Tools

Tools Every Homeowner Should Have

When you own your home - whether you built a new home or bought a pre-owned home, things are going to break and, unless you want to spend your money on visits from a neighborhood handyman, you’re going to need to fix them yourself. Even…
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Create a Luxurious Bedroom at Home

For most of us, our bedroom is little more than a place to sleep and relax. However, just because it’s always been that way doesn’t mean that we have to settle for drab and dreary. It's part of our philosophy when we build the home you…
Houseplants

Benefits of Houseplants

Houseplants are great natural decoration pieces to occupy a corner, window sill, table, or shelf, but they also offer many health benefits that can enhance your physical and mental well being. Air Quality In the late 1970s, many buildings…
Minimalism

Minimalism – Is It The Style For You?

Minimalism has been a dominating theme in design and architecture over the past few years. What started as an art movement in the 1960s has become a mainstay for interior designers that creates peaceful, eye-catching spaces with limited furnishings…
Prepping Pets

Have Pets? Prepping Pets for the Move

Your moving day is set and it’s time to start preparing. As you’re making your lists and checking them twice, don’t forget to factor in your furry friends. Here are some tips for prepping pets and making sure the process goes smoothly. Prepping…
Decorating with Plants

Eye-Catching Decorating with Plants

Decorating with plants is a great way to add a little color and a natural, bright feel to any room. There are endless types of plants to choose from and various ways to display each one, but here are a few of our favorite combinations. Geometric…
Custom Home Office

Create the Perfect Home Office

Whether you work full-time at home or occasionally need to conduct business in the evenings or on the weekends, a home office is a great way to utilize an extra room in your home. A dedicated workspace in your home can be designed to increase…
Happy Labor Day

Labor Day – Thank You

We just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to all of the people who put in their time, effort, skill, craftsmanship, knowledge, and experience into helping McNair Custom Homes build the homes we do. From the moment we start planning…
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Need More Space? Time to Upsize

Unfortunately, our homes don’t always grow with us and sometimes it's time to upsize. What may have initially worked fine for a single person, a young couple’s starter home, or a family with a newborn can quickly become too small as families…
Wine Storage Ideas

Tips for Wine Storage at Home

Wine storage is important if you want to keep your wines tasting their best for years to come. If you are a big wine connoisseur or just saving a few bottles to crack open on special occasions, it’s important to understand how best to store…
The Platinum Rule

The Platinum Rule

We've all heard the Golden Rule...it's a ubiquitous phrase that appears in countless different ways throughout time, literature, and teachings. It's the "gold standard" for how to treat people. Say it with us... Do unto others as you would…
The Home You Deserve

The Home You Deserve

It all started one day during a meeting in which we were discussing why we thought we should be the builder a homebuyer chooses. We were discussing marketing, which is usually a rather dull subject, when we realized that all of the marketing…