What special design feature makes a dream home?

If you could have one special thing in your new custom home, what would it be?

We have awesome opportunities to help people create their dream homes. The first meeting we have with custom home clients is an interview where we talk about everything that they want in a home to achieve the life they want to live in a particular place. This process is how we design dream homes. 

I have talked in the past about the difference between a new home and a custom home. Our custom home design process allows us to walk with our clients through their Wishlist to find the special strategies that make their home just right. It is a process where we get to know our clients and use empathy as a design tool. This emotional investment into each project takes energy, time, listening, and experience to get it just right. It is the why in why we do custom home design. 

Over the years we have had some really special, unique things in the dream homes we have designed, like the ones featured below – and more. Check out the special features below to inspire your own dream design features of your custom home.

What are your dream home amenities?

Indoor basketball court

indoor basketball court

Indoor Pool

Open kitchen

Open riser stair

Glass walls

living room couch. a wall of windows behind overlooking the mountains.

Interior brick walls

floating wooden staircase hill top house

Two story porch

Spa-like bathrooms

sitting area in the bathroom by the vanity

Wrap around decks

Exterior side.

Double islands

Car guy garages

garage, car shop

Sunrooms

living room with two chairs and a sofa looking out to the views through large windows on three sides.

At home gym

Golf simulator

Indoor Golf Simulator.

No step shower

bathtub and roll-in glass shower hill top house

Solar PV

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