As you prepare to design your home, you need to make sure you don’t get blown away by “option overload.” Sometimes homeowners want to build their own home, but they get overwhelmed by the options, as a result, they don’t know where to start with the design process.
Thankfully, you don’t have to be a victim of option overload!
The following are practical tips to walk you through each step of the design process.
Home Design Inspiration
- Browse Magazines: Pick up several home magazines and keep track of the features, styles, and layouts you like.
- Search Online: If there are features you want in your new home, search for websites, pictures, and videos on how to utilize these features in your design. A helpful website to visit is Pinterest.
- Take a tour: Brightlife Properties have newly built homes to tour. These provide practical ideas on designs, layouts, and decorating ideas.
- Check house listings: Look at local listings, pictures, and open houses. These give you examples of different styles and features.
Initial Home Design
- Have a budget: Before you talk with Brightlife Properties as your custom home builder, have a budget in mind. Talking with your banker or mortgage lender will help you determine the budget in building your new home.
- Know your essentials: Know how many bedrooms and bathrooms you need, what storage options you want, what kind of layout you want, what features your family values, and other essentials.
- Have a general floor plan: It helps to know the general floor plan you want. Brightlife Properties has stock floor plans that can be modified to fit your goals. You can also find floor plans while browsing magazines, websites, and other homes.
- Itemize rooms and items: Many people find it helpful to list the rooms in their new home and what goes with each one. This helps determine what size rooms should be, necessary closet space, and what rooms or features are necessary or optional.
Final Home Design
- Work with an architect or Brightlife Properties: Even if you feel confident that you covered all your bases in your design, you should still work with an architect or Brightlife Properties to make sure you didn’t miss anything. This is required for the municipal process.
- Finding a vacant stand to build on: Once you have your ideal floor plan laid out, you need to find a vacant stand suitable for your floor plan and needs. Brightlife Properties provides site management assistance to help assess the property, determine home placement, and help lay out other details such as sewer, water, etc. This can be super helpful since most people are not construction experts!
Home Construction
- Trust the experts: If you have done your research and have chosen Brightlife Properties as your custom home builder, now is the time to trust them with their construction techniques. Their goal is to use their knowledge and innovative techniques to provide the best home possible to you.
- Ask questions: Feel free to ask questions during the construction process. This will help you later with maintenance, and reselling the house, which helps give you peace of mind. Two-way communication is important.
- Visit the construction site: Try to visit the house several times while it is under construction. Make sure you follow established safety procedures while visiting. Brightlife Properties usually schedules visits at the crucial stages of development to keep communication open and informative.