Our Standard
What comes standard.
Quality isn't a square-footage number — it's what the house is made of and how carefully it goes together. This page is the included specification on every Unicoi home. A good portion of it is what other builders list on the upgrade sheet.
Read it the way you'd read a contract, because it effectively is one: if it's listed here, it's in your house at the published price.
Structure & envelope
The parts you never see are the parts you pay for every month. We don’t cheap out where nobody looks.
- Every slab home rides on a poured stem wall wrapped in stone — the house sits up, the water stays out
- 2×6 exterior wall framing — a deeper, stronger, quieter wall than the 2×4 most builders stop at
- Spray-foam insulation in the roofline and exterior walls — the house is sealed tight where it counts
Windows & exterior doors
You feel windows every day you live in a house — in the light, in the quiet, in the power bill.
- Sierra Pacific H3 windows — real wood inside, extruded aluminum outside at twice the thickness of the roll-formed cladding most builders use, on a base that can’t rot. Made by a company that owns the forests the wood comes from
- Therma-Tru fiberglass entry door under a full-width transom — glass at eye height so you can see out, light from above, and the first thing a visitor touches isn’t builder-grade
Exterior materials
North Georgia weather is not gentle. The outside of the house is specified to shrug it off.
- James Hardie fiber-cement siding and exterior trim
- Standing-seam metal roof on every plan — never an upgrade line. The color is chosen with your look: bronze on the cabin, charcoal on the cottage, matte black on the farmhouse. A roof measured in decades rather than years — and one you will not re-roof mid-ownership
- Saw-cut natural stone on exterior accents, and every chimney wrapped in it top to bottom — real quarried stone, never cultured or faux panels
- Twenty-four-inch overhangs all the way around — deep eaves keep the weather off the walls and the water away from the foundation. Most builders hand you twelve
Porches
In Georgia a porch is a room. Ours are built like one — it’s why we report porch square footage separately, and proudly.
- Rough-sawn posts and rafters, sized like they mean it
- Tongue-and-groove wood ceilings on every porch, no exceptions — stained, or whitewashed for the farmhouse look
Interior finishes
Trim, doors, and floors are where a house shows its manners — the things visitors notice and can’t name.
- Wide-plank engineered white oak flooring — Hallmark Alta Vista, warm and matte, never gray
- Zero carpet. Anywhere. Wood and tile only
- A real masonry fireplace in every look — drystack Tennessee fieldstone in the cabin, tumbled Georgia brick in the cottage, rough-cut limestone in the farmhouse
- Eight-foot solid wood interior doors across the main level, hand-stained and hand-finished in all three looks — door heads hold the same line as the window heads. In the craftsman cottage, the public rooms trade the tall slab for a transom over the door — light through the top, same line. Pocket doors where a swing would steal the room — never a barn door
- Hand-finished tongue-and-groove pine overhead in the living and dining rooms, on every porch, and in the primary bedroom — a vault or a beamed tray. Stained in the cabin and cottage, whitewashed in the farmhouse
- Boards on the walls in every home — the cabin runs shiplap full height, the cottage wraps v-groove below the chair rail, the farmhouse stands it tall
- Schlage lever hardware on every door, finish-matched to your look
- Solid poplar trim, one module house-wide: flat 1×4 casings, a stool and apron under every window, 1×8 base. “Paint-grade” means poplar here, not MDF
Kitchen
The room that gets used three times a day gets specified like it.
- Cabinets built for the house, not pulled from a warehouse — all-wood construction, solid hardwood doors and face frames, soft-close throughout, no particleboard anywhere
- Cambria quartz countertops — American-made, with Cambria’s limited lifetime residential warranty
- GE Café series appliances
- Ducted range hood, vented outside — standard, not an upsell
- Under-cabinet lighting, standard
- Kohler plumbing fixtures
- Your choice of undermount stainless or an enameled cast-iron apron-front farmhouse sink
Baths
Tile, stone, and fixtures chosen to be cleaned for twenty years, not photographed for one.
- Porcelain and natural stone tile on floors and wet walls
- Fully tiled curbless walk-in showers with a linear drain — no curb to step over, no fiberglass unit, not in any bath
- Where a plan wants a tub: cast iron, with a fully tiled surround — never a one-piece plastic insert
- Kohler fixtures throughout
- Main-level living, built in: blocking for grab bars in every bath including the powder room, 34-inch vanity height, comfort-height toilets
- Powder rooms get a floating warm-wood vanity and a wall-mount faucet
Mechanical
Named brands, because you’ll ask — and because we’re not embarrassed to answer.
- Trane 16-SEER heat-pump HVAC
- Navien tankless water heater — hot water that doesn’t run out
- EV-ready: conduit from the panel to the parking side of the house and breaker space reserved — add the charger whenever you’re ready
- Indirect up-lighting on the vaulted wood ceilings and porches, on its own dimmer — the wood glows after dark
If a line on this page matters to you — a window brand, a tile, a door weight — bring it up at the kitchen table. We enjoy that part.
Next step
Every build starts with a walk on your land.
We’ll look at access, slope, soils, and utilities — then put real numbers to your lot. Free, and in writing.
Schedule a free site evaluation