IS YOUR CUSTOM HOME ACTUALLY CUSTOM?

Since our childhood days, most of us have been dreaming about owning a house of our own. A home that fits our imagination and has whatever features we want. But with the arrival of adulthood, we realized that what we have been dying to accomplish is what everybody refers to as - custom home. 

However, that is quite a vague definition of a custom home. So, let's have a better look at what custom homes mean?

A custom or customized home is typically referred to as a specially designed home and built according to the owner's needs and wants. While building a customized home, the owner or client chooses the plot, the interiors, and the type of architecture to be used. Include every detail that is to be in the house.  

Though this is what customized home refers to, more than often, there have been instances when the owner(s) lives happily, thinking that they own a custom home while, in reality, that's not the case! 

To prevent such instances, today, in this article, we are going to have a brief look at the salient features of custom homes such that the readers can make sure whether their custom homes are customized or not? If you're still weaving their dreams, this article will act as a knowledge bank for their futures! 

According to custom home builders, whose expertise lies in the field, anyone can proudly call their home a customized one if it has the following attributes 

》LAND or PLOT

Usually, with a custom home build, the owner provides the plot. However, it often happens that the builder who is appointed to build the house offers the property. In such cases, the home no longer remains a custom home. It is then known as a speculative home or spec home. 

》FLOOR PLAN

Unlike in production homes, where the builder has a set of standard floor plans for all the houses he builds in a particular locality, custom homes can have any floor plan! The owner has the complete freedom to choose his/her preferred method or set to work with the designers for drawing a unique floor plan for them!

》EXPENSE

The first word that we relate to custom homes is expensive. Even though it's right in most cases, it is not necessarily true in every case. When we build a customized home, we include the things we need and not what the builder wants us to buy. So, custom homes mean something that can be both cheap and expensive, depending on what we need. 

》WHO CAN WE EMPLOY TO WORK ON OUR HOUSE(S)?

When they build a track home, a fixed group of architects and builders, and planners belonging to one or more firm work on the construction process, but in the case of custom homes, that is unnecessary. The owner is free to employ any architect, designer, builder, laborer he wants. They are even free to hire one or more architects and designers to plan and design their dream home.

》PLANNING YOUR HOUSE  

Even though the builder has to involve the owner in production houses while designing the house, if they buy the house before completed, custom home builders set the notch a level higher than them. If you are an under construction custom homeowner, you will have the role to decide every function that takes place during the construction process. Every minute detail will have a touch of yours in it. 

》CHOOSING THE PRODUCTS THAT ARE TO BE USED 

Building a house is not easy. There are hundreds of products used when someone constructs a house from scratch. Everything has to be decided from the type cement to your windows' curtains from the beginning. However, usually, the owner has to choose from a fixed group of choices. But, when building a custom home, they get to select any product from any range, and they get the option to stick to their budget!  

So, readers, if your house has the following attributes, your home is a customized one!