Des Moines Custom Homes Built for Work & Play

design your own custom home office One of the best reasons to design and build your own home is to be able to create exactly the home that you want. Whether you have a home business or office or you just want space for your hobbies and collections, consider the benefits of building a custom home.

Design a Custom Home Tailored to Your Home Business

Professional Office: Many areas allow homeowners to run a public-facing business out of their home, and many professional businesses are well suited to such an arrangement. (Examples include real estate brokerages, financial advising firms, family therapist practices, and other businesses that benefit from having flexible hours and availability for clients.) Building a custom home can allow you to create a separate, professional space for your business with an entrance for your clients, extra parking, dedicated bathroom and waiting room space, and other amenities, in compliance with appropriate local building and business regulations.
Home Office: Whether you run a full-time business out of your home, work remotely all or most of the time, or have a flexible telecommuting option at a traditional office job, having a dedicated home office space that meets your needs is vital to your success. Designing a custom home ensures that your office has the layout, amenities, lighting, seating, storage, and technology to help you work most productively. Plus, if you run a business out of your home, you may be entitled to take deductions on your federal income taxes for your workspace—but it must be a separate space dedicated only to your work (for example, it can’t double as a guest bedroom).
Design Studio: If you work as a design professional, you need work space that meets your technological and creative needs. Whether you are a graphic designer, architect, web design professional, or other kind of visual artist, you’ll likely need a space that accommodates design boards and other traditional graphics media as well as modern tech equipment like multiple large computer monitors, oversize printers, plotters, and more. A custom-designed space allows you to have everything exactly as you want it.
Salon Space: Personal service providers like hair stylists, massage therapists, acupuncturists, and other health and beauty professionals can create spaces that fit their needs and create the environment they want by designing a custom home. Rather than trying to make specialized equipment, lighting, machinery, and storage fit into an existing space, work with a design professional to create a space that helps both you and your clients relax.
Fitness/Personal Training: From yoga to meditation, personal training to dance instruction, fitness professionals need spaces customized to their businesses. Custom building a space that works for you lets you choose and install the flooring materials, layout, ventilation/climate control, lighting, sound systems, power requirements, and décor that works for you. Add on shower and/or sauna space, changing areas, storage, and other touches for a truly professional fitness facility.
Bakery or Food Prep Space: If you’ve turned your passion for baked goods or meal preparation into a small business, you know that you need kitchen and prep facilities that are certified compliant by the local health departments. But renting space and time at commercial facilities can be inconvenient and expensive. Incorporating a commercial-grade kitchen facility in your custom designed home can take your business to the next level.

Custom Build for Your Hobbies and Collections

If you have a hobby that you’re passionate about or a collection that has outgrown its current space, think about how building a custom home could allow you to nurture that passion with a custom-designed space. A dedicated area for your hobbies can benefit you as well as the rest of your family, allowing you to keep all of your collections, supplies, or materials together (and out of the main areas of your home). Think about designing dedicated space in your new home for

Woodworking: Keep the noise, dust, and debris out of your family’s garage and protected from the elements in a custom workshop space, complete with storage, accessible power, expansive workbench space, and good lighting.
Car Repair: If you’re enthusiastic about repairing or restoring cars, motorcycles, or other machinery, you can easily build a custom garage separate from the one that houses the family cars (and bikes, sports equipment, etc.), complete with car lift, storage space, and other helpful amenities.
Beer and Wine: If you (and your family) are tired of keeping your home brewing supplies in the bathroom or littered around the kitchen, think about building a dedicated brewing space. If you’re an avid wine collector, consider incorporating a wine cellar into your design plans. Either way, create an area dedicated to enjoying your beverages of choice—perhaps a bar area with multiple taps, tasting tables, comfortable seating, and entertainment activities.
A Creative Retreat: Whether you want to write a novel, paint landscapes, or compose a symphony, you can design and build a custom space with amenities you want (like a sink, acoustically insulated walls, etc.).
A Man Cave: Maybe you just want a space where you can relax and hang out with friends, store your collection of vintage guitars, football jerseys, or beer steins, or watch movies on the big screen in the comfort of your home? Designing a custom home lets you plan the “man cave” space you want—for however you want to use it.

Homes by Brill Des Moines custom home builders can help you design and build a home that is perfect for your business and personal needs. Contact us today to talk about what you want in a new custom home and begin the process of arranging financing, finding land, and designing your own custom home in the Des Moines metro area.