Designs of Distinction

Specialties

When it’s your home, call the experts. We do more than just build homes. We make dreams come true. Since 1989, We’ve designed, built, remodeled and decorated hundreds of homes to our clients’ exact specifications.

Class A Virginia Building License

North Carolina General Contracting License, Unlimited Residential

Professional Building Designer, AIBD

Tidewater Builders Association (TBA), Lana O’Meara serves on the Board of Directors for 2012 – 2013 term

TBA Remodelers Council, Lana O’Meara is the 2012 Vice-​Chair for the Remodelers Council

TBA’s Charity House Builder, «Charity’s Pearl» in Homearama 2002 NAHBA, HBA, NAHBA Remodelers

History

Established in 1989.

Designs of Distinction is a custom construction company specializing in New Home Construction, Remodeling, Room Additions and Renovations. The company was founded in 1989 by the current owners, Jerry Edmonds and Lana O’Meara and is located in the Greenbrier section of Chesapeake, Virginia. Jerry holds contracting licenses in both Virginia and North Carolina. The company primarily serves the Hampton Roads area of Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. Whether it is Remodeling, Additions or New Home Construction, we build with your plans, ours or Jerry will custom design your dream home. Lana specializes in helping clients with color and material selection or pointing you in the right direction to venture on your own path. If you are staying put, let us help you make the most of your current home with Remodeling, Renovations, Room Addition or Lana can cosmetically change your home with her infamous Home Lifts.

Meet the Business Owner

Jerry E and Lana O.

Business Owner

Jerry is a Professional Building Designer certified by the American Institute of Building Design (AIBD) and previous owner of a building design firm. This skill allows Jerry to begin with blank paper to design that unique home for discerning Clients or modify existing plans to fit individual lifestyles.

Lana specializes in color and material selections to ensure a coordinated home from start to finish, inside to outside. In 2001, Lana received a Homearama award for her interior design and decorating in their Heron’s Watch model. In 2007, Mystic Manor in Edinburgh Meadows won Best Home Furnishings.