A custom home is a house that has been designed and built specifically for its current owner. Custom homes can vary dramatically in terms of size, form, and function, depending on the desires of the client and the architect’s/builder’s interpretation of those desires. A custom home may or may not be as unique as a prefabricated home.
Building your own house always seems like a great idea at first: you’ll save money by not paying someone else to do it, you’ll have more design options, and you can build exactly what you want rather than settling for some anonymous package.
Produce an Attractive Finished Product
If you want a home that looks good from the street, a custom builder will produce a more attractive finished product than building it yourself. Most people do not have architectural training and don’t know how to design a house to look aesthetically pleasing from all sides. Even if they did have this knowledge, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to put it into practice without an architect who can translate their ideas into reality.
Offer Warranties
Custom builders typically offer better warranties than most homeowners could provide themselves. Since they are in business providing construction services (rather than doing their project as a labor of love), they usually give much longer warranties on materials and workmanship; the standard is usually one year for labor and 10-20 years for materials. That’s a pretty significant difference from most do-it-yourselfers, who usually offer no warranty at all on their work.
Access To Financing
Custom builders typically have access to better financing than most homeowners can get on their own since they’re in the business of lending funds and know-how to finance construction projects. This means you’ll be able to purchase a home with a lower down payment and monthly payments that are more affordable given your budget constraints.
Provide Design Input
You might even be able to customize every last detail of the house as long as those fit within your budget and don’t conflict with your builder’s craftsmanship standards. For instance, a home builder take time to know the right design input to use,
Custom home of any size will be more expensive than a prefabricated one of the same size and amenities. Building it yourself might seem like a great way of saving money upfront. Still, you have to take into account that there are some considerable costs associated with building from scratch that you would not incur by buying a package home: land acquisition costs, legal fees for drawing up plans and filing permits with the local government, the cost of machinery and tools necessary for construction (lumber saws, nail guns, etc.), subcontractors to do particular jobs for which you do not have the skills or equipment, renting or owning heavy construction equipment yourself, paying architects and designers to come up with plans for you, financing costs, etc.
