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Don’t Just Buy an Existing Home: Take the American Dream to the Next Level Via Customization!

Don't Just Buy an Existing Home: Take the American Dream to the Next Level Via Customization!

The American dream has long included the image of a person, or married couple, owning their own home. There is no rent to be paid to a greedy and pesky landlord beating down your door if the money owed is a day late. You’re free to have all the pets you can afford to feed without pet limitations set by the owner or landlord.

The options for what you can do with your own home and land are endless. You can landscape it and cultivate a vegetable garden. You can grow a homegrown garden ripe with bountiful fruits and vegetables that you can enjoy fresh in the peak summer months and then can in airtight jars for the months when the harvest wanes. You can have your white picket fence or even no fence at all. You can have your driveway or just allow for a simple dirt or gravel one such as those that are popular in most American rural communities. It’s not just your yard or land you can customize to your liking and personal preference. Why not take the American dream to a whole new level and have your home custom built just the way you and your family want it?

Tiny Homes

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Tiny homes or tiny houses are becoming more and more popular with single men and single women as well as with couples without children or couples who are experiencing empty nest syndrome as their children are off at university or long since settled in their own lives with families of their own. As the name implies, this house are tiny! They offer room for the bare necessities with no room for luxury creature comforts like wine cellars or sun rooms. Tiny houses provide basic shelter and the owner can get creative with the tiny house. You want a bigger kitchen and a smaller bedroom? It can be done! You don’t cook? You want a more spacious bedroom? You don’t even have to have a kitchen. It’s all up to you.

Tiny homes, due to their small square footage, are extremely easy to heat in the cooler Fall and Winter months. They are cheap to cool in the warmer months of Spring and Summer. You are just paying to heat and cool the space you are actually using as opposed to heating and cooling rooms you do not even step foot into on a given day. You can apply solar panels and reduce your bill even further. The green energy produced make secure a nice tax break for your efforts.

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Custom Built Homes

If small homes aren’t your thing, you can go big with a custom made home. You can add in that spiral staircase that looks like a photo image out of House Beautiful. You can make all your friends and extended family jealous with that modern hotel quality jacuzzi and sauna room. You can even install a kitchen worthy of a chef from Food Network.

You can pick the style of the home. If you like more traditional homes, you can choose that build. If you like a more modern looking home, you can engineer your home to be built according to that type of plan. The options are literally endless when you decide to have your home custom built according to your personal style.

Mobile Homes

Would you like a home that is both comfortably stable yet easy to move with the time comes to move on to a new parcel of land? You might consider having your home built in a mobile fashion. If it is built to be moved, it will be much more feasible to expect it to be mobile when the time actually comes to move it in the future.

Summary

It’s time to tailor the American dream of owning your own home exactly to your liking by choosing a custom built home.

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