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6 Tips to Winterize Your Home
The varying temperatures we experience during a year can have quite an effect on your home, especially if you’re not keeping everything properly maintained. With colder weather right around the corner, we want you to stay warm and your house to stay in great condition. The best way to avoid freezing pipes and other winter damage is to take a few precautionary steps to winterize a house. Here are our six tips for the coming winter: 1. Inspect Your Fireplace Everyone wants to be able to curl up in front of the fire during the winter but not at the … Read more
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How House Trusses Work & Why They Benefit Your Home
At P.L. Lyons we prefer to use trusses, rather than traditional stick-framing, when building roofs for our homes. Our priority is building the best houses for our homeowners, and using trusses in our roof construction is one way we accomplish that goal. How House Trusses Work If you’re more of an admirer of a beautiful home facade but fairly unfamiliar with the process of home construction, let us define trusses for you. House trusses are used to direct the weight of your roof to the load-bearing walls. They are constructed to span longer distances without relying on interior partitions for … Read more
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Best Remodeling Advice Ever
Whether you’re remodeling your home yourself or getting professional help, one thing is certain: it’s never as easy as it looks on TV. Remodeling can be a fun experience for the whole family, but it’s going to come with some challenges, too. At P.L. Lyons, we want you to go into your remodeling project with confidence and get the results you want and deserve. That’s why we’re giving you our best remodeling advice. Ready for it? Read below. Our Best Remodeling Advice Here is the best remodeling advice we could ever give you. It may sound cliche, but expecting the … Read more
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New Home Reveal for a Happy Client
The Spring Farm Lake house is complete and we couldn’t be more excited about the final result. We started working on this house at the very beginning of 2020. You can imagine some of the challenges we faced with the pandemic going on. We were still able to get some filming in during the first few weeks, though. In fact, you can see in this video how we put in all the roofs, which were built using trusses! We were also able to capture move-in day, so you can see the full 360. From barebones to finishing touches. The move-in video also … Read more
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Key Elements to Building an Open Concept Home
It was more popular years ago to have separate spaces in your home. Four or five rooms downstairs and four or five rooms upstairs, for example. Nowadays, however, most people are looking for open floor plans, where the kitchen flows smoothly into the dining and living areas. There are a lot of benefits to building an open concept home, like feeling more connected when spending time with family or entertaining, but remodeling a home that wasn’t originally designed like this in order to experience an open space isn’t always easy. Particularly when it comes to the remodeling of older homes, … Read more
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The Impact of Lot Location on Your Custom Home
When it comes to your custom home, location matters. It affects the costs associated with building and living in your new home for years after it’s built. You should be picky about building on a lot because it can impact the overall experience outside the home, inside the home, and determine aspects of the building process as well. So before you buy, design, and begin construction, you must consider the impact of the location. If you already purchased a lot, don’t fear! An experienced builder, like us, can still help you consider the opportunities and limitations of the lot while developing a plan with you that … Read more
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Costs to Consider When Building a Custom Home
Many homeowners dream of building their very own custom home. However, they often don’t realize all the costs associated with building a truly custom home versus a manufactured home, spec home, or buying a current house on the market. Although homeowners know that building a custom home is a great undertaking, they may not be aware of certain costs that a contractor or builder thinks about on a daily basis. This is one of many reasons it’s so important to work with a design and building team that is experienced, transparent, and willing to educate you along the way. It’s … Read more
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Behind the Scenes of Constructing a Garage Floor
Ever wondered what goes into the construction of a garage floor? Well, it’s no longer a mystery! At P.L. Lyons, we’re taking you behind the scenes to show you exactly what goes underneath your garage floor and to tell you a little about the codes and best practices for garage flooring. Garage Floor Foundation Garage floors, just like any other element of a new home, have to be built to code and built to last. For garage flooring, this means having the proper slope and the right filling and reinforcement before you can even think about laying the concrete. At … Read more
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2020 Custom Design Trends for Luxury Homes
Along with the new year– and decade– come the new design trends that are anticipated for luxury, custom homes. Whether you are interested in doing a custom build from scratch or remodeling your existing home, these trends for both architectural style and design will be sure to wow your guests and leave you with a luxurious experience in your home for years to come. Architectural Styles of 2020 Industrial is (Still) In This particular trend has been a focus of the last decade. An industrial-style home is usually characterized by the use of textures such as iron, aluminum, wood, and … Read more
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Why P.L. Lyons Stands Apart as Your Custom Builder in Louisville
When you are about to embark on the journey of building your custom home, where do you start? Many people interested in building their own homes are uncertain. One of the most important factors that play into the outcome of your dream home is the team of builders and contractors behind the scenes that you choose to make it come to life. Not all builders are created equal. We’re here today to tell you the reasons why we’re different. Reliability At P.L. Lyons, one of our core focuses is providing quality workmanship in all the custom homes we build. As a … Read more
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10 Tips for Successful Remodeling
At P.L. Lyons, we love the process of building a brand new custom home. However, we love doing remodels just as much and the ways that they can transform your current home. We want to share the benefits of why you would want to choose to remodel your home instead of building a completely new on. Below we will also address common misconceptions of home remodeling and answer the most common questions we get about it. Let’s start with the pros of home remodeling. Our team of designers, builders, and architects wants to make the home remodeling process as smooth as possible … Read more
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The FarmHouse Aesthetic
The farmhouse aesthetic has been a popular home style for decades, found on actual farms and in modern, suburban areas alike. As an architect and designer, I get requests for this style of home very frequently. There are some elements that have always accompanied a farmhouse from its early years while there are other features that have just become popular in recent years. Since our company prides itself on the ultra-customization of a home, we believe we can include pretty much any architectural or design style and still call a farmhouse. Still, there are some features that best compliment that … Read more
