A Brief Glimpse At The Home Of The Future

If you’ve heard of our homes here at Padilla Homes, you’ll know that we aim to make the most efficient and advanced homes. Our homes merge style and technology to create a home that you and your bank account can be proud of. However, we’re always trying to find ways to improve our homes, so we constantly look ahead. In this article, we thought we’d share our glimpse ahead to the future of American homes.

Growth of the Home Office

Home offices in America are increasing in popularity as more Americans have a side or main job at home. Over 5% of American workers work from home, which translates to roughly 8 million people. With this number slated to increase in the future, it’s no wonder that home offices are becoming a fixture of the new American home.

Focus on Conservation

With most people painfully aware of the damage that humans are causing to the planet, home builders are beginning to adapt. In kitchens and bathrooms especially, there is a greater focus on energy-efficient and energy-conserving devices and appliances. Not only will this save the homeowner money, but it will also help save the planet as well.

More Personalized Spaces

As people look to maximize their space, custom homes will get more attention. There’s less of a desire for a large house, and more focus on building a home tailored to specific needs. At Padilla Homes, we specialize in creating a homemade just for you and your needs. Contact us today to get started on your dream home!

El Paso, TX: One of the Top Cities to Build the Home of Your Dreams

Moving homes can be a drastic change, an experience that you are bound to never forget. Moving homes is one thing, moving cities is another. Finding the perfect city for you to settle in may seem like a pain at times, but this is also where cities can speak for you. El Paso is a city known for its comfort, advancement, and especially for its flexibility in home-searching. If you are open to moving into the Sun City, the Sun City is open to having you. What does El Paso have to offer in their home-building that other cities lack in? Let’s go over the benefits of finding a home in this southwest city.

The West is the Best

El Paso is not as large of a city as most, but that’s what makes living and finding a home in El Paso even more suitable. Due to the expansion of the city, you are given the option of building a home from scratch in a newly civilized area. It’s undeniable that people like to be surrounded by new buildings, new businesses, and so forth, so why not take advantage of this opportunity? Not only does this city offer a variety of land to choose from, but it is ideal money-wise. We understand the importance of spending your money considerably and buying a home makes it feel like a gamble. In every region of the city including the west, east, northeast, and central, El Paso is more than likely offering the prices you are looking for. Our homes are exquisitely and carefully constructed for prices that are too reasonable to pass up.

A Home of Lifetime

Finding a home marks a time in your life in which you have to consider what is best for you. Padilla Homes offers the best homes you will find on the market in El Paso. Contact us today to learn more about the variety of homes and home services we can provide!

The Best Westside Neighborhoods In El Paso to Build Your Home

This here is a fast-paced-technology-driven world that often drives us to forget the splendor that lies before us in nature and the lands that surround us. Most people think of a desert as barren and dry land, but those that have experienced the wonders of the Southwest know that it is much more than that. There are incredible sites, mountains, people, and culture awaiting your new Padilla Home. We thought we’d take a look at some of the neighborhoods and communities where you can build your next dream home.

Although Padilla Homes can build anywhere or on your property, we also build around some communities in town.

Franklin Hills in El Paso

The Franklin Hills neighborhood is located in West in El Paso and at the edge of the Franklin Mountain State Park. It is a growing and burgeoning community with hundreds of newly built and beautiful homes and plenty of amenities that are likely to suit any and every lifestyle. Whether you have a growing family or are a young couple looking to start your first home, we are here to make sure to build it the way you want it.

The Franklin Hills neighborhood is located within the El Paso Public School District, which houses some of the city’s best public schools. If you have younger children, you can count on them getting a fine education. There are also several Charter schools within the area and a Montessori Academy.

The Westside of El Paso is also seeing fast development and emerging shopping centers, businesses, restaurants, and amusement parks. The West Towne Marketplace is seeing a lot of business as they open popular retailers and stores in one shopping area. At the same time, the Outlet Mall of El Paso also sees plenty of traffic as well-known retailers and stores offer shoppers plenty of choices.

Enchanted Hills Neighborhood

This lovely neighborhood is in the same vicinity as above and located in far west El Paso near I-10 and Loop 375. They enjoy the same vistas as above with the wonderful Franklin Mountains nearby and the many trails and outdoor life it has to offer. At the same time, the neighborhood is close to all the shopping and schools that you could need.

Today, El Paso is seeing a great growth spurt and a lot of development and new infrastructure. This means there are so many options on living a healthy and productive life in the great Sun City. This extends far beyond the west side, of course. Padilla Homes is part of this great expansion by building beautiful unique luxury homes.

