McLean Custom Home Designed & Built by PAramount Construction
McLean Custom Home Nearing Completion
Another Custom Home in McLean Virginia is almost completed.
Another real new custom home beauty designed and built by our award winning team
Prices Of New Home Materials & Labor Are Low & Labor Quality Is High – It's A Great Time To Build A New Custom Home
Across the board (with the exeption of of a few vendors like appliances ) our vendors are reporting that their labor and material costs are relatively low. The pricing we have been getting for direct costs of new custom homes & large additions to homes in the Washington DC area have remained low for a few years now. However, we are noticing vendors getting slightly busier than they’ve been in the last year or two.
Here’s one of our excellent vendors, Glen Embry, of Metcalf HVAC, explaining what he thinks of the current market:
Owner Loves His New Home – Even MNCBIA Judges Love The Home
Paramount Construction nominated for another MNCBIA Custom builder award.
Here’s a look at the inside and an interview of the homeowner.
The judges from MNCBIA loved the home too. They almost wouldn’t
leave. Click Here & take a look at this home we designed and built.
This is a great example of why owners come to us for design
and construction. Anyone can design a “plain-old-box” of a house.
Lots of builder around town basically design and sell the exact same plan.
You can actually get the plan at your local Giant or Safeway while you’re
standing in the checkout line.
We’ve discovered that the Washington D.C. area has many owners
with more discerning tastes and sense of design. Our plans are
designed differently.
These are not “cookie cutter” homes. Take a look here
Yet, as great as the design is, our pricing very reasonable.
When we present a home price the price is all inclusive.
Many other builders start at $85 per square foot over the phone.
The problem is that by the time they add permits, excavation, engineering,
dumpsters, driveways, upgrade the vinyl floor to wood, upgrade the vinyl
siding to hardiplank their over $200 per square foot. Plus it takes these guys
months of your time until you finally extract all the information out of ‘em.
Let me know what you’ve found in the market place as you talk with
building companies out there. I’d like to hear from you.
World-Class Architect Gives His Insights in Designing Custom Homes
Here’s Paramounts World-Class architect, on-site, live and off the cuff:
Home Remodeling Tax Credits Available
As of January 1, 2009, the federal government is making available up to $500 in federal tax credits for homeowners making improvements to replacement windows. insulation, non-solar water heaters, and certain high efficiency heating and cooling equipment. For more details and forms needed go to http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_tax_credits.
Energy Star Tax Breaks for Building Green
Elizabeth Razzi, a writer for the Washington Post Real Estate section, wrote on October 19, 2008:
“There will be some attractive federal tax credits …. you can research them at www.Energystar.gov ”
Here is a partial list from her article:
- for qualifying exterior doors, storm doors, metal roofs, insulation the tax credit will be 10% of the cost, up to a $500 credit
- Windows, skylights, storm windows will qualify for 10% of the cost, with a credit capped at $200
- Central AC and heat pumps will qualify for $300 credits
- Top efficiency furnaces or boilers that go beyond the government’s Energy Star standard will qualify for a $150 tax credit. Some super efficient tankless or electric heat pump water heaters will qualify for a $300 credit
- for solar water heaters (except those used for swimming pools) homeowners can get a tax credit covering 30% of the cost, up to $2000
