What kind of planning and investments are you pursuing to secure a comfortable future for your family? Have you considered the impact of investing in a highly functional home that is built to facilitate your lifestyle today and serve your needs well into the future? Choosing to build a custom home allows you to take …
Do you have a vision of your ideal home? Do you want to greet each day surrounded by a home that is created to cater to your preferences and lifestyle? Here are four reasons you should make that dream a reality. Quality Control In construction, material quality is very important. The best quality is “Ultimate …
Building a custom home is about more than just personal design and quality finishes. Choosing to create a custom home gives you the ability to choose what is installed in your home that is not seen by the eye. Committing to building an energy efficient home can bring many benefits environmentally and financially. It can …
Creating and building a custom home for your family can be a fun and invigorating experience with enjoyable challenges along the way. One of the biggest challenges for homeowners is to decide what rooms are needed and/or wanted in their new home. Local custom home builders can help guide you through deciding what is the …
There are many options available for new homeowners looking to build their new home. Production homes, modular and personalized production homes are just a few that are available. Although these homes may have their appeal to some homeowners, those buyers looking for a true personalized, upgraded home often choose custom builders. Deciding you wish to …
I suppose the usual term is “man cave”, although the vision that my clients and I had for this attic space remodel didn’t exactly conjure up visions of beer-drinking Neanderthals on sofas eating nachos and watching hockey. I received a call from a couple who had purchased a home I had built a few …
An old client and inveterate wine collector had purchased a new home and had asked MH Akers Custom Homes to transform an oversized upstairs closet into a wine cellar. He was looking for perfect wine storage conditions and functionality as well as a little jewel box of a space. We created, together with the client, …
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Austin, Texas builder David Dalgleish of Dalgleish Construction and was fortunate enough to be afforded the opportunity to tour one of his many current projects . . . an impressive, feet-in-the-water, Lake Austin residence. When I arrived for our mid-morning appointment, the jobsite was a beehive of activity …
The economic collapse of 2008 and its aftermath have presented character-testing challenges to many Americans. Especially negatively affected has been the residential construction industry, where many of my friends and colleagues have not survived economically. In many areas of the country, including my Metropolitan Memphis market, real estate values remain unsustainably low. This has created …
I have long admired the creative genius of Bobby McAlpine, and more recently, the architectural talent of McAlpine Tankersley alumni Ruard Veltman and Ken Pursley. When I discovered Veltman and Pursley I instinctively felt that there was something, some part of their design aesthetic, that all three architects shared and that I had been trying …