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Alternative Design Build Group is now building garden homes in Countryside Gardens subdivision

Co-owner Martin Murphy has 19 years of construction experience. As project manager for over 700 new homes, Martin is a hands-on manager and will personally oversee construction of your home.

Co-owner Gary Salathe has over 35 years of construction and design experience and has designed over 500 homes. Gary conducts all customer meetings and will personally design your home.


Alternative Design/Build Group, LLC is an innovative home building company that puts the home designer and the home builder together under one roof. This cooperative effort results in a lifestyle-oriented home design that builds quickly and efficiently with attention to detail, quality and cost.

Alternative Design/Build Group specializes in designing and building homes on their customers' lots. "They come to us with their ideas, requirements and budget and we design a home for them to meet these parameters. Each one is totally different," co-owner Gary Salathe says. "We long ago came up with a system that allows us to build every home to each customer's taste, design needs and budget," says co-owner Martin Murphy. The homes they build can be located in established subdivisions or on rural acreage. The homes can be any size, from a small cost efficient starter home to a huge custom home.

Martin and Gary expanded their experience into zero lot line garden homes starting in 2003 with their three years as the exclusive builder in Terra Mariae, a garden home development north of Covington. Alternative Design/Build Group is now building garden homes in Countryside Gardens subdivision in addition to their custom homes scattered throughout west St. Tammany.


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