Looking for a custom home builder in West Bloomfield, MI who delivers luxury without the blank-check price tag? Evergreen Homes builds award-winning new homes just west of West Bloomfield at The Reserve at Crystal Lake in Commerce Township. Family-owned for 25 years and built with you in mind, we pair proven, personalized floor plans with a private lakefront community minutes from home.
Buyers around West Bloomfield who want something new often run into the same wall: the best in-town lots are teardowns, and a from-scratch build on one can climb past what the finished home is worth. The question underneath the search is usually simple. Do you have to spend a fortune to get a quality new home? You do not.
Evergreen Homes takes a different path. Instead of starting every project on a blank sheet, we build four award-winning floor plans you can personalize, with luxury finishes already in the base price and a published starting point of $609,900. You get the craftsmanship and the design pedigree, in an active community about 15 to 20 minutes west of West Bloomfield.
For West Bloomfield buyers, our homes are built at The Reserve at Crystal Lake, a 160-acre community in Commerce Township centered on a private 40-acre lake. Named the 2025 Development of the Year by the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan, The Reserve offers 203 premium home sites, a private beach and beach house, and lakefront living just a short drive from home. It sits adjacent to Proud Lake Recreation Area, roughly 3,000 acres along the Huron River with trails, paddling, and campgrounds.
Homes here fall within Huron Valley Schools, served by Country Oaks Elementary, Oak Valley Middle, and Lakeland High, which is worth comparing against your current West Bloomfield district as you weigh the move.
What makes The Reserve worth the short drive is the setting. The private 40-acre lake at the heart of the community is the kind of view most West Bloomfield lots simply cannot offer. Residents enjoy a private beach and beach house, quiet mornings on the water, and a boat dock for electric boats, kayaks, canoes, and paddle boards. It is calm, private water made for evenings and weekends, not engine noise.
Step beyond the community and the outdoors keep going. The Reserve sits adjacent to Proud Lake Recreation Area, a state park of roughly 3,000 acres on the scenic Huron River, with an extensive trail system for hiking, horseback riding, and mountain biking, plus fishing, paddling, and a modern campground. For buyers used to the amenities around West Bloomfield's lakes, this trades a busy shoreline for something more private and, for many families, more livable day to day.
The Reserve offers four distinct plans in Craftsman, Farmhouse, and New England Seaboard styles, ranging from 2,570 to 3,250+ square feet. Homes start from $609,900 and can be personalized from there.
| Floor Plan | What Sets It Apart |
|---|---|
| Avalon | Winner of the 2025 Blue Ribbon Award. A first-floor owner's suite and a standard 2.5-car garage. |
| Madison | Winner of the 2024 Blue Ribbon Award. A well-balanced two-story plan designed for families who want defined living zones and generous gathering space. |
| Newport | Offers the flexibility to add a third full bathroom upstairs, creating an en suite bedroom, an optional first-floor in-law’s suite, or a spacious second-floor loft. |
| Chelsea | A flexible layout with room to tailor bedroom count and living space to how your household actually lives. |
It helps to know exactly what "custom" means before you sign anything. Evergreen Homes is a semi-custom builder. You start with a proven, award-winning plan, then make it yours through structural options and finish selections rather than drawing a home from scratch.
That approach keeps pricing predictable and quality consistent, because we build these plans repeatedly and know them cold. If you want to see how far the personalization options go, they cover layout adjustments, room additions like lofts and in-law suites, expanded kitchens, and a full menu of interior selections. What you will not find is the open-ended cost creep that a blank-sheet custom home project can bring.
Many builders quote a low number, then bill the finishes you assumed were included. We do the opposite. The standard features at The Reserve are genuinely standard, part of the base price rather than upgrades:
Most homes take about 10 to 12 months to build from signing. If your timeline is tighter, our quick move-in homes are already under construction or near completion, so you can move sooner without the wait.
Evergreen Homes is family-owned and operated, with 25 years' experience building across Southeast Michigan. Jon, the owner and builder, is on-site every day, which is uncommon in this market and shows up in the finished work. Our plans have earned back-to-back recognition, including the 2024 Blue Ribbon Award for the Madison and the 2025 Blue Ribbon Award for the Avalon, with its first-floor owner's suite, both from the Home Builders Association of Southeastern Michigan.
You can read what that experience feels like from homeowners themselves. Countless homeowner testimonials describe us the same way: honest, responsive, and fair. You can also meet the builder and get to know the person standing behind every home. Our team can walk you through construction loan guidance and preferred lender options whenever you are ready to talk numbers.
That reputation is built on quality and customer service, not marketing. We are a local, family-owned builder with deep ties to the Southeast Michigan communities we build in, not a national outfit passing through. When you buy a home from Evergreen Homes, the person whose name is on the company is the same person checking the framing, the finishes, and the final walkthrough. For a decision this big, that kind of accountability matters.
Building a new home should feel exciting, not overwhelming. Our process keeps it clear from the first visit to move-in day:
