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From Coastal to Classic: Front Door Designs That Will Make Your Custom Home Unique

First impressions count, many of us know if we’re attracted to someone in the first 90 seconds of a meeting.

It’s a similar story in other aspects of life. We’re fickled creatures, often quick to make judgements about what we see and take appropriate action as a result. Think of the front door designs of a house like the expression on your face. It gives a lot away.

Make a statement as we look at the vast array of custom front door designs that can help your home stand out from the crowd.

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.

6 Custom Staircase Designs You’ll Love!

When thinking about designing and building a custom home with a multi-award-winning builder like Oceanview Constructions, your mind may spend more time dreaming up the perfect outdoor spaces, balconies, to-die-for kitchens with all the mod-cons and dreamy master bedrooms. But if you’re building up, what about your staircase?

Your Redlands custom coastal home will probably want to utilise second or third-story height to maximise the potential of a bay view. Double or triple story dwellings will need staircases, but you do not need to build them purely to meet their function. In a custom home, you can create one-of-a-kind feature staircases that really take you to another level (literally).

Here are 6 staircase ideas that you can include in your custom coastal home design!

Knockdown rebuilds are the best of both worlds!

A home built with you in mind, with your style, taste, and needs, sounds like anyone’s dream home. There are absolutely no compromises and certainly no renovating to add or remove existing features you don’t like. But, we bet if you close your eyes and picture your perfect home right now, you will already be imagining the look, the view, and oh, the space!
For those looking for their dream home, the option to buy an established home, find a lot of land, or renovate their existing home can be a paralysing choice. Read More

What is coastal home design, and why do I need it?

When you hear the words coastal home, what do you imagine? Well, you wouldn’t be wrong if you imagined a house by the water, perhaps adorned with nautical-themed decorations like anchors, old rope, and seashells, oh, and don’t forget the piece of driftwood hanging from the staircase or attached to the wall! But what is coastal design, and how can a Bayside custom home builder like Oceanview Constructions help you create the perfect custom coastal home?

5 Things To Consider For Your Custom Home

If you’ve decided to custom build your home over purchasing existing real estate, it will have been a decision you put an incredible amount of thought into. A custom home is an exciting prospect, full of endless possibilities and opportunities.
However, there are many factors to consider when designing and building a custom home in the Bayside. Working with an award-winning Redlands custom home builder like Oceanview Constructions will simplify and streamline the process. We have been developing and building custom homes in the Redlands area for 20 years, and in that time, we have brought all types of custom home designs to life for our customers which is why we have created these six custom home building tips!

Inbuilt storage ideas that are a MUST have in any custom-built home.

There are so many stylish and functional ways you can create additional storage in your custom-built home that suits your individual taste and style.
Whether you have hundreds of books you want to display, or an abundance of children’s toys you want to be able to tidy away quickly, custom designed storage solutions for your home is something Brisbane’s Bayside Builders, Oceanview Constructions, can help you design and make a reality. Here are some amazing in-built storage ideas to inspire you.

Under the stairs pull out drawers
Rather than losing all that space under your staircase, why not use this hidden storage area to its full potential? Either as a walk-in cupboard that houses your vacuum and mop or pull-out drawers for your shoes and slippers, this is a wonderful use of free space.