Things to Consider When Designing a Spec Home

January 18, 2023
Anahi
DESIGN TRENDS

Choosing a place to live is one of the biggest decisions you will make in your lifetime. When you begin the process of looking for the perfect home for you and your family, one of the first questions to ask yourself is what type of property you are looking for.

Are you ready to build your dream home from the ground up? Are you looking for a property to renovate or remodel? Or do you want a new construction option, such as a “spec home,” which is ready to move into. Your decision will be determined by factors such as your budget and your current needs.

Today, our specialists at designing luxury spec homes want to explain this last option. If you are not familiar with the term, you’re probably wondering, what exactly is a spec home? It is a new house that has been constructed by a home builder, not with a specific client in mind, but instead with a specific design vision and sales objective.

The home builder brings a design vision to life with the help of spec home designers, such as the specialists here at DKOR. We work hand-in-hand with luxury home builders, studying their vision for each spec home design. Taking into consideration the location, the type of potential buyers, the space needs and the style decor to match the vision that the builders have, we help them create a final product that the type of client for which it is being built will fall in love with.

If you are a builder interested in luxury home development, here are a few tips on the things to consider when designing a spec home.

THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN DESIGNING A SPEC HOME

UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL BUYER

When designing a spec home, one of the keys to success is knowing your buyers. Developers and designers need to define whom they are creating the luxury home for. By understanding who the potential buyers are, it becomes clear what type of features they need and what special features motivate them. Ultimately, you want to construct a home they want to buy as soon as they see it, so you need to think in advance about what their ideal dream home will look like and how it will function.

LOCATION

The home’s location plays a major role in the design of a spec home. It is very important to take home’s environment into consideration, maximizing a layout that works not only with the space but also with the views, translating them into an interior in order to achieve cohesiveness.

QUALITY

For high-end spec home buyers, quality is a priority. We work with luxury home builders that understand the importance of the quality of each element, from labor to materials. The objective is to create a property that will give the refined buyer the confidence of knowing it is built with the highest standards of quality and includes high-end features and finishes.

BALANCE BETWEEN TIMELESS MATERIALS AND CURRENT TRENDS

When creating a home for no specific family in mind, you need to be well-informed about what today’s buyers are looking for. It includes finishes and features based on current trends balanced with timeless materials that will remain attractive in the long term.

CUSTOM FEATURES WITH A “WOW” FACTOR

Even though you are not building a custom home designed for a particular buyer, you want to incorporate visual features that make buyers feel like they are designed specifically for them. As spec home designers, we like to add attractive features with architectural interest that go beyond a typical spec home, ones that suit the lifestyle, specific needs and particular requirements of the potential buyer you have identified.

This will help encourage them to buy the property, because it will already have a design they love that doesn’t need major alterations to make it feel like their home. In the end, they are looking for something that is unique, while avoiding the many decisions and the lengthy process that building a home from scratch requires.