BUILDING EXTRAORDINARY HOMES THAT INSPIRE EXTRAORDINARY LIVES

Step inside the life,
then we build it.

Travertine, white oak, the light at five o'clock. The home you can already feel — finished like custom, without the two years of pain.

Nashville custom homes, designed around your life

Custom home builders · Nashville

From the lot to the last light fixture.

May Construction is a design-build custom home builder serving Nashville, Brentwood, Franklin, Belle Meade, and Green Hills. Plans and interiors are drawn in-house with Native, budgets are locked before ground breaks, and one project manager owns your build from the first walk of the lot to keys.

Explore the homes we’ve built across Nashville, see how a May home comes together, or build on your own lot. Building south of the city? We work throughout Brentwood and Franklin. Researching first? Start with what a custom home actually costs in Nashville and how long a build really takes.

01How a May home happens

Your real process, told as a feeling.

A wooded Nashville homesite at first light, survey stakes marking the home to come
01

The lot

A good lot on a good street — yours, or one we find quietly. We see the home it wants to be.

Source · Acquire
Architectural plans and material selections for a Native-designed custom home
02

The plan

Native designs around your real Tuesday morning. Backpacks, dinners, guests, the scullery that actually works.

Design · by Native
A May Construction home under construction, framed and taking shape on site at golden hour
03

The build

175+ years of combined experience on one site. We sign off on every detail, so you never have to chase us.

Permit · Build · CO
The finished kitchen of a completed May Construction home, twin La Cornue ranges in warm light
04

The home

It holds its value for decades. And, on the first quiet morning in it, it feels like you made it.

Close-out · Keys
Our full process →
Explore this home · The May Standard

See the home before it exists.

Selected room

Great room

Concept interior: the great room
3D isometric model of the home with clickable room markers
Concept interior — a May family great room in golden five o'clock light
The feeling, five o'clock

Step inside the life we build.

Take the tour ↗
How a May home comes together
Our full process →
  1. 01DiscoveryWe meet, you tell us the life
  2. 02Design with NativePlans + interiors, early
  3. 03Permit-ready plansReviewed to the last detail
  4. 04Locked budgetBid, validated, no surprises
  5. 05BuildOne PM, one site, your updates
  6. 06WalkthroughNothing to apologize for
  7. 07Your homeIt feels like you made it
Welcome to our material library

Your home, before it is built.

Every selection she notices, gathered in one place. The range, the brass, the tile transitions.

Close-up of white oak wood grain, a material selection in the May Construction library
White oak
Textured lime plaster wall finish sample
Lime plaster
Brushed brass hardware finish sample
Brass
Honed limestone finish sample
Limestone
Rich walnut wood grain finish sample
Walnut
A house that feels like we made it, but without two years of pain.
WHAT SHE IS REALLY ASKING FOR
Belle Meade · Forest Hills · Green Hills · Brentwood · Franklin · Oak Hill · West Meade
ACQUIRING LOTS IN BELLE MEADE · FOREST HILLS · GREEN HILLS

Sitting on a premier lot? Let us build on it.

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