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Scandinavian Farmhouse Design Finds a Home in North Carolina

Scandinavian architectural design is a top custom home request in the Raleigh Triangle area – backed by stunning influence across the globe with clean lines, ...

What Should I Ask a Builder About Customizing My Home?

Let’s look at what “custom” really means — and how to bring your ideas to life. Custom isn’t just a word we use in homebuilding ...

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Understanding Septic and Well Requirements When Building on Your Own Land in Orange County, NC

If you’re planning to build a home on your own land in Orange County, North Carolina—whether it’s in Efland, Cedar Grove, Hillsborough, or one of ...

What Should I Look for During a Pre-Drywall Walkthrough?

What’s hiding inside the walls? Everything! Let’s meet on site to take a look, when your build is underway. There’s a reason I get excited ...

Walk In Pantry with Built Ins | Mebane NC New Homes

Why the Scullery Pantry is a Must-Have Kitchen Feature in Today’s Custom Homes

See why scullery pantries are in high demand—and how four custom home plans bring this must-have feature to life Home design trends are evolving to ...

Stunning New Floor Plans for Your Custom Build

Just Released: Three New Luxury Floor Plans Now Available in Our Online Catalog At Travars Built Homes, we believe your home should reflect your lifestyle, ...

Accent Colors: 5 Eye-Catching Design Features for Your Custom Home

In custom home design, a strategically chosen accent color can transform a room, creating focal points that elevate the overall aesthetic. At Travars Built Homes, ...

Studio Spaces and Family Suites: Versatile Living | On Your Lot Builder

When you’re building a custom home on your lot in Chatham, Lee, Alamance, or surrounding counties, having a dedicated space that adapts to your lifestyle ...

Popular Brick Selections for Custom Homes | Travars Built Homes

At Travars Built Homes, every detail matters. That’s why we guide our homeowners through thoughtful selections — like brick — that shape the timeless beauty ...

What Can Impact Where You Can Place Your Home on Land in Alamance County, NC?

Alamance County is one of the beautiful areas where Travars Built Homes builds custom homes on your land—and one of a dozen counties across central ...

What Homebuyers Really Want: Trends in Home Size for 2024

As custom home builders serving Pittsboro and the surrounding areas of Chatham County, Travars Built Homes pays close attention to what today’s homebuyers value most. ...

Built-In Bookcases: Custom Home Features with Character in Pittsboro and Chatham County, NC

If you’re building a custom home in Pittsboro or Chatham County, NC, built-in bookcases are a timeless feature that adds charm, storage, and functionality to your ...

Understanding Septic and Well Requirements When Building on Your Own Land in Chatham County, NC

Building a custom home on your own land in Chatham County, North Carolina offers incredible freedom and flexibility—but it also comes with important site development steps, especially ...

2025 Color Trends | Alabaster and the Seas | Chatham County Custom Homes

At Travars Built Homes, your trusted Chatham County, NC custom home builder, we know that every detail matters when creating a space that feels like home. The Longview ...

Best Floor Plans for Homeschooling Families

Homeschooling is more than a lifestyle—it’s a way to shape a home around education, creativity, and family time. If you’re a homeschooling family looking to ...

Personalized Charm – Comparing Three Modern Farmhouses

Modern farmhouse designs artfully combine contemporary convenience with rustic charm, resulting in homes that are both functional and inviting. Let’s explore three distinctive modern farmhouse ...

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Holton Manor

3365 sq ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

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Features of the “Holton Manor” plan include:

First floor Guest Suite

Vaulted Great Room

Open Staircase and 2nd Floor Catwalk

Option for Two Offices, plus 4 Beds

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Building with Strength and Integrity—One Home at a Time

Every photo here tells the story of a home built with care, transparency, and purpose. At Travars Built Homes, we don’t just build to plans—we build to fit your life.

Any design you see can be tailored, adjusted, or completely reimagined with your goals in mind. Let’s get started!

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*Every home we build is unique. Images may reflect customized layouts, finishes, or features. Photographed homes may have been modified from the construction documents to comply with site conditions and/or builder or homeowner preferences. A full specifications package is available upon request. Floorplans are copyright architect.

Awards

Custom Home Builder Awards: Travars Built Homes wins Gold in the Chatham County Parade of Homes

This Travars Built Home was designed and built in Pittsboro, North Carolina. It was honored with a Gold award from the Chatham County Parade of Homes.

The exquisite countryside cottage was created by the Travars Built Homes team with an interesting medley of architectural designs. See examples from mountain house to modern farmhouse to arts and crafts. This home has superb craftsmanship with an incredible open floor plan filled with sunshine and space.

It was designed for indoor and outdoor living. The verandah style 8′ deep covered porch runs across the front of the home and culminates in a screen porch. Double sliding doors create a glass wall with access into the gathering room.

The thoughtful layout was designed with aging-in-place details such as a sunken step-down tub, roll in shower, extra wide hallway, and lever doors. A practical office is located off the first floor primary suite.

Storage space is tucked in everywhere. There are three pantries (a hidden pantry, bulk storage pantry and canning pantry), and extensive bookcases and cubbies. Wonderful cabinetry has lots of pull out drawers. There is also a walk-in storage room upstairs that’s bigger than the guest room.

