Cache Valley – MT Sterling Custom Homes

Cache Valley

February 15, 2016

Planning for Future Savings

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The beautiful thing about building your own custom home is you’re able to make decisions that will help impact your future savings. Making a few smart choices when designing and building a home will lead to tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars saved in a lifetime. Here at Mt Sterling Custom Homes, we are dedicated to helping you make those decisions that will be in your best interest and help you save tons of money on your future utilities bills. By considering the following options, you will be able to save more money in your new Mt Sterling Home.

1. Use LED Lights

Using a LED light bulb instead of a normal incandescent light bulb, you will be amazed at how much money you can save. According to the Energystar.gov website, LED lightbulbs save up to 90% of the energy of old light bulbs. By using these lights in your home, you can expect to save a huge amount on your electricity bill. We can help you can make decisions while designing your home that will help you see these benefits. We suggest that people should do this not only to save money, but to also do a small part on helping create a greener society.

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2. Insulate Your Home

For those who live in the intermountain west, we know that heating in the winters and cooling in the summers can be a huge cost for homeowners. By insulating the openings of doors and windows, this can help keep the heat or cold air inside. If you couple this with managing your thermostat to make sure that when you aren’t home or during the nights you can save a bit on heating or air conditioning. While other builders will offer insulation upgrades at a premium, Mt Sterling Custom Homes goes above and beyond to ensure that your home is air tight from extreme temperatures. We have thermal tested our homes to ensure our practices keep your windows, doors, and walls as a barrier from the elements.

3. Save on Hot Water

We understand that very few people like jumping into a cold shower. Not every homeowner is willing to sacrifice their warm showers, but did you know that you can save on your water and gas bills by making smart shower head purchases? By installing shower heads that use less water, you will be able to save on both the cost of heating the water and the water itself.

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These are three easy ways to help you live comfortably in your new custom home, yet save money on your utilities. Be sure to ask us about other ways to save when designing your home! At Mt Sterling we have small tips that will help you save money in the long run.

July 25, 2014

Transform Your Home With Gardens

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A Little Time and Effort Make All The Difference

Think about it, whether you have flower pot on your porch, a few bushes by your back door or even just the grass in your yard, most of us have some form of a garden to care for. Whatever type of garden you have it can always be made more beautiful and enhance the value of your home. As custom home builders in Cache Valley, Mt. Sterling Custom Homes is dedicated to helping you not only with your home but with the landscaping as well.

Gardens Enhance Your Home

Gardens are beautiful and pleasant and they can be functional part of your home. Historically gardens have been a sign of class and wealth, only upper class and royalty could afford to have decorative gardens. Working class families would just have patches of tilled soil to cultivate small crops. In modern society home sites can be smaller than ever but no matter the size of your land with a few creative tricks you can create a garden that will enhance your property value and compliment your home.

A Garden Takes Planning

Like most things the best gardens are well planned. Take the time to do a little research. What are your priorities? Are you looking for simplicity? Are you trying to be water-wise? Do you want flowers that bloom all season or plants that return every year? The internet or your local nursery will be a great asset in your planning stage. If you can’t afford to do the whole project all at once add a few plants each week, or month or even each summer. Eventually you will have the garden of your dreams.

Remember The Basics

Once you are planted, remember the basics, water and fertilizer. Utah is technically still the desert and most plants won’t thrive without a little extra TLC. Fresh mulch every few months, regular weeding and removing the “dead heads” will keep your garden looking fresh and beautiful.

If you are interested in building a home so you can have your own personal garden please give our new home consultants at Mt. Sterling Custom homes a call and let them help you with the home AND garden of your dreams.