At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Beata Santora and her husband Frank were staying in more, especially while raising two school-aged kids and working from home.
The couple moved to the Green Hills area of Nashville six years ago from Brooklyn, New York, in hopes of settling down in a more family-oriented community with more acreage. Beata Santora teaches ballet from home.
“During COVID, I taught my lessons in my children’s playroom with a portable little barre,” Beata said. “It was just a clutter of different things happening at the same time.”
Things weren’t working. The four family members were running into each other trying to accomplish different things in the same rooms in what’s become a common problem for many families not only in Tennessee, but across the nation.
The solution: custom rooms. When building or house-hunting, families are now seeking them out to fit their lifestyles, Realtor Jake Watson said.
Watson, a Realtor with the Fritz Team in Nashville, said many contractors are leaving houses unfinished to find a buyer. Then, they’ll finish the build to meet a buyer’s need, he said.