Grounded with with lightly stained oak hardwood floors and wood-look tile in soft grey and blue, the welcoming open feel is further accentuated by a soaring 17 foot ceiling over the gathering area. A sloped roofline above the kitchen enables a clear sight line from the upstairs loft.

This Travars Built Home defines “custom home” with creative artistry inspired by the wooded countryside setting. It brings a mountain retreat feel of peacefulness and tranquility.

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Let’s build that!

These photos showcase the kind of truly custom results we create with homebuyers. From simple to spectacular, every home we create is shaped by listening, personalizing, and guiding you through a meaningful build experience. Take a look, find inspiration, and let’s connect.

Chestnut Pointe

3172 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Danbury Springs

3020 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Avonmore

2466 Sq Ft | 3-4 Beds | 2-3 Baths | One Story

Amherst

2686 Sq Ft | 3-4 Beds | 2.5-3.5 Baths | One Story

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Holton Manor

3365 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Longview

2587 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Teesdale

3188 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 4 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Southern Farmhouse

4158 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 2.5 Baths | One Story

La Puente

2525 Sq Ft | 3-4 Beds | 2 Baths | One Story

Weston

2850 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | Two Story

East Haven

3097 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | One Story

Oliver

2525 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 2 Baths | One Story

Woodland

2231 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | Two Story

Grace

3237-3637 Sq Ft | 4-5 Beds | 4 Baths | Two Story

Annecy

2373 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Noni Cottage

1904 Sq Ft | 2 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Gold Winner for Chatham County Parade of Homes

Highland Point

2731 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Gregory

4600 Sq Ft | 5 Beds | 4 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Westbrook

3159 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Victoria

3043 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3.5 Baths | Two Story

Mulberry Farm

2852 sq ft | 4 Beds | 3.5 Baths | One Story

Bethel Farm

2426 Sq Ft | 3-4 Beds | 2-3 Baths | One Story

Drifting Leaf

2702 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

White Farmhouse | Chatham County Local Home Builders

Ivy Ridge

3204 Sq Ft | 5 Beds | 3.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Chatham Farmhouse

2438 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Applewood

3319 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | Main Floor Primary Suite

Chapel Hill New Home Builder | New Homes Chapel Hill NC

Ginger Hill Forest

2602 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 3.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite | Basement

Holly Fern

2466 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Chestnut Lodge

2590 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 3 Baths | Two Story

Bend

2578 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | Two Story

Riverstone B

3070 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | Two Story

Cooper

2758 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 2.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Wendell

2390 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Abbie

2702 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

River Bluff

2381 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Rodanthe

2328 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Rodanthe B

2328 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Pamlico Sound

2414 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Inara

3470 Sq Ft | 5 Beds | 4 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Greenfield Cottage

1961 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 2 Baths | One Story with Bonus Room

Davis

1421 Sq Ft | 3 Beds | 2 Baths | One Story

Fremont

2309 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | Two Story

Quail Ridge

2416 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | Two Story

Saddlebrook Farmhouse

2738 Sq Ft | 4 Beds | 2.5 Baths | One Story

Bluestone

Tyrrell Place

2466 Sq Ft | 3-4 Beds | 2-3 Baths | One Story

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Hand-Crafted Kitchens with Custom Home Design Ideas

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Living Rooms with Fireplaces, Built-In Bookcases, and Ceiling Beams

These living room examples showcase custom home design with: cedar fireplace mantels, stained wood ceiling beams, stacked stone, brick, board and batt, tile, and ship lap fireplace surrounds, built-in wooden shelving and cabinetry, and much more:

Living Room Built In Media | Mebane NC New Homes

Custom Tile Showers

These en-suite bathrooms feature custom tile showers with white subway tile, herringbone designs, built-in storage alcoves, dual shower heads, built-in tile benches, frameless and semi-frameless surrounds, and much more:

Custom Home Design Ideas: Formal Dining Rooms

Work From Home Offices

These home offices showcase built in desks and bookcases, glass French doors, white wainscoting walls, trey ceilings, sliding barn doors, and much more:

Floor Plans with a Home Office | Custom Home Design Ideas

Drop Zone Built In Storage Units for Custom Home Design Ideas

Chatham County New Home | Drop Zone Built-Ins

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3365 sq ft | 4 Beds | 3 Baths | First Floor Primary Suite

Features of the “Holton Manor” plan include:

Building with Strength and Integrity—One Home at a Time

Get a Price for this Home

Custom Home Builder Awards: Travars Built Homes wins Gold in the Chatham County Parade of Homes

What does “custom” mean to you?

Looking for guidance on cost effectiveness and customization? Get started with transparent custom home pricing

Gold Winner for Chatham County Parade of Homes

Get home design ideas here – and see why every Travars Built Home is decidedly different. Our approach to custom building provides the flexibility to create your forever home the way you want it.

Hand-Crafted Kitchens with Custom Home Design Ideas

Living Rooms with Fireplaces, Built-In Bookcases, and Ceiling Beams

Custom Tile Showers

Custom Home Design Ideas: Formal Dining Rooms

Work From Home Offices

Drop Zone Built In Storage Units for Custom Home Design Ideas

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