Exterior Gallery

Exterior Gallery

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Welcome to our exterior gallery. Here you'll find pictures of the completed exteriors of some of our homes.
To see the interior of these same homes, visit the Interior Gallery and click on the appropriate title of the home.

Scroll down for our picture gallery.

As with the interior of a home, the exterior is also important. In most cases homeowners work
backwards in their efforts to create the perfect dwelling. Allow us to explain. Though the exterior
is in important with regards to looking great it is governed, if the home is planned properly,
by the interior. Why's that? Because the function & utility, of your home, should come first. In
the planning stage, of your new home, the living space should be your priority as far as overall
square footage which will help determine room size, amount of baths, bedroom size & quantity, etc.
Once this is established, the exterior can be more easily designed, around those parameters, to
fit your needs & budget. Keep in mind that most homes are primarily priced according to the
square footage, so building a house with huge areas of non-useable or non-functional space can
be a waste of money. For example: building a 30' x 40' formal dining room in a home where new
children might be in the future or if you're not much on entertaining, may be a total waste of space.
It may be much better to re-direct your planning into using that area for an office or media room
with an attached bath, then later converting it to an additional bedroom. These are the things we
like to inform the homeowner when we help design their new home. We have a wide variety of
plans available that can be modified, if necessary, to suit your individual needs or we can start
from scratch utilizing your ideas and our experience to create the perfect home for you.

Now, like we did with the cabinets, on the Interiors page, allow us to help you with regards
to consumer awareness. Not all homes are built alike and once again 'Custom' does not
necessarily equate to more expensive, especially if you're going to compare apples to apples
when shopping for your new home. Take a good look at the home as it's being built (if the
developer will let you) and take note of some things while the house is still in the skeletal,
or framing, stage. Do things look straight? Is the wiring & plumbing done in a neat orderly
fashion? Is the exterior covered in plywood or foam? These are the types of things that spell
"Corner Cutting" in our book. If time isn't spent building the mechanical, or structural, part
of the home properly chances are good that the finish product will be inferior as well. It may
'Look' good, but a few years on down the road and you may be very sorry for the
"Great Deal" you got on your new home.

We're not here to slander, or disgrace, any particular contractor or developer, but let's face
facts some of the stuff they're building is junk and not even realistic to what they're selling
these cookie cutter homes for. ALSAN, on the other hand, much prefers building 2-3 quality
homes annually as opposed to several hundred boxes that resemble a house. Volume &
speed are true enemies to quality. An old friend once said to me: "you can have it good,
you can have it fast & you can have it cheap... pick two." Think about it.

In closing please allow us to assist you on your next home. We are a reasonable alternative
to the mass developer and we're quite sure you'll be more than satisfied with our performance.

~ Thank You ~

~ Pintail Point ~
Located on Lake Murray, West Lexington County, South Carolina

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