Custom Home Chronicles: Paragon Homes Blog
Welcome to Custom Home Chronicles, your trusted resource for custom home-building insights from Paragon Homes. Here, we share expert knowledge about the custom home building process, design trends, and living in Pittsburgh's finest communities, including McDonald and Oakdale. Whether you're planning to build your dream home or simply exploring custom building options, our blog offers valuable information from Pittsburgh's true custom home builder. From floor plans to finishes, lot selection to move-in day, discover the expertise that sets Paragon Homes apart.
5 Tips for Outdoor Summer Entertaining
Summer is officially here! And this weekend’s weather will really be heralding the season. Maybe your patio, deck, or porch party game is strong, and you have already sealed your reputation as the summer hangout in your neighborhood. If not, here are 5 clever and relatively simple things you can do to add some creativity […]
Smart Technology in Your Custom Home
One of the most frequent requests we get from our custom home clients is how to incorporate smart home technology into their home building project. As Google, Amazon, and other companies refine and add to their voice activated smart home systems, other companies continue to develop new products to make daily living more convenient. Here […]
Our Most Requested Custom Home Features
New home design trends are always changing. We thought we’d share a few of the things that our recent clients have been asking about and/or including in their custom home projects. Watch this space in the coming months for more stories about other popular home features we are being asked to customize for homeowners. Finished […]
Live in the Region’s Top School Districts
The Pittsburgh Business Times this week published its 2018 Honor Roll of top public school districts in the 5-county Pittsburgh region, and two of our new home communities are located in the two top districts — South Fayette and Upper St. Clair. This year’s “best of” list was compiled based on three years of standardized […]
Mudroom Must-Haves
Spring has arrived, and whether that means rain or more snow (will winter ever end?), there will be mud. Mudrooms have their roots in rural living, back when country roads weren’t paved and everyone — not just farmers — came home dragging dirt on their heels. At the time, a mudroom was a simple, small […]
Soaker Tubs Still in Style
It used to be that everyone’s dream bathroom featured a jacuzzi tub of some sort, either a traditional rectangular built-in or a larger size tub as a focal point in the master bath. Homeowners in recent years have moved away from bathtubs altogether in the master suite, opting instead for large, walk-in showers featuring steam, […]
When is the Best Time to Build a Custom Home?
Do you think you are ready to build a new custom home? Maybe you have been shopping for existing homes for a long time, and just can’t find the house that has everything you want in the area where you want to live. Or you might have the perfect home design all mapped out, but […]
How to Choose the Right Size Floor Plan
The average size of new, single family homes built in the U.S. continues to measure about 2,600 square feet. When you decide to build a new home and start looking at floor plans, it can be difficult to imagine living in the spaces as they are drawn on paper or depicted on a computer screen. […]
Paragon Homes has earned two 2017 Housing Excellence Awards.
It always feels good to be recognized for a job well done. Paragon Homes has earned two 2017 Housing Excellence Awards from the Builder’s Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh (BAMP) against the largest field of applicants in the history of the awards. View photo gallery. For our clients, the Mowreys, we created a custom floorplan that […]
Building New Home in 2018? 5 Questions for Home Builders
Most of us make lists for the New Year, even if they are only mental lists. Get in shape. Organize paperwork. Eat more vegetables. Maybe you are looking to make some bigger life changes, like looking for a new career or job, starting a family, or building a new house and putting down some roots […]
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