New Construction

Build my forever home.

A custom home on your land, or one we design and build on ours. Either way it’s the same crew, the same standard, and the same refusal to bury a problem behind drywall.

Design elevations · Smego Construction

Stop working on your house. Let your house work for you.

There comes a point where you get tired of working around the house.

The bathroom you’re going to remodel someday. The basement that never quite works. The garage that’s too small. The room you’re calling an office even though it was never meant to be one. The leak that shows up on a Sunday morning. And whatever the last guy did behind that wall that you’re eventually going to have to fix.

Building new gives you a chance to leave all of that behind.

The house gets designed around your family instead of your family adapting to the house.

A kitchen built around how you actually use it. Places where the kids can play, make noise and make a mess without taking over the entire house. An office that was designed to be an office. Enough storage. The right garage. The right yard. The right amount of space in the places where it actually matters.

And everything underneath it is new. You’re not inheriting somebody else’s roof, somebody else’s plumbing, or forty years of repairs and shortcuts hidden behind the drywall.

You’re building something that should make everyday life a little easier for a long time.

And you’re putting your money into an asset you own — not just on paper, but in the thousands of ordinary days your family is going to spend there.

Worth reading first.

Common questions.

Do you build on my land or do you provide the lot?
Both. Custom builds go on land you own or are buying — and we’ll walk a lot with you before you buy it, which is the single most useful hour we can give you. We’re also actively buying land of our own to build on, across nine counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Do I need plans before I call you?
Either way works. If you already have plans, bring them. If you don’t, you can build your house alongside an experienced architect, designer and builder team from the first conversation — which is usually the better route, because plans drawn without a builder in the room routinely specify things that cost three times what the client expected.
How long does a custom home take?
Most new homes take about 8–12 months to build once construction begins. Before that, allow time for design, engineering, pricing, selections and permitting. From the first serious planning conversation to move-in, a year or more is a realistic expectation. Here is the whole timeline, phase by phase.
What does it cost?
We publish two houses we priced this year — an 1,800 square foot home and a 2,400 square foot two story — with what each one costs. Start there. What nobody can tell you before seeing the site is what the ground will add, and on a new build that moves the number more than the house does.
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“Being new to the area we threw the dice and landed on Smego Construction. Literally just looked up ‘builders near me’ on Google. After reading reviews and seeing pictures of the work we made the call and Mike came out to the house to talk.”
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“Impeccable attention to detail, outstanding craftsmanship, and professionalism. Mike and his team exceeded expectations when reconstructing our back porch from the ground up.”
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“Mike at Smego Construction truly takes pride in his craftsmanship. As a photographer who has seen the details up close, it’s clear he cares about the quality of his work.”
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Let’s see if this makes sense.

Fifteen minutes on the phone. You’ll have a realistic range before we hang up — and if we’re not the right people for it, I’ll tell you.

(570) 979-0489
Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania PA Home Improvement Contractor #PA173902