The Changing Role of Custom Home Allowances
Price chaos for materials has made budgeting more complicated. Here's what you need to know about Custom Home Allowances. Most people are familiar with allowances—a way to let custom [...]
Ashley Dowling and Mario Noriega Join Merlin Team
We are pleased to welcome Ashley Dowling, Project Coordinator, and Mario Noriega, Construction Superintendent to the Merlin team. Ashley and Mario bring a wealth of experience to their respective [...]
How Do You Identify A Great Custom Home Builder?
How do you identify a great custom home builder—and choose the best one for your needs? There's an oft-repeated quip that building a custom home is as much about [...]
All Quartz Is Not Equal
Even if the budget is tight, this is not the place to economize. Here's why. If asked to describe your relationship with your luxury custom home's products, only a [...]
The Best Custom Home You Can Build
There are codes and there are standards. The best luxury custom home requires both. There was a TV commercial for kosher hot dogs that first aired in the 1970s. [...]
A Custom Home for All Ages
The best accessible features are really just good design By some estimates, the decade from 2011 to 2021 saw a quadrupling of households with parents and grown children. Last year's [...]
What Drives a Custom Home’s Price?
Builders need a lot of information to arrive at an accurate number for a Custom Home's Price Every now and then a custom homeowner will call to ask how [...]
Managing the Great Supply Crunch
In the future, you can tell friends and family what things were like during the Great Supply Crunch If you're contemplating a new luxury custom home, you're no doubt [...]
Maintain Your Custom Home’s Value
We pride ourselves on building and delivering custom homes that bring our clients' vision and imagination into reality. We build dreams. Along with a focus on aesthetics, we construct [...]