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Your Complete Guide on How to Plan for Home Maintenance During Construction
You’ve chosen where you want to build your dream home and bought the land. The next step is planning and designing that dream, from cabinets and counters to flooring and roof tiles, you can make everything just the way you want. The process is fun and exciting as you...
Your Guide on How to Design a Home for Seasonal Changes in Michigan
Designing a custom home – especially in Michigan – isn’t just about aesthetics. It’s creating a space that performs beautifully through the state’s freezing winters, humid summers, and everything in between that Mother Nature throws at us. With the right planning and...
Your Guide on How to Design an Energy-Efficient Custom Home
Your Guide on How to Design an Energy-Efficient Custom Home In today’s custom home market, an energy-efficient custom home will set your apart from the many other custom homes in your neighborhood and the market as a whole. Adding energy-efficient perks during the...
How to Design a Pet-Friendly Home
You’ve designed your custom home to include everything you want and need: a large home office, a media room, a master suite with massive soaking tub and walk-in shower in the bathroom, indoor/outdoor space – the works. You’ve thought of everyone’s safety and...
The Best Kitchen Layouts for Your Home
When you decide to build a custom home, there’s a lot to think about. What will the exterior look like? How many floors? How many bedrooms? How many bathrooms? What total square footage do you want? And the list goes on. When it comes to comfort and efficiency, having...
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...
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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.