It may not be as glamorous or exciting as planning your new home’s layout, floor plan or interior design features, but choosing locations for your electrical outlets and switches is a vital part of the custom home creation process. Optimizing the placement of outlets and switches adds a great deal of convenience to day-to-day living,…
Building a custom home in Calgary is more affordable than you might think. Many home buyers are under the inaccurate impression that building a custom home is an expensive and tedious process. The truth is that custom homes can be built to suit just about any budget, especially if you choose a proven, experienced company…
Leading Calgary home builders know that you’ve got to make the right choices during construction to optimize energy efficiency in your new house. Conserving energy requires much more than using LED light bulbs and installing EnerGuide-rated appliances. It demands a carefully engineered whole-house approach that creates efficiency layer by layer, and it begins with your…
Many people building Calgary custom homes opt for a deconstruction approach. They dismantle their old house, salvage usable building components and materials, and use them to help build a new one on their current lot. There are many advantages to this approach; you can stay in the same neighbourhood, minimize disruption and uprooting of your…
One of the common misconceptions about custom homes in Calgary is that you have to buy a new lot before you can build your home. The expenses involved with purchasing a plot of land and financing the construction of a new house can put some people off, but current homeowners have another option — one…