Teardown and Rebuild | Northern Va Custom Home Builders

Custom Homes

Looking to teardown and rebuild to make your dream home a reality? We have experience building all styles and sizes of homes, and we want to help you build the perfect home that best fits your family’s needs. We are here to create the home of your dreams, each project will be informed by our years of experience to help you achieve the highest quality result for you and your family. Your beautiful Custom Home will reflect the creativity of the design, the craftsmanship of the trades, and the meticulous attention to detail that comes from an experienced team.

Design/Build

We believe that a custom home should be the result of imagination combined with expert building experience. As custom home builders, Design/Build is our favorite kind of engagement with a client because we can leverage our years of design and construction experience to make someone’s dream home into a tangible, beautiful, reality. The Paradigm Process helps us execute and revolves entirely around the client. We understand that there are literally thousands of considerations when it comes to the Design/Build process, and we’re here to help.

Pop Top Additions

Paradigm Homes is the Pop Top leader in the building industry. We have established a revolutionary program and process, which can provide creative home solutions. Sometimes, the best way to add space to your home is with a straight forward addition that essentially extends your home’s footprint, and lets you build “outward” on your lot. For other families, they are finding our Pop Top is the best solution, because they would rather build “upward” not having a lot which awards them the ability to go outward.

Pop Top is a type of home remodeling that let’s you improve your house by adding new floors or levels with square footage. They can enhance outdated properties by adding open floor plans, master suites, new bedrooms and bathrooms, an office, entertainment spaces or anything else today’s modern family desires to improve their lifestyle.

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Questions & Answers

What is the difference between a Custom Home and portfolio home?

A Custom Home is a home uniquely designed for the client creating a home that is truly designed with the client’s style and finish in mind. The plans for a Custom Home are typically created from scratch or reinvented from an existing floor plan.

A portfolio home is a home that comes from the builder’s portfolio of floor plans. The plans can be tweaked a little and you have the ability in most cases to design the finishes to your style and finishes.

The development process for a custom home and portfolio home are very similar when you choose to tear down and build a new home on your lot.

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Can I use my own architect and their plans?

We have found no real benefit in hiring the architect before or separate from the builder. Working with an external architectural firm prior to hiring the builder typically presents some challenges, mainly helping clients with design and cost control. We have on occasion worked with outside architectural firms as long as we are hired from the onset to work along side the architect and engineers. Paradigm stands behind the belief that you are more likely to stay within budget having the builder on your team from the beginning and having a better product at the completion of construction.

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If I demo my current house, can I salvage or donate some of the existing materials?

Yes, there are some great organizations that we work with that salvage some parts of the existing home. These firms will also show you how you could receive a tax savings through these donations.

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Do I get a mortgage for my Custom Home like I would when purchase an existing home?

Yes, in this case you would get a construction loan. A construction loan acts very similar to a regular mortgage. The bank will take the future value of the home based on the project design and scope. They will fund you based on the equity and current value of your home and lot. The bank will work with us directly to pay us draw payments based on certain phase of work for the contract value. Once the construction is complete, the construction loan is rolled up into a final mortgage. To learn more, please give us a call and we can set you up with one of our preferred lenders so you can learn more about the financing of your project.

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How long does the whole tear down / new build process take?

The Custom Home process is broken in down into two phases: Pre-Construction and Construction. The Pre-Construction phase includes the design, finish selections, final pricing and permit submissions. The Construction Phase is when the fun begins… we begin the actual work on your new home. The Pre-Construction takes about 3 to 6 months depending on your local county jurisdictions permitting time and requirements. The Construction process for a Custom Home takes about 8 to 16 months, depending on the size of the home.

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Can you help me find a lot to build a new Custom Home?

Yes, we’d love to help you find a lot for your new Custom Home. We have several partners that have access to off market opportunities that can help you find what you’re looking for. Please call us to get started.

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Can I build on a lot I currently own?

Of course you can and we are confident we are the right team to help you achieve your goals! Part of our role here at Paradigm is to help you understand the natural advantages of your lot type when you are preparing to build your Custom Home. There are many different lot types that are common in Northern Virginia as well as the surrounding area, and each presents different advantages and challenges.

We want you to understand how lot types are determined, what options each lot type presents, and, if you haven’t purchased a lot already, which lot type would best fit your dream home. We are prepared to sit down with you and discuss everything you need to know about building on your own lot. If you decide to make us your partner, you will be armed with all the facts to help you turn your lot into a custom home that perfectly fits your family’s needs.

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We Can Build on Your Lot!

Build on Your Lot

As your building partner, Paradigm can help you understand the natural advantages of your lot type when you are preparing to build your custom home. There are many different lot types that are common in Northern Virginia as well as the surrounding area, and each presents different advantages and challenges. We will discuss how lot types are determined, what options each lot type presents, and, if you haven’t purchased a lot already, which lot type would best fit your dream home.