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Give your new custom home design a unique and individual character that leaves a great impression to all that step into the room and view it. Ceiling design creations are unique to the room, the home owner and the overall theme of the house. We take great pride in the design of the ceilings we create to enhance each room with both form and functionality. Please view a sample of five ceiling designs below that we have incorporated into some of our luxury homes. Vaulted ceilings began centuries ago, they have the ability to take advantage of the high ceilings in your custom home plan t, creating a light and airy feeling and maximizing the natural light. They work well in most any room throughout a floor plan, whether it’s...
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Palm Beach Architect – Palm Beach, Florida Architectural Design
December 16, 2015
After 25 years of business in a single Naples, Florida location, Weber Design Group carefully chose Palm Beach as the locale for a second Florida architectural design office, which opened in 2015. The Palm Beach location designs and produces luxury single-family residences as well as a variety of commercial projects, catering to the East Coast area. The expansion to Palm Beach, FL was in response to a higher demand from builders, developers for a greater architectural design presence in Palm Beach and the East Coast in of Florida. Palm Beach Florida Office: 721 US Highway One, Suite 115 North Palm Beach, FL 33408 561-345-3604 Palm Beach Architecture Palm Beach was founded in the late 1800’s by Florida railway tycoon, Henry Flagler, who built the lavish Royal Poinciana Hotel in 1894 and the Breakers Hotel in 1901. Over the next 20 years Palm Beach began to take shape throughout the...
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On Saturday, November 21st at the Marriot in West Palm Beach, The Gold Coast Builders Association presented 2015 Prism Awards which served to celebrate achievement for those who have demonstrated design excellence during this year. Gold and Silver Awards were presented to builders, developers, architects, marketing professionals, planners, interior designers, landscape architects and salespeople who have demonstrated excellence in all facets of the building industry throughout South Florida. The 2015 winners were selected by a panel of industry experts and honored at the event which also served as Gold Coast Builders Association’s Installation. Florida Architect, Weber Design Group was proud to take home six achievement awards for Best Overall Architecture of a Single Family Detached Residence over $3M during the fabulous Great Gatsby themed event! ...
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On Saturday, September 26th at the Ritz Carlton Tiburon in Naples, Florida, a sold-out crowd attended the 2015 Sand Dollar Awards “Vintage Grace and Glamour” presented by the Collier Building Industry Association (CBIA) – Sales and Marketing Council (SMC). The coveted Sand Dollar Award is the highest accolade given to member builders, developers, architects, remodelers, interior design firms, landscape architects, trades and marketing, sales and/or advertising professionals who have demonstrated building, design and marketing excellence in Collier County. The 25th anniversary celebration was especially significant this year based upon the resurgence of building and remodeling here in Southwest Florida. Local architecture and planning firm Weber Design Group was awarded two Sand Dollar Awards for Product Design of the Year by an Architect – one with a nearly perfect score! ...
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Weber Design Group, Inc. of Naples, Florida Receives Best Of Houzz 2015 Award Over 25 Million Monthly Unique Users Rated Top-Rated Home Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals in the United States and Around the World Naples, FL, February 3, 2015 – Weber Design Group has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” for Design by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design for the third year in a row. The local architecture and planning firm was chosen by the more than 25 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 500,000 active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals. “It is so rewarding to be honored for the third year in a row for Best of Houzz in the design category! We can’t...
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….. Wondering what are the most important house plan features? Recently, the National Association of Realtors released their annual Home Features Survey. The information gathered revealed the most important features home buyers considered when purchasing a new home or house plan. 57% of buyers purchased a house plan with a fireplace. Fireplaces can offer many advantages. Besides the obvious heating benefits, a fireplace can add desirability to a space, create a sense of togetherness and even provide an inherent calming effect. Our house plans combine all these aspects, taking into account the strategic placement of a fireplace, centered around a home’s gathering areas and even offering a “fire and water” element for some floor plans! 47% of buyers believed that finding a home with a spacious laundry room was very...
