Coastal Home Plans - Archives
- Online Home Sales – A New Way to View Homes for Sale
As we move into the 21st century, more and more people are relying on computers and the internet to help them with making decisions on all sorts of purchases. One of these areas is online home sales . Consumers have been able to gain access to the MLS-Multiple Listing System to view many homes that are for sale and review the pictures as well as specifications regarding these home to help them narrow down their search for a home. Consumers can enter search criteria that outlines what they would like to see in a house and launch the internet sales search to find out what homes are for sale in the area that they would like to live in.
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 13/05/2005
- System Built Homes - Mass Produced Homes Reduce Costs
System built homes offer prospective home owners a different option when it comes to having a home built on a new lot. Home buyers have a choice between purchasing a home that is custom built, which takes awhile, or buying a system home. System homes are constructed on site in a standard format taking advantage of standard materials that are pre-cut at the factory or even the lumber yard. Custom homes must be designed individually and all materials must be custom ordered to fit the design of the home or house.
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 19/05/2005
- Beach House Plans – Choose Wisely
Constructing a beach house from beach house plans is much the same as constructing a home to live in with a few more issues that beach owners need to consider. You have all the same design, approvals, and construction issues that many custom homeowners find when they build a home. Getting the design for the home right, asking for approvals from city authorities to approve the house plans and managing the many contractors that will be involved in the building of your home. Your beachside home will have all of these and a few more to deal with.
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 28/05/2005
- Online Home Auctions – A New Internet Solution
Now prospective owners can purchase a home through online home auctions that are run over the Internet by companies and web sites, such as eBay. There has always been a lot of stress for both the seller and the buyer when they have been involved in selling or buying a home. Just getting the home ready for sale, cleaning it up and never knowing when someone is going to pop in for a showing of the house. Then there is the offer that the seller receives and they wonder if they should accept it, will another come a long to replace it, which is higher, or should they accept this offer now? Buyers have the same problem in reverse. Did they offer too much and could they have purchased the house for less?
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 07/08/2005
- Contemporary Home Designs – Traditional Elegance
Many consumers are looking for contemporary home designs when they are planning to build a custom modern home. Contemporary homes are easiest to sell when it comes time to move and many of these homes are placed on lots that are sufficiently large enough to show off the design of the home in a natural state, without being crowded by other homes in the area. Placed on a large lot with an appropriate amount of landscaping, a contemporary home is beautiful to look at as well as live in. The design of contemporary home must take into account the indoor designs, the outdoor design and the setting it will be placed in to truly hi-light the beauty of these homes.
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 02/10/2005
- International Residential Code – Adoption
Many communities are considering the adoption of an international residential code or IRC, that spells out the international standards for residential building worldwide, fuel gas, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and energy conservation codes in family homes. Adoption of the international house code would give builders a common standard to follow that can be applied everywhere. Both large home builders as well as small home builders will benefit if more and more communities adopt these standards for residential codes.
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 26/02/2006
- Green Building Designs – Save Energy & Dollars
Since the energy crisis in the middle 70’s, green building designs have taken on more importance for consumers and businesses to conserve energy and reduce the costs of the utilities that they consume as well as the environment impact they cause. Consumers are primarily concerned about their wallet, and any time you can save energy means more money in their wallet. Design plans for new homes since the beginning of the 80’s has focused on this mantra, while at the same time having the added benefit of providing environmental savings as well. Many people do not realize that the money to clean up environmental spills and other environment damage comes straight out of the taxes they pay, so any improvements in energy savings also translate to environmental savings as well.
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 08/03/2006
- Concrete Building Solutions – Innovative Alternatives
There are a number of concrete building solutions available to builders who want to build homes using concrete instead of the traditional stick or lumber constructed homes. The solutions available to builders have various advantages. There are modular concrete systems, which involve forming, and setting at the factory, then the concrete is transported by truck to the job site and lifted in place by a crane. ICF or insulating concrete forms are similar however they are poured on site and use insulating material to provide the form for the cement as it is being poured. These cement forms stay in place after the concrete building solution has set and provide insulation for the walls.
Author: S. Thaver - Date: 15/03/2006
- Beach House Plan – Birmingham-Based Architectural Designs
Coastal Living Magazine’s March/April edition features beach house plans designed by the Birmingham-based architectural firm of Dungan Nequette. The towering three-level, 1,450 square foot design called Heron’s Nest is ideal for small coastal sites with a footprint of 22’ by 22’ -- answering the challenges often posed by width and depth limitations of view-oriented lots.
Author: M. Harris - Date: 02/09/2003
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