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Get your home ready for holiday guests with these easy tips! Think about what your guests need and how long they'll stay. Create a relaxed and clutter-free environment, provide essential amenities, and don't forget about tech needs. And if you need a hand, contact Gerard Construction's design team for help!

Designing a unique home that aligns with your lifestyle involves considering your needs, preferences, and budget. Gerard Construction can help create a personalized space by defining your lifestyle, eliminating excess, adding essential elements, and planning for surprises.

Siding, flooring, extra bedrooms, paint colors - the list of decisions to make when building or renovating your home with Gerard Construction can be overwhelming. From major choices like where to build and the size of your footprint, to small details like drawer pulls, it's easy to feel decision saturation. Thankfully, designing your dream closet is one decision that can be enjoyable and something to look forward to.

Home-cooked meals. Clinking glasses of favorite beverages. Tidbits of conversation that extend visits further into the night. Snacks and recipe exchanges and a catch-all drawer filled with odds and ends from around the rest of the home.

When it comes to designing or renovating the perfect master bathroom, Gerard Construction has got you covered. We understand the importance of this space in your daily routine - it's where you start and end your day, where you get ready, clean up, and focus on what lies ahead.

In many ways, your home should be what you want it to be. Not only should the overall architecture and layout serve the needs of you and your family living there, but the design should also contribute to serving you concerning form, function, and beauty. Gerard Construction has several tips to help you design the room of your dreams to help it serve you better.

Building, renovating, or redesigning your home can be a hugely creative task. From all the logistics of the build, which our construction team at Gerard Construction can cover, to the design elements you will develop, you may go into decision making overload. Adding on the pressure of wanting to make sure your design will last beyond a trendy year or two can be daunting. Our team can help you make decisions you will love paired with elements you will be comfortable with by avoiding some of these...

Our Gerard Construction team will be among the first to admit that there are a number of hot days around the corner. The August heat beats down on us whether we are helping you plot out the best placement for a new build on your acreage, or if we are measuring space for the new addition to your existing home. Seeing that, here are a few landscaping ideas to consider as you head outdoors to enjoy all your home has to offer.

While the most important aspect of design is you being comfortable and happy with the design elements you choose for your home, it is always fun to explore what trends are up and coming. This is especially true if you don’t have any ideas for what you do or don’t like. The entire team at Gerard Construction loves to look at new ideas and trends for the homes you are custom designing to the homes we are building out ourselves to put on the market. We can’t help but feel excited about what is c...

Of all the details people may imagine about building their dream home or renovating their existing home, cabinet hardware may not be high on the list of things to consider ahead of time. The truth is, cabinet hardware can make a difference in a subtle way to your bathroom, kitchen, or other areas where Gerard Construction has included cabinetry. Here are a few tips our construction and design team recommend for your home.