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Explore documented custom homes, kitchens, bathrooms, additions, outdoor living spaces, and restoration work by Design Builders. Project pages use the available photos, published features, and recorded scope without assigning unverified locations or budgets.
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Historic Restoration
The Gilbert-Hester Historic Restoration
A meticulous historic restoration preserving architectural heritage while bringing modern performance standards to a home with irreplaceable character. Featured in Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle magazine.
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Custom New Construction
The Kino Road Custom Masterpiece
A ground-up custom home with a detailed masonry exterior, custom stair, expansive kitchen, primary suite, and upper-level living spaces. The completed home is documented here through photography and video.
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Custom New Construction
The Tabor High-Performance Farmhouse
A ground-up custom farmhouse built on a multi-generational homestead — incorporating reclaimed chestnut hardwood floors, salvaged shiplap, stone foundation, wraparound porches, and state-of-the-art building science. Winner of Best of Show and People's Choice at the 2018 Parade of Homes. Featured in Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle magazine.
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Kitchen Remodel
The Hixson Kitchen Transformation
A complete kitchen transformation featuring custom cabinetry, natural stone countertops, herringbone backsplash, and professional-grade appliances. What started as a small water leak ended up being a dream home remodel — delivered exactly on schedule and on budget.
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Kitchen Remodel
The Barmen Kitchen Remodel
A modern kitchen remodel with new cabinetry, work surfaces, lighting, appliances, and a reworked connection to the surrounding living space.
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Home Addition
The Anderson Lake House Addition
A sweeping addition to a beloved A-frame lake property — adding a cathedral-ceiling great room with exposed timber beams, tongue-and-groove wood ceiling, open loft, hardwood floors, and a covered outdoor living deck. Featured in Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle magazine, January/February 2020.
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Home Addition
The Richards Outdoor Living Project
An expansive outdoor living addition featuring a screened porch, covered entertaining area with painted wood ceiling, brick detailing, stone fireplace, and seamless indoor-outdoor flow. A complete transformation of the back of the home.
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Home Addition
The Sanders Screened Porch & Deck
An outdoor living addition combining a screened porch with a ceiling fan and swing, plus an open deck with white railings and a direct transition from the house to the backyard.
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Home Addition
The Harmon Covered Porch
A covered outdoor living addition featuring a full-height stone fireplace with reclaimed wood mantel, exposed timber ceiling, screened walls, and composite decking — a year-round outdoor room built to last.
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Custom New Construction
The Graham Home
Tim Graham's own home — a showcase of the craftsmanship and attention to detail that defines Design Builders. Featured in Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle magazine in 2007. Every room reflects the exacting standards Tim brings to every client project.
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Bathroom Remodel
The Haycraft-McKee Bathroom
A primary bathroom remodel that opened up a cramped layout into an open-plan retreat — glass-enclosed walk-in shower with white herringbone subway tile and an aqua-glass mosaic niche, matching vanities in Galapagos Turquoise on separate walls, a custom Western cedar sauna in the former water-closet space, and St. John Blue walls throughout. Featured in Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle magazine, November/December 2022.
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Custom New Construction
The Skidmore Forever Home
A 4,200-square-foot custom country home on 13 acres near Smith's Grove, designed as a forever home with aging-in-place principles and the kind of low-maintenance infrastructure that lets retirement be retirement. Double-stud 12-inch exterior walls with nearly triple the R-value of conventional construction, geothermal smart-zone HVAC, brick exterior with a standing-seam copper porch roof, and a separately-designed working barn that became an integral part of the property. Featured in Bowling Green Home & Lifestyle magazine, December 2016.
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