Build Your Dream Home(804) 720-7947

Building the next generation of family homes.

Custom homes on your land in Powhatan, Chesterfield, Goochland and across Central Virginia. Family-owned, hands-on, and 27 years in.

  • 27 years in businessAnd 40 years in the trade.
  • Class A BuilderThe top contractor license class in Virginia.
  • Two warranties1-year builder and 5-year structural through RWC.
  • Certified builderMaple Grove and The Trails at Huntington Estates.

The Palmer The Trails at Huntington Estates, Powhatan

Build Your Dream Home
Rodney and Leslie Ridout of Ridout Construction

When you build with us, you work with the Ridouts.

From the first conversation through construction and beyond, you deal with Rodney Ridout. Not an account manager. Not a sales office. The person whose name is on the company, on your job, with the same team of vendors we have trusted for years.

The Ridouts have been building homes in Powhatan and Chesterfield since the 1980s. Rodney has run Ridout Construction for 27 years, with 40 years in the trade. Leslie keeps the plans and the answers moving. Zach, the next generation, handles land and real estate.

It is a more personal way to build than you will get from a production builder, and you will always know exactly who you are working with.

Rodney and Leslie RidoutRidout Construction, Powhatan, Virginia

Meet the family

Where would you like to start?

The Augusta, a Ridout custom home with a wide front porch on an open lot in Maple Grove, Powhatan

Build on your land

Already own the lot? We walk it with you, check what it can carry, and tell you what you can realistically build before you get too far down the road.

Build on your land

The Scheffler, a white modern farmhouse with black windows built by Ridout Construction in Powhatan

Our homes and virtual tours

The Master Collection: eight named homes we have built for families across Central Virginia. Walk through them online, then make one yours.

See our homes

A cleared homesite on wooded central Virginia acreage with a gravel drive and survey stakes

Find the right land

Still looking? Zach handles the real estate side, so the search for land and the plan for the house happen together, not in two offices.

Ask about land

How it works

Talk

A free conversation about your land, your budget and the home you have in mind.

Walk the land

We check access, soil, well and septic, and what the lot can carry.

Design and price

Start from one of our plans or a blank page. You get a written price that says what is included.

Build and walk through

Rodney on site, updates along the way, a final walkthrough, and a warranty that keeps us on call.

See the full process

Rooms from real Ridout homes

Kitchen with a navy island, white cabinets and stainless appliances in The Palmer Dining room with a coffered ceiling and columns opening to the family room in The O'Meara Primary bath with a freestanding tub and a glass shower in The McIlroy Front porch with rocking chairs and a stone foundation in The O'Meara Family room with a stone fireplace, vaulted ceiling and sliding doors to the porch in The Palmer
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What our homebuyers say

Tamara Highsmith

You become like family when you work with Ridout Construction. Both Leslie and Rodney are fast to respond.

Terry and Sherry Troxell

Ridout brings a complete package to custom home building ... great house plans, willingness to work with us to modify the plans to make the home just as we want it ... and after closing service that has been excellent even beyond the one year normal obligation for contractors.

Jay and Alycia Allen

They do great work and I would recommend them as a custom home builder to anyone, but their genuine care and concern for their client is unmatched.

Read their letters in full
Map highlighting Powhatan, Chesterfield, Goochland, Amelia, Dinwiddie and New Kent counties around Richmond, Virginia

Where we build

We build on your land across six Central Virginia counties, and we are certified builders in Maple Grove and The Trails at Huntington Estates in Powhatan. If you have land somewhere nearby, ask.

  • Powhatan
  • Chesterfield
  • Goochland
  • Amelia
  • Dinwiddie
  • New Kent

See where we build

Build Your Dream Home

Tell us about your land and the home you have in mind. Zach or Rodney will get back to you within 24 hours, and the first conversation is free.

Prefer to talk it through? Call and ask for Rodney. Prefer to write? The form goes straight to the family, not a call center.

Call (804) 720-7947 or fill out the form below.

Send us the basics

(804) 720-7947