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You’ve finally purchased your own property -congratulations! Now it’s time to turn that Portland property into the dream custom home you’ve always wanted. Before you get started, take a look at these five common mistakes to avoid when building your Portland custom home. Not Knowing What You Want from Your Portland Custom Home Before you approach a Contractor […]

Delahunt Homes is Lake Oswego, Oregon Custom Home Builder Todd Delahunt – Delahunt Custom Homes Delahung homes is one of the top Lake Oswego Custom Home Builder in the State of Oregon, primarily in Clackamas County with small portions extending into neighboring Multnomah and Washington counties.  Located south of Portland surrounding the 405-acre (1.64 km2) Oswego Lake, the town was founded in 1847 and incorporated […]

Two Northwest Portland restaurants will eliminate tipping – http://bit.ly/1Pw7NML Update: This post has been updated to reflect an interview with the restaurants’ chef and owner, Scott Dolich. Northwest Portland’s Park Kitchen and Bent Brick, the forward-thinking restaurants from chef Scott Dolich, will remove traditional “front-of-house” and “back-of-house” roles, eliminate tipping and increase prices, The Oregonian […]

Willsonville Custom Home Builder Todd Delahunt – Delahunt Custom Homes Wilsonville is a city primarily in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. A portion of the northern section of the city is in Washington County. Originally founded as Boones Landing due to the Boones Ferrywhich crossed the Willamette River at the location, the community became Wilsonville in 1880. The city was incorporated in 1969 […]

Tualatin, Oregon Custom Home Builder Todd Delahunt – Delahunt Custom Home Tualatin is a city located primarily in Washington County in theState of Oregon. A small portion of the city is also located in neighboring Clackamas County. It is a southwestern suburb in the Portland Metropolitan Area that is located south of Tigard. The population was 26,054 at the 2010 census. History                   The name of the […]

Todd Delahunt of Delahunt Custom Homes is the premier Tigard Custom Home Builder Tigard was incorporated in 1961 and today, is a clean, livable and affordable community located just minutes southwest of Portland in Washington County.  The Tigard Civic Center (13125 SW Hall Blvd.) which borders the Fanno Creek Greenway was completed in 1986 and houses city offices and […]

Rock Creek, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Rockcreek is a census-designated place in Washington County, Oregon, north of U.S. Route 26. It is named for the Rock Creek neighborhood in the area. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 9,316. Geography The community is bordered on the south and west by Hillsboro, with Cornelius Pass Road dividing the two on the […]

Oak Hills, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Oak Hills is a census-designated place in Washington County, Oregon, United States. The population was 9,050 at the 2000 census. It is on unincorporated community land, but was assigned Beaverton mailing addresses by the U.S. Postal Service. It is managed by the Oak Hills Homeowners Association (OHHA). The neighborhood is north of the Sunset […]

North Portland, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes This 31-foot-tall statue of Paul Bunyan greets visitors to North Portland. It was created in 1959 to mark Oregon’s centennial and was recognized as a “well-crafted example of roadside architecture” according to the National Register of Historical Places. The Paul Bunyan statue is Oregon’s only roadside […]

Hawthorne District Custom Home Builder Delahunt Custom Homes The Hawthorne District in Portland, Oregon, is an area of Southeast Portland on SE Hawthorne Blvd. that runs from 12th to 60th Avenues, with the primary core of businesses between 30th and 50th Avenues. The area has numerous retail stores, includ-ing clothing shops, restaurants, bars, brewpubs and microbreweries. Hawthorne district […]

Happy Valley, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Historical Happy Valley – What’s in a Name? Happy Valley.  The name envisions a community comfortably nestled in the shadows of a picturesque skyline, and populated by a congenial citizenry.  But what’s the real story behind the name?  Folklore tells the tale of local boys who […]

Grant Park, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Grant Park is a neighborhood and park in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon. The neighborhood is bordered by Alameda and Beaumont-Wilshire to the north; Rose City Park to the east; Hollywood District, Laurelhurst, and Sullivan’s Gulch to the south; and Irvington to the west. It is best known as the setting for Beverly Cleary‘s Klickitat Street series of books. Houses in the […]

Gaston, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Gaston was named for Joseph Gaston, who immigrated to Oregon from Ohio in 1862 and actively promoted the west-side railroad southwest of Portland, which was later built by Holladay and Villard. He built the narrow-gauge line from Dayton to Sheridan in 1878 and subsequently wrote and published […]

 Forest Grove, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Forest Grove is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States, 25 miles (40 km) west of Portland. Originally a small farm town, it is now primarily a bedroom suburb of Portland. Settled in the 1840s, the town was platted in 1850 and then incorporated in 1872, making it the first city in Washington […]

Belmont, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Homes The Belmont Neighborhood is really focusing on the Belmont District which is located in Southeast Portland, OR. It runs along Belmont Street from about 31st to 60th Avenues. Interestingly, the Belmont District is actually located in the Sunnyside neighborhood, bordered on the North by Laurelhurst and on the East by Mount Tabor […]

Damascus, Or Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Damascus is a very special place entering a period of transformation from a more rural community into a more urban city. Nestled within buttes, adorned with evergreens and stunning views of Mt. Hood and the Clackamas River, Damascus offers venues for year-round outdoor recreational opportunities and community […]

Clackamas, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Clackamas is an unincorporated community and former census-designated place (CDP) in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.[3] The population was 6,965 at the 2010 census. It is a suburb of Portland. Clackamas has Camp Withycombe, a military base, and a branch of the Kaiser Permanente Hospital. History (courtesy of the Oregon State Archives) Clackamas County, named after the Clackamas Indians, was […]

Eastmoreland, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Eastmoreland is an early-twentieth century, tree-filled neighborhood in inner southeast Portland. In addition to the Reed neighborhood to the north, other bordering neighborhoods are Woodstock to the east, the City of Milwaukie to the south, and Sellwood-Moreland across Highway 99 on the west. If you like wide […]

Cornelius, Or Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Cornelius is a city in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, the city’s population was 12,147 the 2010 census. The city lies along Tualatin Valley Highway between Forest Grove to the west and Hillsboro to the east. Cornelius was incorporated in 1893 and is named for founder Thomas R. Cornelius. History for Cornelius, Or Custom Home Builder […]

Banks Oregon Custom Home Builder by Todd Delahunt of Delahunt Custom Homes Banks is nestled in the scenic foothills of Oregon’s Coast Range, Banks offers small-town charm that’s a mere 30-plus miles from the bustling city of Portland. Visitors can choose from any number of cultural and recreational opportunities—playing golf, shopping at quaint antique stores, sampling […]

I Choose Alameda, Oregon Custom Home Builder Todd Delahunt is Alameda, Oregon Custom Home Builder of choice. Alameda is a neighborhood in Portland, OR that is located on the Alameda Ridge with views of Downtown, the Willamette River, and the Cascades. Northeast Fremont Street is the neighborhood’s main east-west thoroughfare and NE 33rd, its main […]

Bull Mountain, Oregon Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Custom Homes Bull Mountain, Oregon is a unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Bull Mountain is located mostly on a hill for which the community is named. It is bordered on the east by Tigard, on the south by King City, and Beaverton lies to the north. The north-eastern part of the Bull Mountain hill […]

Beaverton Custom Home Builder by Delahunt Homes The City of Beaverton is located seven miles west of Portland, Oregon, in the Tualatin River Valley, encompasses 19.6 square miles, and is home to more than 94,000 residents. The city is Oregon’s sixth largest city and the second-largest incorporated city in Washington County. History Beaverton’s Beginning The Tualatin […]