There are plenty of housing styles to choose from when it comes to choosing where you’ll live. From apartments or flats and existing homes to one you design and have built to your specifications. Each has its own benefits and drawbacks: apartments are often small, combining multiple spaces together to save overall space and building costs. Existing homes were likely built with someone else’s needs and preferences in mind, or even by a builder who thinks they know what the area wants. Choosing to build a custom home means you don’t have to live with someone else’s needs and wants, putting your own stamp on things from the very beginning.
Table of Contents
- Your Needs
- Floor Plans
- Location, Location, Location
- Designing for the Tech Savvy
- Reliability
- Return on Investment
- Environmental Impact
- Final Thoughts
Your Needs
As we’ve said, everyone’s needs are different. Existing homes were built with the original family in mind. That family may have been comfortable with a single bathroom, but didn’t take subsequent families’ needs into consideration. Over the years, there was a realization: the need for another bathroom or powder room. Rather than being able to put the room on the main floor, it goes where it fits: downstairs – under the stairs – off the laundry room with a tiny sink and toilet. It’s space is also limited by the under-stairs storage and stairwell above.
Building a custom home means avoiding the cramped, hastily added powder room. You can design a space that includes as many bedrooms and bathrooms as necessary for your lifestyle. When you work with our design team, we’ll talk about your requirements and what you imagine your future to be. We help you consider what to build when you plan to have children, or more children? If you’re interested in an ‘in-law’ suite so you can care for aging parents or give adult children their own space? A dog washing station off the garage? We make your dreams happen.
Floor Plans
A custom home means a custom floor plan – one that works for you and your family. From spacious open floor plans that combine living, kitchen, dining, and work spaces into one, to floor plans that offer defined rooms with their own function. Separate casual from elegance with an eat-in kitchen as well as a formal dining room, or separate entertainment from conversation with a separate living room and media room. If separation isn’t what you’re looking for, bring everyone and everything together in the open floor plan space of your dreams.
Location, Location, Location
Custom homes are often part of newer neighborhoods in highly desired locations: on or near one of the beautiful lakes in Michigan, close to the beaches of California, or up in the mountains and away from the hustle and bustle of big cities. A custom view deserves a custom build. You’ve chosen a property because of where it is, the next step is making your dream what it is.
The team at Acipe Design creates the custom home of your dreams not just for you and your needs, but also as it fits into the neighborhood. We analyze the surrounding area and offer suggestions based on what’s hot and what’s not. You’ll get a home that meets your needs without sticking out like a sore thumb.
Designing for the Tech Savvy
Homes today are designed with more energy efficient building materials and floor plans and other designs are used to meet the market need of today. Technology is changing and advancing at a rapid pace, so much so that the computer you’re searching for custom home builders on is probably ‘out of date.’
Your custom home can take into account this fast-paced society and keep up on the latest trends in home tech. Central command systems control HVAC, a home sound system, lighting, and more right at your fingertips. Installing these systems are easier than you might think, and there’s always room for improvement and change with the times.
Reliability
For existing homes, you may not know what’s behind the walls. Wiring and plumbing that’s not up to today’s code standards, and even the home’s foundation or structure has suffered the wear and tear of time. You’ll find that when the furnace breaks that you’ll be replacing the air conditioning as well, because you can’t access the air conditioning unit without moving the furnace!
Newly-built, custom homes don’t come with such pitfalls. With the right designer and builder at the helm, you’ll have the most up-to-date systems possible. Everything will comply with modern building codes and be sparkling new and working the first time you flip the switch to On.
Return on Investment
You didn’t build your custom dream home just to sell it, you’ll be living in it for many years to come. The money, time, and effort results in a beautiful home as well as an asset that already has equity. While we can’t guarantee a price tag, it’s been shown that custom homes demand a higher market price than an existing home, and even a renovated existing home.
It’s not just about money. Custom homes upgrade your life, too. No matter the living situation you left behind, your custom home has everything you need. You’ll live happier and healthier. If you work from home, the comfort of enough space or private work spaces can increase productivity. If you’re a home chef who loves every moment in the kitchen, your custom home can focus on making the space your chef’s heart’s dream. Gone are the days of heating to 400 degrees, then having to increase the heat to 425 for the next dish – you have can design a kitchen with two ovens.
Environmental Impact
Our custom home builds take all of the above into consideration. There’s one other big check mark that many of today’s custom home build clients care about: environmental impact. Everything from building methods to materials used has an impact on the environment. The mere act of removing the soil on the property has changed the environment. The building materials you use are formed through a variety of methods that may add carbon emissions to the environment.
The team at Acipe Design strives to use environmentally-friendly and sustainable building practices and materials. There is a long list of “red list” chemicals and materials that have been deemed unsafe for exposure to humans and animals. We strive to use as little as possible, and in a perfect situation none at all. We suggest building with sustainable woods and other natural building materials, as well as suggest features like green roof systems that can grow grasses, plants, and even fruits and vegetables.
Final Thoughts
We at Acipe Design know there’s a dream house for every client, and we want to help you design it to your custom needs. We design your dream and bring it to fruition with thoughtful design that puts the needs and preferences of, you, the client first.
Contact us today!