You’re thinking of purchasing a new home, but you cannot decide whether you want to just purchase a house off the market, or build a custom home. See when you think about it, with just any old house on the market, you are most likely going to have to sacrifice some features that you may have needed or wanted, as well as many other factors that should be taken into consideration. Additionally, attempting to hire numerous people to help you build a new home can get pretty difficult too. Today you are going to be reading about why you should work with a custom home builder.

These are some reasons why it would be more effective and beneficial for you to work with a custom home builder.

Firstly, when building a home with a custom home builder, you don’t only get them, but you get an entire team comprised of people like: designers, architects, contractors and so on. This is easier since trying to hire everyone individually by yourself can get difficult and confusing because you will be in charge of constantly contacting everyone, but with a home builder, you will have one individual to do most of your dealings. By doing this you would save money by not hiring everyone individually, and the team could consult you on the most cost effective materials, thus saving money there as well.

You are constantly in contact with the builder, so you can have you questions answered at any time, which will provide you a peace of mind.

Another big factor that should be taken into consideration is time. When you build by yourself, you are juggling with multiple contractors, designers, etc, which an become very stressful. However, by just dealing with one company; who will take all that responsibility off your hands, you will save yourself from those endless ours of phone call after phone call and numerous meetings.

Then, you will end up with a quality custom home. You get to choose what you want, and you gotta admit that you will take more pride in a home that you would have invested so much time and energy into.

As a result, Sunlight Heritage Homes is a quality home builder that will would definitely fulfill your desire to build a new custom home, so contact us now for more information.

When you are looking for a new home, there are many factors that need to be considered, and the right floor plan for you and your family is an essential one. If you do not take this into account and give it some thought then you will never end up with the best home for you.

First, you need to start by examining your lifestyle and determining all your needs and wishes. For example, a good one to consider is, do you want children areas and toys to be separate or for everything to be on the main floor for maximum visibility. In that case, if you want closed off areas, then you would be looking at a home with many rooms, and maybe a basement for those children areas. If you are looking for maximum visibility, then you would opt for an open layout kind of floor plan. It is things like that that need to be considered when purchasing your home. Some other helpful questions you could ask yourself include:

• Do you want a separate dining room for formal functions, or are you more comfortable with a large eat-in kitchen?
• How many bedrooms do you need for immediate family members? Do you need an extra room for guests or grandparents? Will your family be growing in the future?
• Do you need an area dedicated for a computer/work station? Does it need to be a separate room, or would a nook or a loft area work?
• Do you need/want a master ensuite bath plus a separate bathroom for friends and the children, or a larger family bath? Do you want a separate shower and bathtub, or a combination of the two? Do you need one or two sinks in any of the bathrooms? Knowing what you want out of your house will help you narrow the field to choose from.
• Look at the square footage of the room. A floor plan can be rather small, it is easy to either under or overestimate the size of the room. If you have a hard time visualizing what those numbers mean, measure the equivalent room(s) in your current home to compare.
• Consider furniture placement. There is nothing worse than arriving at your new house on closing day and discovering that there is nowhere to put the Big Screen TV, that the couch doesn’t fit or that you need a smaller dining room table. If you have specific needs, consider making a scale room plan with your furniture to make sure that everything will fit.

All information retrieved from sunlighthomes.ca.

Let us know if this was helpful, or what kind of floor plan you prefer?

We would love to hear about it in the comments.

We can all agree that this happened at least one time in your life; you’re flipping through a home design catalog or watching a show, perhaps HGTV? And then you become overcome with envy as you realize you want your home to be as stylish and chic as all those television families, but there’s one problem. You simply don’t have a “flexible” budget of 30k. There are, however, ways for you to up the glamour factor on your home, with items you already have, used items, or items costing less than at least $100.

First, this is a really good option for getting items for free or cheap. You could visit Facebook or Freecycle. There are various groups, and definitely one for or near your area. There people can trade, buy, or give away items, and you could score a branded item that you wouldn’t have been able to afford otherwise.

Next, you could search for estate sales. A popular website used for this is EstateSales.net. Basically what these are is, when somebody moves, goes through a divorce, or anything of that sort, they are likely to sell their belongings quickly. So they are a great opportunity to furnish your home on a cheap budget.

Another good tip is to look for discounts at furniture stores. If you can get a coupon you could possibly reduce the price of the item you wanted. There are many websites that sport various store coupons, or you could sign up for your favourite furniture store’s mailing list in order to get sent all the updates. You could also ask stores about their dented or scratched pieces. That way they give you a discount on them and you could easily fix it yourself with a little acrylic paint.

If we are talking about up-cycling used items, there are many ways to do this. One of the styles in right now is having old rustic looking furniture. You could achieve this by using an old table or chair, either one of your own or something you scored at a garage sale. You could sand it down and paint it with chalk paint giving it a new lively look. You can easily find 40% off coupons for Michaels, thus saving you money there too because we all know how expensive Michaels can get. You can also look for DIY projects on Pinterest, speaking of which, we recently created one so check it out, we also save all kinds of things, including very cool DIY projects.

These were just some tips on how to decorate your home for cheap!

Let us know about any pieces you have made or found!