5 Steps To Design An Unforgettable Dining Room [2024]
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

5 Steps To Design An Unforgettable Dining Room [2024]

Many families and busy professionals don’t have the time to sit down for a formal meal every night. That’s why kitchen islands with bar-seating and other casual seating arrangements have become popular but believe it or not, dedicated dining rooms are still in demand with custom home builders. 

Your dining room can become the eye-candy of your home with the right design. Read to the end to find out how you can wow guests with an impeccably designed dining room.

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7 Luxury Features to Consider When Designing Your Dream Custom Home
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

7 Luxury Features to Consider When Designing Your Dream Custom Home

If you are in the process of designing your dream custom home, it’s a wonderful idea to have a list of must-have needs and a list of items that you wish to include if your budget allows. We also encourage home builders to choose a few items that will lend to the home’s resale value and appeal. 

Before you finalize your customized home design plans, look at these 7 luxury features and consider adding them to one of your lists! These luxury upgrades will make you feel incredible about your forever home design and contribute to your home’s value. 

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10 Unique Front Porch Ideas To Consider- Designing Your Custom Home
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

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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Design A Home Office That’s Worth Working From Home [5 Tips]
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Design A Home Office That’s Worth Working From Home [5 Tips]

Designing custom home floor plans with a designated home office rose in popularity in 2020 and the trend is here to stay. Home offices have always been a popular room with larger homes, but having an impressive home office now adds even more to your home’s resale value. 


So what makes an incredible home office that will stand out to guests and homebuyers? Please read to the end to find out our 5 best tips for designing a home office that will make you want to work remotely. 

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Your Guide to Biophilic Design Principles and How To Incorporate Them Into Your Customized Home [2024]
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Your Guide to Biophilic Design Principles and How To Incorporate Them Into Your Customized Home [2024]

Since Americans spend the bulk of their time indoors, there is an increased demand for home designs that incorporate biophilic design. Biophilic design is centered around 14 biophilic patterns that when combined and used in home design, help occupants feel healthier, happier, and less stressed. 


Read on to find out about the patterns of biophilic design and 5 ways your home designer can include them in your custom home floor plan so you’ll feel great in your new construction home. 

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5 Design Considerations for Custom Kitchen in 2024
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

5 Design Considerations for Custom Kitchen in 2024

One of the main allures to building a custom new construction home is being able to design a kitchen that suits your unique personality and preferences. Maybe you live in a house with a hardly functional kitchen and are ready to start fresh with a kitchen built just for you. Or perhaps you are a foodie who loves to cook for your loved ones. 

Whatever your reason for choosing to design a custom kitchen, the professionals at Creative Home Designs have you covered with 5 design considerations you won’t want to miss when creating the customized kitchen of your dreams. 

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5 Bathroom Trends That We Love in 2024
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

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. 

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3-Bedroom Custom Home Plans You Will Love
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

3-Bedroom Custom Home Plans You Will Love



If you are looking for the perfect floor plan for your family of four, look no further than these incredible 3-bedroom home designs from the experts at Creative Home Designs.

Three-bedroom homes are the perfect size for a small family or even for a couple. Your family can either grow into your 3-bedroom home, keep the extra bedrooms as guest rooms, or convert a bed into a home office or gym.

There are so many design options when it comes to three-bedroom homes in Oklahoma. Here are 5 of our favorite 3-bedroom home designs.

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5 Ways To Customize and Remodel Your Home To Boost Curb Appeal
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

5 Ways To Customize and Remodel Your Home To Boost Curb Appeal

If your home looks underwhelming from the curb, it might be time to consider a custom home remodel. Whether you are revamping to boost curb appeal, remodeling to add to the resale value of your home, or simply remodeling so you can love your house even more, the front porch and curb appeal are some of the best places to invest and customize. 

Read to the end to discover 5 ways you can customize and remodel to boost curbside appeal. 

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Custom Home Designs: Timeless Exteriors
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

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.

