A finished custom home at dusk, warm light in the windows

Custom Home Builder · Boise & the Treasure Valley · Since 2009

The house you’ll raise them in. Built on your lot.

Nineteen custom homes a year, $780,000 to $2.4 million, on land you own or land we help you find. Fixed price before we break ground, a schedule you can hold us to — and a real human answer to every call, including the one that comes in at nine on a Sunday night.

Or call (605) 608-9082

19 homes a year, every one fixed-priceSince 2009 in the Treasure ValleyAnswered in seconds — 3am or Sunday

Nora picks up in seconds — web or phone, 3am or Sunday. Book a time with Dale before you close the tab.

Nineteen a year. Here are some of them.

Every one of these was a fixed price before the first shovel, and a family who could reach a human the whole way through.

The RidgelineEagle · 4,200 sq ft · Signature

Open-plan living room with timber ceiling

InteriorGreat room, exposed timber

KitchenBuilt for the way they cook

Marne Creek CommonsKuna · 14-unit infill · Phase 2

The ColemanStar · 3,100 sq ft · Foundational

Representative imagery — Marne Creek Homes & Development is a demonstration build by Veloxe AI, not a real builder.

Three things, done properly.

We are deliberately small. Nineteen homes a year is a choice — it is the number where the people who sold you the house are still the people running your build.

Custom Homes

Designed around your lot

Ground-up custom on land you already own, or land we help you find. Architect-led, fixed-price contract before we break ground.

Build On Your Lot

You have the land

Feasibility, well and septic, road access, easements and setbacks — we walk the parcel before anyone signs anything.

Development

Small-scale infill

Fourteen-unit subdivisions and mixed-use, funded with our own capital alongside local banking and LP partners.

What a Marne Creek home actually costs.

Most builders will not put this on a website. We would rather you know now than spend six weeks finding out we are the wrong fit.

Foundational

$385–$425

per sq ft · typically $780K–$1.1M

Signature — most builds

$425–$470

per sq ft · typically $1.1M–$1.7M

Estate

$470–$520

per sq ft · typically $1.7M–$2.4M

Ranges are finished construction on a prepared site. They exclude land, and they exclude site work that a walk of the parcel will tell us about — well, septic, road access, and grade are the four that move a number most in this valley. We price those separately and in writing before contract.

How long it takes. With the actual weeks.

Fourteen to nineteen months from first conversation to keys, depending on the parcel and the season we break ground.

First conversation

What you want, where, and roughly what it costs. No obligation.

Week 1

Parcel walk & feasibility

Well, septic, access, easements, grade. The four things that change a budget.

Weeks 2–4

Design & architecture

Architect-led drawings through to permit set.

Weeks 5–16

Fixed-price contract

Selections locked, allowances set, escalation language agreed in writing.

Weeks 17–20

Permits & site work

Ada or Canyon County review, then dirt.

Weeks 21–28

Construction

Weekly site update every Friday, whether or not there is good news.

Weeks 29–72

Walkthrough & warranty

Punch list, handover, and a one-year warranty walk at month eleven.

Weeks 73–76

The people who will actually be on your build.

Fourteen of us. You will meet most of them.

Dale Hartig

Founder & Principal

Framed houses in this valley for eleven years before starting Marne Creek in 2009. Still walks every parcel before contract.

Renata Mowry

Director of Construction

Runs the schedule and the subs. If your build is late, she is the one who will tell you why before you have to ask.

Tom Cheswick

Development & Land

Handles feasibility, entitlement and the LP side of the development work.

What owners say.

Illustrative for this demonstration build — these are not real customers.

“We called at eight-thirty on a Sunday expecting a voicemail box. Somebody answered, took the whole picture down, and Dale called us Monday morning already knowing what we wanted.”