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When designing your dream home, it’s natural to want your personal sense of style to shine throughout. You won’t be the only one enjoying your home, however, especially if you love to entertain family and friends. 

While private spaces like your bedroom should be brimming with your personality, your guest suite should be comfortable and welcoming for any potential guest. That doesn’t mean it can’t also reflect your personal sense of style, though! Here are some ways you can design the perfect place for friends and family to relax when they come to visit—using your favorite design style.

If you’re in the process of building your dream home, your thoughts are most likely preoccupied with the interior design of the house. However, there is a major chunk of your home you may be forgetting about—the outside!

The outside of your home can be just as important as the inside. Creating an outdoor living area allows you to maximize your usable space. The possibilities are endless! Your favorite hobbies and family activities can determine what this space becomes: a haven for gaming, grilling, relaxing, or entertaining.

If you’ve ever designed a room, office, or custom home, you know the process can be as stressful as it is exciting. But, as we discuss in our first article in this series, Home Design: Bathroom, you can make it a lot easier by figuring out which interior design style you prefer and carrying that throughout each room in your house.

It’s simple to extend your design preferences from your bathroom to your primary bedroom, once you know what you like. Here are four common interior design styles specifically applied to your bedroom, which is arguably the most important room in the house!

Building your dream home is about more than floor plans or materials, especially when it's time for a fresh start in a new area. Finding a vibrant, safe, thriving location is essential to the building process, and Waukee, Iowa, checks all the boxes for active adults who want to live a life that feels like a vacation. Epcon's trusted home builders are providing the ideal home building experience in the Dallas County area to get you settled in this engaging and friendly community.

Building your own home can be a dream come true, especially when you’ve chosen the perfect location. Ankeny, Iowa, has a perfect combination of lively culture and small-town charm that’s made it one of the more popular cities in the Des Moines area. If you’re looking to build your dream home in a place where you can find unique food, art, music, and places to unwind in nature, Ankeny may be the perfect spot for you.

Building your dream home can be a stressful process, especially when you aren’t sure how to put your design preferences into action. To make the whole process easier on yourself, you should first consider which common interior design style you lean toward the most.

Have you always wanted to build your dream home? In your 50s, you may finally feel like you’re able to afford it but wonder whether it makes sense at this stage—especially if your kids are or soon will be grown. Building a home can be a great way to start out a new phase of life, though, and it might be the ideal option. It’s definitely not too late to build your dream home!

After years of owning a house that worked for you but just wasn’t the dream home you’ve always wanted, you’ve decided to build your own home. Congratulations! This can be an exciting time, but it can also be overwhelming.

When you’ve lived in the same home for decades, your belongings tend to accumulate in any available storage space. This makes more to clean, more to maintain, and more to keep track of, such as decorations, bedding sets, kitchen items, and old toys. Getting rid of the clutter can help alleviate stress and give you more time for things you enjoy.

If you’ve ever searched for a new home, you may have seen or heard the term homeowners association (HOA) more than once. For some home buyers, the existence of an HOA is a major deterrent; they don’t want to pay a fee to an association created to enforce rules for the property they call home. Other buyers may love the idea of an HOA and purchase a home because of the benefits it provides.