Crafting Your Dream with
Homes By Lee
Lee McKinley is a residential home builder and plan designer with over 30 years of hands-on experience designing, drafting, and building across a wide range of budgets and construction methods. His plans are grounded in real world construction practices—optimized for cost savings and code compliance. He specializes in practical build-ready floor plans, site layouts, and construction-minded design solutions and support for homeowners, DIY builders, and small developers.
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Our Expertise
Cost-Optimized Designs
We focus on saving the home builder money by optimizing the use of floor space and materials. Explore our diverse range of plans, all of which can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
Residential Builds
During any build we focus on areas such as overall layout and flow as well as foundation and structural truss work; making certain costs are always at the forefront of design. A home can be beautiful and not break the bank!
Customized Designs
Don't see anything off hand that catches your eye? We will provide a fully customized experience to design the home you seek, require, and need. Let our integrity create your passion.
DIY Builders Support
Breaking into home ownership can be challenging to say the least! We are creating support aimed at our DIYers in the form of total organization and step-by step guides to finding land, creating your plans, building and sticking to a budget, and acquiring the right financing. Owning a home is not hard, but the information required to do it is often hidden. Knowledge is power! Let us help you create the ownership dream.
Practical Floor Plans
We focus on beautiful practicality with robust budget adherence. Our main goal is to create homes and home ownership for as many people who want to manifest it as we can! We start by designing efficient and reality grounded home plans...with a splash of beauty!
Why Choose Us?
We stand out through our commitment to cost-optimization and practical home plans tailored to your needs.
Build-Ready Plans
Cost-effective and build-ready designs to ensure value for your investment.
Expert Designers
Our team comprises qualified and experienced individuals dedicated to your project's success.
Client-Centric Approach
We prioritize client needs and satisfaction to build lasting relationships.
Decades of Expertise
Benefit from our extensive industry knowledge and track record of successful home planning.
Client Stories
Zachary & Ashlyn Kirk, creators of the YouTube channel The Pastured Homestead
"Homes by Lee has been wonderful to work with. Lee brought the vision of our home to life and put our design ideas into a fully detailed rendering of the interior and exterior. It was very surreal to stand in framing in person, but be able to look at what he created and know that this is where our home is headed. It brought us clarity and excitement. Lee's communication skills are amazing and he understood what we wanted. We would recommend Homes By Lee all day for build plans, renderings, and so much more. He really is an expert in his field."
Michael Johnson
“The team's dedication to cost savings and build ready plans exceeded our expectations.”
Emily & David Roberts
“We are thrilled with the practical and construction-minded design of our new home. Lee's expertise is exceptional.”