Homes designed for how you feel.
The moment you step through a door, your brain decides whether it can rest. Ora & Alabaster designs and builds one-of-a-kind homes around that moment, and every one after it.
Not trends. How you feel, every single day.
For more than a decade, we've designed homes from the ground up, including the design of the Cleveland HBA's 2025 Custom Home of the Year. Now we build them too, so the feeling we design is the feeling you move into. Every step, from blueprints to the final key, under one roof.
The Threshold
Entries, light and sightlines planned for the first seconds inside, when the body decides it is safe to exhale.
Light & Nature
Homes oriented to the sun and the landscape, because daylight and green views help the nervous system recover.
Openness & Refuge
Wide views balanced with sheltered places to retreat, so every home feels both expansive and safe.
From first sketch to final key, one team.
No hand-offs between a designer and a builder. Design, architecture and construction move together, so every decision is made before ground breaks.
We learn how you live, feel and dream, and walk the land with you.
Floor plans, renderings and elevations you can see and feel before anything is built.
Every finish and fixture chosen with intention, up front.
Our builders bring it to life, with design present start to finish.
You step through your own threshold for the first time.
Homes that have never been built before.
No plan is ever built twice. Every home is designed around the people who will live in it.
Your home should know how to hold you.
We take on a limited number of homes each year. Tell us a little about yours, and we will be in touch personally.
