Steps For The Home Building Experience: Part One

We've come up with FOUR great steps for having a positive home building experience, but we're only revealing the first two! Stay tuned for a future post where we'll dish the last two steps.

Step 1: Planning

Deciding on which floor plan suites your families needs is almost as important as choosing the location in which you want to live. @home Builders offers dozens of designs and floor plans to suite every lifestyle. No cookie-cutter homes here! Each home reflects its owner. Our designs are distinguished by their comfort, convenience and contemporary designs. From floor plans to financing, planning to purchasing, we take the time to understand your family and help you design the home that you've always wanted. Our neighborhoods fit every lifestyle.

The Estates at Beaver Creek is nestled between Victor and Canandaigua, giving you all of the conveniences from both locations, while providing a tranquil and peaceful setting. Covington Place, in the heart of the Finger Lakes region, features well-manicured neighborhoods, and offers a convenient location that is close to the historic downtown as well as many recreational opportunities.

The Preserve has the most desirable home sites in Henrietta, New York. Featuring protected woodlands and waterfront homesites, homeowners enjoy a quiet country lifestyle while living minutes from downtown Rochester.

Factors Walk, located outside of Pittsford Mendon, offers breathtaking scenery, magnificent views, and stunning homesites. Timber Banks in Baldwinsville offers Villas, Row Houses, Cottages and Single Family Homes, as well as upstate New York’s only Nicklaus Design championship 18-hole golf course.

Step 2: Designing

Personalizing your new home is the fun part! Choosing finishes, materials, colors and designs help to make your vision come to life. At our new Design Center, you'll find everything from faucets to flooring here under one roof. It's convenient and easy. Take your time mixing and matching until you come up with just the right combinations. Our Design Center offers only the best products and features, as well as many Green options to fulfill your desire to be environmentally friendly.

Our Design Center is an amazing place to fantasize, brainstorm, and plan – with 2,500 square feet of space, dedicated to displaying all of the cutting edge products that will be built into your new home. You can do one-stop shopping here, so when you’re done you’ll see how everything works together.

We will carefully select the finishes, materials and colors that allow you to truly personalize your new home. Together, we can create a home that reflects your own sense of style while it fulfills your family’s needs. You'll feel confident in your decisions before we've even started to build your new home.

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Reasons Why Rochester Is Such A Great Place To Live

Diverse Neighborhoods

Rochester is filled with diverse neighborhoods, towns and styles of homes. This tends to draw many people to this area simply because there is something for everyone here. Among all of our different communities, we offer single, double, and multi-family homes; waterfront properties; new houses built to your specifications; close proximity to city or country dwellings and so much more.

Educational Opportunities

The educational opportunities are limitless here in Rochester! The public schools have award winning athletic programs, beautifully maintained facilities, and staff members that have proven to be the best of the best. This area is filled with highly regarded universities and colleges such as RIT and the University of Rochester.

Entertainment/Attractions

Rochester has so many attractions – from festivals, concerts, wineries, theaters, museums and science centers, to breathtaking scenery and outdoor activities. This area hosts many cultural festivals such as the annual Ukrainian, Polish, Greek and Puerto Rican festivals. Rochester also holds a number of popular arts and crafts and jazz and musical festivals throughout the area with help from the local orchestras, Broadway shows, and galleries.

There is always something to do in Rochester! Thanks to the diverse collection of restaurants and shopping centers, you will never be bored. Downtown Rochester is constantly filled with energy and excitement, making it a great place to work, live and visit.

The many waterways in the area offer endless possibilities. The Erie Canal and Finger Lakes are home to a number of beautiful beaches, year-round fishing and an array of other outdoor activities that will be sure to keep you busy during the summer months. Rochester’s rich history allows for visitors and residents to enjoy the vast array of entertainment that this beautiful place has to offer.

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Going Green By Conserving Water

There are many ways in which you can be a “green” new home buyer. Many of you know how you can help to save power and energy, but what about saving on your water consumption? Consider the kitchen area, bathrooms, laundry rooms, outdoor irrigation, and pool/hot tub maintenance.

When building a brand new home, you have the advantage of choosing the appliances and fixture you want in your home. Keep water conservation in mind when selecting items such as your dishwasher, toilet, and washer. Other items to consider are your faucets, hot water heaters and sprinkler systems. With all of the energy saving options out there, it isn’t hard to introduce energy saver brands in your home. These energy saving options not only help to conserve energy and help the environment, they can also help to save you and your family a lot of money. Many of these products will eventually pay for themselves over time with the savings.

Heating water accounts for around 15% of a home’s energy use. “Green” water heaters use up to 50% less energy than standard models. Regular tank water heaters keep water hot and ready to use at all times in insulated storage tanks, which means that you end up paying for the water to be continually heated at all times, even when you aren’t using any water. “Green” water heaters, such as the tankless water heater, heat water on an as-needed basis. Water is circulated through a large coil and is heated only on demand, using gas or electricity. This option means that there is an endless supply of hot water.

Energy Star washers use about 37% less energy and over 50% less water than regular washers. Many have a greater capacity as well, which means fewer loads of laundry. By switching to an Energy Star qualified washer, you could save $135 each year on your utility bills, and with this savings you could fill three average sized swimming pools!

These are just some of the examples that can show you what a difference “going green” can make!

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