Awards and Honors

MAC Custom Homes is pleased to be Northwest Michigan’s selected builder for the Winter 2009 issue of Michigan Home Resource Guide. The article features the home of John and Vicki Gudritz, our 2008 Parade Home and highlights the work of the entire construction team. Please contact us if you would like a complimentary issue.

In October, MAC Custom Homes became a charter member of Contractors You Can Trust. To be a member, we have passed the extensive criteria and are now listed on the national website for CYCT. Feel free to visit our site on Contractors You Can Trust.

MAC Custom Homes received top honors for single residences in two categories for the 2007 Home Builders Association Grand Traverse Area Parade of Homes. No builder has ever won the People’s Choice Award in both the large home and the small home categories simultaneously.

Homes over 2,875 square feet:

• People’s Choice Award
• Third Place – Exterior Design and Appeal Award

Homes under 2,875 square feet:

• People’s Choice Award
• First Place – Exterior Design and Appeal Award
• First Place – Craftsmanship Award
• Second Place – Interior Decoration and Design Award
• Second Place – Overall Home Award
• Second Place – Master Suite Award

In 2008, MAC Custom Homes received a Second Place honor for homes valued at over $600,000 in the Craftsmanship Award category.

In Print

Although it is not actually “historic,” a Leelanau Peninsula residence renovated by MAC Custom Homes was restored with such meticulous attention to authentic details that it was chosen to be featured in the pages of Historic Cottages of Glen Lake, by Barbara Siepker, with photographs by Dietrich Floeter. The book is the 2008 Winner of the Michigan Historical Society Award and a Michigan Notable Book. The home so closely echoes the look and feel of early summer resort life in Northern Michigan that anyone who sees it simply assumes it is a vintage cottage.

Giving Back

Our business is very important to us, but also high on our list of priorities is giving back to our community and helping those who are less fortunate. Over the years, we have contributed to many charitable causes, not only financially, but with our hearts and hands. In 2003 and 2004, we made mission trips to Haiti to do carpentry work and offer our professional expertise to people building schools and homes there. We have also supported Traverse City’s House of Hope, Children’s Museum and Pregnancy Care Center with materials, labor and or financial contributions, and served as a local sponsor for the 2008 Ugly Kitchen Contest, which awarded a complete new kitchen to a local family.