Country Classics Blog

Our business is building new homes in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. And while it’s a business, it’s still a very personal undertaking. Sure, we deal with property and building materials, and plans, and finances—but ultimately, it’s a business...

Sometimes when people are looking to build a new home in the New Jersey area there’s a little bit of confusion about the best way to get things done. And when you have three parties involved—the buyer, the broker, and the builder—you may wonder who...

Once you make the decision to build a new home, your next step is to find someone to do it. Making this decision is perhaps the most daunting part of the process. Even after you have done all the right research, it still feels like a leap of faith...

When it comes time to build your new home in New Jersey you can choose from a lot of different builders. And if you asked those builders why you should choose them to build your dream home, each of them could probably give you several good reasons...

People with an eye on the economy always want to know where the housing market is headed—whether they’re buying a home or not. Fortune magazine reported that when David Blitzer, the chairman of Standard and Poor’s Index Committee, was asked to...

There was a time when having a home office meant little more than putting an old desk, a telephone, and a computer in the guest bedroom. You’d close the door and hope the kids wouldn’t come in and that the dog wouldn’t bark while you were on the...

Country Classics is much more than a company. It’s a group of people working together to ensure that you find the ideal home for your family in the perfect place for your specific lifestyle. That endeavor, of course, requires a lot of teamwork. It’s...

What comes to mind when you hear the word community? Do you think about a geographic area? Do streets and boundaries come to mind? Do you think about amenities and activities in a certain area? Is a community defined by its ZIP code? 

If you’re planning to build a new home, one of the big choices you’ll need to make fairly early in the process is what kind of flooring you want. Like so many homebuilding choices, there’s not necessarily one “right” answer that works for everyone....

Building a new house isn’t easy. It’s an involved process with a lot of “moving parts.” Building a dream home, however, is even more of a challenge. And yet, that’s what brothers Scott and Todd Van Cleef of Country Classics have been doing since...