JD Homes

About

Building You Beautiful Custom Homes
Our homes are of high-quality and have a distinctive style resulting from years of practicing our craft. The team at JD Homes can help you by creating a personalised home that will match your lifestyle. We work with you from design through to implementation to make sure we are realising your vision every step of the way. 

We take pride in our work and would love to help out in creating a customised architecturally designed home for you.

Trusted By Cantabrians Since 2005:
JD Homes is a small, family-owned business. Jesse has been operating the business since its inception in 2005, and during that time has built a hard-earned reputation for crafting beautiful homes. Canterbury has always been near and dear to us, so we’ve been proud to continue helping our clients to build or rebuild in the wake of the earthquakes. We’d love to chat with you about how we can make your Christchurch dream home a reality.

Awards and recognition

Testimonials

Lauren and I would like to thank Jesse and the team for the great work on our new home in Lincoln following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011.

We were really impressed how we were able to bring our own bespoke design and ideas to Jesse. He helped fine-tune these ideas and make appealing suggestions as he really understood our vision. Jesse was easy to work with and he helped ease the stress and pressure we were under with the loss of our home.

We were able to easily incorporate improvements to the house to ensure we had wow factor, utilising modern construction methods and materials with high energy efficiency which was important to us. He kept us well informed of progress during the build so we knew how things were tracking and what we would see on-site each week.

The quality of finish is impeccable and we now have a home that works well and fits our family. We would like to thank the whole team for the effort and passion they put into our home. We are extremely happy and love living in our new home.
Lauren and Partner
Following the September earthquake, Sandi and I were pretty much in a stake of shock as was most of Canterbury and our house was badly damaged and uneconomical to repair.

We had heard of the houses that Jesse and Marcella's had built and there reputation for building high quality homes and approached them for idea's and help.

Jesse was fantastic and listened to what we wanted and made us feel part of the process.

Together with Jesse & Marcella we came up will a plan that was exactly what we wanted.

Jesse and Marcella worked closely with us during the entire building process and couldn't rate them and their team highly enough, nothing was a problem for them. We made changes along the way and these were never a problem and our wishes were readily accommodated.

The back up after build care was followed up well too.

We were included in everything and consider Jesse and Marcella family friends and they attended our wedding in our new home.

Our house is fantastic and we couldn't have asked for more.

Well done Guy's you rocked our world.
Hutch and Sandi
From the first time we meet Jesse from JD Homes, it all just seemed to fall into to place. From the exciting design process to the finished product, he was "just on the same page as us". Our ideas combined with his, and Jesse's vision and experience has given us the award-winning home we live in today. Its practical, modern, contemporary, energy-efficient and "just us".

We can't wait to build again someday and would not hesitate to call upon Jesse at JD homes

Tony and Lisa Greenlow
A huge thank you to the team and especially Jesse for his tireless dedication over the last 3 years in building our dream home. We cannot praise him enough for his patience, understanding , communication and perseverance over this time. He has certainly gone beyond the call of duty and we highly recommend him to anyone wanting a quality build with a builder you can depend on and trust.
Amanda Lloyd 
JD Homes have been awesome to work with and have managed the build our perfect house on the hill. It was so daunting even trying to figure out what builder to use but Jesse took us through the whole process step by step and helped to add some great design ideas. Having Tania onboard to take us through all the interiors was also great to help with all the decision making. Thanks so much team JD.
Sarah Stevens
We are absolutely delighted with our JD Homes experience. We were incredibly lucky to have been given the option of using JD Homes for our earthquake rebuild and we leapt at the chance after meeting Jesse. I was told that building a house would be stressful but JD Homes were superb in every respect and made it so easy. They have great people involved every step of the way, including Jesse himself, the architect (Aaron Jones), the interior designer (Tania Rogers), Jesse fantastic build team (Sven, Craig and John), all the great sub-trades who were top notch, and the suppliers who provided great quality products. It's been quite a journey but we got there in great shape and I was never in any doubt that we would get a wonderful home. Thank you so much!!
Nick Clark
Huge thanks to Jesse, Josh and the team at JD Homes, we love the work you did, the whole process was smooth and painless, and the result is amazing.
Warren Scott-Douglas
A huge thank you to Jesse and his team for all their hard work in making our 1st build experience such a smooth process. We loved working with you all from start to finish. We had great communication right through the build and beyond with Jesse - in what was a fantastic working relationship.

None of our ideas seemed a problem. It is no surprise that JD Homes has won so many awards, as the build standard is very high. We would thoroughly recommend JD Homes to anyone who is considering building or renovating. You will not be disappointed.
John and Vicki Harrington
We are so thrilled with our JD Homes build!! We first connected with JD Homes based on the brilliant review from friends who had already built with JD. Everything they said was true! Great communication, no stresses, on schedule the whole build - our build was a dream. Super friendly and approachable team of professional builders who ensured that everything was done the way we dreamed it and to the highest standard. Thanks so much JD Homes for making our build experience so pleasant and easy!!!
Kendra Wilkie Street
I would like to thank JD homes for their excellence and there their Excellence of their people the people they employ and the Excellence of them delivering to get things worked out quickly they have done a great job for me and I am so happy to be a be one of their patrons in their apartment so JD Holmes I have only just admiration for you my name is Annie and I just thank you so much for all the workers and for everyone that is dedicated their time in their work to come in and do their jobs they are excellent workers and I just wanted to say that thank you so much.
Jj Jackson
I wanted to say a big thank you for making our build a wonderful experience. We were an earthquake reinstatement so the stress levels were already high. Jesse and his wonderful team supported us through the whole build process. Jesse kept us fully up to date at all times and nothing was ever a problem. I would highly recommend JD Homes for any propective build.
Anita Adlam
Thanks Jesse and the team for a great building experience. We were kept up to date at all times (emails, photos and phone calls) and nothing was ever a problem. We really appreciated your patience, great ideas and reassurance. We were in our new home right on track. Thanks for a great home, we are really enjoying it!
Sue Van Eyk Menkman
JD Homes builds architectural homes for specific people with specific needs and we selected them to build our new home based on that along with the standards awards and the reputation they had previously acheived.

On that basis we choose them, and the resultant buidl is outstanding. The team Jesse, Sven and Ben were prompt in alerting us to any issues regarding design, materials, suppliers, etc. And were proactive and innovative in suggesting alternative solutions and enhancements. It is amazing the number of comments that have been received from complete strangers viewing the home determining that it is the best house of the street and many visitors have remarked on the quality of the craftmanship. 

Clearly a testament to JD Homes. They were professional, with attention to detail, commitment to excellence and customer satisfaction, and because of this JD Homes achieved an outstanding build
 Dawn and Eric, Westmorland