New Home Features

When building there are so many new home features to choose from – though it’s exciting, some can find the amount of choices a bit daunting. It’s inevitable that you will be met with options that you hadn’t even considered. We’re here to share our knowledge so you can get a jump on the building process – it will make you feel more confident going into the design phase.

Must Read Articles About New Home Features :

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5 Essential Front Door Color Ideas to Choose From

The color you choose for your front door ultimately defines your house in terms of class, style, and taste. There are several front door color ideas that you can choose from — however, they should fit in with the overall palette of your home. Choosing your front door color will depend on the color of your house, your preferences, and how you’ve decorated. Here are five bold front door colors and tips on how to pick them.

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10 Popular Custom Home Customizations

Customizations take a new home from typical to tailor-made. So, if personalization is what you crave, why settle for ordinary when it comes to your dream home? Here are 10 popular customizations you might love in your new home.

Everything You Need to Know About Ranch Homes

Learn why the one-story, open layout has made a comeback. The common saying, “as American as baseball and apple pie” could easily add “ranch homes.” A study released by the National Association of Home Builders shows two-thirds of home buyers (64%) would like a single-story home. To better understand the demand, here are some reasons the single story structure is popular again.

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Quartz Versus Granite Countertops

Designing a house opens the doors to tons of options. Picking out the countertops in a new home for your food preparation and eating areas might be one of the most enjoyable aspects of your building project. Quartz and granite offer their pros and cons, so it’s important to have a baseline understanding of each before you make your final selection.

Recent New Home Features Articles:

Introducing Our New Line of Cabinets

At Fine Line Homes, we are excited to announce new kitchen and bathroom cabinets from Yorktowne Cabinetry. The new line is called the Classic Series. We have the same custom look with staggered height and staggered depth but with the Classic Series we are now offering as a standard feature soft close drawers and doors, full extension drawers, and plywood sides on all cabinets exposed on the ends. There are 24 door styles to choose from with raised panels and flat panels in Maple, Oak, H... [Read More]

Single Level Living – Fenwick Ranch Home Plan

Baby Boomers are at the forefront of building one level homes. We are tired of going up and down stairs but don’t want to give up the street appeal or the space of a two story. Fine Line Home’s Fenwick ranch home plan has an incredible roof line with high pitched hip roof and (3) front gables. The shake siding in the gables add a Craftsman style flair. Match that with an optional third car garage and headers with keystones above front windows and garage door and you have a stunning exterior. ... [Read More]

Optional Island with Enhancement Lighting

Looking to add a simple touch of elegance and eye appeal to your kitchen in your new Fine Line Home? Then speak to your Housing Consultant about adding a Yorktowne Cabinetry island partnered with our Kitchen Enhancement Lighting Package #2. With a high volume of color combinations available to you, this will provide a very functional space with aesthetically pleasing entertainment value that can highlight any kitchen and create a great atmosphere for entertaining. [Read More]

Cedar Look with the Ease of Vinyl Maintenance

So you have decided on what house you want to build, but are stuck on how to give it that unique definition to make it all your own???? Consider upgrading to the Mastic Cedar Discovery Hand Split Shake vinyl siding. This upgrade will give you beauty and definition of a natural Cedar wood product, but with the durability and simple maintenance of a vinyl product. With a huge color selection the possibilities are endless. Talk to one of our Housing Consultants about the Mastic... [Read More]

A Pass-Through To Open A Room

If placed between a kitchen and dining room, a pass-through window can also provide convenience and allow air flow into a typically closed off room. Ultimately, this opening adds to the illusion of extra space, both opening up the room and connecting both rooms visually and spatially. Our model home at Hazleton, the “Manhattan” has such a pass through between the dinette and family room, therefore one can enjoy a meal and at the same time take in the beauty of the wall of windows at the... [Read More]

Carpet Free Stairs

One of the common upgrades customers ask for is to change from having carpet on the stairs going from the 1st floor to the 2nd floor. We offer three optional packages to accomplish this: The 1st package includes: Oak Treads with MDF Risers and MDF Skirt Boards replacing the standard stair system (no carpet on steps, carpet is rolled over lip on 2nd floor & the standard oak railing remains - staining and painting is extra). This allows you to have stained treads with painted risers &... [Read More]

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Home Designs for Your Lifestage

Change is a constant in life and our needs vary depending on the life stage we are currently in. What would you change in the home you currently live in? The answer to that question provides ideas and can inspire innovative solutions to help you build the home you want. This will also help with the decision “Is it time to sell and build?”. Design also includes livability and functionality. Our floor plans are colored to clearly showing areas for entertaining, storage de-stressing and how t... [Read More]

Composite Decking and Why it is Worth the Expense

In today’s society, outdoor entertaining has become a staple of American life. We build outdoor spaces such as concrete pad’s or Brick paver patios, but the most common outdoor space you’ll find is an attached deck. Decks are wonderful to have, but when built with pressure treated deck boards and a pressure treated railing system, you run into constant maintenance with it. Maybe a railing spindle over dries and pulls away from the deck screw or the same with a pressure treated ... [Read More]

Benefits of Ceramic Tile Flooring in Your New Home

At Fine Line Homes we offer a wide selection of standard features to choose from for your new home. To expand on just one area I would like to point out that our standard Flooring for the Baths is Ceramic Tile. Ceramic tile is high in both quality and value. In terms of costs, ceramic tile gives you the most value for your money. It provides plenty of decorative options and boasts durability. Ceramic tile is very easy to maintain, requiring a regular surface cleaning with a disinfectant... [Read More]

A Home for Conflicting Schedules

More and more in today’s ever evolving world it is becoming common for a husband and wife to work completely different schedules. It can become very taxing on each person when one works the graveyard shift and the other works 1st shift especially when you are trying to rest and it’s interrupted as the other person returns home from their shift. One way to combat this would be separate bedrooms but if the bedrooms are on the same floor you can still cause multiple disturbances. What i... [Read More]