Our Philosophy
New houses, old souls
A house should be beautiful the day it is finished and more beloved every decade after.
Classical Design
The old rules still work
We design in the traditional language of American building, correct proportion, honest materials, deep porches, rooms shaped for real life. Any style before the 1960s ranch house is home ground for us: farmhouse, colonial, cottage, classical. The goal is a new house that feels like it has been standing on its land for a while.
Building Science
Built to last
Behind the classical face is a modern, high-performance envelope: careful air sealing, continuous insulation, wall assemblies designed to dry, mechanical systems sized honestly. The result is a home that is durable, comfortable, healthy, and inexpensive to run, performance well beyond the code minimum, invisible until the first utility bill.
Our Own Hands
A company with its own crew
Novarum Homes is a custom home builder based in Winona, minutes from Tyler, Texas. We general-contract the trades, but have people who have done every step of the building process to a higher level of detail most are used to. The details that make or break a house, exterior trim, interior millwork, the building-science layers, are done by our own team and/or meticulously supervised. It costs more than subbing everything out. In the end it shows.
Where We Come From
Three decades of craft before the first Texas foundation
Novarum’s roots are in architectural millwork. Founder and president Wladyslaw Mietus spent more than thirty years in Canada mastering cabinetmaking, wood manufacturing, renovation, and construction, work ranging from ornamental structures like the Mattamy Gazebo in Oakville to commercial installations at the University of Toronto, and custom residences across Ontario.
Among those builds was the Ravenhill Home on Georgian Bay, a 3,000-square-foot house designed and executed start to finish. In 2022 that experience was brought to East Texas and founded as Novarum Homes, pairing old-world carpentry with the building-science methods the next hundred years will demand.
Millwork is where it began. Cabinetmaking, moldings, and the parts of a house you touch every day were the daily work for decades, in kitchens and interiors across the Greater Toronto Area. The Monaco House kitchen, with its cerused oak island and hand-fitted cabinetry beneath a reclaimed beam, is the kind of room that discipline produces.
The work ranged up to the civic scale, including installations at the University of Toronto, where new joinery had to sit comfortably beside century-old coffered ceilings and stained glass. That standard, new work worthy of old rooms, is the one we brought to Texas.
The right house takes a little longer
Speed, low cost, quality, no builder can give you all three. We build for individuals and families who choose quality, and appreciate the classical simplicity. Something different.
