How to Choose an Architect to Design Your Home

How to Choose an Architect to Design Your Home

You are about to begin the once-in-a-lifetime experience of building your legacy home, which will last for several lifetimes. You plan to pass this home to your children, and you hope they will pass it to their children. You want this dream home to be so gorgeously accomplished that it will retain its appeal for

COVID Construction and the New Era of Disaster-Ready Home Design

COVID Construction and the New Era of Disaster-Ready Home Design

In the aftermath of the 2020 pandemic, home builders and contractors learned many valuable COVID construction lessons that continue to apply in the new era of disaster-ready home building. During Covid-19, construction was deemed essential, saving many jobs, but supply chains were disrupted by shipping delays, material shortages, and unpredictable costs, causing project delays across

Mountain Style Homes - Rustic or Modern- Discover Your Style

Mountain Style Homes – Rustic or Modern? Discover Your Style

Mountain House Plan Ideas Your exterior mountain house style communicates something about who you think you are to the world at large, while your interior home style gives a more nuanced picture to anyone lucky enough to be invited in. When you choose the perfect lot where you want to build your legacy home, a

Best Luxury Home Features

The Best Luxury Home Features of 2025

The best luxury home features of 2025 are advancing again, with homeowners seeking designs that blend sophistication with functionality. We’re seeing exciting new trends emerge that reflect a deeper appreciation for intentional design and elevated living. Current luxury home design trends bring the outdoors inside with seamless transitions, focus on spaces promoting health and wellness,

Award-winning modern farmhouse-style custom home with white painted brick exterior, large black-trimmed windows, and a landscaped front yard at sunset. Greenville South Carolina

WINNER – Best in American Living 2024

We are so pleased to announce yet another win for Bluestone Construction! Our Rockwood Drive house has won the highest honor Gold for BEST ONE-OF-A-KIND CUSTOM HOME 4,001–5,000 SQ. FT.   This charming  white painted brick home was designed and built to fit harmoniously into an older city neighborhood infill lot to replace a 50’s

WINNER – Platinum Best in American Living Award!

So pleased to announce that we recently won a Platinum award… We are delighted to announce that we have just won a Best in American Living Award (BALA) in the Custom Home category for this beautiful home located in the Ramble Biltmore Forest development. We’re grateful to the architects, engineers, and subcontractors we partnered with to

Now Is The Time To Build The Custom Home You Want To Live, Work & Play In

Spending most of your time at home clarifies what works and what doesn’t about your space. We’re all stuck at home, which means that aspects of our space that seemed like mild annoyances a few weeks ago now feel like major inconveniences. Maybe your kitchen felt small when you were eating out multiple times a

Create A Custom Car Garage To Protect Your Classic Cars

Create A Custom Car Garage To Protect Your Classic Cars

Classic cars deserve fancy digs. People use their garages for many different things. A garage may be where you store your landscaping tools, where you keep your carpenter’s workshop, or where you hole up for beer and the game. Your garage may be the first space you see when you arrive home and the last

Tudor Revival Homes in Asheville, NC

Asheville’s Love Affair With Tudor Revival Homes

Tudor Revival Homes: Where Does This Architectural Style Come From, and What Are Its Trademarks? Since the early 20th century, Tudor Revival homes have been a popular style of residential architecture in the US, and especially in upscale areas like Asheville, NC. Marked by dark timber and textured facades, natural materials and palettes, tall windows,

Why a European Vacation and Pinterest are the Keys to your Forever Home

Why a European Vacation and Pinterest are the Keys to your Forever Home

Itching to build your legacy home? Perfect! That means, now’s the time to go ahead and take that long-anticipated European vacation. Especially if you’ve been checking out homes in your local market, and they all seem the same, with little character, or in some cases, way too much character, and even the photos on Houzz

Ramble Modern Farmhouse

The Ramble Biltmore Forest, Asheville, NC

Tucked behind the gates of one of Asheville’s most coveted communities, The Ramble Biltmore Forest offers a rare blend of privacy, prestige, and scenic beauty. Miles of preserved woodland trails surround the homes here, thoughtfully designed with timeless architecture and built to meet the highest standards of luxury living. Residents enjoy access to world-class amenities—like

What is a Legacy Home-

You’re Not Just Building a Home. You’re Building a Legacy.

A legacy home is a custom-built residence designed to pass down through your family for many generations. Legacy homes are enduring symbols of a family’s history, connecting the past, the present, and the future. Your custom-built home isn’t just a house. It’s a work of art and a cultural statement that will last longer than

Arts and Crafts Style Homes are the US’s Most Popular Home Style

Arts and Crafts Style Homes are the US’s Most Popular Home Style

Arts & Crafts is an international art and architecture movement that dates back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It moved from the UK, throughout Europe and to the US, and it’s characterized by natural materials, functionality, expert craftsmanship, and horizontal lines. In addition to architecture, the original movement consisted of furniture, pottery,

Slow Rise of the Smart Home

The Slow Rise of the Smart Home: Technology and Home Ownership

By the end of 2025, roughly 77.05 million smart home devices will be in use across 147 million U.S. homes, as the slow rise of the smart home continues. The home automation industry in the U.S. is showing a 22% annual growth rate year-over-year, totaling approximately $20 billion last year. However, only 45% of U.S. homes have smart

How To Choose the Right Architect to Design Your Asheville Luxury Home

You are about to begin the once-in-a-lifetime experience of building your legacy home, which will last for several lifetimes. You plan to pass this home to your children, and you hope they will pass it to their children. You want this dream home to be so gorgeously accomplished that it will retain its appeal for