well you work together.” Last year, at the 2023 OHAE Awards, Gibson Custom Homes was awarded Gold for ‘Excellence in Show Home $750,000 & Over’ as well as ‘Excellence in Decorating + Style under $75,000.’ The award-winning project was the company’s ‘Beacon Hill Showhome,’ which Darcy says included a lot of features and design elements that the company had never implemented before. “We always like to take the opportunity to try new and different things on show homes,” he says. “We give ourselves a budget that we want to stick within, but within that budget we like to step outside of our comfort zone and do some things we’ve never done before.” “We’ve done multiple show homes that way and we’ve had multiple award winners in different categories,” he adds. “So it seems to work. We haven’t changed our approach and we’re not going to.” In the case of Beacon Hill, the home was designed with a “modern edge,” as the company has found that’s the direction a lot of customers have been moving in. Special features included a floating staircase, interior steelwork, and interior concrete walls. “Those are things we typically don’t do unless a customer requests them, which doesn’t happen very frequently,” Darcy explains. Obviously, the finished product was received well by the company’s peers in THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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