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1st Annual Holly Jolly Gingerbread Challenge ~ Naples, Florida Design Studio by Raymond will hold the first-annual “Holly Jolly Gingerbread Challenge” from Monday, Dec. 8 through Saturday, Dec. 13. The exciting contest will feature entries from local pastry chefs, including Christina Gray from A Spoonful of Sugar and Kimberly Bechtel from Sweeties Custom Cakes . Visitors to the Naples showroom will be able to see the homes on display and vote for their favorite gingerbread house, as well as place silent auction bids for the culinary creations as part of a fundraiser. The final day of voting and the silent auction bids will take place on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., when the featured chefs will be performing holiday-themed cooking demonstrations in the Design Studio demo kitchen for guests to participate in. Winners of the silent auction of each Gingerbread House and the “Fan...
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The Kitchen ~ The Heart of the Home While most of us think of the kitchen as primarily a functional space, today’s kitchens are becoming much more than a place where we simply prepare and cook our food. The kitchen of today serves many purposes – often acting as a main family living space, a play area, an informal dining room and sometimes even a home office all in a single day! Today’s home plans have kitchens that are larger, more centralized spaces for even more family and friends to gather effortlessly. It has quickly become the heart of the home so naturally, a space you feel good in – a place that’s open and inviting, yet functional and comfortable. Below we have showcased a a few of our...
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Weber Design Group, Inc. of Naples Receives Best Of Houzz 2014 Award Annual Survey and Analysis of 16 Million Monthly Users Reveals Top-Rated Building, Remodeling and Design Professionals Naples Architect, Weber Design Group has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” for the second year in a row by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The architecture and planning firm was chosen by the more than 16 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community. The Best Of Houzz award is given in two categories: Customer Satisfaction and Design. Customer Satisfaction honors are determined by a variety of factors, including the number and quality of client reviews a professional received in 2013. Design award winners’ work was the most popular among the more than 16 million monthly users on Houzz, known as “Houzzers,” who saved more than 230 million professional images of home interiors and exteriors...
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You can only imagine that the first Thanksgiving feast wasn’t prepared in a five-star kitchen, or even a kitchen at all for that matter. Colonists had the bare essentials for most everything needed for day to day life. The earliest houses in Plymouth had thatched roofs, dirt floors, split wood to make thin boards called clapboards for the walls and a prominent fire and chimney area, since this was the only source of heat as well as the only way to cook. Each house also had its own garden, where vegetables and herbs could be grown during the appropriate seasons. The colonists were assigned land plots that were approximately 50 feet deep. The width of the lot was approximately 8 feet multiplied by the number of members in...
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Here you will see an interesting story about the use of limestone for a custom designed residence that is nestled at the base of a mountain where rivers meet in New Bern, North Carolina. This waterfront beauty custom designed by Weber Design Group, Inc. will feature the unique masonry work of Tri-Stone, Inc. The picture below shows several rough limestone slabs. These special slabs were once four very large limestone blocks measuring 9 feet in length by 5 feet in height and width. Each individual limestone block has been given a weight and serial number from it’s hailing quarry so that no matter what is made from the stone, this special identification code will be carved into it. Collectively, these slabs will be used to create step treads and...
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Here in beautiful Naples, Florida we know all about the joys of outdoor entertaining as more and more homes are being built with the necessities to take your entertaining outdoors. Recent advances in technology as well as creative architectural design features have provided us with new ways to enjoy the company of our friends and family alfresco, especially with the “cooler” weather starting to flow in. Visit our Home Plan Search Engine Naples Florida Architecture highlighting outdoor living – This custom designed lanai covers the basics of outdoor spaces in a modest yet elegant way. The open layout provides the essentials for an enjoyable afternoon grilling out with friends with enough space to fit everyone comfortably. An interesting component added to this design is the speaker system that’s been...
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