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Why Home Accessibility is Important: At a basic level, building accessible homes is both respectful and fair to those living with physical disabilities, providing them with the ability to independently live in a home. Fairness, however, is only secondary to safety. Failing to ensure safe access to homes, makes it impossible for those living with…

Creating your perfect floor plan is no easy task. Your life is dynamic and you need something that reflects that. While building your custom home, you have the ability to design everything from its dimensions to its aesthetics, but how can you elevate your ideas to the next level? Here are our top 5 tips…

So, You’re Thinking of Building Your Dream Custom Home So you are interested in building your custom home, but are worried about its cost. Starting a construction project can be very intimidating, especially if it’s for your forever home. No matter how you look at it, undergoing this project will be costly, but how costly…

Throughout most of our blog posts and content we tend to talk a lot about something called ICF/ICH, but exactly is it? ICF is an acronym for Insulated concrete forms or ICH for insulated concrete house. This building technique utilizes a system of expanded polystyrene (EPS) rigid insulation blocks separated by plastic webbing. Instead of using…

So, you’re thinking of building your dream home. You have found a good project developer and all the necessary contractors to complete your vision, but what does that vision look like? Here are the 5 trendiest features to get in your new custom home. 1. Large Windows Bring the feeling of the great outdoors, in.…

New year is just around the corner, and now it’s time to sum up the year that goes away! Previously, we’ve already looked at some interior design trends, but today we’re taking a look at what building trends were on rise this year. 1. Green building. As climate change becomes more and more evident, people…

Are you in the process of designing your dream home?  If you are not a professional designer or colorist, choosing your color palette for a new home can be tough. But it doesn’t have to be!  We’ve brought together some of the best tips from designers to help you navigate the process! 1. Start with…

Now when you know more about the benefits of ICF, you may already start to look into the developer. Here’s when the main adventure begins. Just as with the materials, picking the right contractor to do the job is very important. Of course, you may want to save and think “what can really happen if…

You have started to plan out your dream home. It may be your first home or just the first time you build and not buy – no matter how experienced you are, in real estate development there’s always something you tend to forget. So today we are going to provide you with a simple checklist…

Thinking of going green, but worried about the process? Here are 3 common myths you may have heard about building a green home.      Over the past decade there has been a great rise in environmentally sustainable incentives, so it’s surprising that these trends are not as common in the housing industry. There are many rumors…