Sherrills Ford, NC
(704) 746-6054

Service area

Custom Homes Built for Davidson Living

Ask a Davidson homeowner what they wanted from a builder and craftsmanship comes up before price does. Character, detail work, and a house built to be lived in for decades rather than sold in five years. That standard is not something you add at the end of a build. It gets set at the first site walk and held the whole way through, which is exactly the habit a second generation builder either has or does not.

DV Wise has built ground up custom homes since 1962, and Tom Wise, the current owner, personally oversees each project himself. See what we build and how our process carries that standard from the lot to the last walkthrough.

Where the finish work actually happens

Kitchens are usually where a homeowner first notices the difference between a house that was built and a house that was built well. Coffered ceilings, corbels, arched niches and tile detail all take longer to get right than a flat cabinet run, and they are the parts of a house that get looked at every day for as long as you own it.

An open DV Wise kitchen and dining area with a coffered ceiling, built in wine rack and dark hardwood floors
Coffered ceiling and hardwood detail carried through an open kitchen and dining space.
A DV Wise kitchen range with a pot filler set into an arched stone backsplash niche with corbels
Range niche detail: arched stone, a pot filler and corbels, built rather than bought off a shelf.

None of that comes from a single skilled trade working alone. It comes from planning the millwork, the stone and the plumbing together before the walls close, and from someone checking that plan against the finished room rather than against a drawing. That is what project management means on a DV Wise job: one person tracking the schedule and the budget against what was actually agreed, so the finish detail does not get value engineered out under deadline pressure.

A second generation builder's habits

DV Wise has been a family business since 1962, when Tom Wise's father started the company. Tom grew up in construction and took it over, and the habits that built a reputation the first time around are the same ones still being applied on a Davidson job now: direct communication, personal involvement, and no rotating site manager standing in for the owner.

Talk to the builder directly

Tom Wise personally oversees every DV Wise project, from the first site evaluation through the final walkthrough.

Call (704) 746-6054

Building in Davidson, and around the lake

See the other towns around Lake Norman where DV Wise builds on our service areas page.