The Eric’s Homes Blog
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Owner’s Quick Guide to Construction Mortgage Draws One component to building that trips up many homeowners is the construction mortgage draw process. While homebuilding has seen a sizeable uptick over the last couple of years, with an anticipated 210,000 new housing starts to kick off the year, borrowers can still get confused about how construction…
Build Your Dream! In Greenhaven Estates Have you been searching for the perfect acreage community, near schools, work, and only a short drive to amenities such as Costco, recreation centers, and shopping strips? Look no further! Green Haven Estates is a beautiful acreage community currently expanding on the eastern side of Okotoks. Featuring 1-acre lots,…
Home Designs for the Aftermath of COVID-19 COVID-19 has changed many of us forever. Lockdowns, quarantines, fear to venture out into the public unprotected – it’s all changed our view of what could happen in the future. Many researchers are warning people worldwide that other pandemics are the horizon. When they hit, the protocols will…
Planning your dream home can be fun and exciting. Working on the details like what style your forever home will be to the countertops in the kitchen can be relaxing and rewarding. We’re here to tell you it’s possible to plan this new endeavor even during the COVID-19 shutdown. Buying a new home can be…
Slow economies might not strike most people as the best time to build a new home, however if you look past the doom and gloom portrayed on the news, you might be in for a surprise! With a bit of thought and consideration, it may actually be more advantageous to invest in your new home…
As we mentioned in our previous articles, an acreage home comes with heaps of benefits including increased privacy and living space. Only a short drive from Calgary, Bragg Creek is an excellent community to build your new acreage home and enjoy the great outdoors. A 30-minute drive West of Calgary, Bragg Creek can be reached…
If you’ve ever felt like your home is missing something or your family has outgrown it, a home addition might be something you should be considering. Whether you’re looking to add living space to your existing layout or increase your home’s functionality, a home addition will definitely enhance your home’s appeal and your overall quality…
For most people, buying or building a home requires some sort of financing. Such financing typically consists of a mortgage and different types of mortgages have their own unique advantages, disadvantages, and requirements. When building your new home, it’s a given that somebodyneeds to pay the construction costs; there’s no way around it! A draw…
Building an acreage home comes with plenty of benefits and advantages, some of which include increased privacy, space, comfort, and a whole new lifestyle. If you’re thinking about or have decided to build an acreage home in or around the Calgary area but are still unsure of where to actually build, the community of DeWinton…
To most of us in this golden age of technology, the phrase “energy efficient homes” conjures up mental images of the latest appliances, home gadgets, heating and cooling systems, etc. equipped with a plethora of the latest smart technology and claim to significantly reduce your energy bills. However, the fact is that most of what…
Building a new home can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life, and depending on whom you ask it can also be one of the most stressful! Apart from the time and financial commitments you’re about to make, you’ll undoubtedly be faced with a lot of tough decisions which might bring on…
One of the processes involved when building a home is buying the lot for your house to be built on. Sounds simple enough, right? Actually, there’s quite a bit you need to take into consideration before choosing a suitable lot to build your new home on. In this article, we’ll be covering a few of…
With the rising costs of city living, more and more people are making the switch to an acreage lifestyle. However, this change in lifestyle does not come without its own set of unique challenges. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at a few considerations that are often taken for granted when building or…
Choosing the right design for your acreage home can be as simple or as complicated as you like. Whether you’re designing your new home from scratch or choosing from stock acreage home designs, we’ve compiled a few helpful tips to help you toward your end goal of a customized acreage house. Design Your House Around…
Living in a city, your housing options are usually limited to more compact options such as condos or small townhouses without much outdoor space. Whilst city life does certainly have its benefits, it can also come with a few less than ideal consequences such as more noise, stress and an overall more hectic lifestyle. For…
When building your dream custom home, it can often be tempting to throw caution into the wind and simply “go all out” on your interior design plans. After all, this is the dream home you’ve been chasing your entire working life, so surely it should “have it all” right? Well, obviously it’s not that simple…
The kitchen has become all the rage these days, with larger and larger portions of building budgets invested into this key room over the last few years. This is for no small reason: even cross-culturally, the kitchen has always served as the main socializing space in the house. It is wonderfully multi-tasking in its function,…
Building a new home can be stressful, no doubt about it. Building a new custom home? Maybe a little bit more. But it doesn’t have to be. Most potential buyers are often overwhelmed by the process of purchasing a new custom home, and with good reason. In most cases, it can be quite unclear on…
It’s for real this time. You’ve decided it’s time to finally build that country home you’ve been dreaming of. Only one issue stands in your way, and it’s a big one: How do you choose the right lot for sale to build on? It’s certainly a tricky question to answer, especially given the seemingly overwhelming…
It’s a phrase that inevitably ends up on the tongue of every prospective client I meet. Like most custom home building stories, this one begins with a prospective client reaching out to a few builders in his area. Immediately, he demands “ballpark estimates” and “average cost per square foot” in a tone full of assurance…
