The Design Process

The First Meeting

Our first meeting with you is probably the most important meeting we will have with you. At this meeting we want to get to know you. Things like your lifestyle, your family size and your expectations from your home are things we need to know in order to design a home that not only meets your current needs, but also the needs of your family years from now. We encourage you to bring your ideas and design schemes as a starting point. We will ask questions about your new home such as square footage, number of bedrooms and entertainment areas. We will discuss building materials and site layout all in order to give us an idea of what you expect from your home. Using this information, we move on to the next step: The Preliminary Design. At this first meeting, we will discuss our design fee and a retainer equalling approximately one third of that fee will be due.

The Preliminary Design

During this phase, we use the information provided by you to develop preliminary drawings. These drawings are the most thought provoking on our part. We take all of your ideas and work them into a floor plan that meets your needs. While meeting your needs, we also plan out roof and floor systems that take lumber efficiency into account. We then print out a copy of the floor plan(s) and front elevation for you to review. You are encouraged to take the preliminary home to study and make changes if necessary. If the changes are minimal, we are then ready to move on to The Final Plan stage.

The Final Plan

Once you have approved the preliminary to go to the final plans, we start the process of getting your plans ready to start construction. Your final plans will consist of a foundation plan; floor plan(s); front, right, rear and left elevations; electrical schematics; and typical construction details. At this point we would have a final meeting with you where we provide you with five(5) sets of blueline prints. We will sit down with you and describe the details of your plans. The remainder of our fee is then due.