Alabama Custom Home Perfectly Combines Traditional and Farmhouse Features

We recently had the opportunity to create an Alabama custom home for the Harper family. This family dreamt of having an elegant, modern farmhouse-style home, so they called us at J. Wright Building Company to tackle the job. With a passion for building fine artisan homes, we were up for the challenge of creating a beautiful and unique place the Harpers could call home forever.

Situated on the river near a beautiful wooded area, we were excited to start building on such a beautiful location. We made sure to build the home in just the right place so that the back porch and master bedroom had excellent river views. The incredible scenery is the perfect backdrop for this house. With a mixture of classic red brick, stained wooden beams and neat white wood siding, the exterior perfectly combines traditional and farmhouse for a one-of-a-kind home. (more…)

Adding Unique Kitchen Appliances to Your Custom Home in Birmingham

Choosing appliances is an important step during the homebuilding process, but perhaps even more so when building a custom home. Building a custom home allows you to have a much bigger say during the homebuilding process, appliance preferences included. While appliance selection may seem like a minute detail, appliances can add a lot to the personality and functionality of the home. Knowing the appliance options that are available can help you figure out what you might like to incorporate into your own. Here are a few of the top appliance trends we’re seeing right now in custom homebuilding: (more…)

Creating Outdoor Kitchens in Your Custom Birmingham Home

When you think of cooking outside, do you picture everyone crowded around a campfire with sticks held over the flames? Or maybe you think of a hot summer day with hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill and the kids in the pool. Whatever you’re thinking, we’re here to tell you that outdoor cooking has changed drastically! It is no longer limited to just summer cookouts or camping trips. When you choose to build a custom home in Birmingham with J. Wright Building Company, you know you’re working with builders that will offer the latest in functionality and design trends. Outdoor kitchens have become a big deal – so big that we’re being asked to put them in almost every home we build!

Thanks to their popularity, we’ve decided to show you how to make your outside kitchen just as practical as the inside one: (more…)

J. Wright Building Company Completes Blackridge Custom Home

We are pleased to announce the completion of a brand-new custom home in the stellar Blackridge community in Hoover. Working closely with the homeowner, we designed and built a traditional Craftsman-style lakefront home with a modern farmhouse-style vibe, maximizing spaces for lakeside enjoyment and entertaining.

Situated on the community’s private lake, the homeowners can enjoy lake views from many-windowed rooms, and they can easily access water activities from a large screened porch area that spans the back of the house.

The interior of this home offers modern soaring ceilings, natural light, and a seamless flow to fully optimize the spacious areas. A two-story family room is anchored at one end by a stone fireplace (more…)

Benefits of Choosing a Custom Home in Birmingham

Custom Home in Birmingham, AL

When buying a house, one of the biggest questions that home buyers ask themselves is whether they should purchase a pre-existing house or a new home. Many home buyers tend to gravitate toward resale homes because they believe they are less expensive or easier or faster to buy. However, choosing a custom new home has so many advantages, so it should always be considered during the homebuying process. Here are a few of the biggest advantages of choosing to build a custom home in Birmingham:

Upgraded Features

Whether it’s the countertops or the floors, when looking at a resale home, there’s usually something that doesn’t fit your style or preferences. Buying a custom home allows you to control not only the layout (more…)

Add Color and Curb Appeal with Southern Classics

Spring landscapes are splashing color across Birmingham, as flowering plants and shrubs paint the town in vibrant hues. There’s still plenty of time to add your own color splash and extend the impact through summer. As an elite Southern Living Custom Home Builder, we especially appreciate the updated classics featured in the Southern Living Plant Collection. Just as we add modern design and luxury to classic Southern styles in our custom Birmingham homes, this collection introduces new and better versions of the flowers and shrubs our region has long enjoyed.

First up is the hydrangea, a Southern staple for cut flower arrangements. The Big Daddy Hydrangea variety produces balloon-sized pink flowers in alkaline soils and blue in acidic soils. Blooming throughout the spring and early summer, (more…)

As a Custom Home Builder in Birmingham, We Choose Sherwin-Williams

Our team takes great pride in our work and we believe every homebuyer should truly love their home inside and out. From the selection of materials to the paint on the walls, we ensure that attention to the finest details is our main focus. As a luxury custom home builder in Birmingham, we are proud to use Sherwin-Williams paint colors in all our custom homes. Sherwin-Williams has been a leader in paint technology for over 150 years and is also a sponsor of the Southern Living Custom Builder Program, a network of some of the finest custom home builders in the South that we’re proud to be part of.

At J. Wright building company, we choose the best-of-the-best for our custom homes and that begins with the exterior and interior paint choices. Painting is an investment we make for our homebuyers – in time, money and labor. A high-quality coating starts with ingredients that allow paint to apply more easily, look better and last longer. (more…)

Custom Pantries and Closets for Ultimate Organization

Marie Kondo’s new Netflix series is inspiring binge-watching and binge-cleaning among many this year. It’s one of those rare shows that will simultaneously make you feel a little guilty about your life and inspire you to change it for the better. It comes at the perfect time when everyone is ready to focus on their New Year’s resolutions and make some positive changes in their lives.

When it comes to organization and decluttering, custom pantries and closets are the perfect solution to sparking joy. At J. Wright Building Company, we use Rev-A-Shelf to help us create custom pantries for our clients. Rev-A-Shelf is the market-leading innovator of quality, functional residential cabinet storage and organizational products such as Lazy Susan’s, kitchen drawer organizers, base cabinet and pantry pull-outs, functional waste containers, LED lighting systems and childproof locking systems. (more…)

Join us for the 2019 Home Building and Remodeling Showcase

It’s time for the 2019 Home Building and Remodeling Showcase!

If you have been thinking of building a new home or remodeling your existing one, make plans to attend the show this weekend at the Finley Center at the Hoover Met. You will get to meet and mingle with all of Birmingham’s best professional home builders and other great vendors to help you with your home designs.

The show takes place this Friday and Saturday from 10am – 7 pm and Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. (more…)

Customize Your Home for the Holidays

It’s no surprise that purchasing a new home is a big deal. It is one of the largest investments you will ever make and there are few things in life that will provide a bigger thrill than moving into a new home. You can make that experience even more special by building a custom home, which allows you to choose the look, location and unique features you want for your home, from the biggest elements to the smallest details. When you chose to build a custom home in Birmingham, you’re creating an exclusive living space that will serve your family’s needs for years to come.

One of the many ways a custom home can be specially designed for your family is through details that make both everyday living and special occasions perfect for your family. Host Thanksgiving at your home every year? Design a custom plan with an oversized dining room that will fit an expansive table so everyone can be together. Do you love to host parties? (more…)