Your Dream Home Comes With Dreamy Outdoor Spaces
When you build a new home, it comes with amazing outdoor spaces. As you move into a stunning house that perfectly matches your aesthetic, built in a community designed to help you thrive, you also get a beautiful yard that requires minimal maintenance and no major projects to make it perfect.
While avoiding major outdoor projects isn’t usually the main reason why people love to buy and build new homes, not living with a subpar back yard is a major benefit when you are trying to get settled in your home.
New home builders know that a beautiful outdoor space adds the final touch to their homeowners’ dream home. In addition to a beautiful landscaping package, many builders deliver homes with porches, patios, decks, and pools. Some home plans even come with porches and patios included in standard pricing.
NewHomeSource talked with some of the biggest homebuilders in the country to explore the beautiful outdoor spaces you can include in your new home.
Beautiful Homes, Beautiful Outdoor Spaces
When you buy and build a new home, you are investing in a living environment designed to help you and your family thrive. Part of helping people thrive includes delivering a beautiful outdoor space.
This starts with including a lush landscaping package that combines environmentally friendly greenery and low maintenance features. The landscaping options provided by homebuilders increase the curb appeal of a home and make you want to spend time outside. After all, who wouldn’t want to sit out on a warm summer night surrounded by a lush lawn, flowering bushes, and growing trees?
“Customers are treating outdoor spaces like an extension of indoor spaces, with upscale furniture, huge TVs with surround sound, fireplaces and outdoor kitchens with lots of bells and whistles,” says Marcela Serio, design consultant for Neal Signature Homes.
A lovely landscaping package is the flexible foundation that works for a wide range of desired outdoor living spaces.
Flexible Outdoor Spaces Designed Around People’s Lives
After providing homeowners with a beautiful landscaping, homebuilders help elevate life in a new home by adding additional features to outdoor spaces.
Patios and Porches often Come with the Home
You don’t have to build a custom home to get your dream yard. Outdoor features such as porches and patios often come with base home plans, allowing homeowners to make the most of their new home, regardless of price point.
Mattamy Homes offers covered patios as a standard option. Homeowners have a fabulous outdoor space that they can customize with the rest of their new house. Mattamy Homes’ commitment to providing home owners with beautiful outdoor spaces doesn’t end there, plans also offer optional larger sliding glass doors, both center-meet sliders and the multi-slide glass doors that collapse over each other, leading onto the back covered patio to provide great natural light and a greater sense of indoor/outdoor living.
Even simple outdoor spaces like a pad for a patio or front porch can give homeowners a fantastic foundation for outdoor living. If you love the idea of a luxurious front porch swing, a backyard living room, or the ultimate outdoor cooking experience, you builder can help make that dream a reality without adding to the overall cost of your home.
According to Tri Pointe Homes, “Making the most of your outdoor spaces at Tri Pointe Homes® starts with treating them like the valuable areas they are – an extension of the indoors – the perfect opportunity to add more life to your living. For those who lounge on their covered patio staring at mountain vistas or grill the perfect steak in their outdoor kitchen, life is simply better outdoors.”
You can explore home plans on NewHomeSource to find the perfect home with outdoor features that you love.
Save Money, Install Outdoor Features While You Build
Another way your homebuilder can help you make your dream home a reality and your dream yard a reality is by installing or building outdoor features as they build the house.
Drees Homes’ Washington DC Area Manager Brian McGinniss shared, “Even some of our smaller homes provide an opportunity to create an outdoor living space that shines. Outdoor fireplaces continue to increase in popularity with our homebuyers, as this feature extends the coziness of the family room into an outside space. Our paired villas and condos offer the spaciousness our home buyers need to create a comfortable, luxurious space that they love.”
Features like decks and pools don’t typically come with standard pricing, but may be an upgrade option. Prioritizing outdoor spaces as you allocate your upgrade budget provides a number of major benefits to homebuyers:
- You can roll the cost of a home improvement project into your mortgage.
- You will move into a new home that is exactly how you want it, and won’t have to do a major yard project as you try to settle into your house.
- Your builder will install landscaping after they install a deck or pool, so you don’t have to worry about your dream outdoor feature destroying the rest of your yard.
According to M/I Homes, “From lanais in Florida to screened porches in Ohio to covered back patios in Texas, outdoor spaces make all the difference in a homeowner’s new home; especially when it comes to entertaining and spending quality time with family when the weather’s just right.”
If a homebuilder you love doesn’t do deck or pool installation, homeowners can work to have outdoor features like a deck or pool installed during the homebuilding process. Talk with potential builders to see if they allow third party contractors to work on their landscaping, or if they partner with decking or pool contractors in the area.
Camelot Homes delivers beautiful new homes and iconic backyards to homeowners in Arizona. Their lush backyards give homeowners a private oasis where they can enjoy the sunshine without having to worry about sweating through their shirts.
Builders Prioritize Outdoor Spaces, Regardless of Home Type
Homebuilders know that having access to greenery and outdoor spaces is important for people’s well-being. Regardless of home type, homebuilders are increasingly focusing on delivering beautiful outdoor spaces to homebuyers in individual homes and in the overall community.
Dragas is a fabulous homebuilder that designs and builds a wide range of home types ranging from condos, to townhomes, to single family homes. In all home styles, Dragas prioritizes outdoor spaces so their homeowners can enjoy life in their new home indoors and outdoors
In Brookfield Residential Swan Point community, the beautiful townhome options feature lush gardens, so homeowners can have a manageable space for a flower or vegetable garden, without having to worry about mowing or watering a massive lawn.
Single family homes and townhomes give homeowners porches, patios, and manageable gardens, often at base pricing levels. Many condo builders prominently feature balcony spaces, so homeowners that don’t have a traditional back yard can still take advantage of time in the sunlight.
Community-wide amenities also help get people outside. Community gardens, green spaces, and undeveloped nature preserves all help homeowners of all types of houses enjoy the full spectrum of the great outdoors. DeNova Homes prioritizes greenspaces as part of their community amenity package. At Luca at Aviano all the homes are surrounded by acres of lush parkland, giving residents an extra way to enjoy sun and sky with their home.
Buying a new home means getting so much more than four walls and a roof. The benefits of buying and building new don’t stop at the door. Beautiful and low maintenance outdoor spaces come with a home you love. Use NewHomeSource to explore new homes in your area that deliver a wonderful living space, in and out of doors.
After graduating in 2016 from The University of Texas with a degree in English, Sanda Brown became a content writer for the BDX with a focus on website copy and content marketing.
At the BDX, Sanda helps write and edit articles on NewHomeSource.com, writes website copy for builders, and manages a team of freelancers that work on additional content needs.
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