Custom Home Guide

Purchasing a production home is straightforward. The process is simple and requires minimal effort on your part. Start by finding a new community and a home builder you like. Choose a home model, sign the contract, and then you can sit back and relax. Once everything is completed, you’re ready to move in.

However, building a custom home is a different experience. You’ll need to be much more involved. This major project demands significant time, effort, and financial investment from you.

 Key Steps in Building a Custom Home

Creating a custom home requires advanced planning and active participation. Unlike buying a production home, which involves minimal steps, building a custom home involves several key actions and decisions, from selecting the location to designing and constructing the home.

 1. Visualize Your Dream Custom Home

Before construction begins, visualize your dream custom home. Gather photos of homes with designs you admire. Visit completed homes and consult with an interior designer. Outline your preferences regarding architectural style, design elements, room functions, product features, and lifestyle needs.

 2. Assemble Your Team

Choose an architect who can help you get bids from potential custom home builders in Myrtle Beach. Alternatively, some custom home builders offer design services and can help you find an architect. Seek recommendations from realtors, friends, lenders, and building associations.

 3. Get References

Ask prospective custom home builders for references from lenders, clients, suppliers, and subcontractors. Inquire about their satisfaction with the service and the quality of the home. Did the builder manage the project effectively? Were the suppliers and subcontractors paid on time? Did the builder provide top-quality construction? Request sample contracts, warranties, and construction schedules.

 4. Find the Perfect Location and Purchase the Land

Locate the ideal spot to build your home and purchase the land. Professionals can assist in evaluating potential locations for suitability, views, and available utilities.

 5. Design Your Custom Home

Designing your dream custom home involves extensive discussions with your designer/architect. Analyze the benefit/cost of different options, create a budget, and finalize the design and floor plan ideas, product elements, and features. This process can take several months to years, depending on your involvement and decisions.

 6. Monitor Construction

Throughout the construction phase, you’ll need to make various selections and decisions. On a typical 12-month building schedule for a custom home, your input on design decisions, colors, and product selections will be needed in at least nine of the twelve months.

 Phases of Custom Home Construction

- Discovery Phase: Get to know the custom home builder and communicate your vision.

- Design and Budgeting Phase: Complete site analysis, draft the building schedule, create a budget, and discuss options. Make decisions regarding selections, colors, finishes, and more.

- Construction Phase: Begin the building process. This phase is straightforward if the prior steps—determining desires and needs, finding a location, completing the design process, and making selections—are done correctly.

Call Dawol Homes now and let our team of expert custom home builders help bring your dream custom home to life.

Dawol Homes
9404 Hwy 17 Bypass,
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
(843) 294-2859

Dawol Homes Sales Office
3100 Dick Pond Rd # E
Myrtle Beach, SC 29588
843-294-2859