Durham's veteran-owned design-build contractor — custom homes, additions, and outdoor living across Raleigh, Cary, Chapel Hill, and the Triangle.
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Mabrey Construction is a veteran-owned custom home builder and licensed North Carolina general contractor based in Durham. We design and build custom homes, additions, ADUs, and outdoor living spaces across the Raleigh–Durham Triangle — one accountable design-build team running a documented, no-surprises process from the first site walk to the final walkthrough.
Founded and run by a U.S. Navy veteran. The same standard on every build, from a deck to a ground-up custom home.
Plans, permits, and construction under one accountable roof — no handoffs between an architect, a GC, and a punch-list nobody owns.
A documented 7-step guided journey from the first meeting to the final walkthrough. You always know what happens next and what it costs.
From a screened porch you use nine months a year to the custom home you retire in — designed, permitted, and built by one Durham team.
Most builders start at the blueprint. Mabrey starts at the dirt: we evaluate land for its highest and best use, walk knockdown-rebuild candidates with you, and develop multi-lot projects across the Triangle. If you own a lot, want one, or have a house that should become a different house — that conversation starts here.
Sean Mabrey founded Mabrey Construction after a path few builders share — U.S. Navy service supporting Marine Corps EOD teams, years as a cardio-thoracic ICU nurse at Duke and UNC, and building a thirty-officer mortgage firm — before turning to what he loves most: building Triangle homes. Today Mabrey designs and builds custom homes, additions, and outdoor spaces across Durham, Raleigh, and the surrounding towns, with a documented, no-surprises process on every project — and the roofing arm, Mabrey Roofing, holds the same standard over every home.
Every Mabrey project runs on a documented 7-step guided journey — the same framework, printed and handed to you, whether we are building your custom home or transforming the one you own. Three phases, zero guesswork: you always know what happens next, who is doing it, and what it costs.
We meet, walk the lot or the home, and turn the dream into a fixed scope: design, engineering, and a number you can hold.
Permits filed, schedule set, and a build run by one accountable team — with updates you never have to chase.
The final walkthrough together, a punch list that actually gets punched, and a home that matches the plan you signed.
Typical Mabrey projects run by scope.
These are honest Triangle ranges, not quotes. Your number comes from a site visit and a fixed-scope contract with the allowances itemized — so the price you sign is the price we manage to.
- Design + engineering included
- Permits filed and tracked
- Fixed-scope contract pricing
- Composite or wood, built to code
- Full finish with bath and egress
- Slab to certificate of occupancy
- Ground-up, scope-driven — let's talk
Cannot find your answer? A real person is one call away, no pressure.
- A real person answers. No phone tree, no pressure to commit.
- Free consultation: scope, budget, and next steps in writing — before any contract.
- Straight answers on cost, permits, and financing, even when the answer is not to build yet.
It depends on the project, and we will always talk real numbers early. Typical Triangle ranges: decks and screened porches $25,000 to $60,000, finished basements $60,000 to $120,000, additions $80,000 to $250,000, ADUs $150,000 to $300,000, and ground-up custom homes from around $500,000, scope-driven. Your exact number comes from a site visit and a fixed-scope contract — never a moving target.
Yes. Mabrey is a design-build contractor: plans, engineering, and construction live under one roof, and we run the permit process with Durham, Wake, or Orange County for you. One team, one contract, one accountable schedule.
Typical, scope-driven timelines: a deck or porch runs weeks, an addition roughly three to six months including permitting, and a custom home usually ten to sixteen months from design to keys. We put the schedule in writing and keep you updated at every step — that is the no-surprises promise.
Yes — through our sister arm, Mabrey Roofing, the same veteran-owned team that roofs across the Triangle. Every home we build gets its roof held to the same standard, and every roof we install gets a builder's discipline behind it.
Durham is home base, and we build across the Triangle: Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Wake Forest, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, and the surrounding towns.
A free consultation, a documented process, and a veteran-owned team that builds like it is their own name on the mailbox. Call (984) 464-4188 or tell us what you are dreaming up — we will bring the numbers.