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What To Look For in a Local Custom Home Builder

Committing to building your own custom home is an exciting benchmark to meet. With your land purchased and a vision for your future eagerly awaiting fruition, it’s time to find the right local custom home builder. This is the most important step.

So, what should you look for when researching a local custom builder for your home? From being able to communicate clearly, to hearing your desire for customisation, and providing current testimonials from satisfied customers, you want someone who will be a reliable partner on the road to architectural beauty and success.

Creating a Resort Style Custom Home

One of the hottest trends in the home design space is the upscale resort look. This design choice should come as no surprise; there’s a reason people love going to beautiful resorts. They are relaxing, luxurious, and provide a high level of comfort. Why wouldn’t you want the same feeling in your home?

Coming up with design ideas can be challenging even if you have an overall theme in mind, though. We’re going to help you out with the brainstorming process. Here are some critical components to consider in your resort style custom home.

5 Things To Consider Before Your Knockdown Rebuild Project

It’s official: Australians are loving the opportunity to rebuild in 2021! According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the country is spending billions on home renovations and construction, up 30% from previous years. It marks a veritable boom in the industry with many taking part in the opportunity to construct a new vision and a better future for themselves and their family.

There’s no doubt renovating your home can add new life to an older exterior, but what about diving in for a full knock-down rebuild? It might be a decision with even more benefits than you think.

Knocking down your present home and deciding to work with a custom home builder again on the same site, brings innumerable benefits. First of all, if you love where you live, you get to stay there. Your valuable friend’s network stays intact, you can continue to frequent the local businesses and amenities you’ve grown to love, your address stays the same (no need to update!), and the kids stay in the same schools, adding stability. A knockdown rebuild can also turn out to be much more cost-effective than renovating your old home and allows you to start fresh with a beautiful new blank slate. It’s truly a transformational and remarkable journey.

Here are 5 things you may wish to consider before your knockdown rebuild project!

4 Essential Ways to Maximise Your Small Lot Build

So, you’ve just bought yourself a small block of land in the ideal suburb. The location’s perfect.

Now all that’s left to do is build your dream home to accompany it!

With limited space at your disposal, though, it’s important to put on your creative hat throughout the design phase. Get it right, and you’ll end up with a beautiful, unique custom home that feels spacious, light, and airy, despite the lot’s size.

Working with a multi-award-winning custom home builder like Oceanview Constructions guarantees the best results. For inspiration in the meantime, check out these top tips on maximising your small lot build in the Redlands.

These Interior Paint Colours Will Be Everywhere In 2022

The design of your home reflects your standards in quality, style, and taste. While the material you choose for elements such as your flooring and furnishings has an enormous impact on the face your home puts forward, one of the often-overlooked factors is your paint. Paint can add colour (or remove it) and plays a strong role in the ambiance you create and the tone you set.

Interior paint colours, like interior design, tends to go in waves. New trends are always on the horizon, just like changing fashion runways. So, what does 2022 promise to bring when it comes to the colour of your walls? Here’s a look:

Multifunctional Space And Your Custom Home

Since the onset of the pandemic, more people have been working from home than ever, and ultimately spending most of their time there. So now the home must accommodate many other functions beyond what we originally conceived it to be. How can you successfully incorporate your work-from-home space within the layout of your custom home?

Custom Home Lighting Inspiration

You want your custom home to breathe with natural light. Large windows, minimalist design and light-coloured surfaces all contribute to making this happen. That being said, the lighting you choose for your home shouldn’t be forgotten because it can create essential ambience, with form and function working to complement each other.

Where to start? Read on to discover some custom home lighting inspiration!

Custom Home Bathroom Tiling Trends

When designing your custom home, we consider the style of your bathroom to be just as important as the impact of your main entrance. Bathrooms, strangely enough, present a unique design opportunity! From your tub to the taps, mirrors, lighting, and the tiles, here, you can truly express your personal taste in the fine details.

Custom bathroom tiles present an ideal way to add personality to your home at an affordable price. What should you consider when making your choice? Here’s a look at some of the current custom bathroom tiling trends. Let the dreaming begin!

Trending Flooring Ideas For Your Custom Home

Flooring is the first physical contact you have with the space in front of you. Your eyes may be taking in a visual first impression but setting foot into a home or another building is equally important. We would go as far as to say the right floor can make or break your interiors.

Building a custom home is all about attention to detail and choosing what is perfect for you. If you are keen on interiors trends, hard surfaces are more popular than carpet flooring in 2021. Our team tends to agree. To get you started, let’s look at some of our favourite trending flooring ideas for your custom home.

2021 Outdoor Living Ideas For Your Custom Home

Do you know what you would include in your brand new custom home? Maybe you’d include a big kitchen with a butler’s pantry or a luxurious ensuite with a deep freestanding tub? Or maybe you’d like a dedicated outdoor entertaining area where you can maximise the water views?

The choice of inclusions for your custom home really is entirely up to you and that includes your outdoor living space as well.

If you’re thinking about building your very own custom home, then you might want to take a look at some of our favourite outdoor living ideas for 2021.