Why Build a Custom or Semi-Custom Home? Top 5 Reasons

If you want your next home to deliver a luxury experience, few options are better than designing it from the ground-up. An open gourmet kitchen, an expansive living room that showcases the best of your view with room for all of your guests, a floorplan that perfectly fits your lifestyle: these incentives are really just the beginning.

Learn the many ways you are getting value for your money when you invest in a custom (or semi-custom) home.

1. Custom Built Homes Mean You Don’t Have to Compromise

The art of compromise is a useful tool in life, one that enables us to have better relationships and ultimately, lead better lives. Yet sometimes it can be a little tiring to do it day in and day out.

Designing the Home You Want from Scratch

Instead of sacrificing a large master bathroom for a small home office, when building a custom home you get to decide precisely how you want the space to be divided and what you want included. Custom homes are a great way to stretch your creativity and help you use the most of your space.

Custom Homes Make It Possible to Plan Ahead

A custom-built home makes it possible to build in the flexibility needed to plan for future events, or to be able to adapt when plans change. If you think you’ll need more space at some point, you can enlarge your floorplan now rather than buy another home later.

2. The View Is Yours to Embrace with Customized Large Sliding Glass Panels

Too many homes in the US cut themselves off from the beauty that surrounds them. Whether you’re surrounded by the countryside or cityscape, the outdoors is just as important as your interior. Glass patio doors and large operable windows can help connect the indoors to the outdoors.

Why Choose Custom Sliding Glass Doors for Your Unique Home

Panda Windows & Doors has seen just how sliding glass doors for custom homes can enhance the intrinsic value of the property by helping residents embrace where they live.

Our products celebrate everything from elegant manicured lawns to wild ocean waves to dramatic mountain backdrops in all their glory. Our goal is to give you the kind of view you’ll be proud to show off.

The Beauty of Customized Lift and Slide Doors

Our products are a careful blend of looks and functionality. The massive panels of our Lift and Slide doors allow fresh air and sunlight inside your custom-built home when opened, and can be securely dropped to the bottom track where gaskets can seal out the weather when needed.

3. Custom Built Homes Keep Your Maintenance Costs Low

Custom or not, most new homes have a reputation for keeping maintenance costs down. Between updated energy efficient features and better materials, homeowners enjoy greater efficiency for longer periods of time.

Exclusive Product Selection Improves the Performance of Your Home

Plus, building a custom home offers the opportunity for you to research which products will improve both the form and functionality of your home. For instance, Panda’s Operable Windows include 15 window options and 5 customization features. They’re guaranteed to both look great and enhance the utility of the space.

Better Energy Bills, More Time to Enjoy Yourself

Your upfront efforts with a custom built home translate to far fewer headaches and hassles with the home, making it easier to enjoy the space and save money over time.

4. Custom Built Homes Are a Chance to Express Your Signature Style

There’s a lot to be said for having control over a place where you spend so much of your time. The home is not just where you sleep, it’s where you connect with your family, entertain friends, try new things, and relax after a long day.

Exclusive Product Selection Improves the Performance of Your Home

Plus, building a custom home offers the opportunity for you to research which products will improve both the form and functionality of your home. For instance, Panda’s Operable Windows include 15 window options and 5 customization features. They’re guaranteed to both look great and enhance the utility of the space.

Better Energy Bills, More Time to Enjoy Yourself

Your upfront efforts with a custom built home translate to far fewer headaches and hassles with the home, making it easier to enjoy the space and save money over time.

4. Custom Built Homes Are a Chance to Express Your Signature Style

There’s a lot to be said for having control over a place where you spend so much of your time. The home is not just where you sleep, it’s where you connect with your family, entertain friends, try new things, and relax after a long day.

Classic, Modern, Minimalist: You Decide

When people first see a traditional home, it’s common for them to imagine how they would have designed it. When you custom build your home though, you don’t have to think about revisions. You start off with the perfect slate instead of renovations.

Putting the power in your hands makes it easier to form a special bond with the property and have better associations with the space overall. From the colors of the walls to the height of your sliding glass doors, even semi-custom built homes make for fun projects.

The Difference Between Custom and Semi-Custom Built Homes

Today many home builders are addressing the custom home market by allowing homebuyers to make modifications to one of their existing plans. Depending on the builder, there are likely limits to what can be customized in a semi-custom built home. While you won’t achieve the complete ability to chose every feature as you would with a custom home, it certainly is an option. This compromise offers you some ability to make the home your own with less cost and a shorter time frame.

5. You Can Imagine a Whole New Lifestyle with a Custom Home

Custom built homes don’t change who you are, but they can change how you see yourself. More space for friends means more chances to showcase your hostessing skills. A flexible downstairs makes it easier to go from one activity to the next without giving up your privacy.

A New Spin on the Old You

True luxury isn’t about spending the most money, it’s about finding ways to incorporate what you love into your life. If you’re feeling limited in your home now, this is a chance to break the patterns that may hold you back.

It’s also the time to reevaluate your relationship with the outdoors. Being inside is wonderful when you need to hide from the natural elements or just take a break from the hustle and bustle of real life.

But closing yourself off from the world too often can take its toll on your mental health, even if it takes a while to notice the effects. The configuration of your windows and doors can remind you of just how much you’re missing.

Folding Glass Doors for Custom Homes

When you think about large glass panels for a custom home, you have to take into account how they’re used in daily life. Panda’s Folding Glass Doors are designed to stack against one another, leaving you with a 90% unobstructed view of all that lies beyond.

It makes it tempting to open the doors on all those beautiful days and invite anything from sun to mist into your home. But if you don’t want to operate the entire system, you can also integrate daily doors that make it simple to enter and exit the home.

Also, keep in mind that all of our products are built for long-term wear and tear. The rough-and-tumble of everyday living doesn’t stop for custom homes, which is why we plan our engineering around everything from rough storms to intentional vandalism.

Panda Windows & Doors for Custom or Semi-Custom Built Homes

When you design an exceptional home in a beautiful area, it’s better when the inside can be as incredible as the outside. This general idea was and still is the foundation of Panda Windows & Doors.

Contact Us for Custom Built Glass Doors and Windows

No matter how high your ceilings are or how far you want your glass walls to span, Panda can handle your specifications. Our success in the industry stems from our ability to accommodate nearly any request.

If you have a unique vision for your home, we’re here to help you bring it to life. We invite you to download our Residential Door Buying Guide or contact us today to share your signature custom home plans and let us take it from there.