Our story, the blueprint.

As a fully vertical firm, we offer all-inclusive concierge level services from initial home concepts through design, construction, selection services, and furnishings. All of our projects share a design-build approach where our team of design professionals, builders, and interior designers collaborate to provide the best overall experience.

Before getting started, we heavily invest our time and energy into our Design and Visualize First™ process, which enables you to see what you are building and understand the costs upfront.

Building quality homes is a profession best learned through experience, and we have more than anyone else. With over 300 years of combined residential building and design experience, we have completed over 230 luxury homes.

A Design-Build+Interiors firm provides a better way to create your home with one team handling all aspects, from concept through completion. Our entire team works collaboratively and transparently to achieve the common goals shared with the owner, so that the whole project works efficiently and on time.

In “conventional” building projects, each represented discipline works independently (design, build, interiors). This does not allow for the synergistic effect of teamwork, which can result in problems for the owner.

All of our projects are in or near luxury communities around Lake Keowee, Upstate SC, and Western NC. We are a local builder with offices in each area and have local staff dedicated to each project with the support of a professional team. We manage each project using our Multi-Tier Building QC™ approach, which includes our experienced site project managers, designers/architects, VP of Quality, and the builder/president.

All Dillard-Jones homes are built to our High-Performance Home Standards™ to assure the best performance, while also being built to our Legacy Quality Custom Crafted Homes™ level of craftsmanship. Our performance standards include hundreds of things you see, as well as many details that go unseen but will appreciate over a lifetime of use. These audited features include many facets of quality but are focused on the key areas below:

• Strength • Maintenance • Weather resistance
• Environmental impact • Sound transmission • Energy use
• Owner health • Aging in place preparedness

We are also focused on providing Legacy Quality Custom Crafted Homes™ which are the details, fit and finish, and architectural accuracy that define the expected craftsmanship.

While there isn’t a magic formula to determine the cost of a home, our process provides Real Costing Answers™ based on the details of your design, site, and quality. Once our conceptual work is completed, along with some “fit and finish” dialog, we establish a realistic budget utilizing our 300+ budget items. Our Real Costing Answers™ provides you with a better understanding of the cost of building and allows you, as a partner, to understand the path forward to build with complete certainty.

By pricing our jobs in a “Lump Sum” manner rather than a “Cost Plus”, we take the risk of errors upon ourselves. The only cost variables to our owners are the Allowances or Changes, and we carry all the risk of budget increases and estimating errors. Open ended or “Cost Plus” projects tend to have cost overruns and the builder ends up making more which does not fit well in our partnership model.

As an all-inclusive firm, Dillard-Jones employs a broad range of experienced industry professionals as part of our overall team. Tribus Design Studio (TDS) provides ongoing selections support, along with drawings/schematics of details during the building process. For many of our clients, TDS continues the relationship through furnishings and accessories.

DJB and Tribus Architecture employs the best residential design professionals. We make sure that the best fit for your project guides the design process while working closely with the build and interiors teams.

Dillard-Jones Services (DJS) is a division of DJB that is completely focused on after move-in services, concierge support, and renovation work.

In addition to having the Multi-Tier Building QC™ team, which includes the site project manager, designer/architect, VP of Quality, and t he builder/president—each project requires written compliance with our Building with Best Quality™ checklist that details hundreds of critical quality checkpoints throughout the four critical phases of construction (foundation, pre-drywall, design compliance, and final).

We believe that we are the right sized builder. Our focus is on luxury homes in two specific geographic areas and we typically complete about 12 +/- homes a year.

We staff each project to ensure maximum quality throughout the overall experience from start to after move-in. In order to provide the highest standard of service and quality expected from the best, as a company we self-limit the number of starts.

This answer is different for everyone. We believe our Design and Visualization First™ approach allows our clients to get to know our team and experience the quality of work we provide before deciding they’re the best fit. Our team is willing to do the work upfront to help you make the best decision rather than asking you to, “just trust us.” As with any relationship, chemistry is essential and our process allows the owner and our team to build a relationship from the beginning.