10 Unique Front Porch Ideas To Consider- Designing Your Custom Home
When designing your custom home, there’s incredible pressure to get everything right. A great home designer can help alleviate some of that pressure and offer solutions to create the home of your dreams within your budget. When collaborating with your designer to dream up your customized home, it’s a great idea to have a few references in mind. We recommend browsing some of our other custom plans. It’s an excellent idea to spend extra time and care when designing your front porch.
Your front porch will be your home’s first impression when a guest visits, and if you’ve ever hunted for real estate, you know that a front porch can make or break a sale. A thoughtfully designed porch packs a ton of valuable curb appeal and helps your home leave its mark on your new neighborhood.
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5 Upgrades That Add Immediate Value to Your New Construction Home [2024]
If you are in the planning stages of designing your future custom home, you may want to consider adding a few “money pieces” that add immediate value to your new construction home.
Don’t think of these items as “budget killers,” but rather as an immediate investment in your real estate that you’ll be happy you added later. Not only will you enjoy the luxury of these custom home upgrades while you’re living in the home, they’ll also add to the resale value of your home should you choose to move and sell your customized home.
5 Bathroom Trends That We Love in 2024
2024 is the new frontier in the world of home design. With pandemic woes largely behind us, people are venturing out of their homes more and more but still seek ways to make their abodes the ultimate relaxed haven for essential, divine self-care.
Self-care starts in the bathroom with a steamy shower or relaxing bath. While we aren’t seeing Jetson’s-level changes to how we bathe and utilize our bathrooms, technology is beginning to meet us in this room.
Read to the end of this blog to find out where custom bathroom design trends are taking us in 2024.
Custom Home Designs: Timeless Exteriors
When designing and building custom homes, it’s all about decisions. Would you prefer a modern farmhouse design or something more modern? Will you follow the latest design trends or would you like something more timeless?
Bold trim and colors have been trendy in recent years but when those trends are over, will your home still look contemporary, or will following the trends make your home’s aesthetic look dated?
Here are 5 timeless color pallets & two trim and accent pallets that will help your home exterior elevation look timeless no matter what the year.
A Detailed Look at Our Taylorsville Floor Plan and Home Design
This week at Creative Home Designs, we are celebrating our designs that have been featured by the Parade of Homes Oklahoma. We are fortunate enough to be included in this prestigious list alongside our building partners South 80 Homes, and to celebrate, we’d like to share details about our Taylorsville plan.
In this blog we’ll tell you why we think our plan is the right design if you are looking to build a custom home on a narrow lot under 1,600 square feet and still have it all.
A Detailed Look at Our Bartlesville Floor Plan and Home Design
Our Bartlesville Plan is tastefully balanced rustic charm in a wonderfully updated contemporary home design. From the oversized front porch, guests are swept into this 3 to 4-bedroom home design that occupies just over 2000 square feet. This floor plan includes a 3-car garage and 2-½ bathrooms, making it the perfect home for many families in Oklahoma City, Edmond, Tulsa, or Norman.
This home’s floor plan emphasizes natural views and is lush with natural light for the perfect mood boost. You’ll love coming home to this open and airy home.
Read to the end to take a closer look at the exceptional Bartlesville home design.
A Detailed Look at Our Tulsa Home Design and Floor Plan
Our Tulsa Plan is balanced and tasteful home design with modern allure and sophisticated opulence. Sitting at just over 2,200 square feet, this 3 to 4 bedroom, 2-1/2 bathroom contemporary floor plan features plenty of landscaping opportunities and impeccable curb appeal that’s sure to look splendid in any Oklahoma neighborhood.
This home’s floor plan emphasizes natural views and is lush with natural light for the perfect mood boost. You’ll love coming home to this open and airy home.
Read to the end to take a closer look at the exceptional Tulsa home design.
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4 Benefits of Choosing A Wet Bathroom for Your New Construction Custom Home [2024]
Wet room bathrooms are a smart trend that turn a bathroom into a versatile space, can lend to a lux feel, and can also provide space saving options. A wet bathroom is a bathroom fully built with materials designed to get wet. The space typically will include a shower and a free-standing tub.
Wet rooms are great for any homeowner but are especially great choices for those with mobility-constraints or those looking to future-proof their forever home.
Here are 5 brilliant benefits for choosing to install a wet bathroom in your custom home in Oklahoma.
5 Upgrades That Add Immediate Value to Your New Construction Home
Building a new construction home in Oklahoma is an enormous investment. Hopefully it will be your forever home, but just in case you need to resell down the line, it's important to consider upfront upgrades that add immediate home value. Upgrade costs can add up quickly, so it’s important to know which upgrades are worth it and which won’t necessarily increase your long-term home value.
