Homeowner
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How to Prepare for Your Design Sessions
You’re building a new custom Florida home with us at ICI Homes, and we’re pleased to be your partner! One of the most important things you’ll do for us (and yourself) is to select your interior design finishes and materials.
The Latest Looks From the ICI Homes Design Center
It’s no secret that interior design trends come and go, much like the fashion we wear.
Two Design Sessions Make One Big Difference
If you build with us at ICI Homes, you’ll earn not one, but TWO trips to our ICI Homes Design Center. “Cowabunga!” you might say. “Let me at it!” Or, “Oh no…do I have to?” If you’re a creative type, you might feel like you’ve hit the jackpot. If you …
How to Mess Up Your Design Sessions
Your ICI Homes Design Center sessions, to select the interior finishes and materials for your new custom Florida home, should be an anticipatory situation. It’s one of the final steps before construction begins, and it offers the opportunity to thoroughly personalize your new interiors. We can’t build your home without …
Why You Must Make Your Interior Design Decisions
Considering the inside of your new custom-built Florida home as a giant, blank canvas should be one of the “oh goody” aspects of building from scratch. Yes, we know some of you would rather hide in a closet than choose paint colors, but since we’re being straightforward here, it’s your …
Why Having a Community Garden Can Be a Good Thing
Interested in founding a community garden or becoming involved in an existing one? It’s a great way to meet neighbors and new friends, plus grow your own salad ingredients! But the community-garden concept is more layered than the actual gardening aspect — although that’s the reason most of us love …
Have Info, Will Buy: Millennials’ Influence on Homebuilding Industry
Over the last 100-plus years, each generation of U.S. home buyers has exhibited specific preferences and behaviors when buying and selling their homes. Millennials — generally thought of as folks who reached early adulthood in the early 2000s — are no different. Like Baby Boomers and Generation X-ers before them, …
What Millennials Seek in a Home Buying Experience, Part I
Are you a prospective Millennial home buyer or know someone who is? In the U.S., Millennials are today’s youngest signature generation. Their spending power, cultural influence and priorities are impacting how many industries conduct business nowadays, and the home-building industry is no different. Millennials, by definition, are those who began …
Not a Fad: Community Gardening a Modern Tradition
If you’re settling into a new custom Florida home and would like to get your hands dirty — but not in your own backyard — consider becoming part of a community garden. Here’s why: Florida homeowners tend to have swimming pools, hot tubs, summer kitchens, patios and terraces in their …