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Home Automation Devices your House is Craving

Home automation tools used to control everyday items around the house with your phone are making serious headway in the modern housing market. Having a sleek, attractive house only increases in its allure with what today’s technology has to offer.

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5 Canadian Winter-Ready Homes

If there is anything Canada is more famous for than its maple syrup, it’s the frigid winters that chill the country from coast to coast. All homes built in Canada are done with the knowledge that they must be able to withstand winter’s chill as well as summer’s heat. Constructing a home in Canada is a unique challenge that is often overcome by ensuring that the home is insulated beyond the standards set out in the National Building Code of Canada. Read below to get inspired by these Canadian homes and how their owners decided to take on the chill of winter!

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Floor plans

7 Tips to Help You Design the Perfect Floor Plan

The perfect floor plan is not an easy task to accomplish – families are dynamics, and how we interact with our space changes a little year by year. Though the dimensions of a floor plan may be set in stone, how we play within this outline is variable. Read more for tips on how to optimize and design a floor plan that fits your needs!

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What You Need to Know About Passive Homes

Saving money on energy bills has never been easier than with the rigorous standards and concepts presented by Passive Houses. The Passive House was introduced in 1991 by Dr. Feist in Germany and is a concept used more and more commonly in construction of homes and buildings today.

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Benefits of Net Zero Energy Homes

Net Zero Energy homes – words you are sure to have heard in combination, but what does it mean?

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5 Energy Efficient Prefab Homes

5 Energy Efficient Prefab Homes

The words “modular” and “modern” are two words that have never preceded each other in the past, but are now finally starting to make headway in the custom build modern housing market.

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10 Modern Home Designs to Inspire

Minimalistic, flooded with natural light and functionality are the three keys to any modern home. These homes have consistent design aspects, such as an extreme aversion to pitched roofs, straight lines on the exterior and large windows. They are inspired by the need to be functional. They are also notorious for making great use of the surrounding environment and how they use natural sunlight to their benefit. Each room is designed with a distinct purpose and no space is considered wasted in a modern home.

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Custom Home Building

5 Advantages of Designing Your Own Home

Home buyers today are bombarded with options and advertisements on prefabricated homes and neighbourhoods. Clients are able to see plans of their home before even really thinking about what their own needs are. Home buyers are taught to think: “Yes, I could probably live in this home” instead of “Yes, this is the home for me”. Clients are not encouraged to have independent thoughts and are encouraged to accept designs given to them rather than those they have thought out for themselves.

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Hybrid Structure

5 Reasons why Steel Buildings Are Eco-Friendly

Steel is becoming an increasingly popular material to be used during construction of modern homes. In addition to being trendy, steel homes come with a plethora of benefits that would meet any and all needs of an eco-conscious home owner.

Looking to buy a steel home? Here are 5 reasons why Steel Buildings are eco-friendly and the right choice going forward.

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Innovation – It’s Time to Take It Home

May 24, 2016, TEDx Laval

Watch Marc Bovet’s TedX talk for his vision on the housing industry and the issues that need to be addressed in order to stop building disposable houses and start building long-lasting homes.

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