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.
Meet New Members of the Paragon Family
Since we started Paragon Homes 30 years ago, we have always made customer satisfaction our top priority. We want you to love your house, and enjoy living in it for years to come. That means we work very hard to answer all of your questions and communicate clearly and honestly at each step of the […]
Prep Your Kitchen for the Holidays
Even if you have a spacious new kitchen, you might need to do a little inventory and organizing this week and heading into December. If you are hosting Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, you probably have all of your ducks in a row, so to speak. If you are traveling for your turkey dinner, you can […]
Benefits of Building a New Home
Starting Fresh Can Save You Money Maybe you’ve settled on a neighborhood or area you want to call home, but you are still house hunting. Reality television makes renovation of older homes look incredibly easy. And fast. But as many people know from experience, owning and fixing up an older home in real life can […]
Glossary for New Homeowners: 10 Terms to Know
If you are building or buying a new home for the first time, you might feel like you are learning a foreign language. Even if your realtor or builder is helping to translate the process, it’s good to have a working knowledge of some terms you will see in your paperwork or when researching things […]
The Final Walk-Through: What to Know
When your new home is complete and you are just about done packing up for the move, a builder will arrange a final walk-through of the property. No matter how hectic your schedule is (the walk-through might happen days or even hours before the final settlement), don’t skip this last step before moving in. While […]
Granite or Quartz? Pros and Cons of Each Material
Granite and quartz continue to be two extremely popular choices for countertops in both the kitchen and bath. Both offer plenty of color variations, which means you can probably find something that works with the other finishes you’ve chosen and your overall design aesthetic. But once you’ve decided that you want a certain look and […]
2017 Festival of Homes
We are excited to participate once again in the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh’s Festival Homes over the next two weekends, September 16-17 and September 23-24 from noon to 5 p.m. Paragon will be featuring our Deerfield Ridge community in South Fayette and our brand new Parkside Meadows community in Collier Township. Parkside Meadows is […]
5 Things To Splurge On When Building a New Custom Home
Building your dream home lets you discover who you are, how you want to live, and exactly where you want to put down roots. It is a significant investment that you are making, and you would like everything to go exactly right, especially during building. The main advantage to building your own home is that […]
Back to School
If you have children of school age, you have most likely been out shopping for notebooks, crayons, backpacks and snacks for lunches. It’s a good time to reorganize or rethink your home’s most-used living areas to create inviting, designated spaces for homework and also to hide the extra clutter from school projects and sports activities.
The Pros and Cons of Open Concept Floor Plans
Consider Your Day-to-Day Lifestyle Almost every real estate or home renovation reality TV show involves the quest for an open concept floor plan. Open concept design, which means common areas in a home have no walls or only partial walls, grew out of mid-century modern architecture in the 1950s. And although there’s already some buzz […]
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