While it's not a permanent stop for Gold Seal Homes, like many of their clients, they are boxing things up and moving to a new dwelling.

Their current office just off Main Street in Carstairs is too small for the operation, and their next door neighbour, Rona, is looking to expand as well. The time is right to change addresses, according to VP of Operations, Murray Pound.

"We're going to move into our new location the last week of February," according to Pound. "It's a temporary location, it's one of our show suites. Then our final sales centre will be complete mid to end of May, and we'll have a full launch in June, which should be kinda fun."

One of the recent themes Gold Seal has adopted lately is the idea of what is happening "Behind The Paint", creating innovative homes for their customers.

"We're going to go one step beyond. When you come into the sales centre, the finishes in the home are not going to be unlike anything that we're currently building."

Pound continues to describe that the focus is about the nuts and bolts of the house, and exposing "peek-a-boo holes" to see the technologies that go on behind the walls, and under the floors, that make your house stand out from the status-quo. Gold Seal Homes has also worked out an agreement with Apple to not only replace their office computers and media needs, but also to use their expertise in informing the client of what is happening in the home.

"You'll be able to bring in your iPad or iPhone, go room to room, and pick up imagery and video off the Internet on anything that's in the home."

Pound has also been a vocal supporter of fire safety in homes, which continues with introduction of a resistive coating on the outside of the homes to go along with the mandatory sprinkler systems inside.

"We're expanding our role in fire prevention in homes. We've had to meet the challenge of someone saying that the fire is on the inside of the home, what are you doing about the outside?"

The home will still have a sprinkler system, something that Pound thinks is a no-brainer.

"We've had fires in our area in the last few months. If some of those homes had been sprinklered, would there have been as much of an extent of the fire? My answer to that is when we do have sprinklers in the home, we limit the products of combustion. We slow down the growth of smoke, we slow the growth of fire. We allow home owners to get out of their home safely, and there's a lot less work for fire crews when they get there. The fire is smaller, it's contained to one area, and there's less damage when they get there."

For more information on Gold Seal Homes, check out their website at www.goldsealhomes.com.