Jeff Seal Homes of Distinction

Jeff Seal Homes of Distinction team commits themselves to each project they take on and see the project throughout each stage. Jeff Seal and his team designs many homes throughout the city of Lubbock and takes Interior Design classes on a tour through some of the homes. The first house on the tour was a French designed name by Abby Carter. Abby is currently working for Jeff Seal and graduated the Interior Design program at Texas Tech University. Abby and Emily, a senior in the Interior Design program, are huge inspirations to every student in the program. They each went through the program and have had wonderful experiences through Jeff Seal.

The French design home was still under construction when the class visited. Jeff told everyone how the house designed for the customer was custom made. Each piece of furniture that was placed in the house had been drawn out on CAD and made by a carpenter that the company uses. Abby had drawn out the layout for the house, the furniture in CAD and the landscape in the front and backyard. In each house Jeff Seal designs, he creates something that has never been seen before. When designing something different each time, it is important to pay close attention to the architecture and capture each style of the design. The style of the house should be carried through in each room and even outside, Jeff believes. The company strives for close attention to the details and capturing the style of the customer and going above and beyond for every project.

The first house’s design is Mediterranean French style. The house used gothic arches, barrel vaults and groin vaults that all the students recently learned in History of World Architecture. It was interesting to see actual learning material being used in the home. One the first story of the home there was the dining room, living room, kitchen, guest and master bedroom. Every piece of cabinetry in the kitchen was custom made and drawn out by Abby, who designed the home for Jeff Seal. The master bathroom was one of the most interesting rooms in the house because of the heated tile flooring. Upstairs were two guest bedrooms, a media room and a storage closet. The entire class had a huge laugh about the giant storage closet that went on forever! The entire house was made from natural stone and had real hard wood flooring.

The second house that was on the tour was still in the framing stage. It was interesting to see the difference in the two houses and the stages they went through. This house was a larger project than the previous one. It was for a family with two children with one of the parents living with them. They also had a prayer room off the foyer that was something that many students had not seen before in a home. In the house, they had a master bedroom, a bedroom for the parents living with them, a guest bedroom and the two boy’s rooms upstairs. Since the home is so large, they decided to have two kitchens, one downstairs and one upstairs, and three utility rooms, one of each end of the house and one upstairs as well!

The entire tour was very informing and inspiring. Learning the experiences of Abby and Emily’s work at Jeff Seal excited everyone in the group. Also seeing the homes in different stages of construction was a sight to see! Everyone also left with one of the most important pieces of advice from Jeff Seal, “it’s all in the details”!