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Our Philosophy

Our philosophy came from several life experiences. Steve Appelt, in his bi-annual missionary work in Nicaragua, saw the joy a home could bring to a family and thus began his love of building homes – not houses. His wife, Abby, had been a single parent for many years and had experienced how difficult it was to find quality, affordable, well thought out housing. When Steve and Abby were inspired to build their first neighborhood, their diverse backgrounds and visions merged together to create Inspiration Homes.

As the Appelt’s studied other builders, both local and national, one thing that bothered them was how homes were priced. As they walked into beautiful model homes they soon found out that what they were seeing was actually tens of thousands of dollars worth of upgrades; the prices reflected on the signs and advertisements were usually very ‘stripped down’ houses. This felt wrong to them and inspired them to build great custom homes, with just about everything optional included, at affordable, advertised prices.

What you’ll see in an Inspiration Homes model is what you’ll get – no surprises. They’ve chosen quality features and fixtures that most homeowners will not want to ‘upgrade’ further. In fact their basic features included many, many features that are upgrades with other builders – take a look at the Features page. They have even gone so far as to arrange for their home buyers to get most upgrades they want at Inspiration Homes builder’s cost. You have to see it to believe it!

Interestingly, because the Appelt’s felt inspired by God to do this venture, they asked family and friends to each name someone famous that was an inspiration to them when they were growing up. It was eye opening and endearing to find out who m their children, parents and friends chose and to learn why. If you look at the home names you might see someone who inspired you too!

Can you guess the name of the famous person who inspired your favorite floor plan?