Quality
Quality can only be achieved by a complete dedication to it by everyone on the team. Hiring a builder with decades of experience and a proven track record is the way to get there. Coach Duane Fanning once said “Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only winners perfect the little things.”
This philosophy is why we created the process we use today. After utilizing every construction implementation method available, we ultimately learned that you can be a jack-of-all-trades but master of none. So instead of having a large, expensive staff, we have partnered with (and trained) the best talent in each field, and have them competitively price each project against another one of their contemporaries. This ensures two things: (1) that each client is getting the best tradesman for their project, and (2) each trade has submitted the most competitive price. Enjoy the posts below to see our promises turn into action.
Building with the Living Stone team
The Rockcliff – semi-custom plan
All of our semi-custom plans are fully customizable to create your ONE OF A KIND home.
Price: starting on a crawl at $651,000
Contact: Sean Sullivan 828.669.4343
Features: Energy Star Certified, NC Green Built Home, Universally Designed plan
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The Rockcliff is a universally designed home that not only boasts a more rustic craftsman architectural feel, but also incredibly energy efficient construction. This floor plan works well for families of all sizes and ages. Since it has two bedrooms with two full baths on the main level, the flex bedroom can be used as a home office for the work-from-home professional. Click “read more” to see more photos, floor plans and more!
The Woodhaven- semi-custom plan
All of our semi-custom plans are fully customizable to create your ONE OF A KIND home.
Price: Starting on your lot at $662,000
Contact: Sean Sullivan 828.669.4343
Features: Energy Star Certified, Healthy Built Home, Universally Designed plan
The Woodhaven is a universally designed home that not only boasts a more rustic craftsman architectural feel, but also incredibly energy efficient construction. This floor plan works well for families of all sizes and ages. Click “read more” to see more photos, floor plans and more!
Living Stone Featured in Carolina Home & Garden Magazine
Challenge of the Century : How to update a 100-year-old house without disturbing an inch of antique charm
Winter 2011 Issue
Visually residing somewhere between a village cottage and a mountain farmhouse, the sharp-gabled Montreat residence owned by Rick and Meredith Harbaugh was built in 1909. Used for many years as a summer home, it features only one add-on, a cluster of rooms accrued in the ’40s. Interestingly, that area is in worse shape than the century-old bulk of the house, according to architect Maury Hurt.
Asheville Builder uses Superior Wall Foundation for moderate mountain lots
Superior Walls foundations feature patented, insulated, precast concrete wall panels that are formed in a factory-controlled setting and delivered to the new home job site, where the panels are lifted into position with a crane and carefully bolted together and sealed. The walls are custom-designed and built to virtually any architectural style, complete with window and door openings.
Superior Walls foundations are dry, using a special low water/cement ratio concrete that requires no additional dampproofing. They are warm, with full-length insulation built in to increase energy efficiency. Superior Walls high strength 5000+ psi concrete is reinforced with steel rebar and polypropylene fibers for added strength and performance. The wall panels also feature convenient features like built-in accesses for wiring and stud facings for easy drywall installation with screws. Another important feature for builders is the speed of installation. A typical home foundation can be installed in less than one day. For more information click here:
Accredited Master Builder
Sean is one of a very few Accredited Master Builders in Western North Carolina.
Top Ten Design Flaws – building new and remodeling
Click on the microphone to listen to this podcast! Guest: John Petri, Petri Architecture In part from “Patterns of Home” by Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein and Barbara Winslow, with eye of adjustment towards resale. Ignoring Site Characteristics (trying to...
The Biggest Threat To Your Home: Water Invasion!
Click on the microphone to listen to this podcast! 1) Proper sloping grades, decks, driveways, roofs use of gravel and grade drains 2) Gutters Most hazardous homeowner project is cleaning gutters: simple to do, but dangerous...
Robust Improvement for Housing is Lifting Economic Growth
How times have changed. With data in from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), it is becoming clear that home building is a leading source of economic growth for 2012. According to the BEA, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased at a 2% annualized rate during the...
The Virtuous Circle of Home Building and Employment
The Virtuous Circle of Home Building and Employment Home building creates jobs. In fact, for every 100 single-family homes built, enough work is generated to create 305 full-time jobs. With about half of those jobs created in the construction sector alone, home...
