5 Tips for Caring for Your New Custom Home
When you invest in a new vehicle, you naturally want to do everything in your power to optimize its performance and lengthen its lifespan; that means staying on top of routine maintenance needs, from oil…
Deciding on the Layout of Your New Custom Home
When designing a custom luxury home, your options are practically limitless. That can be something of a blessing and a curse: It means you can achieve exactly the kind of home you’ve always dreamed of,…
Why You Should Build a Custom Home in the Chicagoland Area
When you build a custom home, the sky’s the limit: You have countless options to choose from, and innumerable ways to attain the house of your dreams. One of the most important decisions you’ll make…
Mistakes to Avoid During Your New Home Construction
Unless you have forayed into custom home construction previously, realize that while building a new home is exciting and, in the end, rewarding, the time prior to that can be challenging and complicated. Now, trust…
Luxury Additions You Absolutely Need in Your Custom Home
One of the great things about building a custom home from the foundation up is the fact that you, as the would-be custom homeowner, hold all of the cards. You get to envision what your…
5 Factors to Consider When Building on Your Own Lot
Before you can begin building a custom home, you have to make a very important decision that goes beyond design aesthetics. Namely, where are you going to build your home—as in what section of Earth…
How Long Will It Take to Design and Build Your Home?
A common question on the minds of many would-be custom homeowners, it’s always fair to ask: just how long is this going to take? Unfortunately, there is not a hard and fast answer here—there is…
Hot Products Used In New Home Construction
New home construction is indeed an art form—and like any creative endeavor, the one constant that is present is change. Many industry experts believe that the much anticipated and predicted revolution in construction is finally…
Designing A Home You Can Live In Forever
In today’s day and age, there are few people who buy a home and then stay put for the rest of their lives. Indeed, it’s commonplace to live in multiple homes throughout one’s life, expanding…
Tips For Picking Your Custom Home Builder
Building a custom home that represents your own individual style and taste is always a considerable investment—therefore, you want to ensure you are partnering with a custom home builder who you trust and feel confident…
Hot Home Design Trends To Consider Right Now
As the spring season nears, many homeowners are considering their next home remodeling project and many would-be custom homeowners are getting ready to break ground on their new construction. So, it’s time to think about…
Strategies To Ensure Your Home Is Energy Efficient
In today’s eco-conscious world, there is a great focus placed on “being green” in almost every aspect of our lives. The same holds true with our homes as buildings alone contribute about 40% of total…
The First Step In Building (or Remodeling) Your Custom Home
The first step is to meet with and choose your builder (hopefully, SeBern). There are several key reasons for this: You need to decide whether you will need an outside architect, or if one works…
The Custom Home-building Process
OK, so you are done with compromise and sick of buying someone else’s problems. It’s time to build a custom home. It’s your time. And here’s how, in a nutshell: Call SeBern at 630-377-7767 for…
How to Make a Great Residential Real Estate Investment
For over 60 years following World War II, high end (luxury) residential real estate values consistently increased. Then, for just a couple of years, the market slowed down. Well, its back….. Luxury real estate is…
Color, Style, & Lifestyle Trends In 2015
As you probably already know, the color of the year is Marsala (a sort of Cinnamon-Indian Red…Pantone 18-1438 TCX.) But when you choose colors for your home, think long term…unless you want a Marsala-colored roof. …
Good To Great
In the book, Good to Great, author Jim Collins states that Good is the enemy of Great. It’s a natural human tendency to feel that Good is Good Enough. And if you become satisfied with…
Kitchen Ideas
Have you ever noticed that, whether you are alone, or with your spouse and/or children, or with a parent or grandparent or friend, or during a party or holiday with dozens of guests, at some…
Ideas For Your Dream Home
If you are building or remodeling your dream home, then the possibilities are endless. When you custom build, what your home becomes and where it is located are really up to you. So, as long…
Craftsmanship: The Difference-Maker
Building or remodeling a custom home is completely different than buying an existing house. An existing house is nice, sufficient, good enough. But your own custom home is exactly what you need, and what you…
