Is your house custom or just new construction?

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Services for Real Estate Pros with The Gaines Group, PLC Architecture and Design

For those looking to build a new home, what is your motivation? Do you want a house that is new or do you want a new home that is specific for your needs? A custom home should be designed around the way you live, work, and play. It should work with your site and not simply sit on your site. It should reflect your values, your history, and your future. A house that is built for you should not be a compromise found in a magazine. It should be the idea thought through and developed based on your goals and passions. I am always competing against the $1000 plan that we found - we just need to change this, this, and that to make it right. Oh by the way, the structural design is not thought through and building this will cost a fortune to get it to work. Why not skip this step and simply have someone trained to think through these issues, take your goals and make a custom house for you that is not just new construction?

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Wow Charles,  That is a gorgeous house!  One of your designs?  I agree with you, a custom home isn't a pre-designed but slightly modified plan.  One thing I recommend to folks who are interested in building is a tip I got from my Dad, who was also an architect.  He advised me to keep pictures of things I liked in a set of file folders.  One for each room/area of the house we wanted to build.  Over time, my folders were full of ideas I found in magazines, books, on the web, etc.  Then, when we met with our architect, we could help him/her see our thought process on each room of the house....what we liked and what we didn't like.  They say it takes building three houses to get the perfect outcome......ha, I think we got pretty close on house #2....I may not have the energy for house #3!  Thanks for a thoughtful post.  

Nov 23, 2011 08:31 AM #1
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Caroline, yes we designed this a few years ago. Great clients for sure - they let us design. I use online versions of your paper folders and have my clients creating their own. It is a great tool to have conversations about what they want!

Nov 25, 2011 12:00 AM #2
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