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How to Plan for Construction Waste Management
The building and construction industry accounts for a staggering amount of the world’s waste. The march toward sustainable building practices, like using sustainable or recycled materials, has helped the industry massively reduce its carbon footprint. The use of...
How to Design a Home with a Focus on Sustainability
Building a custom home means building it to your standards and preferences. Overall square footage, the size of each room, appliances, lighting and other fixtures, flooring, the paint on the walls – every little detail can be customized to meet your needs and...
Custom Homes vs. Existing Homes: Which is Right for You?
Whether you’re moving from an apartment or your smaller “starter home” there is a lot that goes into deciding where and what your next home will be. First things first: location, location, location! Where will your new home be? What criteria are you using to decide?...
How to Create a Luxurious Bathroom on a Budget
There’s a lot that goes into the planning and construction of a custom home. Finding the perfect plot of land (location, location, location!), preparing that land, orienting the home, and designing it inside and out. You want to focus your time and money on the rooms...
The Importance of Construction Planning
Congratulations! You’ve decided to build your dream custom home. But now what? The design and construction of a home is a big undertaking, to say the least. There are decisions to be made that are as grand as the design itself to as specific as the type of faucets in...
How to Design a Home with a Focus on Storage
Life is full of priorities. Career-driven people make work and career advancement a priority. People with families make their spouse and children priorities. Other people make self-care a priority. When designing and building your custom home, you want to prioritize...
The Benefits of Green Building in Custom Homes
The construction industry is one of the leading generators of waste and harmful CO2 emissions. For decades now, the industry has been working toward reducing waste and CO2 emissions by working toward greener, healthier building standards. Whether or not you’re a...
How to Design a Home Library
Everyone has their vision of the perfect home. Some people can find existing homes that fill the bill, while others prefer to make their dreams a reality with a custom home. While the existing home has things like the number of bedrooms and bathrooms you need, a...
The Impact of Building Codes on Home Design
You’ve decided to build a custom home, but what happens next? You have a lot of big ideas for exactly what you need and want in your home, from the style of building all the way down to the light switches and door handles inside. To make your dreams a reality, you’ll...
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Disclaimer: Owner, Acipe Design LLC, and Arid Design LLC is a designer and design firms, not a registered architect or engineer or a registered architecture or engineering firm in any jurisdiction. Owner and company does not imply they or the company is. We contract or engage with architects and engineers as required.
Areas served: We serve customers primarily in Michigan and Arizona (as Arid Design LLC) but we are open to the possibilities of other locations.