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Be a builder--no hammer needed
Stafford company handles all the complicated stuff while the homeowner becomes the builder.Date published: 9/24/2004 By RICHARD AMRHINE LOOKING AT THE house Horace and Denise Inniss own, one might make some incorrect assumptions. That they are fabulously wealthy, for example. They are not ones to spend money unwisely, they say, which helps explain how they could afford the house that was completed in 2000 in Stafford County's Seven Lakes subdivision. They also bought their 6.3-acre lot in the late 1990s, before land prices around here really took off. The home they envisioned was custom, through and through. It wasn't one that could be created by tinkering with a builder's standard models, no matter how many different elevations or floor plans he offered. Sure, there's probably a builder who would have taken the Innisses' ideas and turned them into their dream home, but the couple came up with their own solution. They went to Distinctive Homes of Virginia on U.S. 1 near Stafford Courthouse. A different way to buildDistinctive Homes is not a builder, but a facilitator for those willing to do things a little differently in order to get more bang for their building bucks. "We wanted to find someone who would put the house together in a way that would suit us," said Horace Inniss. When the Innisses came to Distinctive Homes in 1999, the company was but a year old, and owner Roy Loy was a one-man operation. He had 40 years' experience in the building industry, but he wanted to offer custom-home buyers a new way of doing things--without the middleman. Today the company has grown to include a handful of people, and the woman in charge is Tina Salceda, Loy's daughter. But the firm's philosophy remains the same, and Loy is still there to lend his building expertise. The company has had clients from across Virginia and many in Maryland, Salceda said. Nearly 90 percent of its clients are referred by previous clients. She said they do about 50 houses a year. "No two of the houses we build are the same," she said. "Whether you start with a napkin drawing or a picture from a magazine page, the house you get from us is a custom house--not just Option A, B or C."
Date published: 9/24/2004
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