About Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods
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Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods offers top quality new homes in Oklahoma City and Stillwater. We began over 30 years ago in Norman, Oklahoma, and continue to offer more flexible floor plans and unique home styles than other home builders in Oklahoma. We are obsessed with energy efficiency, value, and providing the ultimate customer experience with our award-winning customer care team. Explore move-in-ready homes, find the best neighborhoods in Oklahoma, and find out how much you can afford with our affordability calculator.
About Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods
About Us
Vernon McKown co-founded Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods more than 30 years ago with the goal of helping homeowners' dreams come true. As a dedicated lifelong learner, he believes that great leadership starts with building personal connections and respect. It’s this mentality that has led the company through more than 30 years of growth in Oklahoma into one of the largest new home builders in the state. The central heart of the company is showing love and care to others through our daily work and philanthropy.
Company Culture
We’re fanatical about who joins our team. We value integrity, innovation, and customer service above all else, and we work hard to make Ideal a place where people want to build their careers. Happy people build happy homes. That approach has earned us recognition as one of the Best Places to Work in Oklahoma.
Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods Overview
- Company Name: Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods
- Founded in 1990
- Areas we build in Oklahoma: Edmond, Norman, Piedmont, Yukon, Mustang, Stillwater, Guthrie, Harrah, Choctaw, Washington, Blanchard, Moore
- Number of neighborhoods: 18
- Number of floor plans: 35
- Square footage range: 1,158-2,713 sq ft
- Warranties: 1-year builder warranty, 2-year systems warranty, 10-year structural warranty, guaranteed heating and cooling costs
- Homeowners choose Ideal homes because they offer some of the most unique home styles and are built with top quality. They are fanatical about creating an excellent customer experience. They have won the most awards for energy efficient new homes and high quality than any other local Oklahoma builder.
- What makes Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods unique:
- Largest design studio of its kind in Oklahoma
- Guaranteed heating and cooling costs not offered by any other builder in Oklahoma
- Most unique home styles and options
- Neighborhood amenities that create community
- Most nationally recognized local Oklahoma builder
- Top school districts and location
Guaranteed Heating & Cooling Costs
Ideal Homes & Neighborhoods wrote the book on energy efficiency. As the industry experts in energy efficiency, Ideal homes are built as a system that works together beyond the just sum of the parts. With as much confidence we have in Ideal energy efficiency standards, we're the ONLY new home builder in Oklahoma to build Energy Advantage Certified homes and GUARANTEE your heating and cooling costs. What would you do with more money in your pocket each month?
Awards
We are the MOST NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED local builder in Oklahoma. We've been named America’s Best Builder, National Builder of the Year, and National Housing Quality Gold Award winner.
- Best Places to Work by OKC Biz
- Eliant Experience Top 10 Customer Care Reps
- NAHB National Gold Award for Online Sales Counselor
- Avid Benchmark Award for Customer Experience
- Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium Compass Award
- Energy Star Leadership in Housing Award
- Builder of the Year - Builder Magazine
- The Daily Oklahoman Readers Choice Award - Best Homebuilder South
- Built the First Green Certified Home in Oklahoma Under the National Association of Homebuilders Green Program
- America's Best Builder - Builder Magazine
- Energy Star for Homes Outstanding Achievement Award
- Gold National Housing Quality Award - National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB)
- Built The First "Zero Energy Home" in the United States Under $200,000
- National Housing Quality Award - Silver
- The Daily Oklahoman Readers Choice Award - Best Homebuilder
- Professional Builder's "101 Best Companies to Work For"
- Two National Energy Value Housing Gold Awards
- National Energy Value Housing Silver Award
- Built the 18th American Lung Association "Health House"
- First Builder Recognized by the EPA as a "5-Star" Energy Builder for Homes Under $150,000