Leiper’s Fork, Franklin, College Grove and Columbia.
The builders, the plans and the first questions, all in one place.
Why here
South of Nashville the land opens into rolling pasture, creek bottoms and wooded hollows, where horse farms and old family homesteads still set the pace.
Builders here work with native limestone, oak and reclaimed barn timber, and many estates pair the main house with a working barn or a guest cabin.
Nashville families and newcomers come for acreage within an hour of the city.
The builders
Hand-picked for one reason: they build the kind of homes people dream about.
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Leiper's Fork, TN
Hardwood, stone and steel farmhouses and a restored 1788 cabin on a College Grove estate.
Murfreesboro, TN
Limestone-and-siding Southern farmhouse with a party barn, built as Southern Living’s 2023 Idea House.
Brentwood, TN
Metal-roofed Southern farm estates with bluestone porches, stone fireplaces and reclaimed-wood ceilings.
Newport, TN · Built Southall Farm
Hand-hewn logs, adze-marked mantels and pegged timber braces in the Boot Ranch tradition.
Moss, TN · Murfreesboro model
Hand-hewn log and timber frame homes with stone chimneys and deep porches, milled in Tennessee.
Cookeville, TN
Pegged white oak and cypress timber frames with big beamed great rooms and stone fireplaces.
Before you build
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Land, site work, foundation, frame, finish. A plain-English walk through the numbers in Williamson and Maury counties.
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What to ask before you sign, from the foundation to the warranty.
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Plans with real homes behind them, so you know they work.
Farms for sale
Horse farms, creek-bottom acreage and old homesteads south of Nashville. Featured Middle Tennessee farms are coming soon. Representing one? We’d love to show it.
Where we cover
Franklin · Leiper's Fork · College Grove · Arrington · Thompson's Station · Spring Hill · Columbia · Culleoka
Williamson, Maury, Hickman and Rutherford counties
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