The Kitchen Trends Dominating Custom Home Building Today

The world of custom home building provides endless possibilities and a wide array of options. Here at Padilla Homes, our technology allows us to build anything you envision before it even goes into production. Dreaming wildly is par for the course. And so when building custom homes you might not be thinking of doing what is currently popular, but a lot of times people will base their unique ideas off of popular trends. We thought we’d take a look at some popular kitchen trends and how they are often applied today and brought to life by architects and designers.

The Trend of the Dark Cabinets

For many years, cabinets were often light colored or white. Today, the age of the dark cabinet is upon us. Many people today prefer their cabinets to be of a dark wood or painted a darker shade. It adds a very modern and sleek look, enhancing many of today’s silver appliances. There is also a kind of elegance that comes with the dark cabinets and a compliment to any marble, granite, or quartz counter tops or light-colored floor tiles.

A Smart Kitchen is a Happy Kitchen

We hear the word smart thrown around a lot. In fact, so many of the things we use today are embedded with smart technology and aim to make our lives easier and more convenient. Today, kitchens are equipped with smart features and not just on the appliances but on other aspects of the kitchen such as the faucets, lights, and fridge. Sensors that detect motion and turn on the faucet automatically may seem like a small detail but can add a layer of convenience previously thought impossible.

Simplicity and Minimalism

Simplicity does not mean a lack of functionality. In fact, many of today’s kitchen designs focus on high functionality but a simple and streamlined design. This might require organizing the space in a way that creates the feeling of wider and open spaces, makes use of cabinet space. Many of these designs will get rid of those high mini cabinets nobody can reach and design the space in a much more productive way for the typical homeowner. Simplicity and minimalism speak to the mind of the modern person who is used to having things at arm’s-length but is not wanting to over complicate the design.

Hardwood and Ceramic Tile Flooring

Flooring options are always a big one for people when designing a home. The kind of flooring you install can really change the atmosphere of a room and dictate the way that your house will feel upon entering. Hardwood floors will likely never go out of style, as they are simultaneously classical and elegant and can also look modern when the right design is applied. Ceramic tile flooring, however, is also very versatile and brings to the floor (no pun intended) a sleek and refined look. Thanks to technology, ceramic tile flooring now comes in a variety of styles, sizes, and designs which gives you much more control over the overall look.

The Kitchen Island

The kitchen island is yet another feature of the modern day kitchen that has not only not gone out of style but developed some new characteristics over the years. In many contemporary kitchen designs, the kitchen island will be the focal point of the kitchen and serve dual purpose. Today’s modern family is, after all, always on the run and eating breakfast or having coffee and conversation in the kitchen works when the space lends itself to this functional and convenient arrangement.

The Great Outdoors

At the same time, big large windows that floor the kitchen with natural light or lead out into a porch or back area have become increasingly popular as people aim to connect with nature in every way they can. Large windows or even sliding doors that open up into a view of trees or the backyard have become a way for people to indulge in mother nature’s beauty as they prepare the morning coffee or have the family meal in the evening.

Build Outside the Box with Our Expert Designers and Architects

Having some idea of what you want in your home is a great starting place for going the route of a custom build. From there, Padilla Homes can help you develop this vision into a highly functional, efficient, and beautiful design that translates into higher home performance and comfort.

Building With Padilla Homes: How Technology and Vision Merge

Not every custom builder is made equally. The name is often thrown around and used in slightly different ways. To us, custom homes mean an intimate dive into the depths of what is possible in home building today. This means a true exploration of the latest in design, building techniques, materials, architectural style, and yes, technology. So why are we different? Our process is unique and intimate; when working with Padilla Homes, you work with us directly, no middlemen, no revolving door or builders, you speak to our Vice President directly throughout the process.

How to Begin?

They don’t call it a dream home for no reason. Your dream home begins with just that, a dream. We know you have some ideas about what you envision. Perhaps you have thought about this for a long time and have a lingering image of a beautiful home on a hill with large French windows, two floors, and eight-foot doors. So what is the first step?

Come into our office and have a chat! Anytime you come into Padilla Homes you will be talking directly to our Vice President and head engineer Misael Navarrete. Preliminary talks will include the discussion about major features of the home like:

One floor or two floors
Square footage
Number of Bedrooms
Full bathrooms
Basic kitchen ideas
Garages

Then, what Happens?

Because we have built hundreds of homes of all shapes, sizes, and styles, we might have something similar to what you are describing. So we can pull up some of our previous floor plans and show you what they look like and even see them in 3D models. From here, we continue our conversations about your vision. We will look at plans from the Padilla database to give you ideas or to use as a foundation. With our many designs, we can use one of our existing floor plans to use as a springboard for a totally new design if necessary.

Once we have a basic floor plan chosen out, we can tweak it or develop it to better fit your needs or your particular parameters. Once we are in the design stage, we go back and forth in order to achieve the changes that you want. You have a total of three full revisions on your plan that you can change and alter.

