How a Residential Builder Can Help You Construct Your Dream Home – Custom Home vs Renovation
Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
We’ve all had that experience: you walk into a new home and you immediately love it because it has that new home smell. Everything is in place. Everything is new. And you think: wouldn’t it be great to live here? Except, of course, you’d like to have a slightly larger living room. And maybe you’d like the window of the bedroom to be bigger. And you think that the attic would make a great children’s room. So everything seems perfect except that it’s not.
Building Your Dream Home from Scratch
If you’ve seen a number of homes and none of them is exactly what you’re looking for, you have two options. One is to come up with a custom home plan and build your new home from scratch with the help of a
residential builder. The other is to plan for renovations on your current home.
Coming up with a custom home plan can be pretty time-consuming. At the same time, many people find it extremely rewarding. After all, the home that you’ll end up with is going to be exactly the way you want it. It’ll have every custom touch that you desire.
If you want a fireplace and a chimney, you can make room for that. If you’d like floor to ceiling windows looking over your poolside, this is an option too. If you want to combine different styles of architecture, you can do so, as long as the ideas you come up with are practical. What’s important when you’re building a custom home is knowing exactly what you want, and this is best done by visiting a large number of homes. Looking through magazines can be helpful but doesn’t give you the same feel for a place.
By sitting down and making a list of things that you would like to have in your new home, you can come up with a mental picture of it. To find out if all your plans are feasible, we’ll have a concept meeting with on of our architect partners and together we’ll all discuss your list.
Renovating an Existing Home
If you choose to renovate your home instead of building it, the process is a little bit shorter and simpler. You already have a base to work on. Now you just have to make it exactly the way you’d like it to be. Many people think that it’s not really possible to come up with a dream home just by doing renovations, that it’s best to start from scratch.
However, this is not always true. As long as a home has the number of rooms that you require and they’re the right size, you can make it into your ideal home by using a little bit of ingenuity. Just think about the custom touches that you are most likely to use and make sure that your home renovation covers them. If you think that an outdoor hot tub, a window seat and granite kitchen countertops are most likely to bring you joy, you can have these installed during the renovation process.
Contact us to build or renovate your custom home today and we’ll make sure that you’re happy with every little detail.
Tags: Architectural style, Business, Construction and Maintenance, Custom home, Design, Dream Home, Home improvement, Renovation
We’ve all had that experience: you walk into a new home and you immediately love it because it has that new home smell. Everything is in place. Everything is new. And you think: wouldn’t it be great to live here? Except, of course, you’d like to have a slightly larger living room. And maybe you’d like the window of the bedroom to be bigger. And you think that the attic would make a great children’s room. So everything seems perfect except that it’s not.
Building Your Dream Home from Scratch
If you’ve seen a number of homes and none of them is exactly what you’re looking for, you have two options. One is to come up with a custom home plan and build your new home from scratch with the help of a residential builder. The other is to plan for renovations on your current home.
Coming up with a custom home plan can be pretty time-consuming. At the same time, many people find it extremely rewarding. After all, the home that you’ll end up with is going to be exactly the way you want it. It’ll have every custom touch that you desire.
If you want a fireplace and a chimney, you can make room for that. If you’d like floor to ceiling windows looking over your poolside, this is an option too. If you want to combine different styles of architecture, you can do so, as long as the ideas you come up with are practical. What’s important when you’re building a custom home is knowing exactly what you want, and this is best done by visiting a large number of homes. Looking through magazines can be helpful but doesn’t give you the same feel for a place.
By sitting down and making a list of things that you would like to have in your new home, you can come up with a mental picture of it. To find out if all your plans are feasible, we’ll have a concept meeting with on of our architect partners and together we’ll all discuss your list.
Renovating an Existing Home
If you choose to renovate your home instead of building it, the process is a little bit shorter and simpler. You already have a base to work on. Now you just have to make it exactly the way you’d like it to be. Many people think that it’s not really possible to come up with a dream home just by doing renovations, that it’s best to start from scratch.
However, this is not always true. As long as a home has the number of rooms that you require and they’re the right size, you can make it into your ideal home by using a little bit of ingenuity. Just think about the custom touches that you are most likely to use and make sure that your home renovation covers them. If you think that an outdoor hot tub, a window seat and granite kitchen countertops are most likely to bring you joy, you can have these installed during the renovation process.
Contact us to build or renovate your custom home today and we’ll make sure that you’re happy with every little detail.
