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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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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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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Our 5 Favorite Custom Home Design Plans For Narrow Lots
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Our 5 Favorite Custom Home Design Plans For Narrow Lots

Whether you are building a row home for your family to live in or you are building a home to serve as an investment or rental property, a narrow lot with less square footage requires getting creative. You’ll want to ensure that your home design still has everything that you or your tenant needs and wants as a homeowner or renter in Oklahoma.

With the added constraints of square footage, it can be tricky to come up with a design that’s thought of everything. But don’t worry- we’ve got you covered.

Here are 5 of our favorite home design plans for narrow lots under 2,000 square feet.

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3 Gorgeous Transitional-Style Homes That You’ll Adore
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

3 Gorgeous Transitional-Style Homes That You’ll Adore

Transitional architecture blends the worlds of modern home design with traditional aesthetic. Transitional architecture incorporates traditional elements like deep, rich colors, intricate moldings, and divided-light windows and blends them with modern touches like neutral color pallets, sleek lines, and geometrical facades.

Here are 3 of our favorite Transitional style home designs that we think you’ll adore!

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Home Exterior Design Trends for 2023
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Home Exterior Design Trends for 2023

Spring has sprung and it’s time to talk about what’s new in home design trends for 2023. As is typical in home design trends, some trends will stay, some will go, and some will shift and evolve slowly over time.

Here’s a look at what’s new for 2023 from the experts at Creative Home Designs in Norman, Oklahoma.

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5 Cutting-Edge Custom Home Design Trends (Fall 2022)
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

5 Cutting-Edge Custom Home Design Trends (Fall 2022)

Welcome to the back half of 2022! The custom home design trend is ever-evolving to keep up with client tastes, preferences, and demands. Design trends are rapidly evolving from what was fresh and modern in 2021 to early 2022.

Read on as we reveal what’s new this Autumn in custom home design trends.

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Five Thoughtful Kitchen Customizations for your Custom Built Home
Kimberly Bastian Kimberly Bastian

Five Thoughtful Kitchen Customizations for your Custom Built Home

Our customers love that we can help them design and plan their custom home and the layout of their unique kitchen. Need some inspiration? Here are a few places to start so that when you approach your home designer you’ll already have some idea of what you’d like to create in your beautiful and efficient customized kitchen.

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