Listen to home design and building tips that will save you money and headache if you are designing and building a new home:
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Here is the front elevation of a new home plan that we are building in Falls Church Virginia.
This new home will have a first floor master suite.We are incorporating green building designs and green building materials.
Falls Church New Home
Here is the Birkhaven Elevation
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Paramount Construction creates another new home plan
Hot off the presses (ignore the incorrect 2007 Copyright date)!
You asked and we delivered!
Paramount Construction creates another new home plan for you
Washington DC is not as conservative as some people think.
We have seen a fairly large demand for contemporary or
modern style home plans. This is one we designed that has
3 levels and 4 bedrooms.
Call it a contemporary home plan, a modern new home plan
or some might call it Bauhaus architecture. Call it what you
like. We are seeing more and more demand for the non-traditional
new home plans. And we are responding to that need.
Kevin, our staff genius architect, has created over 90 new home
plans that fit perfectly into the Bethesda, Chevy Chase, McLean,
Falls Church, Potomac, Arlington neighborhoods.
These are no McMansions. You’ll love the new home plans
with the scale and massing that fit right in (your neighbors will
love it too).
This new home floor plan has been value engineered to be built very affordably
yet still give that ZING-head-turning curb knollwood-elevationappeal and
a great open floor plan. Plenty of windows in the rear
to capture all the views.
We can design this with 9 or 10 foot ceiling heights. And since
we have an in-house “World-Class” architect, customizing the
floor plan for your unique tastes and style is easy and smooth.
We can also customize the home plan for whatever topography and shape
home building lot you would like to build this on.
More good news – this new home can be built as a modular, prefab
or with panelized construction methods – Saving time and resources.
You can’t even tell these are modular homes and prefab new homes.
If you would like to see the floor plans call me at 301-370-6463 or email me at
info@paramountconstruction.net.
Here are the floor plans for this Bauhaus influenced new home plan:
Contemporary new home floor plan for Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Arlington, Mclean
This new home in McLean Virginia won Best New Home of The Year.
You’ll see that the design details are sharp, clean and crisp.
Take a look now:
The closer you make the home renovation project to a new home the lower the price
On your next large scale home remodeling project or major home
addition, follow these tips to save lots of time and money.
On a large remodeling or renovation job, the key is making existing
conditions of the work area as close to a new home as possible.
So if the home is empty; no animals, no kids, no people and no furniture,
in other words, as close to the condition the builder would face when
building a brand new home, the vendors and subcontractors will price
the job with lower prices.
This is because the hassle factor has been
reduced.
The vendors and subcontractors don’t have to work around the furniture and worry about
ruining it, they don’t have to worry about keeping dogs and cats in the
house when the workmen go in and out of the doors. They don’t have
to worry so much about safety of the little kids, they don’t have to make
sure the utitlities are on at the end of each day – the water, the electricity ,
the heating and cooling.
So when we can get this type of condition, we explain
to the vendor that they will be able to work faster and have fewer interruptions.
Plus the construction workers are always trying to be friendly to the homeowners and visa versa,
the homeowners want to be friendly to the workers. So what happens is that “hello”
in the morning can turn into a 30 minute chat about what the worker thought about
the Washington Redskins or Obamas State of the Union or about the pipe burst
at the Shady Grove Red Line Metro Station. And the cumulative impact is that the job
ends up taking longer.
Now you might say what about the cost of moving out and fining a place to stay?
Well you can rent a pod for I think $80 per month. Also, through good planning the
home builder may be able to set aside certain areas in your home that are not being worked on
and block those areas off by building temporary protective walls to move some furniture
and store it during the duration of the job.
Also, we have temporary homes that we put our clients in that we rent back to the
client for $1500 or so per month. These homes are in Bethesda, Chevy Chase,
McLean and Arlington (call and reserve these way ahead of time).
We have seen jobs that we estimated 10 months to complete but
where the client moved out and we saved 4 months of time.
