Capture Your Vision
You’ve been thinking and dreaming of your new home for some time now. Whether you’ve been through the process before, or this is your first experience with designing and building a home, we have the expertise and experience to guide you through the process, as we have done for over 700 happy clients before you.
Here’s a brief overview of our process:
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
First, you gather up everything you’ve been collecting since you started thinking about having a house built.
For some, this amounts to many binders full of information. For others, it may be a few notes. We can start wherever you are.
Some of the things you might bring to the table include:
photos
wish lists
portions of plans
sketches
agencies
et cetera
INITIAL MEETING
This meeting is usually best done face-to-face, but it can be done remotely, if necessary. At this meeting, our designer will listen to your ideas and vision, asking questions as you go to ensure that he has all of the relevant information he needs to begin to develop a preliminary design for your home. Another important function of this meeting is to begin to sort out priorities. You will start to decide which things are must-have, which things are nice-to-have, and which things wind up on the cutting room floor.
DESIGN PRESENTATION
After the meeting, our designer goes to work, striving to get as close as he can in this first layout and design to what he heard in the design meeting. He is usually able to hit close to the mark, but it is always understood that this first design is seen as a starting point. A second meeting is held to discuss the initial design. Our designer will make sure you understand the intent of the design and what the drawings mean. Then you are left to review the design at your convenience.
CRITIQUES
Next is your time to critique the design. We are hopeful that the drawings we provide that delineate the design of your house will allow you to visualize the finished product. We are always available during this phase to answer your questions and even provide additional drawings if needed. You will spend some time “living” in the home. This will help our define possible deficiencies that will need to be addressed. There may be some things about the design that you just don’t like. Whatever issues you find with the initial design will be addressed by our designer in the next version of the deign. If you have a problem with some aspect of the design, but don’t know how it could be solved, don’t worry about it — that’s our designer’s job!
This is an iterative process.
These steps, or slight variations of them will be repeated until a final design is approved… by you! Communication during this process can be done in meetings, over the phone, by text, email or other forms of media that allow for the sharing of ideas and images.