The benefits of architectural guidelines in your community

Remember that funky house with the weird paint job in your old neighbourhood, that everyone had a nickname for? Yeah – not everyone has the same great taste that you do.

Architectural guidelines help protect the long-term value of your home and create a more pleasing community for you to come home to.

Here are five of the ways that Easthaven’s architectural guidelines benefit you as a homeowner.

Visual Appeal

Architectural guidelines are meant to provide a consistent aesthetic for an entire community, from each individual home to the entire streetscape. Attractive, compatible design elements create a sense of harmony and connection for the whole neighbourhood.

Everything looks like it belongs together – which helps to enhance your surroundings, boost your home’s curb appeal, and preserve the long-term value of your property.

Property Value

When homes are built with consistent quality and visual appeal, people want to be a part of the neighbourhood.

Easthaven’s architectural guidelines ensure that all buildings are designed and constructed with consideration to the rest of the community. This helps create a cohesive and comfortable neighbourhood vibe, which boosts the appeal for homebuyers.

As a result, you can have greater confidence that the value of your property will be sustained, and potentially increase over time as the community becomes more popular.

Commitment to Quality

Architectural guidelines encourage higher quality design and craftsmanship through the use of coordinated building materials, features and exterior finishes.

As the developer and builder of Easthaven, Anthem’s support of architectural guidelines demonstrates a commitment to quality, craftsmanship, design, and maintaining the long-term integrity of the neighbourhood and the homes built within it.

Community Character

Adding architectural guidelines in a new home community such as Easthaven, in northeast Grande Prairie, serves to establish and preserve the character of the community.

These guidelines create a harmonized look and feel, with complementary design features, adding to the sense of pride you get as you travel through the neighbourhood. The guidelines also ensure that the unique character is protected for the lifetime of the community.

Environmental Conservation

Architectural guidelines can support and encourage environmentally friendly design practices, which have a lasting positive impact for your community and its natural resources.

Features such as storm ponds, ample use of trees, shrubs, and grass in yards, and preserved natural wetlands can reduce a community’s environmental footprint, promote energy conservation, and create a more sustainable living space for everyone.

Easthaven’s guidelines have been developed to consider the needs and desires of the local community while still providing reasonable flexibility for homeowners to personalize their property – resulting in a streetscape you’ll feel proud to come home to.

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