So when you net out the 4 months of interest savings on a construction loan and the lower unit
prices from the vendors, against the cost of moving out, we’ve actually seen savings
of $3000 or more.
Plus lots of these homes that are being renovated were built prior to 1978 and have lead paint.
So if you have little kids you really don’t want them exposed to the dust particles and it’s
just a lot more pleasant not living on a “construction site” for 5 months.
I always joke and tell our clients that they’ll live longer if they don’t live on site!
So when you think about that, this tip is really priceless!
Thinking of selling our home? Call 301-370-6463 – – We Buy Homes.
We are now reserving construction starts slots for summer and fall 2010.
Don’t miss out on these low interest rates. Email me at rob@paramountconstruction.net
to get on our schedule.
Watch Why Patrick Chose us to design and build his custom home:
This is an article from Robyn Griggs Lawrence of Home Living Magazine
Looking to spend less heating your home this winter? You’re not alone. Now the Environmental Protection Agency’s
new Green Homes website can help. Whether you rent or own your home, Green Homes offers tips on reducing
energy consumption, waste generation and water usage while improving indoor air quality.
Check Out EPA Site Here
Watch this homeowner who retained Paramount Construction to design and build their new custom home in the City of Falls Church.
We first met the owners at a new home open house event we held a few years ago. We just completed a new home on Oak Street in Falls Church and they stopped by to visit the newly completed home.
Two years later we completed their custom home we constructed using the latest in panelized homebuilding techniques.
We named the mode the Falls Creek.
The new home in the City of Falls Church, Virginia is designed with a side-load courtyard two car garage. The garage doors are not as visible with this side-load design.
This model home also has a first floor primary bedroom suite for convenient first floor living.
We specialize in a large variety of first floor bedroom and multi-generational new homes.
Looking for builders who build in Falls Church. Here’s a list of some of the top builders in Virginia.
Business conditions stayed weak through 2009’s 3rd quarter for housing design architects, yet specific segments at the market’s lower end look ready for a 2010 recovery, according to fresh numbers from the AIA.
Since the billings for architects are usually a good prediction of future activity in construction, this could be good news for homebuilders.
Design work for affordable homes for first-time buyers jumped from -64 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to -2 percent in a year over year comparison, according to architects responding to the latest AIA Quarterly Design Trends survey. (Percentages indicate the number of respondents reporting sector ‚improving‚ minus the number reporting ‚ aweakening.‚)
The feeling towards the move-up market had an improved gain that traveled from -57 percent down to -29 percent within the same time frame.
Each market segment has been boosted through decreasing home costs and good mortgage rates. AIA cheif economist Kermit Baker noted the kick-start the affordable market received from such aid as the federal tax credit for those purchasing a home for the first time.
The third quarter of 2009 showed strong gains in remodeling activity, with 27 percent of architects reporting an increased demand for both renovations and additions, up from 13 percent in the year prior. Kitchen as well as bathroom remodeling jobs increased by a very large percentage, from approximately eight percent during 2008 to approximately twenty six percent during 2009, an increase of more than three times the percent for one year.
Additional market segments have not been as fortunate. The townhouse/condo market remained stagnant, with a score of -43 percent in 2009 vs. -49 percent in 2009. Interest in custom/luxury homes and second vacation homes remained extremely low, at -48 percent and -70 percent, respectively.
Through the third quarter of 2009, the AIA‚Äôs residential billings index rose sharply from a score of 20 in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 38 in the second quarter of 2009, but then remained flat at 38 overall. Individual scores not above 50 are indicative of negative activity, however “less bad” categories are those that show scores that are ten or above.
Moving from a score of 35 in the first quarter of 2009 to 47 in the second quarter, new project inquiries at architecture firms remained similarly meager last year, but inched closer to the halfway mark.
Geographically speaking, reports from architects suggest that recovery will be concentrated most heavily in urbanized areas. Some 69 of respondents in the latest survey indicated a rise in demand for infill development, up from 63 percent in 2008.
The source of this article is Builder Online.
