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Customize Your Home Plan: Options to Personalize Your Home

The HiLine Homes Approach to a Personalized Home

At HiLine Homes, we offer custom homes built on your lot without the custom price. In a building process designed to help families build equity, we assist homeowners in making informed decisions about their chosen home plan. Each of our home plans can be personalized to match your needs and lifestyle, without overwhelming your budget.

HiLine Homes offers a balance between flexibility and efficiency when it comes to a personalized home. This means we offer the flexibility to make meaningful modifications in a home plan, while grounding it in the efficiency of pre-engineered plans. Homeowners can select from a range of options, including layout adjustments and finish selections. At the same time, they still benefit from a proven build system.

Here are ways HiLine Homes empowers homeowners to make choices in the personalization of their new homes:

As HiLine Homes builds directly on the land you already own, you have greater control over the final house and its surroundings. Building on your lot allows you to determine:

Most families begin by selecting a home plan from HiLine Homes’ plan collections—a solid foundation for design.

The Home Consultant guides families through the personalization and planning process. They review household needs, home plan references, and financing considerations to help you personalize by:

However, your home personalization extends beyond buying your own lot or selecting a home plan. Homeowners can make minor and major modifications

Minor Modifications: Personalizing Your Home Plan

HiLine Homes provides a comprehensive options catalog. It contains pre-engineered features for both interior and exterior selections. Through these options, homeowners can search and refine choices while maintaining predictable pricing and efficient project timelines. Because these features are already built into the system, they support personalization without requiring a major plan review.

At HiLine Homes, each of our home plans comes with a wide range of standard and custom features. They can be selected for your chosen home plan without requiring complex engineering to improve curb appeal.

These options include selecting optional roof pitches, choosing timber-frame porch coverings, and adding design details such as board batten or stone accents.

Minor interior modifications can be made to support daily routines and enhance comfort. Once homeowners have chosen a floor plan, they can ask for changes to enhance its functionality. This can involve:

Homeowners can choose interior finishes that match their style and budget. These options include cabinetry styles, countertop materials, flooring, lighting selections, and more. With material selection, homeowners further personalize a home to reflect their taste and lifestyle.

Major Modifications: Creating the Perfect Custom Home

Major modifications involve significant structural changes to the home plan. This can include altering the floor plan footprint, load-bearing layout, roofline, or garage configuration.

While the major modifications can result in a longer timeline and increased costs, homeowners reap the benefits of a more suitable home—one that fulfills their family’s needs or accommodates multi-generational living arrangements. They are also necessary, especially with site-specific constraints.

Because these changes affect engineering and construction, they must be reviewed through a personal consultation before finalization. Foundation support, roofline, and framing, as well as code compliance and construction feasibility, will need to be evaluated.

Here are major modifications homeowners can make with HiLine Homes:

Adjusting the home’s footprint can help the house fit the property effectively while preserving function and comfort. Homeowners may choose to expand the square footage of their home for more living space. Alternatively, if the home’s square footage is too large, they may decide to value-engineer the plan to fit the lot boundaries or budget goals.

HiLine Homes offers over 50 flexible home plans that are fully customizable to suit your lot size, lifestyle, and long-term goals. Each home plan has different perks, from outdoor patios and media rooms to garage configurations and flex rooms.

Your HiLine Homes Consultant can provide you with a list of permitting requirements, including where to go and who to contact to obtain them. This ensures your project is fully compliant with Idaho construction codes.

Why Customizing with HiLine Homes is the Right Investment

Choosing to customize your home plan options with HiLine Homes is a possible and smart investment in your future. Our approach is designed to help homeowners build equity, enabling them to obtain an affordable, custom home of their vision. Refined from nearly 30 years in the industry, our process ensures a reliable and efficient homebuilding system.

Ready to secure your custom home, personalized to your taste and lifestyle? Consult with a Home Consultant today.

Contact your local HiLine Homes office to speak with a knowledgeable Home Consultant about our home building process. If financing is needed, be sure to ask about our approved lenders, whether you need to purchase land or not.