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Tips and Advice For Custom Home Building

Ground Up Custom Home Builder

By Julie@julielaughton.com | November 7, 2023

Home building in Orange County offers the client many design styles to choose from. It’s always fun to remodel older homes, but it’s also wonderful to build them ground up. When you build a home ground up, you can customize it to match how you live. Building your home from the ground up starts with […]

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Hiring the Right General Contractor For Your Custom Home Construction Project

By Julie@julielaughton.com | October 31, 2023

I am both a designer and general contractor in Orange County. As the designer, I see the vision. As the contractor, I am able to tell the homeowner what all the costs are before the planning process even starts, which saves the client time and money. Each step of the process is clear and understandable […]

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Customizing Your Home

By Julie@julielaughton.com | October 24, 2023

Do you know the difference between an interior designer and an architect? What most people don’t realize is that they do different things and both are needed to complete your custom home plans. The architect is the one who draws the building and works on the placement of the windows and doors and overall details […]

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Whole Home Remodel in Orange County

By Julie@julielaughton.com | October 17, 2023

Julie Laughton Design Build in Orange County offers a true one-stop shop for homeowners. We handle all of the architecture, interior design, space planning, engineering, city submittals, project planning and construction. Working along the coastline in Laguna, Beach, Newport Beach. Newport Coast and on the Balboa Peninsula, requires a lot more experience because of the […]

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Room Additions to Enlarge Your Home in Orange County

By Julie@julielaughton.com | October 10, 2023

This home in Orange County is the English Tudor hilltop estate of Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter. He has lived in his home for thirty years and in order to customize it further and accommodate his current needs, we did two room additions to the rear of the house. The new office used to be an old master closet […]

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