Etheridge Custom Homes

Etheridge Custom Homes is a Class A licensed contractor specializing in custom residential construction. We tend to build mostly in the Suffolk, Chesapeake, Isle of Wight County, Smithfield, Windsor and Southampton County areas. To assure we provide the best possible building experience, we only build a maximum of 6-8 homes per year. Each home is p... ersonally handled from conception to completion by me, Willie Etheridge, Jr. and my wife Margaret Etheridge. We do not have a foreman or others between ourselves and the client. My construction career began in the mid 1970's working part time while still in school. I worked for a large commercial heating and air conditioning contractor and worked my way from clean up guy to jobsite helper to mechanic to foreman and in the early 1980's moved into the office as an estimator/project manager. During my time at that company, I handled mostly large commercial projects ranging into the millions of dollars and gained a great amount of experience in estimating, planning, design and many other aspects of the construction industry in general. During my time at that company, I built my first home for myself and realized that my true passion was building custom residential homes. In 1986, I left my previous employer and started a commercial heating and air conditioning company and continued on with the same type of projects handled at my previous employer. We grew to almost 100 employees and as time passed, I realized I still enjoyed building custom residential homes. In 1988, I built my second home that we lived in until 2004. In 1997, we designed and built a vacation home in Lake Gaston, NC. It was at that time that I decided to focus on custom homebuilding and shortly thereafter, sold my commercial heating and air conditioning company to my Vice President and began building custom homes on a full time basis. Since that time we have built mainly custom residential homes ranging from 1600 square feet to as much as 5000 square feet. We have never built the same home twice and ...Read More