How to Bring Personality to Your New Home to Avoid Looking Generic

As you design your new custom home, optimizing every living space to your unique preferences is essential. At OYL, we use the home design process to help bring your personality to your home. Customization is how you ensure that your new home’s interiors do not look like every other home in the neighborhood.

Read on to learn how to avoid your new custom home looking generic. Here is what we recommend at On Your Lot Homes to make your new home look and feel more 'custom' without breaking the bank.

Custom Built-in Cabinetry  

Custom built-in cabinetry can serve a dual purpose as both a functional and beautiful upgrade for your living room, study, or game room. With options to add bookshelves, pantry cabinetry, TV, and entertainment systems, these custom built-ins stand out. On Your Lot Homes can help you design custom built-ins that perfectly match your space.

Custom Modern Bathroom 

Bathrooms that include wet rooms, built-in cabinetry, storage, luxury fixtures, and custom lighting are preferred by homeowners. These bathroom amenities add a special touch to your new custom home. A custom bathroom adds a spa-like feel to your home so that you can relax and enjoy. Add tile and custom flooring as a design statement for your modern bathroom. Ever thought about installing a “Dog Wash” in your mud room? This is a fantastic half-height open shower that allows you a space to wash a family pet or just let snowy or muddy boots a place to be cleaned. This multiuse and inexpensive addition is a real winner. 

Floor Inlays

Floor inlays are an option to work into a foyer or hallway to define your home's walkways and make them stand out. Floor inlays help to transition the home’s interior design from one space to another. We at OYL will work with you to choose the right materials, including sourcing tile, stone, and complimentary wood or marble species. The result is a custom home that is the only one in the neighborhood with your specific flooring design. 

Custom Kitchen

A modern kitchen featuring the latest smart appliances, custom cabinetry, a kitchen island, or stone countertops add personality to your new custom home. A kitchen that enhances both form and function can also significantly increase the resale value of your custom home. OLY Homes will guide you through the custom design process of your new home’s kitchen, So it works for your daily routine while reflecting your personal design preferences.

High Ceilings 

Higher than standard or vaulted ceilings make your home seem more spacious and luxurious. Ten-foot ceilings with eight-foot doors exude luxury and fine craftsmanship on an entire level. You also can choose to vault or cathedral a ceiling in one space to create a unique customization to a single room, such as a living room, or as a part of an open floor plan concept. You can bring more natural light into your custom home by incorporating high ceilings and aesthetic options such as stairway windows or a skylight.

Flex Rooms and Bathrooms 

Adding bonus rooms to your home allows you to accommodate growth as your lifestyle and preferences change in the future. It is also cheaper to incorporate additional bathrooms into a new custom home’s design rather than perform a bathroom addition in the future. On Your Lot Homes can design multiuse rooms for new custom homes to help improve your home’s value. It could be roughed in today and a spa tomorrow.

OYL Homes for Custom Home Design in Maryland 

No custom home is a one-size-fits-all solution. As your custom home builder in Maryland, On Your Lot Homes considers your unique preferences. We will help you uncover what style and size of home suit your wants and needs. Whether your focus is on the functionality or aesthetics of your new custom home design, we help you find the right balance.

On Your Lot Homes is here to guide you through the home building process. Learn how to maximize your resale value while adding customizations to your new home. For answers to all of your questions, contact us today at (833) 289-6954 or reach us via email at build@oylhomes.com.

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