About Us | Award Winning Custom Home Builders in NC

The Team

For the last 17 years, we have enjoyed success in providing unique luxury homes and home renovations for our owners, as well as maintaining strong relations long after. We are comfortable building custom homes on individual properties or within one of our community settings.

Living in the Triangle area of North Carolina provides many benefits. As a long time resident in the Chapel Hill, Chatham County area, we have been able to enjoy these right along with our owners. Dunning Custom Homes takes great pride in being part of this community and we expect to help welcome many more residents in the coming years.

Belonging to the Green Home Builders of the Triangle (GHBT) allows us to provide expertise in delivering green certified homes as well. Our goals have been to provide a product all craftsmen would appreciate and a home that lives efficiently.

John Dunning, President, Dunning Custom Homes

John Lucas Dunning is an NC State Wolf Pack alumnus with a degree in Supply Chain and Operations Management where he won awards for his consulting work with Duke Energy. After graduation and a brief stint in the corporate world he chose the entrepreneur path: the family business that his father has built over the past 20 years. John Lucas’ skills are an asset to the company that allow him to oversee purchasing, scheduling, quality control and various other job-site logistics.

John Lucas Dunning

AWARDS

We take pride in each and every one of our custom-built homes or home renovation project. The quality of our work speak for itself.

Awards and Reconization:

Green Home Builder Of The Triangle GHBT Member
HBA of Durham, Orange and chatham Country Memeber
Name Award – Best Home in the Triangle fro $700,000 – $1,000,000
Parade of Homes – Gold Award for $700,000 – $800,000 Category – HBA of Durham, Orange and Chatham
Parade of Homes – Silver Award for $700,000 – $800,000 Category – HBA of Durham, Orange and Chatham

Testimonials

"During a recent transfer to Chapel Hill, our search for a new home quickly came to an end when we found our Parade of Homes winner by Dunning Custom Homes. After looking at several homes in the area, we were immediately impressed with the style, attention to detail and quality of construction which were obvious in our new home"

"...John was able to give us straight forward advice about construction and material choices with an eye to helping us stay on budget. We were delighted with the quality of construction and the craftsmanship of his crews as well as several aesthetic solutions John personally designed..."

"John possess qualities that are very rare in the housing industry. You will not meet a more honest and trusting individual. John consistently conducts himself with integrity and the highest of moral standards. John was fully invested in the building of our beautiful home. He was available any day and anytime we needed him. The result for us is a beautiful home that five months after we have moved in is still getting rave reviews. The craftsmanship and attention to detail of his subcontractors is excellent. John pays great attention to details, provided us many ideas and solutions and was always open to our ideas as well. You will not find a better builder to partner with than John."

"John was incredibly involved in the entire process from the smallest details to the big picture. He continually educated us on the building process, listened to us and made it a point to construct a home that reflected our design style while continually making suggestions and improvements to the plan that would keep us within budget, yet enhance the craftsmanship of our home"

"I have seldom seen anyone in any profession or business venture exhibit the kind of enthusiasm and deep concern for both his clients and the finished work product as ...demonstrated by John Dunning. John has integrity to the core and we could have built this entire house on a handshake"

"John was able to give us straight forward advice about construction and material choices with an eye to helping us stay on budget. We were delighted with the quality of construction and the craftsmanship of his crews as well as several aesthetic solutions John personally designed"

"John has a strong relationship with trades and subcontractors and pointed us to vendors who were knowledgeable, and trustworthy. John was available for questions throughout the entire building process and maintained a hands-on approach that made us feel we were in good hands. The attention to detail paid to our home continues to impress our friends and family"

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