Using Technology To Aid the Design Process

Unlike any other custom home builder in the area, we offer the full use of sophisticated 3D models so that you can experiment with your vision in full-fledged form. Alterations and customizations are made easier through our software and help you save money and time in the building of your home. Perhaps you imagined a foyer and three bedrooms but changed your mind once you saw it through the model and changed it to a new design.

An In-House Interior Designer To Help the Final Details

Padilla Homes also has an in-house interior designer that you work with one-on-one when looking to design the decorative details of the home. Our experienced designers know and work with various materials and can advise you as to what might be a good fit. Some of the things you’ll discuss with our designers include:

Flooring options
Cabinet material
Kitchen and bathroom counters
Bathroom design
Appliances
Light fixtures
Colors
Carpeting

Work Your Vision With Padilla Homes

Custom homes in El Paso have now reached another level. Our one-on-one process with professional engineers, interior designers, and foreman, your dream home can be built in 5-6 months. We build outside the box, constructing the areas most elegant and beautiful designs.

What’s The Deal With Home Performance? Here’s Why It Matters

No industry is free from the influence of the rapidly changing technologies emerging at every turn. From every angle, technology is affecting the way we live and, in fact, how we interact with the world around us. The housing industry has not been spared and seen its fair share of innovation and growth thanks to automation and artificial intelligence. Advancements in automation and artificial intelligence have crept into our homes little by little. Today, the idea of home performance dominates the market because it is a new philosophy in approaching home building and custom builds.

Measuring Home Performance

The concept of home performance has risen to the top list of priorities for many 21st century homeowners. Today, printing out a map seems antiquated when all you have to do is type it into Google Maps and press Go. No one would want to go back to the days of stopping at gas stations and asking for directions. As smart technology improves, people feel the same way about their home. So how do we measure home performance and what does the term refer to?

Home performance is a philosophy that is contingent upon the idea that a home should be safe, healthy, comfortable, durable, and efficient. These five pillars are what drives a lot of smart home technology and many of the features that are all the rage when it comes to modern home amenities. Most of the features include some aspect that is made to save you money, time, and hassle.

Home performance is related to convenience. There is no universal metric for the convenience of course, so one way to look at home performance is in terms of energy savings. And this is precisely the heart of smart home technology, as most of these features are a way to save energy.

Designing With Technology

Custom home builders face several challenges when it comes to building a new home. People tend to have really great ideas about what they want their house to look like, but arriving at a functional floor plan that fits the vision can get difficult when dealing with sketches or paper models. We work a little differently.

Padilla Homes uses computer software that can accurately replicate the floor plan and give a 3D representation of what it might look like. So if you’re envisioning a two-story home with four bedrooms, a loft, a patio, large walk-in closets, an upstairs office or library, we can recreate it in three dimensions and show you what it might look like in real time. The creation of blueprints through technology allows for a quick and efficient way to draft out your home without wasting time, resources, or risking human error.

Smart HVAC

Every new home needs a heating and cooling system and this plays a central role in how big your utility bills are at the end of the month. Smart thermostats can save people about 10% on heating and 15% on cooling a month or up to $145 every year according to some data. Thermostats equipped with smart technology will adapt to your lifestyle; they will learn when you are home and when you are out. New HVAC systems will also ensure a better air quality than older systems and guarantee a healthier environment for you and your family.

Smart Security Systems

Another way that people make use of smart home technology is through the protective systems they install in their homes. As part of our Smart package, you can choose to install a security system that is fully integrated and connected with your smartphone for easy access. So, you can keep an eye on who goes by your front doors, deliveries, or suspicious activity on your property.

Sprinkler Systems & More

The possibilities of smart technologies can really go beyond your HVAC system and into other aspects of your home. For example, installing a smart sprinkler system allows you control over your watering, but it can show you when rain is forecasted and adjust accordingly. You can also have your sound systems integrated with your phone to control music or volume throughout rooms in the house.

Build Smart, Build With Integrity at Padilla Homes

Padilla Homes is a locally owned and operated custom home builder that has been working in the region’s housing industry for over thirty years. We have built hundreds of homes of different styles, sizes, and floorplans. Today, there is no limit to what we can do with technology. Whatever your vision entails, we can build it.

Padilla Home new home with view

Another beautiful home in construction

We want to thank the home buyers for trusting Padilla Homes in constructing their home. While taking these photos, we had two different people drive up to say how beautiful this house is. We would like to point out the uniqueness of our construction and what we can offer. Padilla Homes is a custom home builder in El Paso, TX and will build to suit. The buyers of this home wanted an open corner window with beautiful sunset views. We can’t wait to see the finished product!