You can easily buy a production home but a custom built home will require you to be more involved in the construction process. The latter is a major project that will require a lot of your time, effort, and money.

A custom built home needs to be planned in advance and of course requires active involvement on your end. It involves several actions or steps that will require your decisions and participation from looking for your dream lot to designing, defining, as well as building your dream custom home. You don’t need all these when you purchase a production home.

A custom built home Myrtle Beach is planned, selected and designed ahead of time. That’s why a custom home takes longer to complete than a production home.

Steps Involved In Constructing and Custom Built Home

Fashion Your Dream Custom Home

Before the construction starts, you need to have ideas of what your perfect home looks like. Find and collect pictures and tear sheets from magazines. Visit complete custom homes and talk to an interior designer. Start to outline your preferences regarding the room function, architectural design, style elements, lifestyle requirements, as well as product features.

Hire A Team

The next thing to do is assemble your team of experts. Hire an architect first and then custom home builders Myrtle Beach. Ask for recommendations including lenders, local realtors, building associations, as well as friends who may have had a new custom built home.

Get References

Ask potential builders for the names of suppliers, lenders, clients, and subcontractors. Ask if they were satisfied and if the custom home project was effectively managed. Find out if the custom home builder pays the suppliers and subcontractors on time. Check the quality of the custom built homes and ask for sample warranties, construction schedules, and contracts.

Find Your Dream Lot

The next thing you have to do is look for the perfect land for your home and buy it. There are experts who can help you find potential locations based on their suitability for construction, potential views, as well as the available utilities in the area.

Help Design Your Custom Home

Take to your architect and help in designing your custom home. You have to discuss the cost/benefit of different options, create a budget, and finalize the custom home design and floor plan, features, as well as the elements that should be included.

Monitor The Construction

Apart from the decisions, you have to make when coming up with your home design, you have to make other selections during the custom home building process. On a regular 12-month building schedule for building a custom home, you have to make design decisions, color and product selections would be required in a minimum of nine to twelve months.

Call Dawol Homes now if you’re looking for a reliable and experienced custom home builder to bring your dream home to reality.

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Dawol Homes
9404 Hwy 17 Bypass,
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
(843) 294-2859

Dawol Homes Sales Office
3100 Dick Pond Rd # E
Myrtle Beach, SC 29588
843-294-2859

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