BEC Custom Homes

BEC Custom Homes B.E.C. Custom Homes has been creating dream homes in the CSRA for homeowners just like you since 2001.

BEC Custom Homes specializes in crafting quality custom homes in the CSRA. We’re proud to say that we've earned a reputation for exceeding our client’s expectations. While we craft the home of your dreams, our focus is consistently on providing the absolute best customer service to ensure the complete satisfaction of every homeowner. With our professionalism and personalized attention, you can be

confident that your project will be properly managed and beautifully built with only the highest quality standards.

09/04/2026

Before this week, the cobblestones were still sitting in their baskets. Now the border is down and you can actually start reading the shape of the whole driveway and surround.

The border course goes in first because it locks the pattern. That course is what keeps the pea gravel from creeping outward over time. Without it, you are relying on edge restraints alone, and on a project this size that is not enough.

We are still in the middle of it, but this is the point where a client can finally see what they said yes to on paper.

09/01/2026

This primary bath is set up ADA style. Zero entry shower, a smaller bathtub, and blocking already built into the walls for grab bars whenever they are needed.

The blocking is the part most people miss. You cannot just screw a grab bar into drywall and trust it. The backing has to be framed in during rough construction, before the walls are ever closed up. If it is not there from the start, adding it later means opening the wall.

They are not planning to need any of this tomorrow. They just want the option to stay in this home forever if they want to. That is the whole point of building it in now while the walls are open and it costs almost nothing extra to do it right.

08/31/2026

Tile is in, trim is going up, and we are getting ready to prep for paint. This is the stage Brian calls the turning point, and it is easy to see why. The house stops reading like a construction site and starts reading like a home.

What changes at trim stage is not just the look. It is the sequence. Tile has to be set and cured before trim can go in, because the base of the casing sits right on top of the floor finish. Get that order wrong and you are cutting trim to fit around tile edges instead of running it clean to the floor.

Most of our clients get the happiest right here. Not at drywall, not at framing. Here, when the finished surfaces start showing up and they can finally see the decisions they made months ago coming together in one room.

We spent Tuesday through today in Chicago with Southern Living for training with House of Rohl and James Hardie Building...
08/31/2026

We spent Tuesday through today in Chicago with Southern Living for training with House of Rohl and James Hardie Building Products.
People assume builder training is about seeing new products. It is really about the install details. A siding product only performs the way it is rated if the clearances, fastener spacing, and flashing are right, and most of what goes wrong in the field traces back to one of those three. Same idea on the plumbing side. A fireclay apron sink from Shaws Shaws of Darwen weighs enough that the cabinet base has to be built to carry it before the countertop ever goes on. That is a framing decision, not a finish decision, and it has to be made months earlier.
We also spent time with Moen, Riobel, and Emtek Hardware going through finishes and valve options so we can spec them with confidence instead of guessing.
Twenty five years in and we are still going to class. That is the job.
Brian and Beth

08/29/2026

The way you trim a window changes how much depth and detail it reads as from across a room or from the street. Brian talks about a couple of moves here: a stool at the bottom of the window where the sill projects out, and a dressed up top. Neither one is over the top, but together they make the window look like it belongs in the house instead of just punched through a wall.

The reason it matters is proportion. A window with no trim profile is a flat opening. Add a stool and a crown or a built up head casing and suddenly there is shadow, there is dimension, and the whole wall reads differently.

Most of the detail that makes a custom home feel custom is not the big stuff. It is decisions like this one, made early in framing and finish, before anyone thinks to ask about them.

08/28/2026

About five or six years ago we started noticing how many of our clients were pulling up in electric cars. Enough of them that we stopped treating a charging station as an add-on and just made it standard.

What that means on the build side is we run a 220 volt circuit into every garage before the walls close. A standard 110 outlet will charge an electric vehicle, but it is slow enough to be genuinely frustrating. A 220 does the job overnight the way most people expect it to.

The cost to rough that circuit in during framing is a fraction of what it runs to open a finished wall later. So we build it in now and nobody has to come back.

We are always happy to answer questions about how something is built.

08/28/2026

This roof is lower pitch on purpose. The house sits in Aiken County, and from there all the way down toward the coast the land is flat. Flat terrain means wind has nothing to slow it down, and when a coastal storm moves through, the load on a tall steep roof is significant.

A lower pitch gives the wind less to grab. Pair that with a standing seam metal roof and you have two layers of logic working together. The metal handles the water fast. The pitch reduces the uplift pressure before the water even gets there.

Most people look at a roof and think about how it looks from the street. This one was designed around what the weather is going to do to it over the next forty years.

08/27/2026

Brian has been walking through several roof systems lately, standing seam, cedar shake, synthetic shake. This one is none of those. It is a standard architectural shingle, and it still reads as a high end roof from the road.

The detail that changes it is the exposed valley. On most shingle roofs, the valley where two roof planes meet gets covered over with a woven or cut shingle pattern. An exposed valley leaves a visible metal channel running down that crease instead. Your eye follows the line of the roof, and those valley lines give it definition that a standard install just does not have.

It is a finish decision, not a material upgrade. Same shingle, different result.

The vanity pulls are polished nickel. The sconces are brass. That is not a mistake, it is the whole point.When you use o...
08/25/2026

The vanity pulls are polished nickel. The sconces are brass. That is not a mistake, it is the whole point.

When you use one metal everywhere, a room can feel flat, like it was ordered all at once from the same catalog page. Intentional contrast between a cooler metal at eye level and a warmer one higher on the wall adds depth without adding more stuff. The eye has somewhere to travel.

The mirror is the thing that ties it together. That frame is plaster, hand shaped to read as branches, which carries the chinoiserie pattern off the wall and into three dimensions. Without it, the wallpaper and the fixtures would just be sitting next to each other. With it, they are in conversation.

We are always happy to answer questions about how a finish decision like this gets made.

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1618 Swint Road
Harlem, GA
30814

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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