
Our Story

Layton Home Builders is a premier full-service design and build construction company based in Chowan County, North Carolina. The Layton family has worked hard to ensure that each client receives the best experience possible for over 20 years. Chris and Rana Layton are a trusted husband and wife team with have a passion to provide quality built homes for our customers. Each home is custom designed to each customers dream. We strive to provide excellence through a straightforward, fun and creative building process starting with design and ending with the final product becoming friends with our customers along the way. We treat each home as our own.
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How we started...
In 1990, Mike Layton, a second generation carpenter, began Mike Layton's Vinyl Siding, Inc. Over the next thirteen years, he fostered a reputation as dependable, hard working, and honest and expanded into framing and carpentry. Both of his sons were involved at a young age with the business and found a love for carpentry like their father. After attending college, they both came home to work with the company. Mike has recently retired and left the company to his family's hands and helps when needed.​ Jan Layton, his wife, has been with the company since its creation and continues to be our office manager.
Mike’s oldest son, Chris Layton, has worked with his father since he was old enough to carry a hammer. He earned an Associates degree in Architectural Technology from Pitt Community College in 2001, and graduated from East Carolina University in 2002 with a degree in Construction Management and a minor in business. Chris obtained his unlimited contractors license and he with his father created Layton Home Builders, a full service design and build team in January of 2003. Chris has taken over Layton Home Builders as owner, designer and project manager with his expertise and has made it what it is today.
A.J. Layton, Mike’s youngest son, is also an integral part of the business, bringing a degree in Business Administration from Campbell University. His love of carpentry has crafted him into a superior finish carpenter to provides excellent quality to our homes.
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Rana Layton, joined in 2019 to provide a complete hands on experience with design. She also graduated from East Carolina University and has always had a love for interior design. She guides our customers with the selection of fixtures, cabinets, flooring, and colors.
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Services
Layton Home Builders currently specializes in Residential Design Build custom homes. We have developed a streamlined process of design, to the construction and finishing touches of your dream home. We are willing to work with and for you no matter how big or small the job may be. We build a variety of style homes from cottages to farm houses and beyond.
Layton Home Builders provides the best in new home construction from concept to construction. The design-build concept means that the designer and project manager will be onsite together to ensure that your home is built to specification. This approach eliminates miscommunication between design and implementation. This gives LHB a definitive advantage over contractors who must interpret blueprints without the benefit of working with the designer.
Even if you already have blueprints, there is no substitute for having the designer onsite to make sure the plans are followed correctly.
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Our unique custom homes can be found throughout Chowan, Bertie and Perquimans Counties in the beautiful Inner Banks of Northeast North Carolina.
FAQ
As a full-service residential construction company, we want to make the building process more understandable to all of our clients. That is why we have compiled a list of questions designed to make the process clear and enjoyable for you.
Do I need to have plans already picked out?
No, we provide in-house designs.
What if I already have a set of plans I like?
That's not a problem. Our designer can sit down with you and look at what you like and then make changes accordingly.
How long does it take from start to finish to build a house?
Building times vary tremendously according to size and design. However, we can look at your plans and the changes you want to make and estimate accordingly.
What is the cost per square foot to build a new home?
The cost per square foot varies from house to house, therefore, it is difficult to give a flat per square foot price. Depending on the extent of accessories and amenities within the home the cost per square foot could change dramatically.


"The end product exceeded our greatest expectations." . . . "The very best part about LAYTON HOME BUILDERS is their trustworthiness. I always felt that my expectations were met. I could always reach them with any questions or concerns. And these were answered promptly and with great concern to my satisfaction." . . . "The house is absolutely beautiful! Thank you! Thank you!...For all you've done to make it possible. You are incredibly talented!"
"The best asset of this business is customer service." . . . "The best part was that we made the right decision! There is not another builder in the area that can compete with the quality, skill, attention to detail, communication, care follow through, and end product, that you provide your clients." . . . "I have been committed to having the Layton's build my three homes. Maybe there will be a fourth."
"LAYTON HOME BUILDERS made us feel comfortable and worked hard to understand the vision we had for our home." . . . "We are truly amazed at the progress you are making with the house. It is gradually becoming our home and we could not be more pleased with your professionalism and the courtesy extended us by your workers."