What’s the Cost of a Custom Home?

A custom home is likely the largest purchase a person will make in their life. Beginning costs like land and permitting through final costs like furnishing and landscape can vary widely based on the goals and wishes of the homeowner.

At Shaw Building and Design, our goal is to help you make choices that fall within your budget while exceeding your expectations on your forever home.

Our detailed budgeting process shows not only where your money is being spent, but how to maximize the budget by making small changes. Our design staff will guide homeowners through the build process and will highlight cost-saving measures like built-in shower stalls for guest bathrooms while spending more on tile for primary bathrooms. Other costs like roofing materials, siding choices, landscaping, accents, window treatments and more can all be customized to maximize budget in certain areas while reducing costs in others. 

Building a custom home may be more cost effective over time than buying a “fixer-upper” and making small changes in steps. With the larger upfront cost of a custom home, you get every detail that you want with no time between projects.

New home warranties also ensure things like insulation, plumbing, foundations, electrical work, roofing and more are brand new and up to the latest code as well as building best practices. 

Custom homes can be designed with cost-saving measures like solar or thermal energy, low flow toilets and energy smart appliances. Every Shaw Custom Home features wall to wall insulation that can drastically reduce heating and cooling costs over the lifetime of ownership.

While we hope we’ve built your forever home, a well-built custom house is an investment that will only appreciate in value when listed for sale. Being in business for more than 30 years means we’ve built homes for the same families at all stages in life, from growing families to empty nesters.

While we cannot accurately predict final pricing without knowing details, you will leave our initial design meeting with a general budget based on your wish list of features, square footage, furnishings and more. 

To learn more about pricing a custom home contact us and let us help you build the home of your dreams.