Design Options

The options are virtually endless when it comes to design. You’re the boss and we listen to your wishes and provide our expertise.

Choose one of our designs or create your own unique design.

Custom Home Builders are generally small-volume builders and build one-of-a-kind houses on your land. They may offer design/build services or just general contracting services. They tend to build luxury features in homes, such as taller ceiling height and larger doors and room sizes. The homebuyer can make big changes, like adding another garage, a variety of custom rooms, and additional bathrooms. Building a custom home provides possibilities to create a home that truly fits your lifestyle.

Generally, the homeowner, homebuilder, and architect decide on variables for the home that will make it different from other homes. It will usually be customized to the new owner’s tastes and desires for amenities, features, size, creative touches, and style. As an example, a popular trend today is small custom homes for baby boomers to “age in place” allowing for features that will accommodate disabilities in their future.

Custom homes are simply a site-specific home built from a unique set of plans for a specific client.

Built to Order & Spec Home are built by builders who buy a lot or land, build a house, and then sell the home. The builder “speculates” that he will make money from this transaction of buying a lot and building a custom or semi-custom home on it.

It may sell during the course of construction, in which case, the homebuyer may be able to choose many of the finishes, however, the builder, rather than the homebuyer determined the “floor plan” before breaking ground. Spec homes are not always large custom homes. Oftentimes, the home is a small or medium-sized home with custom features and styles. A spec home could be a very plain home or it could be a large, luxurious, decorated mansion.

If the builder bought the land and is building it specifically to sell, it would be thought of as a spec home.