Now that your grading plan is nearing completion and your house plans are in final design, you should start to prepare for the county building permitting process. Take deep breaths, drink some hot tea (or your choice beverage), and buckle …
Making design decisions can be quite daunting. There is a lot to think about. Trying to imagine how you are going to use a space before it’s built is difficult. I’ve built two homes for my family, and I’m pretty …
The process of building a custom home comes with a lot of steps! So far we’ve covered the following: Finding the Perfect Lot The Study Period Choosing Your Home Design Financing Your Custom Home Project Site Development Hiring Your Site …
One of the first tasks you’ll have after your lot is secured and you’ve selected your home design is to hire a Site Engineer. The Site Engineer will develop your grading plan. Almost everything that happens on your site during …
Building a custom home isn’t all about designing that perfect kitchen and waiting to breathe in that new carpet smell. From the time you start the process, you’ll become quite familiar with the term “Site Development” and all of the …
In 2014, we started a new program for our employees called NDI Gives Back. Our goal with NDI Gives Back is to challenge each NDI employee to go out into his or her community and make a difference. Each of our …
Well 2014 is more than half over. It seems like just yesterday I was putting away the Christmas decorations, shoveling snow and figuring out which of my New Year’s resolutions I could still salvage and make happen. I should exercise …
Money. This isn’t everyone’s favorite topic but when it comes to building a custom home, it is one of the most important conversations you will have. Shortly after the housing market went into recession, a financial crisis swept in and …
I don’t know about you but I LOVE looking at house plans. I can sit down with a set of plans and know within 30 seconds if I could live in it. I was talking with a client recently and …
The lot contract is ratified! Now what? Once the contract is ratified, I always go through the following steps before removing the study period contingency from the contract. Step 1 – Hire a site engineer to do a little investigating. …
