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]
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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5 Laundry Room Must-Haves [2024]
When we sit down with seasoned home buyers to remodel their homes or design customized homes, we like to find out what things they wish they had in their previous abodes. Over and over we hear the same thing, most home buyers wish they had purchased or designed a home with a dedicated laundry room.
Read to the end of this blog to learn why a dedicated laundry room is a must-have for your customized home. We will also fill you in on four more laundry room must-haves, plus a bonus tip!
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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 Brand New Kitchen Trends You Haven’t Seen in 2024
Customized kitchens in 2024 are bringing home buyers more options than ever regarding function, form, and personal taste. Take a look at these five new construction kitchen trends that we love for this year.
Whether you are designing your new kitchen to appeal to your minimalist taste or exploring biophilic design in room of your customized home, you won’t want to overlook these 5 hot kitchen trends.
Custom Home Building: Planning Your Outdoor Living Spaces
Modern Homeowners are looking to maximize the potential of their backyards. This means thoughtfully designing outdoor living spaces. Homeowners who spend lots of time in their backyard do so because the design lends itself to outdoor entertainment and relaxation.
So how can your home designer help you transform an otherwise blank slate into a garden oasis or zen spa-like backyard retreat? Read to the end to find out.
5 Tips for Remodeling To Build a Master Bedroom Suite Addition
If you are tired of your standard-sized, poorly-lit bedroom and want to upgrade to a luxe master suite, a home designer can help you plan your home remodel. If your home designer determines there is no space for such an upgrade, one option may be to build an addition to your existing home.
When done right, a home addition allows you and your family extra space to live comfortably. Here are 5 tips for remodeling your home to build a master bedroom addition.
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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.
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.
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.
A Detailed Look at Our Denistone Floor Plan and Home Design
Looking for the perfect four bedroom, 3 bathroom home design to build in a gorgeous neighborhood in Oklahoma? Look no further than our Denistone plan. This home has an opulent front elevation that will fit into any treasured neighborhood in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, or Norman. It is intentionally designed so that the home’s flow complements your busy lifestyle. It’s also great for entertaining and includes a study for days spent working from home. This home will grow with your family if you are planning one, or could be the perfect design for individuals looking to confidently retire and age-in-place within their residence.
Read to the end to take a closer look at the exceptional Denistone plan home design.
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.
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.
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.
4 Duplexes For Your Infill Development
With a shortage of land, a need for affordable homes close to city-center, and the undeniable benefits of reducing urban sprawl, many builders are embracing urban infill. Urban infill helps ensure that workers can live close to their jobs. This reduces carbon emissions and pollution. Urban infill also utilizes existing utilities within a neighborhood, brings an economic boost to underdeveloped areas, and creates walkable communities. Urban infill development creates opportunities to live in multi-family homes, condos, or duplex units, instead of the previously prevalent single-family houses.
Ready to build duplexes and be a part of infill development here in Oklahoma City? Here are four great duplex home designs to build on your plot of land.
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!
A Detailed Look at Our Reynolds Floor Plan and Home Design
Last weekend our Reynolds floor plan and home design was featured in the Parade of Homes Oklahoma. We are thankful that we were able to customize this floor plan to meet the specifications of our builder partners South 80 Homes and see this flawless plan come to life before our very eyes!
If you were able to visit this picturesque build during the Parade of Homes, we hope you loved it and will consider our design services and South 80 Home’s building services when it comes time to build your very own dream custom home!
In this blog we’ll tell you why our Reynolds 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 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.
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.
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.