Custom Homes

January 15, 2016

Why build a custom home?

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In today’s world, everything is made the same, from technology to cars to food. Everything is put on a conveyer belt, assembled the exact same way, and shipped off to the masses. It is rare to have something that is truly unique. That is why a custom home is so exciting. You have the opportunity to make something that is only yours. No one else will have the same home, it is genuinely exclusive to you!

Customization is key. The range of products that you can choose from is almost limitless. You get to choose the layout of the home, special features to set it apart, and even the specific material that is used. Everything is up to you. You can pick the most up-to-date technology that can make your home stand out in the modern era and make life much easier and more fun. Green building or sustainable building is also important to make sure that you can do your part in saving the world (as well as your wallet).

Found that amazing neighborhood close to a park or the school? Want to be close to your workplace or family? Great! You have the freedom make sure you are in the perfect location. Part of a custom home is placing it exactly where you want to be. Location is almost as important as the home itself. The location that you select will insure that your home really is ‘home sweet home’.

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Another important aspect is time. You have the chance to spend as much or as little time working on the home as you want. You can choose from featured homes or create a brand new home from scratch. This gives you the power to be as involved in the creation of your home as you want. You have the flexibility to customize every square inch of the home or work on the big picture aspects and leave the rest to our talented team of drafters and interior designers.

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Mt. Sterling is the premier custom home builder in Logan and northern Utah, so building with us carries many advantages. The most important is that you pay exactly what you expect to pay. Before we do anything extra, we make sure that it is what YOU want. We also customize a personalized home owner’s manual that is unique to your specific home. After the home is completed, we walk you through it to make sure you know exactly how to maintain it. We want to help you feel comfortable and confident in every aspect of the upkeep. And before you move in, we help celebrate your big day with a move in event. It is a special opportunity to build houses and we want to help you take the first steps towards making yours a home full of happy memories. Mt. Sterling goes above and beyond every step of the way.

Mt. Sterling makes sure to use the most current techniques and quality materials to insure that your house is truly a work of art. We have established craftsmanship and expertise as well as years of practice to make your home a reality. Your home is going to be exactly what you want, where you want it. It won’t be just another conveyor belt house, it will be your own customized home.

November 15, 2015

5 Bathroom Ideas You’ll Love

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Whether we like to admit it or not, bathrooms are one of the most important rooms in our homes – and often of the most neglected when it comes to style and design. If you’re creating your ideal bathroom or simply revamping your current one, here are some ideas that can help make your bathroom the best room in your home.

Feature Floor Tiles

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Gone are the days of linoleum or basic brown tiles. Bring in variety with multi-colored or patterned floor tiles. If you aren’t sure your style is that vibrant, try going with stone tiles – many have several colors naturally that are still different, yet more subtle.

Under-counter Lights

Looking for a high end look for a great price? Not only do under-counter lights mean you’ll no longer have to turn on the light while on your midnight visits, but by placing lights under your counters you help brighten up your bathroom and draw attention to your vanity as well. This feature can look especially stunning when used with a floating vanity.

Free Standing Bathtub

Pulling your bathtub out of the wall can make it the focus point of your bathroom. Find a style that will fit your bathroom decor already – a more curved tub brings softness, while angular tubs can make bold statement. Claw-foot tubs are a well known and loved classic, and can bring a rustic or vintage feel into the room.

Large, Walk-in Showers

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The majority of people start their day in the shower. It’s where we relax, come up with our best ideas, and sing our hearts out. By making it larger, more welcoming, you’re sure to make your daily shower one of the best parts of your day. Try using oversized glass panes surrounding it, or floor to ceiling tile or stone.

Double Your Shower Heads

While you’re envisioning your shower, the most important part is your water flow. Double shower heads are becoming more and more popular, and waterfall style shower heads have been a luxurious choice for the past few years By adding one (or both) of these options, you’re sure to create a shower you’ll never want to leave.

If you’re building your own home it can be a little overwhelming to figure out what you want. Our staff at Mt Sterling Custom Homes would love to help you with the process of designing your custom bathroom – as well as the rest of your home.

