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How to Design Your New Modular Home

Are you in the market for a new home? Maybe you are interested in learning about homes you can customize for your own wants and needs. Carbide Construction is a modular home builder serving Springfield and the entire Northern Virginia area, so we are well versed in all it takes to design a new modular home. Here are a few tips on what to think about when you are designing yours. The first consideration for your new modular home and something to discuss with your modular home builder is your budget. How much you can spend will definitely dictate the other decisions you will be making during this process. And be sure you have a contingency fund set aside too in case some unexpected expenses come up. Then think about your current home. While we realize that you are probably moving out because that floor plan doesn’t suit you anymore, think about the room in your home that you love the most. What aspects of it do you love and why? Could those be incorporated into your new hom...

The Advantages of Modular Home Additions

Building an addition onto your home can be a stressful process. And there are a lot of decisions to make and many factors to consider. Carbide Construction specializes in these types of home additions in Vienna and the surrounding areas, and we can think of several reasons you should choose this kind of addition over a stick built addition. Modular home additions do not have the same types of scheduling delays that are sometimes associated with stick built additions. Modular additions are made in a factory and then transported to your home. So uncontrollable elements like the weather are no longer a factor when you have a modular home addition put onto your home. Stick built additions have to be postponed if the weather gets bad. And thanks to the fact that modular home additions have to be transported to a separate job site, they are strongly built (sometimes over-built) so they can withstand the ride from the factor to your home. If you are worried about local build...