Heliox Homes

Seattle · Est. 2016 · Cost-plus-fixed-fee

Custom homes, built the way
they should be built.

A Seattle custom builder with seven in-house house plans and a deliberately short project list. Open-book pricing. Experienced crews. Homes finished to a standard we'd sign our name to.

PROJECT 018 · MADRONA · COMPLETED 2024

Ballard — Week 14, siding Queen Anne — Week 3, foundation Madrona — Week 22, final trim West Seattle — Week 8, rough-in Magnolia — Week 11, framing Wedgwood — Week 19, cabinetry

01 — House Plans

Seven plans, endlessly tuned.

Each of our seven plans is a starting point. Rotate it on the lot, pull a wall, stretch a room — the architect and framer both know them cold, which means we can modify without reinventing.

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02 — Materials we love

A short list of things that make a house feel like a house.

Clear vertical-grain Douglas fir trim.
Honed soapstone counters.
Blackened steel railings.
Cedar shake siding, oiled.
Wide-plank white oak floors.
Standing-seam metal roofs.

03 — Who builds it

A Seattle general contractor, in the field.

Heliox is a Washington-licensed general contractor practice. A lead GC is on every jobsite weekly, and on the other end of the phone when a subcontractor has a question at 6:45 AM.

We cap at 6–8 new homes a year on purpose. Fewer than a dozen projects in the ground at any given time means nothing slips sideways unnoticed — every site gets a real weekly walk and a real weekly invoice.

More about the practice →

04 — How we build

Five stages. One transparent invoice.

01

Discovery

Site walk, plan match, budget framing — no contracts yet.

02

Design

Plan tuning with our architect. Finishes booked early.

03

Permitting

We handle Seattle DCI and the engineering trail.

04

Build

Cost-plus-fixed-fee. Weekly photos and line-item invoices.

05

Deliver

Walk-through, punch-list, one-year warranty. We stay in touch.

See open-book pricing →

05 — Start a build

Got a lot? Got a plan on paper?

We take on 6–8 new homes a year in the greater Seattle area. The best starting point is a 20-minute call — tell us about the lot and the dream, we'll tell you if we're a fit.

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