Get ready to spook up your home with these Halloween décor ideas! Whether doing any DIYs’ from creating Halloween costumes for your kids or getting crafty with jack-o-lanterns; Halloween decorations make it easy to trick out your house in costly effective manner. Let your imagination run wild this Halloween night when you dress up your front door, path, hallway, and more!

The haunted front porch. Even if guests do not enter your home, trick-or-treaters will see the front porch; so, make sure you give it that festive feel that includes lanterns, pumpkins, and other various spooky decorations.

DIY idea: Draw spooky faces inside of an empty, clean milk bottle. Once that’s done, fill it up with holiday lights to decorate your porch with a ghostly Halloween glow!

A spooktacular centerpiece. Give your table that wow factor with a Halloween décor topped with some ghoulish decorations. That would make an exciting table centerpiece, especially around hanging decorations as well.

DIY Idea: You can make a ghastly terrarium as a table centerpiece by picking up some backyard twigs, moss, or rocks. You might also need some classic Halloween themed decorations such as skulls or brows to add to your terrarium. When you are building your seen, use the lid of a mason jar upside down. When you feel like your landscape is complete, screw on the jar and place it right on your table!

Dress up your windows. Give your front windows a haunting makeover with curtains stenciled with Halloween designs. Transform your windows into a ghastly scene with these few tricks!

DIY Idea: Mummify your front window (or front door, if you’d like) by using tape paper streamers to your surfaces, overlapping the strips to give a wrapped look! When you are done, cut sheets of black and white paper into circles to make the eyes, in which you can tape and secure on top of the window.

Make a statement with your pumpkins. Rather than just carving yet pumpkins, why not take it to the next level. Show off your DIY skills by covering a pumpkin in other decorative pieces, colors, and patterns! Perhaps dazzle up your pumpkins with fabrics and embellishments for a more sophisticated and tamed look.

DIY Idea: Make a witch inspired pumpkin for your front porch using a faux pumpkin and some basic art supplies from your local craft store. Create a friendly witch, black cat, or a cauldron pumpkin to welcome Halloween guests!

In America’s most booming cities, homebuyers have found a more affordable alternative to owning a home called manufactured housing! Manufactured homes are thought to be box-like, copy and paste homes on wheels; but that’s false! Manufactured home designs have evolved through the years and can be a great option for an affordable dream home, perfect for you and your family!

According to the Boston Consulting Group, Millennials make up the largest generational block in the U.S.! They also hold about $1.3 trillion in annual buying power. By 2020, they’ll compromise 53% of the U.S. workforce. Ignoring the sales opportunities millennials afford is a very bad idea.

Manufactured home construction can help create affordable housing for the millennial workforce. These homes arrive on your desired site nearly complete, with the kitchen, carpet, and bathrooms built-in already.

Rent costs are rising, with no real return of investment that goes into a rental. So just how much are you spending for your apartment? There’s nothing to show for it at the end of the lease. With purchasing a manufactured home, it’s an actual investment, and it’s far more affordable than site-built homes.

For more information, check this article: “To the Millennials Leaving Their Parent’s Homes, Modular Homes Should Be in Your Radar!”

The signs of a storm often involve dark clouds and drizzle; there are other indications that you can look out for sometimes hours before the storm hits. Knowing these indications can help you take the proper precautions way before any severe storm hits your neighborhood. Here are some tips on what you can do in a short time to keep you and your family safe when you’re caught unprepared during a threatening storm.

Secure the outdoor furnitures. This includes umbrellas or decors such as hanging plants, as they can become projectiles during high winds. Move any unsecured items in your backyard (or perhaps your front yard). This includes patio furniture, lawn chairs, and so forth. If you can’t move any furnitures inside, make sure you securely tie them down.

Moving cars. Cars can often be damaged or destroyed by falling trees or debris during a threatening storm. Try to position cars closer to your home, and away from trees and powerlines. If you have a garage on the lot, park your cars inside and close the garage door.

