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Steps in the Home-Building Process
We take great care with every step of the home-building process. We want your new home in LaPorte to offer everything you want and need for years. Before we dive into the details of building your new home, we get to know you and your family so we can offer personalized options and thoughtful suggestions uniquely suited to your lifestyle.
If you're coming to LaPorte to make the most of our lake life, you might need extra space in your garage to store your kayaks, so they're always ready for an excursion on Stone Lake or Clear Lake. If our wineries are calling to you, you might want to arrange your kitchen with ample space for a decorative wine rack you can fill with picks from Anderson's Vineyard, Shady Creek, and Butler Winery. Once we have a feel for what you want, we'll proceed with the rest of the home-building process.
1. Initial Planning and Excavation
In this initial home construction phase, you'll select your floor plan and pick some preliminary elements such as the tubs, showers, and exterior materials and colors. While you're working on these details, we'll begin excavation and prepare the foundation for your new home in LaPorte.
2. Framing and Additional Selection
During the second selection process, you'll determine the placement for your electrical and plumbing fixtures, laying out the future functionality of your home. We'll construct your home's exterior walls and roof during this time. In the next selection meetings, you'll pick out your flooring, lighting fixtures, cabinets, and other interior items while our construction team moves on to start framing your home.
3. Exterior Finishing and Mechanical Rough-Ins
In the next stage of construction, we finish the roofing, exterior wall coverings, and exterior concrete. Meanwhile, our contractors are inside roughing in your electrical, plumbing, and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. This stage in the construction process ends with a home inspection.
4. Walls and Floors
Your home's interior gets a major transformation in this phase as we install insulation and drywall. Once the walls are in, we place any hard flooring that you've chosen throughout the house.
5. Cabinetry and Casings
This exciting phase sees the installation of your cabinetry, columns, lockers, and stairways. We'll add window casings, door casings, and trims.
6. Final Touches
In the last stage of the home-building process, we add the finishing touches. Walls get the final coat of paint, and woodwork takes its last coat of stain. We install the cabinet pulls, doorknobs, plumbing fixtures, and electrical trim. Mirrors are hung in the bathroom as your home takes its final shape. If your home has carpet, we'll lay this last to keep it pristine.
Hiring Local Custom Home Builders
We know that you have a choice of new-home builders in LaPorte. It's crucial that you make the right decision so you have a solid team on your side throughout the home construction process. At Steiner Homes, we take our time getting to know every client. We understand the extreme importance of building a home that feels right for your family, and we won't take any shortcuts along the way.
Even seemingly small decisions, such as the shape of your ceiling, can make a big difference in the finished look and feel of your home. If you're an art aficionado drawn to LaPorte for its local art galleries and talented artisans, you'll want a home with plenty of wall space to display your growing collection of local finds. This may mean cathedral ceilings in the great room so you have the perfect spot for a soaring painting.
Perhaps you're coming to LaPorte for the thriving farm culture and dream of whipping up a completely local meal with Sampson Beef, a Tuholski Produce salad, and a cobbler rich with Garwood Orchards blackberries and raspberries. We'll help you equip your home with a gourmet kitchen featuring a spacious pantry and intuitive workflow.
We pride ourselves on being the most attentive LaPorte home builders you can find. We've worked through all the intricacies that go into designing a functional and feature-packed home, so we can bring that expertise to the table in every design meeting. We think of the little things and ask all the right questions to make sure your home design can provide the ideal lifestyle for your family.
Making LaPorte Your Home
When your home construction is finished, all that's left is moving in and making yourself home. If you have children, you'll need to connect with the LaPorte Community School Corporation to get them enrolled in the local public school system. If you're interested in a private school education, La Lumiere is a boarding and day prep school located right in LaPorte.
Don't forget to visit the La Porte County Public Library and sign up for a library card so you can access all the facility's offerings. This library has far more than just books. Its Library of Things includes puzzles, games, yoga equipment, slow cookers, instant pots, STEAM kits, foam rollers, and more that you can check out and take home for a while.
Contact Steiner Homes Today
LaPorte, Indiana, is an idyllic place to call home. If you're looking for new-home builders in LaPorte to help you design a custom house, contact our Steiner Homes team. We'll walk you through every step of the home-building process to ensure you get the best of new homes. You'll be living the lake life in no time.
