Ideas, Tips, Advice, Oh My!

​For many, the most exciting aspect of building a custom home is dreaming up what the property will entail--everything from architectural components to how the space will be used. 

Before meeting with a building contractor, it's a good idea to start thinking about some of the features that you'll want to include in your custom home. Just a little more than a decade ago, homeowners were pretty much limited to physically touring properties to get inspiration for their own dream homes. However, as the internet has exploded in recent years, so have the number of resources that homeowners can turn to when building a custom home.

​How many times have you heard that someone is moving to accommodate their growing family?

While the real estate market has without a doubt improved over the past few years in Central Florida, finding the right house has become more challenging due to a limited amount of inventory. If you already love your home, why leave it when you can take on a few home remodeling projects to make it more family friendly?

​With custom home building, you really can create the home of your dreams. When you build a custom home, not only can you choose the perfect lot in your preferred location, but you can also allow your dreams of your ideal home to come to fruition.

However, as well all know, life doesn't always go so smoothly, and this can certainly be applied to the process of building a custom home. To help the home building experience go off without a hitch, here are 5 tips for keeping your dream house from becoming your worst nightmare:

​While a chef's kitchen or a pristine master bathroom is exciting to most homeowners, another desirable feature that we frequently see in the custom home building arena is the mudroom. 

Today's homeowners want functionality, which is why including a mudroom in a custom home is essentially a requirement. While a mudroom by definition is a space to shed dirty footwear and clothing, it has quickly evolved as one of the main entry points to the home.