"During construction we were living in Florida and could not make frequent trips to monitor progress. Stewart turned out to be a good choice because he was honest and trustworthy in carrying out our plans. Stewart's team was great to work with, especially his finish carpenter, exterior stone mason, tile company and cabinet company."

"Having had several houses built over the years, we found Cook Builders to be the most responsive, conscientious and meticulous.  Stewart is flexible and cooperative throughout the process, from design to completion. If we build another house we will use Cook Builders."

Fletcher and Christy Edens - 1780

Sam and Anne Zaffino - Southpointe

"We contracted with Stewart Cook to build our house on Lake James and worked out an agreement such that I could do some of the inside finish work myself.  Budget was very important to us and Stewart was very helpful and flexible to make this dream project happen.  The sub contractors he used performed well and turned out quality work, and with Stewarts follow up we stayed within budget. Overall, the complex task of building a house was a good experience thanks to Cook Builders."

Phillip and Catherine Mousley - 1780 

"Dear All,

We are an English couple that came by Lake James purely by chance & fell in love with it. It took a little while to purchase a lot as new releases were being developed, but finally we purchased a great lot on Old Wildlife Club.

We attempted to sit on our hands but we kept ‘doodling’ on napkins of what our house could be like. We have built a number of new very interesting period homes for ourselves back in the UK, one of which was the renovation of an English Windmill & our present home a listed 1725 house which needed everything doing to it, these with a few commercial buildings make us not amateurs in the construction business.

Our ‘doodling’ became sketches, our sketches became our own blueprints & our blueprints became a constructional scale model. We met & discussed the project with the HRB & finally decided to find ourselves a builder, this was two years ago & everything was buoyant.

We did the final preliminary HRB with Kirk Bowden we surveyed & pegged our own site, we then made the full submission, we were back in the UK so Stewart went on our behalf, and it flew through.

Stewart cleared the site put in the foundations & had the deck on as per our agreement for our return on the 1^st February, the complete site was mulched and not a single piece of rubbish was on it.

The outcome is sheer bliss  Once the relationship had been struck between Stewart & ourselves, once he understood our attention to the smallest design detail the relationship & construction went from strength to strength.  Stewart had the ability to contribute to design features & keep us on the ‘straight & narrow’ of building code.

Not once have we had cross words, not once have we had to question the building quality in either materials or craftsmanship. We would now happily trust each other with our wallets & in Catherine’s case purse.

The result we truly believe to be outstanding. A true ‘Cabin in the Woods’  which looks as if it has been there for a hundred years. Well the exterior siding is just that, one hundred plus years old. The interior is different in many ways some English architecture has gone into it, even the kitchen sinks & door hardware have come from England.

Would we recommend  Cook Builders  to anyone else? Absolutely, in a heartbeat."