Custom Home Build or Home Renovation? Key Factors to Consider Before Deciding
Should I do a custom home build or renovate a home? That’s the question you keep asking yourself as you think about creating your Florida …
How to Prepare for Meeting With a Custom Home Builder
You’re searching for your new home, but not just any home. You’re looking to custom build. So how do you get ready for your first …
How Does LaBram Work With Our Out-of-State Clients?
See if this sounds familiar: You’ve spent some time in the Tampa Bay region and you’ve fallen in love with the St. Petersburg area. After …
Top Custom Home Trends for 2023
A new year has arrived and we’d like to offer you some ideas for creating your custom home. Here are some of the top trends …
How To Choose the Right Custom Home Builder
Your home is your castle. This is especially true of a custom-built home for you and your family. A custom home is one that is …
How to Win Amid Rising Home Interest Rates: Advice for Custom Homebuyers
If you’ve been looking to take out a loan, or if you’ve been paying attention to the news reports, you know that the Federal Reserve …
Why Your Home’s Foundation Matters
As Hurricane Ian stormed its way through Florida, it slammed the state with flooding rains and left over 2 million people without electricity. In its …
How to Build an Amazing Outdoor Living Space
Patios, lanais, pools: They’re all cherished parts of the Florida lifestyle. They can also be expressions of each homeowner’s stylistic preferences and need for comfort. …
How Do I Design a Custom Home?
For many people, having a custom home is the culmination of lifelong dream. Here at LaBram Homes, we want to share with you some insight …
5 Trends in Custom Floor Plans in 2022
We’re about halfway through 2022, and so we thought this is a good time to share the trends we’re seeing so far from our customers …
When Tearing Down to Rebuild Is the Right Choice
You know where you want your new home to be. Maybe you’ve narrowed it down to a coastal neighborhood that has everything you want: atmosphere, …
LaBram is Your Family-Owned Custom Home Builder
LaBram Homes is a family-owned business, and it shows in everything we do for our clients. From the initial meeting you have with the LaBram …
Benefits to Including Outdoor Spaces in Your Home Design
A home is much more than what’s under the roof. People who are eager to build a new home realize this when they work with …
How to Build Your Vacation Home in 2022
At LaBram homes, one of our specialties is designing and building vacation homes for our customers. For some of our customers, their new property is …
Top Custom Home Trends for 2022
Ready or not, the new year is just around the corner. As we head in 2022, we’re going to share some of the design trends …
How to Build Your Home With a View
A house with a view. It’s one of the dreams of home ownership. And Florida offers an abundance of picturesque settings that many of us …
Why Renovate When You Can Build New?
You’ve found a property with the ideal view and location. You’re thinking about purchasing the lot, which already includes a house. Before closing the deal, …
Tips for First-Time Home Builders
If you’re building a home for the first time, you may feel like you are in unfamiliar territory. The experience can be exciting and a …
How does the construction-to-permanent loan work?
Most of us are familiar with the kind of loan we get from a lender to finance the purchase of our home. After the down …
What Is BUILDERTREND and Why It Matters
Communication is key when it comes to building a custom home. It helps ensure that the builder and homeowner are on the same page. And …
What to Expect When Building Your Custom Home In Today’s Market
At LaBram Homes, we believe it is important to be transparent with our customers so that you have realistic expectations about what your home will …
What to Know about Custom and Tract Homes
What to Know about Custom and Tract Homes When you’re looking to build your home, it’s important to recognize and understand the differences between …
Most Popular Luxury Floor Plans
Most Popular Luxury Floor Plans To build your custom home the right way, it helps to have an idea of what’s current and on trend. …
Contemporary vs. Modern Homes: Understanding the Differences
Contemporary vs. Modern Homes: Understanding the Differences Most times, when we hear the words “contemporary” and “modern,” we think of them as synonyms. And in …
Seven Steps to Know in the Home-Building Process
Seven Steps to Know in the Home-Building Process You have a vision for your dream home. Now it’s time to make it a reality. But …
Top Home Design Trends for 2021
Top Home Design Trends for 2021 When the subject is home design ideas, you’ll find plenty of them on the internet, at your home improvement …
Remodel or Build New: How the FEMA 50% Rule Factors in to Your Decision
Remodel or Build New: How the FEMA 50% Rule Factors in to Your Decision You live in Florida, home to hurricanes, torrential downpours, and the …
Five Ways to Manage Costs When Building Your Custom Home
If you’re planning to build a custom home, that means you’re set on getting the special conveniences and design elements that fit your style and …
Contemporary Modern Design is a Popular 2020 Custom Home Trend
Contemporary modern homes are known for their simplicity, sophistication, use of texture, and clean soft lines. Contemporary modern is one of the most desired design …
How to build and what to build on the land you own. [a helpful guide to investing in your future with your dream home]
In recent decades, we’ve spent $8 trillion on home improvements. Of this amount, only $63 billion has gone toward building new houses, while the rest …
Building a Hurricane Safe Custom Home [Florida’s Building Codes and Standards for Building a Home in Florida]
Florida is not new to hurricanes. In the past couple of decades, we have sustained several hurricanes, some small, but others with catastrophic and deadly …
Top Outdoor Living Trends of 2020
One of the most wonderful things about living in Florida, the sunshine state, is that you get to enjoy the wonderful outdoors all year round. …
Top Florida Home Trends of 2020
Home style and design are perpetually evolving, changing, and unique to each individual’s own tastes. However, there are undoubtedly some trends that are emerging that …
The Second Step in the Building Process: Financing
Everything at LaBram Homes is custom, including the financing. The second step in the LaBram Homes seven-step custom home building process is financing. The financing …
Tear Downs: Don’t Let a House get in the way of Building Your Dream Home
Tearing down a house is undoubtedly a daunting task when first taking a look into the process, but we’re here to share and simplify this …
Making the Most of Your Discovery Meeting
Your initial meeting with us here at LaBram Homes is the first step towards turning your vision into a reality. You will meet with the …
Popular Home Styles Among Florida’s West Coast
The diverse array of home styles commonly seen on Florida’s West coast can be overwhelming when you first take a look at it, so we …
New Lot or A Tear Down – We’ve Got You Covered
Building a custom home around Tampa Bay is a journey and an experience that many people dream of embarking on throughout their entire lives. Some …
Custom Home Builders: Holding Your Hand The Entire Way
When you’re ready to build a custom home, we are ready to be there every step of the way. Together, we’ll build the home of …
Site Preparation: Starting Your Home Build Strong
Before we begin building your LaBram custom home, we prepare your site for construction. Here’s how it works: We clear the site of debris, including …
Is a Construction to Permanent Loan Right for You?
Simply put, construction-to-permanent loans starts as a construction loan, then becomes a mortgage loan once construction is complete. Permanent Loans Homeowners gain a lot from …
Granite or Quartz? What’s Best for Your Countertops?
Countertops: Granite or Quartz For many of us, finishing is the fun part of the home design and construction process. And choosing your countertops is …
Soil Testing: Why it Matters in the Building Home Process
If you’re building a home, you need permits. Soil testing on that is an integral part of most permitting processes. Soil Testing When Building a …
Building a Home? Don’t Forget Your Tree & Topographic Survey
If you’re ready to build a new home, a tree and topographic survey is the first step toward ensuring the soundness and longevity of your …