Cape Coral Home Builder Blog

To Hallway or Not to Hallway

When designing your new custom home, you will want to consider where and how and whether to include hallways as connecting spaces between rooms. Generally, there are two options for a hallway: to embrace it or to forego it. Many homes with open floorplans try to reduc...

Bathtub versus Shower Stall

Whether or not you want to put a bathtub or shower stall in your bathroom will basically boil down to a personal preference. Some people prefer the ease and simplicity of a shower stall, while others enjoy the romantic atmosphere of a hot bath. However, there are othe...

Designing the Laundry Room?

Small, purely functional spaces in the home such as laundry rooms rarely get any extensive design treatment. However, even utilitarian spaces can benefit from careful consideration of how the space is laid out and planned in the design stage of a new custom home constructio...

Designing the Patio

Another very important aspect of your new custom home that you will want to think about when you put together the design is the patio. Patios can be seen as extensions of the indoor space of the home, a kind of threshold between inside and outside, where people can socializ...

Florida Home Design

Florida is unique among the 50 states of the United States, with its tropical climate and landscape, and because of this, when people build their homes in Florida, they often want to capture some of that uniqueness, to incorporate ideas and plans into their home design that are u...

Pool Design Features

The elaborate designs of resort and hotel pools have had a large impact on the design of residential pools, which have become more and more elaborate and exotic over the years. If you decide to include an in-ground pool as part of the construction of your new custom home, h...

Designing Your Driveway

Your driveway can be much more than where you park your car, but it’s very important that you consider how it works just as much, if not more, than how it looks. However, you can still create a pleasing driveway while still making sure it provides its main function of...

Home Design for Disability Access

There are many standards in home construction that people usually take for granted and don’t think about. Unfortunately, some of those standards, like the height of light switches, can make it difficult for a person with a disability to move comfortably through a hous...

Types of Lighting

Modern technology has made the options for the types of lighting sources in your new custom home immense. There are so many different ways to illuminate your home that the inventors of the light bulb never imagined more than a century ago. Each style of illumination p...

Unusual Rooms for a Custom Home

Most home designs include the standard rooms we’re all familiar with: family room, bedrooms, kitchen, maybe a study. And most home designs are built up out of these standard rooms. A home will have two, three, or four bedrooms and a family room, or some combinat...