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Charlotte's neighborhoods were built in different decades on different lots under different rules. Each combination below explains what that means for a project.

A kitchen in a 1962 Barclay Downs ranch and a kitchen in a 1924 Dilworth bungalow are not the same project. Framing, foundations, sewer laterals, tree protection, historic review and lot coverage all change with the neighborhood, and they change the schedule and the budget before a single finish is chosen. The guides below pair each discipline with the specific conditions of the area it is being built in.

Custom Home Builder

Custom Home Builder covers a new house on a purchased or inherited lot, from feasibility and survey through architecture, permitting, construction and closeout. Read the Charlotte-wide guide, or pick a neighborhood:

Home Renovation

Home Renovation covers reorganizing an existing house — walls, systems, envelope and finishes — rather than replacing it. Read the Charlotte-wide guide, or pick a neighborhood:

Kitchen Remodeling

Kitchen Remodeling covers the kitchen and the rooms it should connect to — usually a den, breakfast room or rear porch. Read the Charlotte-wide guide, or pick a neighborhood:

Home Additions

Home Additions covers adding conditioned square footage — a primary suite, a rear living wing, a second story or a garage with space above. Read the Charlotte-wide guide, or pick a neighborhood:

Interior Design

Interior Design covers plans, elevations, finishes, lighting, fabric and furniture — coordinated with the builder rather than applied afterwards. Read the Charlotte-wide guide, or pick a neighborhood:

Home Theater & Automation

Home Theater & Automation covers dedicated theaters, media rooms, distributed audio, networking, shading, lighting control and camera systems. Read the Charlotte-wide guide, or pick a neighborhood:

Real Estate

Real Estate covers buyer and seller representation, pricing strategy, pre-market preparation and negotiation. Read the Charlotte-wide guide, or pick a neighborhood:

The neighborhoods

  • Barclay Downs (28211) — the residential grid immediately west of SouthPark Mall, platted in the late 1950s by the Cameron Morrison estate and built out through the 1960s.
  • SouthPark (28210) — the mixed commercial and residential district built around Charlotte's principal luxury retail centre.
  • Myers Park (28207) — Charlotte's canonical early-20th-century streetcar suburb, laid out by John Nolen in 1911 around curvilinear, oak-canopied boulevards.
  • Eastover (28207) — a compact 1920s enclave between Providence Road and Randolph Road, developed as an extension of the Myers Park idea.
  • Foxcroft (28211) — a rolling, low-density area east of SouthPark developed largely from the 1950s through the 1970s.
  • Cotswold (28211) — a practical 1950s and 1960s neighborhood cluster around the Cotswold shopping centre and Randolph Road.
  • Dilworth (28203) — Charlotte's first streetcar suburb, platted in 1891 and now a walkable historic district south of uptown.
  • Ballantyne (28277) — the master-planned district at Charlotte's southern edge, developed from the 1990s onward around golf, corporate campuses and newer retail.

The firms behind this guide

Four Charlotte firms cover the work described across this site. Each keeps its own website, and that is where current work, availability and contact details live.

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