Home building tips

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Build your walls straight, sturdy and plumb with these great tips.

As you know there are many things to consider when building a house… here is a compilation of lots of little things you may want to do or at least consider when going through the planning or …

5 tips for placing electrical outlets, switches, & lighting in your new home.

When working with a custom homebuilder, you have a chance to create the house of your dreams. There are so many major details you’ve probably already thought of – your ideal kitchen cabinets, the layout of your master bathroom – but what about the finer details? Take a look at this updated ULTIMATE list of must haves when building a custom home.

My idea notebook - see how I put together this 3-ring binder filled with My Dream Home designs, decor, and building info.

Today I am sharing tons of must haves in a custom home. If you are building or remodeling hopefully this list will give you some helpful ideas.

It’s been a year since we moved into our new home and we love it! It may still be mostly empty and in need of some serious decoration, but I’m hoping to get to that more this year. It took us a year full of agonizing over decisions and determining what we wanted, needed, and...Read the Post

5 things your general contractor won’t tell you

The 10 most important things I learned building a house (Sunny Side Up)