WCI Custom Home Builders blog offers great insight into constructing a new luxury home in the Eastern Tennessee areas.
Find Your Home Style
Whether you prefer a modern or traditional home, there is an architectural style for you. Sleek contemporary exteriors take advantage of the latest advances in building, while more traditional home styles exude warmth and comfort…
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Budgeting for a Custom Home Build
Creating your budget for a custom home build can be broken down into three steps. Land cost, build cost and ongoing costs. If a new home is your goal for 2022, get started with these budgeting tips…
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Designing Your Home's Elevation
The look and feel of your home is decided by the exterior elevation choices you make during the design stage. Even before the foundation is laid, it’s important to decide where the front door will go, if there will be a…
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Home Design Trends for 2022
From the use of sustainable materials to choosing nature-inspired colors, these 2022 design trends are set to bring elements of the outdoors inside. With many people working from home permanently, now is a great time to build your dream home…
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The Commercial Construction Workflow
As a long-established general construction company in Eastern Tennessee, the team at WCI Custom Builders is well versed in all areas of construction, including commercial. Our project management team will work in-tandem with you and your team to bring your vision to life—on budget and on time. So how does it all work?…
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How to Check Land Feasibility for Your Custom Home
With used housing prices at near record highs nationwide, finding the perfect home in this high-competition market may be next to impossible. Landowners in the Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina tripoint area may find themselves considering building a custom home on their lot, or purchasing property for future residential development. Whether you’re building your dream home or creating a family vacation getaway, WCI Custom Homes can help you get the ball rolling with a land feasibility study.…
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Creating your Dream Home
If you are building your starter home or you are building your dream home there are so many decisions to be made. But the very first step in creating your home is to clarify your vision. You don’t need a design degree or to be an architect, you just need to make good decisions that you will not regret later. We suggest you begin by making a fundamental list with these options in mind:…
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Building a New Home
Building a new home can be an exciting adventure. You have every option under the moon at your fingertips. But the very first step in home building is meeting with a builder. They can help you choose a floor plan or create a custom design. If you already have your land they will make suggestions as to what type of home will work for your property. If you don’t have a property in mind they can also assist you in choosing the perfect lot for your floor plan…
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Where Safety Innovation Fits In The Construction Environment
In the construction industry, the most threatening risks are the ones that go undetected for too long — design flaws that are spotted well into construction, bad habits that could get a craft worker hurt or a hazard that escapes a manager's attention. Underlying most contractors’ safety programs is a group effort at vigilance on site to make sure workers are operating safely and are alerted to dangers before an incident takes place. Technology can add another layer to this…
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All You Need To Know About Commercial Construction
Commercial building tasks are usually large-scale jobs, but industrial building takes dimension and scope to every other level. These big undertakings design, install and hold buildings and components of industrial production like strength flora and factories. Unique levels of know-how across a variety of fields focused on specialized diagram and construction capabilities. The system for constructing an industrial facility can be managed via the client or his industrial contractor, and even government agencies have a say in these full-size projects.…
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10 Overused Bathroom Trends, According to Real Estate Agents
Think about it: You probably begin and end your day in the bathroom. From brushing your enamel in the morning to going via your skincare movements at night, the bathroom is where it’s at. Oh, and a enjoyable bubble bathtub beckoning you after a long day? Pretty please, with a glass of cabernet on top. So, while your bath room may also be small on square footage, it’s big on day-to-day influence and really deserving of some layout love. But…
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Top Boomtowns in America - 2019
Here is the current annual list of the top boomtowns in America as reported by SmartAsset. They are not in the midwest or northeast. In order to find the top 10 boomtowns in America, SmartAsset looked at the most recently available data for 500 of the largest cities across the following seven metrics: population change, unemployment rate, change in unemployment rate, GDP growth rate, business growth, housing growth and change in household income. For details on our data sources and…
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Modern Amenities For Luxury Real Estate
This year we have seen a lot of changes and amazing trends for home decoration, building and more; Luxury real state is not the exception. Let's see how nature, technology, wellness and others are becoming stronger trends this year. People involved in this business is always looking for the latest trends and best strategies to add value to their daily offers. People dream about having a home that is not only a place to stay but a comfortable spot and…
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Home design trends for 2019
Every year comes with new trends when it comes to fashion, building, decoration and even interior design, so it’s very valuable to keep updated with the latest patterns and ideas. This year has come with some news on home decoration trends so pick your favorite ones to add to your home. At WCI Custom Builders we keep the track of every trend to offer only the best to our demanding clients because they trust in our experience and we are…
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4 Myths about custom building a new home
When it comes to choosing a new home there is a lot to think about and it might feel overwhelming if you don´t have the complete information about the benefits and problems you could face in the way. There is a lot of contradictory information and you have to be very careful about who you believe in because not everything we read is true. At WCI Custom Builders we specialize in building the perfect home, the place of your dreams…
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Businessman transforms loft into 1930s-era speakeasy
An aficionado of the 1930s-era American Mafia, Michael Whitehead claims he was born in the wrong era. And by the look of his two-bedroom loft, located inconspicuously above Overmountain Outdoors on Tipton Street in downtown Johnson City, he is probably right. Whitehead and the interior design team of Todd Fields and David Mallory recently finished transforming the second-story flat, which previously served as a dental lab, into one of Johnson City’s most extraordinary private-living quarters. The stairwell at 106 Tipton…
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