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When a product is classified as a luxury item, it might be misleading. Not all luxury items are expensive if implemented at the appropriate time. Some will catapult you to another level of elegant living or just make living easier. Some products cost less than an alternative, and others may require more of an initial investment but provide a safer roof over your head. To illustrate each of these three points, the Designer Dream Homes™ staff chose three specialty products to implement into your home: a water purification system, residential elevator and steel framing.
The time between choosing a home plan and starting construction is crucial. This is the time you will begin to choose appliances and amenities that fit into your budget and find out if your house may need to be modified to accommodate those items. This is also the period in which you will begin to plan for the distant future, being prepared as possible for what lies ahead. And with this construction process you’ll also be thinking about the safety of your home and how it best accommodates your family.
Providing Safety
Steel Framing
When building a home, you want the safest materials in which to build upon. Nothing is more important than protecting your family, and steel framing is the safest and sturdiest material for homes, as it’s impervious to termites, fungi, mold and other destructive insects. Not only safe for those inside its frame, a steel home also helps to save the environment. As a 100% recyclable material, steel is dimensionally stable and won’t expand or contract with moisture or temperature changes. It is also inorganic and won’t rot, warp, split, crack or creep.
Steel framing also provides multiple conductive paths to the ground, so if lightning were to strike, your home’s steel frame is lightning resistant and is non-combustible. Also good for builders, steel is produced in strict accordance with national standards and exceeds all building codes. Having piece of mind from the beginning of the construction phase will ease the rest of the homebuilding process.
Maintaining Health
Water Purification System
In order to choose the appliance or amenity that best suits your needs, you should thoroughly compare products, which includes their functions, maintenance levels and prices. You might have a less expensive product that is too limited in function, or what might appear to be a less expensive product at first might cost you a lot more money to maintain. You may even discover one product takes the place of many.
The Vitapur® water purification system is a point-of-entry system that actually costs less to install and maintain than some of its competitors, and when considering function, it excels and takes the place of many point-of-use systems you’ll find with sinks, showers and even garden faucets. In its house, the Vitapur® makes bottled water or spring water delivery obsolete.
The obvious problem the Vitapur® addresses is water contamination throughout the entire house. Whether drinking, washing or watering, its advanced filtration and ultraviolet system delivers clean, great tasting, odor-free water, directly and indirectly benefiting the entire family.
“Although great for commercial applications, the Vitapur® appeals to homeowners, because it treats and filters water throughout the entire house,” said Rina Ristagno, marketing manager for CFM Specialty Home Products, the parent company of the Vitapur® system.
Living Easy
The Home Elevator
When choosing a floor plan, you will often consider square-footage, amount of bedrooms and the size of a lot. While often wanting a two-story home, many homeowners are defeated before ever beginning the homebuilding process due to their inability to build on a larger lot. But before the construction process begins on a one-story home, remember it’s cheaper to build up rather than out, so that two-story home may not be out of reach.
While stairs often intimidate homeowners, adding a residential elevator to a two-story home provides multiple advantages. For the homeowner looking to increase their home’s value while adding convenience to their lifestyle, a residential elevator is the perfect way to achieve both. Low-maintenance, stylish and space saving, a home elevator can add 10% to your home’s value and is capable of making up to five stops. Consider how nice it would be to not climb stairs when going from a basement-level garage upstairs with groceries in hand. Or knowing you won’t have to give up your two-story home in later years because you can no longer climb the stairs.
For the family worried about a bulky elevator not matching their preferred décor, most home elevators are available in many stylish features. With hundreds of combinations, elevators can be designed with several wood finishes or upgraded to the beauty of natural wood. Even the accordion car gate may be available in several different colors, so matching with your home’s décor is never an issue. And with today’s elevators being more compact in design, most can be installed just about anywhere in the home.
Whether an elevator for convenience, a steel frame for safety or a water purification system for healthier living, all of these products provide luxury living in an environmentally friendly way.
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