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As San Antonio Peers Directly Into 2012, Five Custom-Home Builders Reveal Their Thoughts Of What Trends Are Taking Off Here And Also Which Ones Are Fading Away.
Media rooms? Out. Multipurpose game rooms? In.
Disaparate square footage? Out. Compact and energy efficient? In.
As Dallas peers into 2012, five custom-home builders share their views of what trends are taking off of here and which ones are generally fading away.
There is much common ground.
Clients are asking to find ways to work with less water, while also adding more showerheads in custom master bathroom showers and jacuzzi. They're asking for eco-friendly features that can are expensive more up front but provide long-term financial savings, such as tankless water heaters. And they are asking for a more minimalist, clean-line search.
Don Craighead Homes
Don Craighead associated with Don Craighead Homes sees a new trend toward smaller residences. Many clients now request a home in the 3,500- to be able to 4,000-square-foot range; a few years ago, they will often have gone for 6,000 to be able to 7,000 square feet.
“They're merely scared to commit at the level they were before,” Craighead claims.
For Craighead, building green will be picking up steam.
“I've been promoting it for about three years,” he states. “They're interested in it, even though they know it's going to cost more.”
Such customers envision energy and drinking water costs going up and are looking for longer-term savings. They are requesting squirt foam insulation and on demand water heaters.
Meanwhile, clients are still wanting top-of-the-line appliances, lighting fixtures as well as plumbing fixtures - merely in a more compact and energy-efficient home.
While the Mediterranean look will be “still pretty hot,” Craighead is seeing more straight lines as well as contemporary features.
What's gone the wayside? For Craighead's clients, it's the media room. Most select instead to hang a huge flat-screen TV above the fireplace or about the wall of a great room.
Sierra Homes
To Teresa Fransik of Sierra Homes, the biggest current trend is also downsizing.
“We're stepping into that era of the not-so-big house, in which clients are building not quantity but quality,” Fransik says. “The established term is a ‘jewel box' - little but tricked out.”
The girl firm, a green-home building company that operates within about 50 miles of Fredericksburg, has not really built large residences because of her focus on power efficiency. But in the last five years or so, the norm of preferred square footage has declined from about 3,000 as well as 3,500 square feet to around 2,500.
Her clients are asking for super energy-efficient homes, using rainwater collection systems, potential solar connections and whole-house surge protection.
“They're looking at the possibility in the future of trying to make certain they're protected against rising energy charges, brown-outs, reduction in water supplies. Those activities are starting to be important,” Fransik claims.
They are choosing low-flow water accessories and dual-flush toilets; other eco-friendly components such as low-VOC (volatile organic chemical substance) paint and sealants are often standard now and “not as unusual as they were 10 years ago.”
For flooring, carpet is otherwise engaged; hardwood, concrete and tile are in.
As for design, simple and easy basic is the desired search, she says. “They're not seeking a lot of interior trim details. There's not a lot of glitz as well as glamour.”
Mike Hollaway
While home size is coming down a little bit, Robert Hollaway of Mike Hollaway Custom Homes sees clients asking for more quality within the square footage; for example, some may steer those same dollars into better appliances or more tile work.
Clients are willing to put up more money for quality house windows and foam insulation as a consequence of energy efficiency. They are investing in gourmet kitchens and out of doors living areas that include cooktops, people who smoke, fireplaces, under-counter refrigerators, icemakers and integrative fountains and pools as reported tagza.com.
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