Custom House Plans
Before getting into the nitty gritty of home building, it’s important to know the basics. When you choose to custom build a house, one of the first steps will be to choose a house plan. Also commonly known as a floor plan, a house plan is simple two dimensional (2D) line drawing or blueprint showing a layout, including features such as walls, garages, windows, doors, cabinets, closets, appliances and more.
When shopping for your perfect home, it’s important to take a look at the custom house plans and floor plans. You want to find a home that works not only for your family but also for your budget. At Steiner Homes, we encourage you to take into consideration the total square footage, the number of bedrooms, number of bathrooms, and the overall floor plan, as house plan necessities will differ for everyone. For some families a single story home with a master on main layout will make the most sense, but other families may need multiple floors such as an upstairs or basement. This house plan guide will take you through all the various types of floor plans that Steiner Homes offers and will help you decide which style is best for you.
Ranch-Style House Plans
Ranch-style homes are single-story homes that typically have long and low-pitch rooflines with large windows along the home’s front. Ranch floor plans can vary, depending on how modern the house is. Older ranch-style homes may be more sectioned off, whereas newer – or recently renovated – ranch-style houses may have more open floor plans. The overall shape of the ranch home varies, and our ranch home floor plans range in size from 1,641 to 2,538 square feet.
We have a dozen varieties of ranch-style homes offering plenty of space throughout the main floor. Most plans have three bedrooms, at least two bathrooms, and a two-car garage. Many of our ranch home designs also include a basement, which increases the overall space and gives you more options for a home gym, office, theater, or even an additional bedroom. These types of homes are ideal if you fall into one of the following categories:
- You hope to still live in the house as you age. Ranch house plans are great for people who are looking to stay in their homes long term, as they are handicap-accessible and don’t present the same mobility restrictions as homes with stairs.
- You are looking for something family-friendly. If you have kids, you know that the laundry is never-ending. Having the bedrooms and the laundry room on the same floor can be a huge time saver. Additionally, stairs can present a major safety concern for young children. In a ranch-style home, this isn’t a concern.
- You are looking for a home with good resale value. Ranch homes have been around forever, and they’re not going anywhere any time soon. The single story configuration offers timeless charm, with an array of convenience factors for future residents.
- You want to keep your utility bill low. One major benefit to ranch style homes is the increased efficiency of HVAC systems. Remember, heat rises. Because of this, in a two story home it is more costly to keep the first floor warm in the winter and the second floor cool in the summer.
Master on the Main House Plans
If you’re in the market for a home with the master bedroom, or primary bedroom, on the main level, we offer nine different options. True to their name, these bedrooms are located on the same floor as the home’s main living areas, making it convenient to access everything, including the kitchen, living room, laundry, and more, on that first floor. These types of homes are ideal if you fall into one of the following categories:
- You desire extra privacy. If you have a teenager who plays an instrument or an older child who works later shifts and you don’t want to be disturbed, this type of design might work for you.
- You don’t want to negotiate stairs. Having a first-floor bedroom eliminates the need to go up and down stairs daily.
- You have older family members living with you. Perhaps you’re giving up the master bedroom to your aging parents, so this option allows them to have both privacy and avoid using stairs.
At Steiner Homes, our master on the main floor plans range in size from 2,010 to 3,809 square feet. Many of our plans have four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a three-car garage.
Two-Story Home Floor Plans
If you’re looking at two-story home floor plans, we have almost two dozen to choose from. Perhaps the most popular configuration of a primary residence, two-story homes have a main living area on the first floor and the bedrooms upstairs. The size of our two-story homes varies from 2,064 to 3,534 square feet, and they include four or five bedrooms, 2.5 to 3.5 bathrooms, and either a two- or three-car garage.
As a family-owned business, we know how important family is to our buyers. Our house plans are customizable so you can make some room-size adjustments to our standard plans. We pride ourselves on offering high-quality upgrades that come standard, and all of our homes include a one-year full craftsmanship and material warranty. If you’re looking for a home in Northwest Indiana for your expanding family, consider using Steiner Homes to make your dream home a reality.