Central Park West- Rockefeller Townhomes by Lennar in Orange County, CA For affordable, urban living, condos are where it’s at. With more and more people moving to cities, builders are meeting their housing needs by building new condominiums. This is resulting in two construction trends: housing …
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KB Home Will Change How We Live With New Concept: The ProjeKt Home
Eco-friendly, smart & high-tech The ProjeKt Home, a smart & eco-friendly concept home built by KB Home, located in Inspirada in Las Vegas. Photo courtesy of KB Home. If you’ve ever wondered where tomorrow lives, you can find it this year in Las Vegas. "Where tomorrow lives" is …
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5 Green Design Trends for Custom Homes
NuCedar and Hardieplank are green building material options for your custom home. Photo courtesy of Dana Hoff Custom homes have a unique place in the world of new construction, offering an opportunity for experimentation with new eco-friendly materials and design trends that could eventually …
Can I Build a Small Custom Home?
Yes, and here's how Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Building a custom home isn’t relegated to the high-end buyer seeking an expansive (translate: expensive) dwelling. In fact, trends show that today’s buyers increasingly are seeking a smaller home footprint. A 2018 survey by the National …
How “Smart” Windows Can Improve Your Custom Home
Oak at Normandy Square by Robertson Brothers in Royal Oak Michigan There’s a lot of talk these days about smart home products — smart thermostats, light switches and doorbells. The buzz has overshadowed advances in basic building materials. When it comes to building a custom home, windows may …
What Lighting is Best for Each Room in Your New Home?
Photo Credit: Getty Images Lighting is not a one-size-fits-all solution for every space of your new home. Before you get any bright ideas, it’s important to consider what lighting works best in each room. “First, you want to ask yourself, ‘What is the purpose of this room?’” says Jackie …
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How Long Does it Take to Build a Custom Home?
Learn how long it takes to build a custom home Usually larger and more complex than a production home, a custom home, logically, will take longer to build. In fact, according to the latest available U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Construction, the average time it took to take a new …
What’s the Difference Between Production & Custom Homebuilders?
One of the first decisions to make in the new home process is rather to go with a production versus custom home builder. Do you know the difference? Image courtesy of ShutterStock As you plan your new home, one of the first questions to consider is whether working with custom home …
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How to Build an Eco-Friendly Custom Home
A beautiful exterior shot of a custom home by Regency Builders Building a custom home? In addition to fitting your lifestyle dream, would you like that home to also be eco-friendly? Would it be comforting to request a sustainable design that can make up for the typically larger carbon footprint …
Why Single Women Should Build Custom Homes
Photo courtesy of Getty Images Is it only couples and those approaching retirement who buy new homes? Definitely not! Statistics from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University say one in five home buyers is a single woman, and that single women make up more than one-third of …
6 Steps of Building a Custom Home
After the planning process, your dream home will be built in 5 phases Photo courtesy of Hibbs Homes Buying a production home is easy. The steps are simple and take little effort on your part. Find a new community and builder you like. Check out and pick one of the models. Sign the contract. …
Custom Home or Production Home: Which is best for you?
Can You Save Money Later by Building a Custom Home Now? Photo Credit: Getty Images So, you’ve been out looking at production homes, walking the models, tweaking floor plans in your head, but you can’t find exactly what you want. You wonder whether it might be cheaper in the long run to buy a …
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