October 22, 2015

4 basic tips on fall decorating

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As the world changes color, so do our homes. Fall decorating is perhaps the most homely of all decorating throughout the year. But if you’re one that struggles with home decorating or would just like a few more ideas to build on what you have, here is a list of tips to help you out.

1. Use proper tones

There’s a reason fall decorating uses a barrage of earth tones, and that’s because it helps match what the Earth is doing as the leaves and landscape turn into their yellow, brown, orange and reddish hues. Your home must reflect that same change or else it’s simply not fall decor.

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2. Take advantage of scent

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The first thing guests will notice, even before what they see it, is what your home smells like. Fill your house the aroma of the season with the use of either potpourri or scented candles. Potpourri works as both a fall fragrance and decoration while scented candles emit both fragrance and light. Different fall scents such as pumpkin spice, cedar wood, cinnamon bark, incense-cedar and mint leaves.

3. Be natural and rustic

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The whole point of the falls season is enjoying the what the outdoors show. You can exemplify this in your home with the use of more wooden/rustic furniture with a vintage flair. This will create a scene of the outdoors and nature and is only enhanced if combined with the above tips.. Your house will feel more homely and natural than ever before.

4. A pumpkin lined trail leading to a wreath decorated door

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People say presentation is everything. If that’s true then the path from your yard to your door will have a lot to say. Lining the path with a row of pumpkins leading to a door adorned with a fall wreath will give the immediate impact that this is one cozy home.

With these basic tips you now will be able to create a fall featured home that you and your guests will enjoy for the entire season.

How can Mt Sterling help?

As you build your custom home in Northern Utah, we can help you plan for great areas of your home to decorate. Come meet with our consultants who will help you plan for indoor shelving, welcoming porches, and storage for all of your fun decorations. Mt Sterling is the most trusted home builder in Northern Utah, serving areas throughout Cache, Weber, and Davis counties.

June 10, 2014

Home: It’s All About Trust

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Who Can You Trust To Build Your Home?

A house can mean a lot of different things. To many, a home is peace of mind. To others, a
home is just a wood frame with brick on the outside and plumbing on the inside. Either way you
look at it, buying a home takes a lot of trust. You are taking your life savings (and some extra)
and putting it into a place that you want to live in for many years. A house is what protects you
from the elements, and it is the place you want to enjoy your spare hours knowing everything is
safe and functional.

Every Project is Special

This is even more true for your custom home, the project you’ve spent countless painstaking
hours planning and visualizing every last detail for. Unfortunately, some home builders violate
that trust. Imagine what happens when a builder cuts corners and skips important details that
make your project yours. The beautiful home of your dreams quickly turns into a second-rate
matchbox with paint and a big price tag.

We Value Your Trust

Here at Sterling Custom Homes, a home means trust—your trust. You can trust that you will get
the highest-quality product for your money and that you will be treated fairly by Utah’s top
construction professionals. At Sterling Custom Homes we are pleased to offer you the
experience of over 15 years of partnering with exceptional clients like yourself to produce the
absolute best product.

When looking for your custom home, choose Sterling Custom Homes, the most trusted home
builders in Utah. We will work with you every step of the way to deliver the home of your
dreams.

March 28, 2014

Websites that Inspire

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Finding Your Style

As Northern Utah’s premier custom home builder it is our goal to make a home perfectly suited to you. What is a great way to make sure you are able to identify your own distinct style? Look at what others have done and find inspiration!

In an effort to help you find inspiration we have compiled a list of home websites that will definitely give you limitless options and designs to explore.

1. The Selby

An amazing inspiration site. Simply because that’s exactly what it is! Founded in 2008 as a side project of photographer Todd Selby, the site has become a place for Selby to photograph people in their homes. The best thing about the site is Selby has photographed people from all walks of life, each with a unique home that they have made their own.

2. Strange Closets

Strange Closets is very much on the artistic side of these blogs. However, our favorite event is the weekly home tour where they really show off multiple options/designs to the home. The main focus of this site is interior design.

