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What is a Custom Home Builder?

What is a Custom Home Builder?

A custom home builder is a design build firm who is involved in a home’s entire design-and-construction process, all the way from the earliest planning stages to the finishing touches, clean-up, and post-construction work. There is a high degree of interaction when working with custom home builders, as clients are allowed to provide their input, feedback, and suggestions throughout every stage of the project to ensure their custom home is truly personalized to their liking.

Exterior shot of a large, custom-built home in the Osterville areaSave

Read on to learn more about the unique benefits of working with custom home builders.

The Benefits of Working With Custom Home Builders

There are several unique benefits to working with custom home builders that are worth pointing out. For example:

YOU’LL ALWAYS GET UNMATCHED QUALITY

Nobody wants to buy a home that starts falling apart a few months after you move in. And if you try to cut corners, that’s likely to happen. Fortunately, whenever you work with custom home builders like Sleeping Dog Properties, unmatched quality is more than a concept – it’s a guarantee.

That’s because custom home builders have pre-established relationships with industry-leading partners, meaning they’re able to work with a diverse team of the best architects, designers, and other subcontractors.

In addition, your builders manage the administrative aspects of construction – which takes a huge burden off of your shoulders.

YOU’LL AVOID POTENTIAL MESSY LEGAL COMPLICATIONS

Working with a custom home builder will also help you avoid possible legal complications that might pop up when building a new home.

Having a professional team on your side – one with extensive knowledge of both national and regional laws – will be yet another weight off your shoulder, whether in regards to following all the local building codes and obtaining the proper permits or any number of other considerations.

YOU’LL ALWAYS FIND THE RIGHT MATERIALS FOR THE JOB

Because your client-centered, custom-home building team will be with you from the very beginning to go over ideas and agree on specifications, they’re well-positioned to obtain all the necessary materials to bring those ideas to life.

Plus, when you consider the fact that thousands of materials go into any given luxury home build, there needs to be someone responsible for vetting, accounting for, managing, and ordering all those materials beforehand. In this case, it would be the project manager (and your point-of-contact) from the custom home-building firm.

Also, keep in mind that the more you can specify what you want the better your custom construction partner will be able to find and prioritize the best materials. At the same time, many other materials might be suggested by that very same team that you might not have considered otherwise. Unlike other construction models, it truly is a partnership, and the benefit goes directly to you.

YOU’LL HAVE A KNOWLEDGEABLE GUIDE BY YOUR SIDE

Every custom home-building partnership starts differently.

Sometimes, clients will come to the construction firm with a nearly full design laid out that details potential floor plans, interior decorating ideas, and so on. Other times, they might come in with just an idea for what they want, and the firm will help them from there. Sometimes, customers even come in with dozens of Pinterest boards just to show off the general ideas or aesthetics they’re going for!

That’s the inherent beauty of having a partnership with a custom home builder: no matter how you visualize your dream home, you’ll always have a guide with the knowledge, contacts, and resources to ultimately bring it to life.

Want to Build the Custom House You’ve Always Dreamt Of?

At Sleeping Dog Properties, we have 25+ years’ worth of experience partnering with New England-based homeowners, interior designers, architects, and countless others. In this time, we’ve brought hundreds of New Englanders’ dream houses to stunning reality.

Sleeping Dog Team at Construction Site

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