Resources. Make a safety kit that has essential first-aid resources as well as flashlights, battery powered radio, and extra batteries. Be sure to also have enough bottled waters and non-perishable food items.

Find utility cutoffs. Identify the cutoff switches or valves for water, power, and gas, and learn how to turn them off just in case of an emergency. A storm can cause damage to your home and can cause a short or power surge, and that my result in a ruptured gas or water line.

Showcase Homes offers variety of diverse floor plans provided by many different manufacturers (The list of our manufacturers here). These high quality and affordable homes range from small to large; however, smaller homes have smaller environmental footprints. It greatly differs to traditional site-built homes, as smaller modular homes with smaller footprints have environmental impacts such as extracting, producing, and transporting building materials, as well as construction of the home itself.

The Benefits

According to the United States Green Building Council, it is estimated that for every doubling of square feet, a home uses 25% more energy and 50% more materials! So, one of the benefits of having a smaller home is that it uses less of both materials and energy, which also means that homebuyers end up saving money in the long run. That way, they can potentially invest more for the maintenance, furnishing, or utility bills for the home.

Another report, according to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, 80% of greenhouse gas emissions over a home’s 70-year life span occur during occupancy and come from electricity and fuel consumption. If you reduce the size of the home by 50%, the lifecycle emission can shrink by 36%.

In the long run, this can benefit your energy and water savings. Plumbing and ductwork will have a compact design that can more efficiently cool and heat your home, making it more beneficial for your savings. Construction costs typically are lower with smaller homes as well, since it’s on a per square foot basis.

When you build or buy a new modular home, there are many tough decisions to make. It all begins with a wish list, armed with an inventory of must-haves, you’ll be able to focus your search and recognize what you exactly want in a future home.

When you’re in the process of getting a new modular home, it’s important to stick to a specific budget, and it’s very unlikely you’ll have to check off absolutely everything on your lest; so, it’s nice to prioritize what you need vs. what you want. Buying a home perfect for you is not simple, and you’ll more than likely be compromising on a lot of things. However, there are certain things you shouldn’t compromise on.

Location

You can change any aspect in you home, but you can’t change the location once the foundation is laid on your lot. In fact, location should be the most important factor you should consider. Where you live also impacts greatly on your lifestyle, so spend time researching the area you want to live in until you find a lot that’s more appropriate for you and your family. It’s a good idea to have some flexibility and have a couple of options if possible, to give yourself a better chance of finding a suitable land at the most affordable price.

For starters, you should consider how close the land you want to buy is in relation to your work. The convenience of your commutes both in the morning and evening will rely heavily on where your home is located. Commute is critical when you’re thinking about buying land for your modular home. Regardless of distance from home to work, other factors such as proximity to freeways and public transit may come into play.

There are plenty of other factors that go into location, which includes area’s school district, crime rate, and greenspace will impact how desirable your modular home is in the neighborhood or land. Being close to important amenities is a factor to consider as well, such as groceries, restaurants, shops, hospitals, and more.

A Good School District

Even if you do not have children, you should keep in mine to place or buy a home where it has desirable schools nearby. Not only can things change, such as potentially having children in the future, but also because good school usually translate to a higher resale value. Potential buyers may want their families to be in a good school district. Be sure to do some research to find out whether your new home sits in the good school district boundaries. You can look at the school district’s website to get a map of the district boundaries.

The Floorplan

A house that’s already well-designed for your lifestyle is already essential. Having the right amount of space or rooms you need is very important. It’s easier to change a layout to make it an open floor plan, but it’s more difficult to change the number of bedrooms or bathrooms. The layout of your home can impact your enjoyment of your home. In the long run, you can potentially end up having a lot more problems taking on a big financial obstacle.

Consider the Lighting

Lighting may not be the first thing you think about when designing your new home, but it has a large impact on the overall style of your home. Once you figured out the placement of your lighting, you can visit a lighting showroom for ideas.