
Myers Park Traditional

The Ashford

4 BED · 3.5 BATH · 3,850 SQ. FT.

Fixed-Price Starting At$1,150,000

The Waverly — a modern farmhouse with a wraparound porch at golden hour
Modern Farmhouse

The Waverly

4 BED · 3.5 BATH · 4,340 SQ. FT.

Fixed-Price Starting At$1,295,000

The Ellsworth — a sage-green Dilworth craftsman bungalow with a deep shaded porch
Dilworth Craftsman

The Ellsworth

3 BED · 2.5 BATH · 2,680 SQ. FT.

Fixed-Price Starting At$825,000

A renovated open-plan kitchen and living space in Plaza Midwood
Transitional

Plaza Midwood Whole-Home

3 BED · 2 BATH · 2,150 SQ. FT.

Fixed-Price Starting At$485,000

A renovated great room with a coffered ceiling and built-in bookcases in SouthPark
Myers Park Traditional

SouthPark Whole-Home

4 BED · 3 BATH · 3,300 SQ. FT.

Fixed-Price Starting At$690,000

A finished primary bathroom with marble tile, a soaking tub, and brass fixtures in Myers Park
Myers Park Traditional

Myers Park Kitchen & Bath

KITCHEN · PRIMARY BATH · CUSTOM CABINETRY

Fixed-Price Starting At$145,000

A dovetail joint being fitted by hand for a Dilworth kitchen
Dilworth Craftsman

Dilworth Cabinetry Kitchen

KITCHEN · HAND-BUILT CABINETRY · STONE & TILE

Fixed-Price Starting At$118,000

Inside a Dilworth screened porch — beadboard ceiling, wicker seating, garden beyond the screens
Dilworth Craftsman

Dilworth Screened Porch

SCREENED PORCH · FIREPLACE · OUTDOOR KITCHEN

Fixed-Price Starting At$96,000

Sample projects and starting prices are illustrative, shown the way Halloway presents real work: scope first, price in the open. Your fixed price is set in writing after the Walk & Talk.

Scope & Price Estimator

A Ballpark, Before the Walk & Talk

Four quick choices. You'll get a transparent ballpark range and a realistic timeline — no email required, no sales call hiding behind it.

Classic: quality standards, sensible finishes. Signature: upgraded stone, tile, and fixtures. Estate: the full custom cabinet and millwork package.

Your Ballpark

—

Estimated build time: —

Ballpark only, from sample Charlotte pricing. Your real number is a fixed price in writing after we walk the lot or the house together — that's the Halloway promise.

The Process

From First Walk to Final Walkthrough

A Halloway builder talking through plans and samples with homeowners at their kitchen table

STEP 1

Walk & Talk

We come to your home or your lot, listen first, and measure. You get honest notes on what's possible and what it should cost — before any contract is mentioned.

STEP 2

Price in Writing

A fixed-price contract with the scope spelled out in plain language. Allowances are real numbers, and any change is priced and signed before the work happens.

STEP 3

Build & Update

One point of contact, a written update with photos every Friday, and a site swept clean each evening. You always know what happens next, and when.

The Way We Build — by hand, on purpose.

A house is the biggest thing most families ever buy. We build like it: slowly where it matters, and out in the open where it counts.

01

Fixed Price, Signed

The contract price is the price. If we missed something, that's our miss. The only changes to the number are changes you choose — priced and signed first.

02

One Point of Contact

You get one person who knows your job, answers the phone, and can make a decision standing in your kitchen. No call center, no runaround.

03

Our Own Crew

Framing, trim, and tile are done by people who work for Halloway. The faces on your site the first week are the faces there the last week.

04

Clean & Considerate

A swept site every evening, dust kept where it belongs, and neighbors treated well. Your street has to live with the build too.

Word of Mouth

What the Neighbors Say

“Halloway gutted our kitchen and added a porch. The price on the contract was the price at the end — and we ate dinner in the new kitchen the week they said we would.”

— The Hendersons, Myers ParkCompleted Project · Kitchen & Porch · Myers Park

“Tom told us in March what the house would cost and when we'd move in. He was right about both — to the week.”

— The Okafor Family, DilworthCompleted Project · Custom Home · Dilworth

The People You'll Actually Meet

Tom Halloway and Grace Whitfield standing in a finished Halloway kitchen

Tom Halloway

Builder · Owner

Thirty years in Charlotte construction, the last eighteen building under his own name. Tom is on every job site, every week — usually with a pencil behind his ear.

Grace Whitfield

Project Manager

Your one point of contact. Grace runs the schedule, sends the Friday update, and answers the phone when Tom is up a ladder.

Let's Talk About Your House.

Tell us what you're planning — a lot you've found, a kitchen that's run out of room, a house that needs to grow. The first conversation is unhurried, and it comes with honest numbers.

CALL

P: (704) 555-0162
Mon–Fri, 8 a.m.–5 p.m.

EMAIL

[email protected]
Photos of the space help.
We reply within one business day.

OFFICE

842 Craftsman Court
Charlotte, NC 28210
Meetings by appointment.