3. Grassroots Modern

Founded by two Utah natives, Grassroots focuses on the stylish and contemporary. Showing homes and designs that are trendy but not too over the top so we feel alientated. With the goal of helping designers better connect with the mass population of society, this site provides great ideas and inspiration.

4. Houzz

Hands down this is our first “go-to” site. If you want to find an example of virtually anything relating to your custom home design or style just join the Houzz community and start searching. You will find literally hundreds of photos from actual homes. The inspiration is limitless!

5. Pinterest

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You might think this social network site won’t give you serious design ideas but many of our custom home owners have found some of the most unique inspiration ever!

We encourage you to “explore” the world wide web and see what design gems are waiting to inspire you! Then bring all those inspiration into Mt Sterling Custom Homes and let us help you bring them to life.

December 12, 2013

Pick the Right Layout for Your Lifestyle

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Finding the right home for your family can be tough! That’s why many families choose to build custom homes to fit their needs. But even designing a custom home that will fit your family’s needs is difficult! In order to build the home of your dreams, you need to consider your family’s lifestyle from the beginning of the building process. Your northern Utah home builders will help you along the way, but here’s some extra thoughts to consider!

1. For the extroverted family: If your family loves social interaction, build accordingly! Create open spaces where visitors can be comfortable in your home. If you anticipate that your family will spend most of their time in the main areas of the house, pick a floor plan that accommodates family togetherness. Don’t dedicate as much time or money to the private areas of the house if you expect that your family will mostly be in the main area.

2. For the introverted family: If the members of your family highly value alone time, then take that into consideration when building. When you focus on creating better bedrooms and solitary spaces, your family will enjoy the floorplan that you create! Be realistic when thinking about what your family is really like so that you can build a home to fit their needs.

3. For the family that is part extroverted and part introverted: It’s likely that most families fall in this category. Most families are not all extroverted or all introverted, but a combination of the two. Or maybe your family has both extroverted and introverted interests. In order to satisfy the needs of this family, pick your priorities when it comes to both the extroverted and introverted sides. If your family, for instance, enjoys cooking as a social activity then focus your energies on a social kitchen. Or if your family enjoys reading, create reading spaces in your home. You may not be able to satisfy all the extroverted introverted needs of your family, but you will satisfy the most important ones!

Don’t worry! With these careful considerations of your family’s lifestyle, you will build the perfect home for your family!

June 24, 2013

Why Be Choosey When Building a Custom Home

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One of the biggest decisions that a person or couple can make throughout their entire life is having a home built or purchasing a home. However, there are many pros and cons to both, most custom home builders will tell you that it’s cheaper in the long run and you get exactly what you want with homes that are custom designed by the buyer. Being picky over how your home is going to look or how the floor plan is going to be is not a bad thing. In fact, it shows that you are more interested in the future than what is currently happening right now. Why be choosey when building a custom home? Because in the long run it will save you time, money, and headache.

Having a home built can be extremely stressful and when it comes down to married couples, most say that it caused several discrepancies within their marriage. The decisions to be made may take up to a year to work through and plan. This is just the beginning. The planning process itself can take up to a year and a half depending on if the buyer has an idea in mind for what their end product will look like. This is one of the upsides to having a home custom built. Being choosey about it, just shows that you don’t want to live with the last homeowner’s choices but want to create your own dream house.

A key point to be choosey about when having your home custom built is the appliances, fixtures, and landscape. Even though you’ve already got your foot in the door to owning your dream home, these things can be the make it or break it of your vision. Choosing to place a chandelier in the kitchen might seem like a great idea now, but considering prices and how much electricity that fixture might take, you might find a cheaper fixture that looks just as good and drains less energy.

It’s very important that the choices made are those that you’re willing to live with for the remainder of your stay in the home. If you are indecisive about certain things, try visualizing what it will be like in your home. You can even take pictures of the items in the store, or find them online to compare how it would look versus a different model. Why be choosey when building a custom home? Because if you’re not, you could end up paying a ton of money for remodeling that could have been avoided by being choosey and planning ahead.