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	Responses To Home Building Surveys
	Have you filled out one of our home building surveys? We are reviewing and assembling the responses our visitors provide to our home building questions. If you have already completed a survey, look for your name here. If your opinions are not yet posted, please check this page later. We add the best new responses every few weeks. Click on a link to the right to see what other people have to say about the home building process.		Your Responses   Define a custom home Back to Survey Page Back to Home Page

What is a Custom Home? How "custom" does a house have to be before it may be called a "custom home"? The word custom has several different meanings and there are even more interpretations of the word as it relates to home building. Builders and homeowners do not always agree. Here are some of the "custom" responses we have received to this survey. What is your definition? Builder:   Patrick Hagan - Hagan & Hamilton - Timonium, Maryland, USA Description:   A Custom Home is a single residence which has been designed and planned prior to construction to meet the specific needs of it's owner. [ Top ] Homeowner:   Alex Brown - Montpelier, Vermont, USA Description:   A house designed by an architect or design/build contractor to meet spatial, structural and aesthetic criteria developed largely by the homeowner and secondarily by the designer. [ Top ] Homeowner:   Brad Kendall - Pocatello, Idaho, USA Description:   A home built to the home owners specifications, meeting the quality of the home owner standards, beyond the standard building codes. [ Top ] Builder:   Bob Nettleton - Nicholas Custom Homes, Inc. - Castle Rock, Colorado, USA Description:   A site and customer specific design constructed with high attention to quality and detail. [ Top ] Homeowner:   John Seidel - Chestertown, Maryland, USA Description:   A house designed around the needs and desires of a specific individual(s); departing in some major ways from standard plans, or designed completely from scratch for the customer. [ Top ] Homeowner:   Lise David - Montréal, Québec, Canada Description:   For me a custom home is a house that we could build according to one specification. [ Top ] Homeowner:   Scott Susman - Churchville, Maryland, USA Custom Home Description:   A home that is designed with input from the customer Customized Home Description:   A home which has a design basis already established and is able to be modified, in certain respects, by the customer. [ Top ] Owner/Builder:   Ben Atteberry - Carson City, Nevada, USA Custom Home Description:   Designed/built with specific needs of a particular occupant [ Top ] Homeowner:   Anonymous - New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Description:   24 / 7 for the next year of my life! [ Top ]