Custom Home Builder in Winder, GA, Where the Owner Is on the Job

Southern Pines Builds is a family design-build firm in Jefferson that builds custom homes across Winder and Barrow County. Owner Mitch Trees is on site from the first design conversation to the final walkthrough. We hold Georgia residential contractor license RLCO004901.

We are not a volume builder and not a low bid. We keep design and construction under one roof, so one accountable person answers for every decision. That is how a home gets built right, once, for good.

Winder is growing fast, and a lot of that growth is subdivision floor plans. We build the other kind of home. Your lot, your plan, your priorities, engineered for the land it sits on.

Winder sits on Piedmont red clay that swells when wet and shrinks in a drought, which is hard on a foundation not built for it. We spec deeper footings, structural fill, and drainage, and grade water away from the house. On sloped Barrow County lots, that same ground often makes a full basement worth pricing.

Permitting forks by jurisdiction. Inside the city, your permit runs through City of Winder at eight dollars per thousand of construction value; outside, through unincorporated Barrow County. On septic lots, Barrow County Environmental Health must approve the system before the permit issues. We handle both paths.

State Route 316, the Innovation Corridor between Atlanta and Athens, is pulling Winder into the metro while land still costs less than closer-in Gwinnett. Local custom construction generally runs about $150 to $250 per square foot, and we quote it honestly, with no surprise change orders.

We design and build new custom homes on your lot or ours, from acreage builds with well and septic to infill homes on a finished street. We also take on large-scale remodels, whole-home renovations, and additions for owners in Winder’s older neighborhoods and around historic downtown who would rather expand than move.

Kitchens and baths, finished basements, decks, and general contracting round out the work. One team, one plan, one point of contact. See every place we build on our service area page.

Mitch is on the job, not behind a desk. When you build with us, you are not handed off to a crew you have never met on a site the owner never visits. Mitch and his wife Aly run this as a family business, and your project gets that level of attention.

We build on building science and material honesty. We tell you what a wall assembly, a foundation detail, or a grading plan actually needs, and why, before it goes in the ground. We price honestly and hold that price, so there are no surprise change orders at the framing stage.

We are a licensed Georgia residential contractor, RLCO004901. Design and build under one roof means the person who drew it is accountable for how it gets built.