A question we get all the time is “what’s your price per square foot?” The perception (or presumption), we assume, is that if you wanted to add or subtract a few square feet for whatever reason, you simply add or subtract that amount per foot from the price or cost of the house.
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The Cost Question
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 10:07 amGreenwashing: Beware!
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 9:00 amThe term "green" is being increasingly applied as an easy way to identify products, including building materials and new homes, as having a better or smaller impact on the environment. That’s fine for marketing slogans and advertising headlines, but it’s also dangerous if the product (or house) isn’t truly sensitive to its environmental impact [...]
Please Join Us for the Dell Children’s Gala 2011
Monday, June 28th, 2010 at 10:08 amDell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas is here to treat every child individually, purposefully and most importantly – ONE child at a time. Please consider being the ONE to help us transform and save lives by becoming a sponsor or underwriter for the Dell Children’s Gala.
Green Building: What it is and why it matters
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 7:55 amGreen building, sustainability and high-performance homes are now part of the vocabulary of new home construction. We welcome the attention brought to these important issues. As professional builders, however, we take the subject with a grain of salt. Green building is a far more complex topic than that portrayed in the media. News spots or magazine articles typically focus on specific areas like insulated windows, high-efficiency furnaces, roof-mounted solar panels, or recycled-content flooring.
‘Futureproof’ Your New Home
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 at 3:53 pmModern housing may not have reached Jetson-level performance just yet, but a growing number of new homes today are prepared for ever-increasing amounts of automation and electronics — more than any existing or remodeled home can ever hope to be.
Tour this awesome home in Pemberton Heights!
Monday, May 3rd, 2010 at 11:41 amGreat new video on YouTube from Fred Meyers at Austin City Living featuring our condominium residence project at Wooldridge + 29th in Pemberton Heights…
Building is Better
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 8:15 amIs it better to build a new home or remodel an older one? No one will be surprised to hear us argue that building a new home is the better choice, just as a remodeling contractor would argue the opposite. So, with our professional bias disclosed, here are some totally objective reasons why we believe buying a new home provides greater benefits than remodeling.
Greg Kemp Awarded Certified Green Professional (CGP) Designation by the National Association of Home Builders
Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 8:33 amGreg Kemp, construction project manager of Durrett Interests, LLC in Austin, Texas recently became one of the select group of professional builders, remodelers, and other industry professionals nationwide who have earned the Certified Green Professional (CGP) designation, identifying him as someone with knowledge of the best strategies for incorporating green building principles into homes – without driving up the cost of construction.
That Spacious New Home Feel: By Design
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 5:30 amDoes it seem to you that new homes are generally bigger than older ones? If so, your observation is correct. The average new home today is nearly 500 square feet (or 25%) larger than the average house built 20 years ago, and 12% larger than those built in the late 1990s.
However, mere square footage is [...]
New Technologies Light the Way
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 12:00 pmRemember the old center-of-the-ceiling light fixture? You entered a room, hit the wall switch, and a couple of light bulbs behind a semi-transparent plate shed general, flat light over the whole room. All features of the room, good and bad, got the same emphasis. There was enough light to avoid tripping over the dog, but [...]
