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Stress-Free Entertaining This Holiday Season
From our Hayden Homes family, some great tips on ensuring your holiday season is as stress-free as possible! If you’re excited about having people in your brand new home for the holidays, then you’re probably stressing over what you can to ensure that your holiday season is as stress-free and smooth as possible. Here are some tips for … read more “Stress-Free Entertaining This Holiday Season”
Get Your Home Ready for the Winter with this Simple Checklist
As temperatures cool throughout the Pacific Northwest, now’s the perfect time to start thinking about what things you’ll need to do to get your new home ready for winter. To help keep things simple, we’ve created this simple winter-ready checklist to help in preparing your home for the winter. Start early and avoid having to … read more “Get Your Home Ready for the Winter with this Simple Checklist”
Tips for Finding Land to Build Your Dream Home On
One of the first steps in your homebuilding journey is finding land for your dream home. Picking a location you love is key to the enjoyment of your home for many years. Here are some tips for finding land on which to build your new home. Determine What Elements of a Location Matter Most to … read more “Tips for Finding Land to Build Your Dream Home On”
Preparing Your Landscaping for Winter
You’ve worked hard to get your yard, garden, and other aspects of your new home’s landscape looking great. You want to make sure that’s not all lost as soon as freezing temperatures hit! As temperatures continue to cool, now’s the perfect time to start preparing your landscape for winter in the Northwest. Here are some things to do … read more “Preparing Your Landscaping for Winter”
Ways to Start Saving for Your Future Dream Home
Before you can build your dream home, you’ll need some savings. Of course how much savings you’ll need completely depends on the type of home loan you are able to get. Some require more savings than others, and your credit score, debt to income ratio and other financial factors play into it as well. But, … read more “Ways to Start Saving for Your Future Dream Home”
Avoiding Water Damage in Your New Home
If you are a new homeowner, the last thing that you want to worry about is any damage to your new home. This is especially true if you have young children and/or pets in the home. Water damage is one of the most common culprits that demands certain preventative measures. To help keep your new … read more “Avoiding Water Damage in Your New Home”
How to Pinpoint Your Decorating Style
If you have recently built a new home, you no doubt want to start decorating that home as soon as possible. However, with so many styles to choose from, how do you know which decor style suits you best? If you want to create a home environment that will align with your personality (and wow … read more “How to Pinpoint Your Decorating Style”
Tips on Choosing a Great Home Builder
When you are dreaming about building your own home and are ready to hire a home building company in the Northwest to turn that dream into a reality, there are several factors you should consider. After all, you want to ensure that you are getting the highest quality home building services at the most affordable … read more “Tips on Choosing a Great Home Builder”
Easy Landscaping Ideas
Do you hate doing yard work? Not everyone has a green thumb. The good news is that you can give your yard a face lift without spending all your free time doing it! HouseLogic has some great tips on making your yard look great in no time. #1 Use Rocks for Interesting Landscape Features … read more “Easy Landscaping Ideas”
First Story Home Goes to a Deserving Family
We at Simplicity had the opportunity to do a little teambuilding activity with our Hayden Homes and First Story families, helping to build a home for a deserving family in Albany, OR. This family has risen above significant struggles and is able to build a Hayden Home with the financial backing of First Story. Perhaps … read more “First Story Home Goes to a Deserving Family”
