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Your Last-Minute Christmas Gift Guide for the Architect or Designer in Your Life
If you're like me, your love is a custom home designer with a love of architecture and interior design. Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and if you and your love don't exchange gifts like heart-shaped chocolates or "I Love You" teddy bears, you may be...
The Importance of Personalization in Home Design
Whether you’ve been planning to design your dream home for months or years, you likely have a plethora of ideas that will make it stand out from any other home around it. Your unique design ideas relate to both the inside and outside of the house. While some...
The Pros and Cons of Prefabricated Homes
You’ve been house shopping for weeks, possibly months, maybe even a year or more, and you haven’t found your forever home. You’ve come to the conclusion that it may not even exist – so you need to build it. Start by contacting Acipe Design to go over your design...
Custom Home Design Trends for 2025
Happy New Year! With the New Year comes new design trends. Whether you plan to build or do a major renovation in 2025, consider incorporating your favorite design elements, as well as ones that reflect the time (and may become timeless). We’ve curated a list of...
Small Space Hacks That Maximize Your Apartment
Don’t limit your style and creativity by the size of your space. In fact, small spaces can be a canvas for big ideas! There are no limits for creativity when it comes to your limited space an apartment of any size offers. The smaller spaces of an apartment can...
The Role of Color in Interior Design
The Role of Color in Interior Design One of the best parts in custom home design is personalizing each space to your taste. Choosing materials like glass, wood, brick, and stone, to exact items like kitchen faucets, the front door, or the kind of flooring you want in...
The Importance of Natural Light in Custom Home Design & How to Add It
Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a real thing. When the temperatures plummet and the sun starts going down earlier, especially in northern climates, people are driven inside. Today’s light bulbs can be made to mimic natural light, but it’s not the same as pure...
How to Design a Functional and Stylish Kitchen Layout
It’s believed that the kitchen is the heart of the home. In many of today’s homes, there is an open layout that combines kitchen, dining, and living spaces into one open room. Someone can be cooking dinner while also watching over the kids watching TV in the living...
How to Choose the Right Materials for Your Custom Home
Browsing through building materials and finishes is more fun than utilitarian when the results are for your own custom home. I often hear the question “what do you think of this?” and my answer is “I don’t know, what do you like?” to “hold on, let me look,” and having...
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