With these 5 new construction upgrades, If you need to sell your home in the future, you’ll get what your home is worth and have a home that potential home buyers won’t be able to pass up.
A Detailed Look at the Brighton Home Design and Floor Plan
Our Brighton Plan is tasteful home design and impeccable lines that will be the envy of the neighborhood. Sitting at just under 2800 square feet, this 4 bedroom, 3-½ bathroom floor plan features plenty of landscaping opportunities for breathtaking curb appeal in any opulent Oklahoma neighborhood.
The home emphasizes outdoor views and is perfect for entertaining from the spacious open-concept living spaces to the large covered patio with lofty ten foot ceilings.
Read to the end to take a closer look at the exceptional Brighton plan home design.
5 Custom Kitchen Trends You Won’t Want to Ignore in 2023
Whether you are ready to remodel your kitchen or you are looking to build your first custom home in Oklahoma, the experts at Creative Home Designs stay on top of the cutting edge trends in home and interior design and are here to help you create the perfect kitchen.
If you want to know what’s hot in kitchen design for your remodel, take a look at these 5 kitchen design trends that you won’t want to overlook.
A Detailed Look at the Silverstone Floor Plan
Make a statement with the sophisticated and trendy Silverstone floor plan. This three bedroom home plan has a fourth bedroom option. This home design also includes 3 bedrooms, a 3-car garage, and sits at just under 3000 square feet.
Read to the end to find out why the Silverstone floor plan is the perfect design for your dream home in Oklahoma.
A Detailed Look at The Oakley Plan
If you are looking to build a custom row home so you can live in the neighborhood of your dreams, look no further than our Oakley plan! This home would make a great investment house or a great starter home for a small family interested in living center-city. Sitting at just under 1,956 square feet, this 2-story floor plan has it all.
Read to the end to find out all of the great features this plan has to offer.
7 Must-Haves When Building A Custom Home in 2023
During the pandemic, housing trends changed how we use our home and what’s important to us when it comes to home design. There’s now a focus on multi-use spaces, home offices, sustainable materials, and outdoor living in home design. Our clients in Oklahoma are continuing to embrace the open-concept floor plan and it’s still king in contemporary home design.
If you want to design a home that keeps up with the times, here are 7 must-haves to include in your custom home design and floor plan.
Project Showcase: 2307 Cheval Pointe Drive
This contemporary home by our designer Nathan Lofties is our featured project of the month! It has stately curbside appeal and pops of natural, sustainable elements like stone and brick. Its bold standing seam awnings and large windows keep this home on-trend with today’s homebuyers.
Spec Homes vs. Custom Homes
If you’re looking to construct a new home, chances are you’ve already taken a look at the real estate available in the area and you’ve already ruled out the possibility of buying an existing home that’s listed on the market. Usually, this means that either you haven’t located the home of your dreams. It could also mean that you simply want to start from scratch to make sure that your home is built well and with quality materials that will last you for decades to come without the need for immediate or unexpected repairs.
When building your dream home, be sure to consider both custom homes and spec homes. Read to the end to learn about these home design choices so you can decide which is best for your new construction home needs.
Aging In Place: 4 Tips for Retiring In a Two-Story Home
Many choose to purchase their retirement home while they are still working. Some opt to use their retirement home for a vacation home until it’s time to retire. Two-story homes are a great option for retirement because they afford plenty of space to accommodate guests, grandchildren, or hobbies.
Is retiring and aging-in-place in a two-story home right for you? Here are 4 tips to make retiring in a two-story home in Oklahoma a no-brainer.
Top 4 Benefits of Living in a Row Home
Some say that high-density housing is the future, and we can see the perks of living in a high-density community like the Wheeler District in Oklahoma City.
These well-designed communities have everything within them to keep residents happy.
Besides the terrific community aspects of the row home lifestyle, here are four more benefits to living in a row or terrace home.
Are Farmhouses Trending in 2023?
If there is one trend that has staying power, it’s the farmhouse home design. These breathtaking home styles incorporate rustic materials, a natural palette, and organic elements, all of which are still popular with today’s homebuyer. Farmhouse homes are dreamy, cozy, and homey and blend beautifully into their natural surroundings.
Here are 5 of our very favorite Farmhouse designs from our plan book of custom home designs.
5 Showstopping Tudor Home Plans That You’ll Love
Tudor homes are characterized by their striking architectural elements: steep, gable roofs, slate, stucco or stone facades, decorative half-timbering, casement windows, and brick chimneys.
We love Tudor home plans because of their romantic, intricate style and because their design allows freedom in how the home’s interior is laid out.
Here are 5 of our favorite custom Tudor home plans.