When planning a custom home, you can incorporate all sorts of really cool things that are important to you. We have durable, easy to maintain surfaces, granite with fabulous details, a stainless steel kitchen sink, lots of storage space, and a simple design. But you can’t bring in every neat detail you find. If you [...]
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Our Jeld-Wen windows are now completely installed. We purchased them through Stock Building Supply. We chose white frames to match the white trim we’ll be using. We also went with a very plain window, no muntins or mullions. We even got rid of the transoms, except the one over the front door. Less lines, less [...]
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Our second home was what they call “semi-custom.” In a nutshell that means that you go to a mass builder, choose a lot from their open inventory, choose a plan from among the handful of choices in their book, and then you “customize.” In the semi-custom world that generally means choosing the colors for the [...]
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Our new dream house did not come in at a dream cost. And so, as I told you last month, we decided to redesign the house. That’s no big deal. We’ve done it so many times already. And we did it endlessly on the first custom home, too. It’s the time factor that’s killing me. [...]
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