When You Design Your Own Home You Can Include Anything You Want

For most people, the purchase of a home is the biggest investment of their lives, so it follows that there are many things to take into consideration. There can be myriad different reasons for moving home, and you will always have a list of things that you’d like your new home to have, where you would like it to be in relation to perhaps a park or shops, and so on.

However, when you buy an existing home, you can be fairly sure that it won’t have, or be, everything that you wish, so there will always be some things that you will have to forgo.

This is why many people today are choosing to build their own home, for the simple reason that it can have everything that you want. You can choose your own site, find an architect, and tell him or her what you want included, and what you don’t. Then all you need is a builder.

Of course, you don’t want just any builder. You want the very best home builders to produce your perfect complete home in just the way that you envisioned it. 

Your Dream Home

At Wood Design and Carpentry, we can produce your dream home for you. (Our name can sometimes seem misleading because we don’t just provide wood design and carpentry, although that’s where we started over 20 years ago). We now do everything that you could possibly need for your new home, from digging the foundations to landscaping the garden when the home is finished.

One advantage of building your own home is that you can choose to incorporate a design that meets the latest energy codes and standards for heating, ventilation, and cooling, with perfect insulation. Renewables are a hot topic right now with utility costs going up. Power walls or Ground source are very much in demand. We are fitting these to our projects right now.

Obviously, all this will make your home much less expensive to run than one that was built in the 1960’s or before. Not only that, but as long as you have the best home builders, you won’t need anything much in the way of maintenance and repairs, which will also save you money down the line.

On top of that, when you have us craft your dream news home you also have an IGB (Insurance Backed Guarantee), for certain elements of the build as well as a 10 year structural warranty, so in the unlikely event that something goes wrong, rectification is part of the initial agreement.