What makes a healthier home and why does it matter? Since the early 2000's, sustainability has pushed the fundamental way we build and live in our homes. LEED certification, passive homes, EnergySTAR, and the list goes on. With so many different approaches and terms, though, many homeowners aren't sure what they should focus on.

Today, we are talking to one of the country's leading green building experts and an architecture professor about the different approaches, projects, and benefits of building green. Join your hosts, Kim Hibbs and Melody Meiners as they take you through the world of healthy homes with guests Matt Belcher and Ryan Abendroth.

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We're back with more insights & inspiration for your home building projects! In season five, host Kim Hibbs & producer Melody Meiners focus on the personalized, unique aspects of home building and design that make a living space truly unique. 

To kick off the season, we're talking with Dale & Scott Hendrickson from Sport Court West about the growing demand for at home sport courts. From who is building them to how to design them, The Art of Custom gives you a floor seat to some one of the most interesting new trends in luxury and custom home design.

For more information & resources mentioned on the show, check out our show notes: The Art of Custom Podcast

We've hit a milestone - 20,000 downloads! Since a number of our listeners are new to the podcast, we are releasing a bonus episode to introduce ourselves!

In this episode, we hear from president Kim Hibbs about the journey he and wife/vice president Jan Hibbs have been on since founding the company is 2004. Hear about why we build the way we do and why we love this industry!

Learn more about who we are and how we build at HibbsHomesUSA.com

More than 2/3rds of homeowners say their outdoor living spaces have taken on a new importance over the last year, according to an October 2021 survey by the New Home Trends Institute. With outdoor living becoming such an essential part of every home's design we wanted to wrap up this season's deep dive into everything design by talking about the new essential living spaces.

This week we have a current custom home client joining us in studio, Lisa Valenti. Lisa's design background and her amazing home design made her a perfect fit for this discussion. We're also bringing back friend of the show Brenda Gage from Seattle-area builder JayMarc Homes with some very cutting edge custom spaces that integrate the outdoors and in.

For more design inspiration and custom home building resources, check out our website www.HibbsHomesUSA.com

Media rooms, playrooms, and other recreational spaces usually find their home in the lower level. Our basements are where many of us feel free to let our imaginations soar when it comes to design and usage.

If you're in the process of building or renovating a home, you've likely been thinking about what to do with this space. We have Paul Hamtil of Hamtil Construction and Tony Pratte from The Sound Room joining up to talk about all of the different ways we can use the lower level and how to approach building and designing to make it feel like a natural extension of those above grade living areas that get most of the design love.

For show notes and more information, visit us at HibbsHomesUSA.com

From work to play, many of the rooms in our homes have started to pull double duty. Creative and productive spaces are taking center-stage in today's episode. We're bringing back one of our premiere Utah home building partners, Lydia Huffman of LH Designs, to discuss home offices and flex spaces.

We will go through a variety of unique and practical design considerations and help you get the most of the those productive spaces in your home.

Get inspired! Check out our floor plan library at HibbsHomesUSA.com

Whether it is indexing by the colors or the rainbow or defining your organization style using a bug, home organization is a huge trend right now.

An “Instagrammable” pantry doesn’t happen in a day, and many of our custom home clients are planning ahead and building their organization strategy right into their homes. 

To help prepare you to build an organized home we are talking to Lindsey Wolski, a recent client of ours who has taken her custom home organization to social media and is making quite an impact. We also have one of St Louis’s leading experts in closet design and organization, Jennifer Williams the founder and president of St Louis Closet Company.

See pictures of the Wolski home and more at our website HibbsHomesUSA.com

With the holiday season quickly approaching, many of us are thinking about those spaces where we will gather with friends and family to connect and celebrate.

Many of our clients who are in design right now are planning intentional spaces in their homes where they can spend time with their guests, so we wanted to bring in some experts on creating gathering spaces.

We are welcoming Amie and Kory Hannah to the show to talk about their experience in designing Air BnB spaces and to share their interesting story about flipping and preserving historic homes in the greater St Louis area.

In the quest for a good night’s sleep there is one essential element that will predict your success and that is the design of your bedroom!

Everything from the materials on the floor to the layout of the space to the windows are important components to creating a cozy space that is as inviting at the end of the day as it is invigorating at the start.

And in today’s episode we talk to some of the experts in creating the best bedrooms. Joining us in studio again are Ann Fritz and Anna Entringer from the Hibbs Homes design team, and special guest Meg Minicky Lead Interior Designer at Olive + Opal Interiors in St. Louis, MO.

Dreaming about your dream home? Get more inspiration at HibbsHomesUSA.com

It is one of the few places some parents can get complete solitude and it is the one room where anyone can unleash their inner Pavarotti. Today we're talking about the art of bathroom design.

From powder rooms to en suites, the basic designs of bathrooms have become anything but basic. There are a lot of important elements that come together to make an outstanding bathroom that is as functional as it is relaxing and inspiring.

To help us deconstruct this important space, we have Hibbs Homes custom home design team members, Anna Entringer and Ann Fritz, on the show to share their expertise, talk about bathroom design trends, and share stories about specific custom home projects that feature outstanding bathrooms.