Meet our Featured HQ Members: Every quarter we feature an active member of Homeowner HQ. This quarter, meet Leslie and Steve from Courtenay, BC. as we celebrate her completed renovation and addition.

Both options have their benefits, but understanding the differences between them is crucial in making an informed choice. Let’s explore the contrasting characteristics of stock and custom house plans, highlighting their unique benefits and considerations. Aka. Let's make a list of pros and cons for you.

Sure, you could live with them, but would you want to?

These are generally the design items that, over time, clients come to me frustrated with and requesting to change. They spend thousands of dollars to fix something that should have never been designed in the first place.

And yet, they are in countless floor plans. Here are 3 of those numerous floor plan faux pas to avoid for your home project.

Before we completely say goodbye to 2022, I wanted to share our most popular resources from the past year that you may find helpful as you start preparing, planning, and setting house goals for 2023.

Take a look and bookmark your favorites!

TWO pivotal questions that changed my life and my view on money over the past couple of years since starting our own personal new home design and build (and I believe they will change your life and new home or renovation project too).

Trades ghosting you? I bet you’ve been there. We’ve all been there. And the construction industry is full of them. How do you handle it? Whichever side of the fence you’re on, here are two email templates to get you started.

Meet our Featured HQ Members: Every quarter we feature an active member of Homeowner HQ. This quarter, meet Erin from Pacifica, CA. as we celebrate her completed renovation / remodel.

When you have 101 decisions to make during a new home or renovation project, you're bound to have a few arguments with your partner / spouse. Okay, okay, A LOT.

Here are some ways that my clients, including my husband and I, have simplified discussions during a home project and avoided most arguments.

If you're working with an Architect, Architectural Designer, General Contractor or Project Manager, but have never had ANY experience talking about specific parts of your home, the process, and the build, it can feel seriously overwhelming just to know how to speak! We have heard so many made up words to try to describe something on a house that we thought we’d try to help out and know what the heck your team is talking about.

I know firsthand how exciting it is to undergo a new home or renovation project. But it’s also hard, overwhelming, exhausting, stressful, tiring, frustrating…

What a lot of homeowners don’t realize is…

Five years ago, I purchased a piece of property and set into motion my own new home project and all the hurdles you typically come up against. Being in the industry, it was nothing that my retired contractor dad, my machine operator husband and I, an architectural designer, couldn’t handle, but I got to see it for the first time from my clients perspective.

The results are not what I expected…

Have you ever heard the advice that if something isn’t a ‘hell yes’ it’s a ‘hell no’?

It sounds great, right? A life where everything is a simple ‘no’ when it’s lukewarm until you feel an overwhelming sense of ‘yes’ - pure confident bliss!

However, here’s the problem with that advice: There’s not a lot of Hell Yes’s in a home project (am I right?)