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Flowers, chocolate or even a visit to the day spa are wonderful ways to show Mom she’s loved on Mother’s Day, but for year-round indulgence of epic proportions we have put together a portfolio featuring a few of our recent over-the-top spa bathroom designs! Enjoy the slideshow, by clicking the arrows below. [rev_slider alias=”spa-bathrooms”][/rev_slider]
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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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….. 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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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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These days it’s not just an interesting paint technique or a textured wallpaper that’s taking interior surfaces to the next level. Step up your (inside) game with these innovative, stylish and unlikely choices described below! Say goodbye to average, bland walls and hello to InterlockingRock Panels. Shown below, these dimensional panels work in multiples to create a continuous, uninterrupted sculptural wall. Cast entirely of mineral, they’re durable, safe and healthy and can easily be used to create the illusion of depth for the perfect focal wall. Better yet, breathe easy because these panels also contain no plastics, no VOC’s (volatile organic compounds) and no urea-formaldehyde. Visit www.modulararts.com to view more design options. modulararts.com When you envision using a material like cement in the design of your dream home,...
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First, let us explain what exactly is “ICF” – the acronym refers to Insulated Concrete Forms – which are essentially foam blocks that interlock, are dry stacked (without mortar) and then filled with concrete. Similar to a Lego toy, the modular foam blocks create the form for the structural walls of an ICF House Plan. The hollow centers are filled with concrete which is reinforced using steel reinforcing bars to give the concrete flexural strength.
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Style Spotlight: West Indies The West Indies style of architecture is a huge trend right now hitting new home design in Southwest Florida and other parts of Florida. Since Weber Design Group began designing homes over twenty years ago, we have seen many Architectural trends come and go, but West Indies is certainly making a strong impact especially on the coastal and inter-coastal communities here. We are also seeing this style being blended with the Key West Architecture that is not too far away. It is really not surprising at all that folks would want to design a residence that mimics an island getaway, and you won’t find a more perfect place to do it than Naples Florida. Architects here, such as Weber Design Group, are certainly taking notice...
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