For a huge number of American families, an indispensable part of the Holidays is getting together to watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It seems to be on constantly from Thanksgiving until New Years.

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When you build a custom home you get to customize plans and features, so that your new home matches your sense of style and your family’s lifestyle. Frankly, that’s one of the things we love about building custom homes for our clients. They can get exactly what they want. We do caution our clients, however, about balancing their short-term needs and their long-term needs when they customize. Here are a couple of areas where that can be important. 

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Floor plans aren’t nearly as exotic or exciting to look at as pictures of finished rooms or homes on houzz.com or HGTV.com. Most floor plans, after all, are pretty much just black lines and writing on a white background.  It can be hard to get too excited about that. But if you’re planning a new home, a floor plan is one of the best tools you’ve got for making sure your house will be the home you want it to be. 

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If you took any trips by air this summer, you probably heard the familiar “ding” on the plane’s intercom, followed by the announcement: “The Captain has turned off the fasten seat belt sign. You are now free to move about the cabin.” Given the cramped quarters most of us experience when flying, the freedom to move about is more than welcome. 

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