Beach houses, or to help separate from their vacation home counterparts, beach style homes, are quite the desirable form of living space for many people. The idea of waking up, opening a window, and having the salt of the ocean in the air, and the sound of seagulls in the background, is a fantasy we can all get behind. But what building techniques separate it from a normal house? After all, the difference in terrain alone means you can’t just build your average suburban home on the beach. So, if you are looking for a beach style home builder in Atlantic County, here is what usually goes into the construction of a beach style home.
#1. Location
As stated above, location is particularly important when it comes to your beach style home. Sand is notoriously hard to build anything on, as by its very nature, it’s very loose and not very dense even when packed tightly together underground. The terrain of a beach is also incredibly uneven because of this. So you need to find just the right spot where you want the builder to start working. Preferably somewhere near the beach, but not too close to the water in order to avoid erosion.
#2. Protection from the weather
The biggest thing all beach houses have to contend with is the weather, which is notoriously tumultuous around coastal and beach areas. As such, builders have a few techniques to keep beach houses safe from the elements. This is why all beach houses you’ve seen before are built on some form of stilts, so that in the case of flooding, the house won’t be ravaged by the waves. But there are also less obvious touches, like installing storm windows instead of regular ones, and shutters for added protection.
#3. Functional furnishing
Your builder likely knows what’s best when it comes to this, as far as the actual house is concerned (obviously you’re allowed to decorate the interior of your house however you please). For one, your decks and flooring will probably be lighter colored, in order to keep the deck cool (darker colors absorb more heat from the sun) and to make the inevitable tracked in sand less noticeable. For that sand, the thresholds will be more flushed, so that sweeping it out will be easier. There are a whole bunch of small design touches that go into making a beach house more functional for its environment.
If you are interested in having your own beach style home constructed for you, there’s no one more suited to the task than Zarrilli Homes LLC.
