Design

When it comes to the look of a home, the first thing you notice from the moment you drive up is the architecture and design of the elevation, or front of the home.  It’s a make it or break it moment for any home buyer and can lead you to falling in love with a home and/or a home builder or… exactly the opposite! 

Lately the buzz about “social networking” has reached an all-time high.  Hours are spent in front of computers on Facebook… MySpace… LinkedIn… Foursquare… Google+… Instagram… Twitter… to name just a few.  Figuring them all out can be quite overwhelming!  The good news is, if given the right guidance- using some social networking sites can be a fabulous tool for homebuyers and McMillin has jumped on the bandwagon and is using the social media site Pinterest in amazing ways to give their customers a unique home buying experience.

Building homes in the Texas Hill Country or San Antonio area presents a couple of challenges. In many cases, you can only dig down about three inches before hitting solid rock, which causes material and mechanical difficulties. Moreover, you have to sometimes contend with the sloped Texas hills themselves. McMillin Homes is addressing this problem by building homes at the Cliffs of Cibolo with walk-out basements.

At last glance, San Antonio was a pretty big place. Almost 1.5 million people make this area their home, and new residents continue to pour in to enjoy the warm weather and vibrant Hill Country culture. That translates to a pretty good-sized need for housing.

Well, a quick glance up Highway 281 or Interstate 10 gives you plenty of options; it seems like new developments pop up at a rate on par with the spring bluebonnets. But how do you choose? What do those communities have that turn you from a browser to a buyer? Let's face it: a lot of these places look the same.

They're not, of course, and McMillin communities tend to stand out more than the competition. One of the biggest reasons is that McMillin hires local designers and architects to create our homes and communities, which means they tend to better complement the natural beauty of the area. But that's not it.

There's no denying that San Antonio is a unique place; in fact, the entire Texas Hill Country, from Austin to Pleasanton (let's not argue about the boundaries), is almost a world unto itself. That means it's often an inspiring place to live and work, and that's particularly true if you're in a business that is influenced by local culture.

In the case of McMillin Homes, one of our goals is to capture the best of our area's natural beauty and culture for use inside and outside our homes and communities. That's no small task, given the variety we have in South Texas, but it's a challenge we're willing to tackle for our homeowners.