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…