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How to Design a Home with Indoor-Outdoor Living
Designing a custom home is more than floor plans and building materials. You want to consider every aspect, both inside and out. While you plan the perfect kitchen, your ultimate media or entertainment room, and all the other nooks and crannies inside the home, don’t...
The Role of Energy Efficiency in Custom Home Building
You’ve decided to build a custom home, but before you break ground, start pouring a foundation, or decide on paint colors, you want to consider what you want your home to look like as well as how it will function. The building and construction industry as a whole, as...
Designing for Wellness: Tips for a Healthy Home
A focus on wellness has paved the way for a design style that leads to a healthier, happier life. Businesses and residential homes alike are utilizing designs that make occupant wellness a priority along with the other necessities needed for the daily enjoyment and...
How to Build a Home with Accessibility in Mind
Congratulations! You’ve decided to build a custom home. No matter how old you are now, you probably hope to stay in this home for years to come – which means planning for the future. When you embark on building a custom home, you may be single, in a committed...
How to Design a Home Gym
You’ve decided to design and build a custom home! Before you contact a designer like Acipe Design, or think about breaking ground, there are some things to get off the To Do List right away. Like dreaming up your perfect layout and everything in it. Multiple bedrooms...
How to Plan for Future Expansion in Custom Home Design
Congratulations! You’ve decided to design and build a custom home. You may have big dreams for what you want in your home today, but have you thought about how your home will serve you into the future? Building a custom home is a big investment – time, money, heart,...
How to Design a Functional and Stylish Home Office
The home office is a versatile space. Before 2020, it may have been an actual office space for people who ran businesses out of their home, or it may have simply been the room where the computer and other ‘office’ equipment like a desktop computer, printer, and other...
The Benefits of Building a Net Zero Energy Home
You’ve decided to build a custom home! There are many things to think about, including where you’ll build, the design style, the materials, fixtures, and finishes that will make the house a home you’ll live in for years to come. You may have considered green building...
How to Create a Multi-Functional Space
Many older homes have clearly defined lines between living room, kitchen, dining room, and bedrooms. The defined sections are achieved by walls and doors that separate one room from the next. With the rise of open floor plans starting in the 1950s and taking serious...
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