Manufactured Homes vs. Custom Stick-Built Homes
With home prices shooting up in the last decade and especially since COVID, many are turning to alternative paths to homeownership. These include tiny homes as well as manufactured homes,…
The Benefits of Custom Tiny Homes on Foundations
With housing prices skyrocketing throughout the country and homeownership becoming a more difficult prospect, many are turning to tiny homes. If you’re considering building your own custom tiny home, one…
The Appeal of Custom-Built Tiny Homes
In the current housing climate, there are many aspects of a tiny home that are appealing as an alternative to a traditional single-family home or condo. The most obvious is…
Custom Duplexes for Affordable Homeownership
With rent prices skyrocketing and homeownership becoming scarcer, almost like finding a unicorn, duplexes might be the most logical and savvy solution and option nowadays. They are like the superheroes…
Custom Home Trends Part 2: Bathroom and Outdoor Living Spaces
We recently published the first of a two-part series on new trends we’re seeing in the luxury custom home-building industry. From this, you may find that not every trend may…
Custom Home Trends Part 1: Floor Plan Personalization Must Have’s for 2024
At Reality Homes, our focus is always on making your dream home a reality. This means creating unique designs that capture your taste and lifestyle — so your home nurtures…
Add Curb Appeal With These Front Porch Landscaping Tips
Adding curb appeal to your home starts from the outside in, and one of the best ways to create an inviting outdoor atmosphere is through landscaping on your front porch…
Familiarizing Yourself with Homeowners’ Associations and CC&Rs
Looking to buy a home? Depending on where you’re searching, homeowners’ associations — or HOAs — can be quite prevalent, and with them comes their CC&Rs. These are a significant…
Retiring in a Custom Built Home
For many people, retiring comes with the expectation of moving, whether that’s to downsize, seek out warmer (and less rainy) weather, or a combination of both. That also means making…
Cost-Effective Homebuilding Solutions When Lumber Prices Soar
We’re not saying anything profound when we say that 2020 and 2021 have been rough in many ways. That’s obvious. Further, the effects of the last year and more have…
How a Custom Home Can be Your Least Expensive Path to Homeownership
If you’re not a current homeowner, we don’t blame you if you’d prefer that to change. Renting can feel like an endless pit of throwing your money away all without…
Why Winter is the Perfect Time to Start the Process of Building a Home
In most places in the US and Canada, the winter weather is construction’s nemesis. Even in places like west of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest where you aren’t overwhelmed…