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Intentional Home Design: How to Analyze the Flow of a Floor Plan
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Intentional Home Design: How to Analyze the Flow of a Floor Plan

The way a home flows is just as important as the quality of the materials used to build it or even how beautiful it looks. Circulation in a home is one thing that the professionals at Creative Home Designs study and this science of foot traffic informs our home designs when we are creating the perfect custom floor plan.

Read to the end to learn all about some of the things we consider regarding the flow of a floor plan when designing the perfect custom home!

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Custom Home Designs:  Which Home Design Style Is Right For Your Development?
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Custom Home Designs:  Which Home Design Style Is Right For Your Development?

Whether you are trying to decide which custom home design style to build on your plot or you are researching which home design style best characterizes a neighborhood so you can plan and build a medium-density or multi-family development, you’ve come to the right place to learn more about home design styles. 


So which home design style is right for you? Read to the end to learn all about the six most popular home design styles in Oklahoma City. 

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Building Universally Designed Homes with Multi-Sensory Experiences
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Building Universally Designed Homes with Multi-Sensory Experiences

Universal design principles in custom home building and home design prioritize inclusivity, accessibility, comfort, and quality of life for individuals of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds. 

By integrating multi-sensory experiences into indoor and outdoor living spaces, home designers and builders can create environments that promote well-being, engagement, and connection with nature. 

Read to the end of this blog to learn how adding multi-sensory experiences to your custom-built home lends to creating a universally designed home and how that can benefit you and your loved ones.

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5 Tips For Intentional Design in Your Custom Home
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

5 Tips For Intentional Design in Your Custom Home

Intentional design in custom home building is a popular request with home buyers today. Home buyers look to build homes that fit their specific needs, are thoughtful, and highly livable. 

If you want to build a dreamy custom home that caters to your exact needs, read to the end for 5 of our best tips.

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The Top 5 Custom Home Building Trends for 2024
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

The Top 5 Custom Home Building Trends for 2024

Are you considering building a custom home in Oklahoma but want to make sure that your new construction home will be on the cutting edge of home design and home building trends?

We want you to make sure that the home you build will be the one you love forever. That’s why we stay hip to home building trends month after month.

Here is what’s hot and new for 2024.

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4 Benefits of Choosing A Wet Bathroom for Your New Construction Custom Home [2024]
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

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. 

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5 Custom Kitchen Design Trends for 2024
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

5 Custom Kitchen Design Trends for 2024

It’s 2024 and time for a change in custom kitchens and custom home design! All-white kitchens are falling from favor in 2024 and we are seeing matte black fixtures begin to take a back seat as well. 

Read to the end to hear about 8 more cutting-edge kitchen design trends to look out for in 2024. 

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How to Design a Home That Will Grow With Your Family
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

How to Design a Home That Will Grow With Your Family

Families these days are cautious about starting a family and want to make sure that they are ready before they bring children into the mix. Children are costly to raise and there are many factors that go into planning for a baby. Many of those factors are financial; that includes having a suitable home that the child will be able to thrive and grow in.

If you are ready to buy a home, but aren’t quite sure about raising children or simply aren’t ready to have or adopt a child, you can still design a custom home that will suit your current lifestyle with the capability of growing with your family, should you choose to reproduce or adopt later on. Your custom home should be an investment for life. Having a bit of vision when designing your dream home can save you several thousands dollars down the line.  

Here are 5 brilliant tips for designing a home that can grow with your family.

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5 Upgrades That Add Immediate Value to Your New Construction Home
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

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. 

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5 Holiday Entertaining Must-Haves for Your Custom Home
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

5 Holiday Entertaining Must-Haves for Your Custom Home

Welcome to our most festive Custom Home Building Blog yet! We are feeling the holiday season this year, so we wanted to share 5 custom home features that you’ll love having in your new construction home, especially when hosting for the holidays. 


Oklahoma homeowners love any excuse to host and show off their custom homes. Here are 5 design features to consider when building your customized home that are sure to impress your guests and make for functional entertaining. 

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