Concept mockup prepared by Strategic Resource Group — April 2026
Custom Homes · Shelby & Jefferson Counties

Homes designed to outlast the trends that shaped them.

Three generations. More than forty years of craftsmanship across Central Alabama. Every home we build is singular — a reflection of the family who will live in it, and the land it stands on.

A NOTE FROM THE OWNER
A home isn't finished when the keys change hands. It's only beginning its life.
Robin Hayes
Owner & Principal Builder
Recent Work

A portfolio, not a catalog.

Every Portrait home is built for a specific family on a specific piece of ground. We don't replicate plans; we refine them.

MOUNTAIN BROOK
The Cherokee
5 BEDROOMS · 4.5 BATHS · 4,850 SQ FT

An English Tudor on a wooded Mountain Brook lot. Hand-laid brick, limestone surrounds, slate roof, and interiors that feel inherited — not decorated.

GREYSTONE
The Legacy
6 BEDROOMS · 5.5 BATHS · 6,400 SQ FT

A three-wing estate on the eighteenth fairway. Hand-split stone, copper gutters, and a master wing with its own limestone terrace overlooking the course.

HOOVER
The Magnolia
5 BEDROOMS · 4.5 BATHS · 5,200 SQ FT

Southern Georgian with a four-column portico, paired chimneys, and a dedicated library off the entry. Built for a family that hosts the holidays.

Harpersville, Shelby County
Now Selling

Morgan Creek.
The gem of Shelby County.

Three hundred and twenty pristine homesites on rolling Shelby County terrain. Five signature home designs. One development built the Portrait way — with the craftsmanship, the materials, and the standards that have defined this family for three generations.

Morgan Creek is the flagship neighborhood of Harpersville's next chapter. The gem of Shelby County — and the largest Portrait Homes development to date.

320
Pristine Lots
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Home Designs
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Portrait Standard
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Our Approach

The difference you can feel.

Portrait Homes was founded on the belief that a home should grow with the family that lives in it. My father built homes in Central Alabama for forty years with that principle at the center of his work, and we carry it forward today.

What's changed is how we build. We hold the line on craftsmanship — real framing, real hardwood, real stone — while bringing modern performance, intelligent systems, and design thinking that the Alabama market has been slow to adopt. The result is a home that feels timeless the day you move in and thirty years later.

We build fewer homes each year by choice. It is the only way to build the kind of home that earns the name on the front door.

— Robin Hayes
From Idea to Key

A process built around you.

Four stages. One conversation that never really ends — because the relationship continues long after move-in day.

I
Discovery

We start with how your family actually lives — not with square footage or style boards.

II
Design

Plans refined collaboratively with our designers and your chosen architect, if you have one.

III
Build

Weekly progress, transparent scheduling, and a single point of contact from foundation to final walk.

IV
Welcome Home

We stay in touch. A Portrait home is a forty-year commitment on our end — not just yours.

40+
Years of Craft
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Generations
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Parade of Homes Awards
GBAHB
Member in Good Standing