The time has come, and you are ready to make your dream home a reality! The question is, how do you make all those dream images of what the perfect home for you looks like come to life? It can become overwhelming and often clients need help distinguishing between floor plans that meet all their needs and wants.
Often times in the flooring world, we interchangeably refer to ceramic and porcelain as TILE. They are both in the tile family, come in many shapes and sizes and both offer great choices. However, there are a few major differences and it is important to understand those differences before making your purchase. Continue reading ..
We get a lot of inquiries from clients about building custom homes. Many factors come into play when determining a price for a custom floor plan, but some of the main ones are outlined below.
Soft costs are the costs associated with the specific lot location. They include things like fill, clearing permit and impact fees. Different lots have different fill dirt costs which are determined by the finished floor elevation requirements vs the current lot elevation. Also any clearing required will also add to the costs as well. Keep in mind the removal of trees will require additional dirt to be brought in to fill in the holes left by removal of the stumps. The tree debris will also need to be hauled away as well. Permit costs and impact fees are determined by the local governing municipality and have a direct relationship to the house size and the “impact” it will have on the neighborhood.
We perform a lot inspection in order to better assess the costs associated with your lot.
The floor plan layout and engineering design have a direct effect on the costs associated to construct. The more complex the floor plan is, the more it will cost to construct. More complex plans require additional engineering and additional engineering usually requires a more highly skilled subcontractor to execute. Plan engineering will determine a lot of things, including the number of concrete pour cells and size of structural beams required to span across different openings. Concrete costs typically makes up 15-20% of any housing budget and therefore has a major impact on build cost. The number of courses of concrete required for your stem wall foundation or the height of your tie beam are major contributors to concrete costs.
We use our 65 years of combined construction experience to value engineer your custom plans to ensure you get a quality product without breaking the budget.
Finishes have to do with flooring and cabinets selections as well as electrical and plumbing fixtures. As you can imagine there are an array of different options and all of which have major differences in costs. Flooring costs have the greatest swing in prices with Carpet being the most affordable and the cost of popular plank tiles being a lot more. Cabinets costs vary based on the composition of the cabinet boxes, the door styles and the cabinet options. Plumbing and light fixtures also have big swings, designer fixtures always garner a premium.
We like to have our clients either pick from one of our pre-selected finish options or sit with one of our designers to pick all their custom finishes prior to finalizing their custom home budget.
Once we have a complete understanding of the above information we can accurately price out a set of plans within a week or so. The final timeline has a lot to do with how quickly we can get your selections figured out. If you have a custom home plan you need priced out or are interested in having a set of plans created, please reach out to us and we will help you to understand the next steps.
As you can imagine, there are many moving parts that are coordinated when constructing a home. We don’t expect you to be construction experts, however we do like to inform you as to what to expect over the initial weeks and latter months. There are 5 main steps that have to be completed in order to deliver a new construction home, all of which are all outlined below. Each of the steps contain an overview of all the sub processes that make them up.
At Sposen Signature Homes, we want you to feel like part of our family! We have created an amazing team of professionals that we think you’re going to love. Many of our clients have to opportunity to meet our General Contractor, Thomas Kimble, and ask him any new construction homebuilding questions they might still have. While many of our clients know “Tom”, we wanted to focus on a side of him that they may not have an opportunity to see right away! Continue reading ..
On Jan. 22 to 24, Jan. 29 to 31, and Feb. 5 to 7, Sposen Signature Homes will be highlighted as part of the Cape Coral Construction Industry Association (CCCIA) Builder’s Showcase. This three-weekend event is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and from noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Continue reading ..
With the month of November just underway, everyone at Sposen Signature Homes has been focused on Veterans Day. The Nov. 11 holiday celebrates “Armistice Day”, or the end of World War I. In fact, it wasn’t until 1954 that Armistice Day was renamed “Veterans Day” and the holiday became a day to recognize veterans of all wars, not just World War I (and that’s your history lesson for the day).
