Some home buyers in the Greater New Orleans area have a natural interest in architecture and design and might have bought a new home for sale when they purchased their first new home.  However, most buyers have gone through a couple of cycles of buying and selling and existing home for sale before they make their first new home purchase.  While even a smaller percentage of home buyers in New Orleans and the West Bank are willing to go through the time and patience that is required to draw up plans and interview builders to build a new, custom home.  Building a new, custom home in New Orleans can be a daunting, challenging, and invigorating experience.  With a broad budget, it can be a lot of fun as well!

Building a new, custom home allows you as the home buyer to be able to pick out exactly what you want to put in your new home.  From the type of exterior you want (brick, stone, stucco, concrete siding, Western cedar, etc.) to the types of flooring you want to install, to the color of paint you put on the walls of each and every room in your house; you and your design choices deliver the final dream home in which you and your family will live.

At The Parks of Plaquemines on the West Bank, just 10 miles from New Orleans you can get creative choosing exterior amenities for your new home.  We have Traditional Lots with lots of room to make the exterior finishes of your home – covered porches, brick patios, outdoor fireplace and / or fire pit, outdoor kitchen set up, breezeways, detached garages, courtyards, fountains, etc. – spectacular and perfect for those home buyers that like to spend a lot of time outside.  In addition to adding amazing custom exterior features to your new, custom home, you can also use the subdivision amenities offered at The Parks of Plaquemines such as our walking and hiking trails, community swimming pool, tennis court, and tot lot.  For outdoor lovers, you get that fresh open air feeling, just a short drive from working and playing in New Orleans.

Adding interior design features to your new, custom home can be a thrill when you get to select and match all of the lights that will be installed in your new home.  From chandeliers, to can lighting, to under-counter lighting, and separate reading lights in the master bedroom, you can really create the exact ambiance your family will experience while living in your new home.  Many builders offer interiors selections for even inventory homes such as flooring choices, cabinet styles and colors, countertop material and design, and paint colors, however when you are building a completely custom, new home, you can also choose the type, material and color of the crown molding you would like to see in many different rooms, vaulted, treyed, and stepped ceiling designs, adding chair rails, wainscoting, picture molds, and bead board as architectural trim either painted or stained real wood throughout the many rooms of your new home.  While you are designing and making these selections, don’t forget that wood beams against a pure white ceiling create and rustic look and amazing contrast to really make a room “pop!”

When building a new, custom home, you can “go crazy” in rooms such as the kitchen, the master bath, and the family room where you can really dress up a fireplace and the fireplace surround with an in-wall cubby for a large-screen television, built-in’s for bookshelves and cabinetry, and the actual fireplace mantle and surrounding material can really be ornate.  The kitchen can be accessorized with matching styles of different floor tile, countertop material, and backsplashes against the walls underneath the cabinetry which can highlighted by using under-counter lighting.  This is also great for grabbing a midnight snack and not waking anyone else up!  Try convenience by installing a faucet over your 6 cooktop, Viking range which can be used to fill your pots while they are sitting on your stove.

If you have a sizable budget, a lot of dreams, a great imagination, and an internal drive to design and build your dream home, you can definitely build a new, custom home in New Orleans that will not only be a comfortable place to live, but it will be a show piece to be able to share with your friends and neighbors.  If you are looking for the perfect spot to build your new home, visit The Parks of Plaquemines today.  Call 504-364-2350 or E-mail [email protected].

Unlike other towns in the United States that have to worry about the “sprawl” of a metro area that seems to be growing faster than is sustainable by the transportation and infrastructure that the city has to offer, New Orleans, Louisiana and its neighboring cities of Metairie, Kenner, River Ridge, and Harahan seem to be “bulging” at the seams when it comes to available lots to build new custom homes.  It seems that every available inch of space on this much sought-after ground is completely full of existing homes or recently-built homes (and by recent, I mean 10 – 50 years old).

The concept of a new home subdivision in the Greater New Orleans area is also kind of a foreign concept on the West Bank of the Mississippi River as well.  With towns like Terrytown, Algiers, Marrero, Harvey, and Gretna quickly filling up with many different communities of existing homes for sale, and literally very little real estate on which to build, you may have thought that it was a hopeless cause to be able to build your own home and live on the Southshore of New Orleans.  The best that many people can do is to buy a blighted home or even a much older, probably historic fixer-upper home to renovate or restore with more modern conveniences.  In the French Quarter, many residents are doing just that, purchasing abandoned buildings, gutting them, and then recreating them from the inside, leaving the outside facade as is.

If you have the money and resources (and know the right contractor to hire in the French Quarter), then living in the very heart of the culture and history of New Orleans might be the right choice for you.  If you are, however, looking to be able to buy an affordable new home with your own yard and little bit of room to breathe, not too far from the city, look no further than the Parks of Plaquemines, a gated, new home subdivision right next to Jefferson Parish on the West Bank.  The Parks of Plaquemines is a masterplan, new home community with different neighborhoods with contain many different sizes and choices of lots on which to build.

Our builders want you to know that there are custom homes still available to build near New Orleans.  In fact, the community is only 10.2 miles from the French Quarter and Central Business District in New Orleans.  Also, to make your already short commute even easier, you have two choices as to how you might travel to the city to do business, play, or simply go to work – the Crescent City Connection (driving) or the ferry.  Most of the homes built in our gated subdivision were built by home buyers like yourself who wanted to the experience of building their own home.  They were able to bring their plans to our Architectural Control Committee (ARC) for approval and then even use their own approved builder to build their new custom home.

Lots for sale in the Parks of Plaquemines range in price from the $70’s – $140’s, and new homes for sale range in price from the $500’s to over $1 million.  In fact, with the size of lots available, the sky’s the limit as to how much you want to customize your new home.  In addition to lots and homes for sale, the Parks of Plaquemines offers a little bit of country a short commute to New Orleans with a park & trail system, swimming pool, tennis court, and tot lot / playground.  Outside of the actual city of New Orleans taxable limits, you will also enjoy a convenient and SAFE location, excellent Plaquemines Parish Schools, low parish property taxes, low sewer and water rents, and a low risk of hurricane flooding.

So, Come Out & Visit Our New Home Neighborhood Today!  Call 504-364-2350 or E-mail [email protected] to Set Up an Appointment!