HOW OUR DESIGN PROCESS WORKS:

If you're planning to design a new home from scratch, remodel your home, or make an addition, here’s how our step-by-step process works.

Step 1: Check What’s Possible

🏠Initial Conversation:

We discuss your needs, preferences, and important details about your project. Based on the description of your project, we send you an estimate for our services.

📜Building Code Review:

After our initial conversation about the description of your new home or remodel, we check what is possible to be built on your lot based on city regulations and residential code limitations. This includes zoning rules, setbacks, flood zones, and structural or building restrictions—helping to prevent surprises later!

📏Measurement

For remodels or additions, the next step is to visit your home and take precise measurements of the current structure.

STEP #2: PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN BASED ON CLIENT'S DESCRIPTION AND REFINED TO IMPROVE FUNCTIONALITY AND EXTERIOR APPEARANCE

Step 2: Sketch Out Some Ideas

📄🖥️ Initial Floor Plan and 3D Visualization

Once we know what’s possible and have your home dimensions, we create design options for you to choose from. You can tell us what you like, what you don’t, and we’ll tweak it until it feels just right for you. You’ll get floor plans, 3D views, and sketches so you can picture it.

Step 3: Get Into the Details

📝Design Review:

Now that we have a design you love, we fine-tune everything: Room sizes, kitchen, bathroom, and furniture layouts, siding materials, structure, and how things fit together.

Step 4: Draw Up the Construction Plans

📐Construction Plans

Next, we’ll create the set of construction drawings (Or Blueprints) the city requires to review. These serve as a step-by-step guide for your remodel and include:

✔ Architectural plans: Floor plans & elevations ✔ Structural plans: Foundation details, Floor, ceiling and roof framing plans, Cross-Sections and construction details ✔ Site plan (For home additions)

Step 5: Submit plans for city review

We submit the plans to the city for their review and approval.

Usually, it takes 4-6 weeks for them to complete the review and approval process.

How Long & How Much?

Design takes anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months, depending on how big your remodel is. + The city approval adds about 4 to 8 weeks. The cost depends on the project size, and city fees are not included in our pricing.

Our job is to make sure your remodel is designed well, easy to build, and approved by the city without headaches.