Welcome to Live Delaware, a resource dedicated to featuring select businesses and non-profits that are locally owned and operated in the Delaware community. The purpose is to increase awareness of the individuality, importance and perks that come with shopping, eating, playing and building local to Delaware. If you are new to the area, I hope you’ll discover a new favorite local place to eat, shop or live! We have an amazing little state with a great sense of community and Live Delaware is just a reminder to keep it local in the nation’s “Small Wonder”.
One of the more common questions we hear as people tour our model home in Showfield for the first time, is, “Why did you name your model home The Saltaire?” We love the question, because at Lessard Builders, the names of our model home and our home floor plans have great meaning to us. Today, […]
Lessard Builders is excited to reveal our new floorplan, The Riverhead! The Riverhead is our newest home plan addition to our East Coast Series Homes and was designed with a spacious, open-concept feel. The new floorplan’s standard features include a three-car garage, 5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, an upstairs loft, first floor flex-room, front and back […]
Be Safer. Fire Safety 2018 This week, October 8th to October 14th, is 2018 National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Fire Prevention Week. The NFPA has utilizes the second week of October every year to educate people of all ages about Fire Safety. Public awareness of the need for fire safety began in America in the early […]
Delaware has been known for generations for its farms. The First State’s rich agricultural history goes all the way back to the region’s earliest colonial settlers, who quickly realized Delaware’s fertile grounds and mild climate made it perfect for farming. Farming began in the colonial days with crops like rice, wheat and indigo which sustained […]
No Tricks, All Treats It’s almost that time of year again, and Coastal Delaware no longer slows down in the Fall like it once did. We appreciate living in Delaware all year long, but there is something special about Fall in Delaware. After most of us spend all summer at the beach, the cool ocean […]
Construction Appreciation Week You see these people in highlighter colored vests working on our highways. You see them in your neighborhood or down the street working on new homes. They’re responsible for the skyscrapers in our cities, our national infrastructure and many comforts of our everyday lives. You these people working outside on the hottest […]
Each year when Brian Lessard and our team at Lessard Builders meet with clients, one of the most common questions we’re asked is about the hottest and most popular building products we’re using. Before 2019 gets any closer we wanted to take a moment today to give you all the scoop! After dozens of meetings […]
Celebrating Grandparent’s Day 2018 Did you know that, since 1978, the Second Sunday in September has been hailed as National Grandparent’s Day? If you already knew of National Grandparent’s Day, we’re impressed! We, like many of you out there, hadn’t heard a peep about this holiday to celebrate Grandparents until very recently. Yet while just […]
Have you ever thought to yourself, ‘Labor Day and Fall are here… Summer and the year are coming to an end…’? Yeah, me too, guilty-as-charged. For those who haved lived in coastal areas, Labor Day traditionally signaled an emptying of the beach and what feels like an end to the ‘year’. What many come to […]
Lessard Builders is proud to announce our model home, The Saltaire, located in Lewes, Delaware, has been entered as a nominee for the Northern Virginia Builders Association’s prestigious Great American Living Awards. The Great American Living Awards are an annual residential builder award “honors the building industry’s best and brightest” and is considered “the most […]
