by Julian2 | Aug 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most people who ask us about accessible design are not thinking about themselves. They are thinking about a parent, or about a specific event that made stairs feel different than they used to. What almost nobody realizes is how little it costs to build these features...
by Julian2 | Jul 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
After nearly three decades of drafting custom homes across Cache Valley and spending years before that as general contractors, Mont and Mary-Ellen Poulsen have seen most of what can go wrong on a residential build. Some mistakes are dramatic: structural changes...
by Julian2 | Jul 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Utah’s residential building code is not a single document. It is a stack of them: the 2021 International Residential Code as the foundation, modified by statewide Utah amendments, and then further adjusted by the specific city or county where you are building....
by Julian2 | Jul 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Logan, Smithfield, Hyrum, Providence, and the older Cache Valley towns are full of homes built between the 1950s and 1980s. Many of them sit on good lots, in established neighborhoods, close to schools and services that newer subdivisions on the valley’s edges...
by Julian2 | Jul 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
The first meeting with a home designer is one of the most exciting appointments in the entire custom home process. It is also the one people most often arrive at underprepared, not because they have not thought about their home, but because they have thought about it...
by Julian2 | Jul 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
Ask any Cache Valley homeowner who has lived without a proper mudroom what they would change first, and the answer comes back fast. These two rooms sit at the intersection of how a family actually lives: everyone comes in through the mudroom and nearly every piece of...
