PINELLAS CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REALITIES By GHD Coastal Homes
GHD Construction Services, Inc has been highly successful with its model home program serving the beach communities. We are the only builder along the beaches that has a showroom office open seven days each week for our customers.
Surprisingly, the market is telling us that “Bigger Isn’t Better,”so we are now in conceptual process with our latest model home, with 2,742 sf of living area. In addition to the smaller size, this new 4 bedroom/3 bath home is very unique, in that it has two master bedrooms and baths, both overlooking the water for our customers that are replacing their 50-year-old waterfront homes with a new home raised above FEMA elevations.
This new home will have more bells and whistles also, with even more glass for the water views on both the 2nd and 3rd floors, as well as a larger kitchen, pantry, an additional bathroom, and more decorative molding treatments to accent the interior. Of course, it will also have an elevator serving all three floors. The final challenge that we have addressed is that even though this new model will have a much smaller living area square footage it will feature a more usable veranda, designed at a width to fit most of the narrow lots on the water. And yes, we make any custom changes that our customers desire for their new home.
Although we are working with our architect for a few different front designs to add to our popular “Key West” look, we are introducing today’s newest home design concept. This well designed exterior is now the best selling exterior home design for the million-dollar homes in the Florida panhandle in the communities of Santa Rosa Beach, Watercolor, etc. This trend began in the panhandle in the community of Seaside, and has become extremely popular with all of the communities in that area.
GHD has decided to offer this design to our new home customers here in Pinellas, something that has not been available previously. We will still be offering our “Key West” design as well as a “Marathon/Mediterranean” design for those families that favor that look. We hope to have the conceptual plans of our new home complete sometime in November, so that the “snow birds” that have decided to have a beautiful new Florida home for next year can see this home and get a feel for the layout. Our existing showroom will remain open to showcase our interior finishes as they will appear in our “Coastal Homes” lineup. GHD Construction Services, Inc. has constructed 6,000 homes since 1971, and has a new showroom at 14995 Gulf Blvd., Suite C, Madeira Beach.
If you have any questions pertaining to new home construction, feel free to email me directly at: Tnegoshian@ghdcsi.com, or call and request a walk-thru meeting at one of our homes in-progress 727-954-8345.