The Process

Remodeling your existing home or designing a custom home is a challenging and rewarding experience. Your home is a highly personal, custom-tailored expression of who you are and how you live your life. To ensure a successful project, close collaboration between the client and the architect is essential. As such, it is important for the client to understand the three major phases of the process:

Design Development

Building Program
Initially, we ask you to bring all your ideas, dreams and requirements to the table. We prompt you to consider many factors about the way you live and how these factors might influence the design of your home. We help you evaluate and prioritize your options and assist you in understanding any development guidelines that may affect the scope and/or execution of the project.

Schematic Design
During this phase, we prepare existing conditions drawings, develop sketches of floor plans and exterior elevations which explore alternate solutions to the defined program. In addition, we coordinate with local jurisdictions to ensure all planning and building requirements are met.

Design Development
After finalizing the Schematic Design solution, we refine the drawings to ensure a cohesive and viable solution. It is during this phase that building materials, window selections and appliances are specified.

Construction Drawings

The construction plans are a fully developed set of technical drawings and specifications that outline the building details for the contractor and to obtain all necessary permits. We can assist you in selecting engineers and other consultants who are needed to complete the plans and we integrate their design work into the drawings as necessary.

Once the construction drawings are finalized, we will assist you in reviewing contractor bids and in making your final selection.

Construction Phase

During the construction phase, we act as a representative for our clients to review the progress and quality of the building work, coordinate the plans with the general contractor, provide support with sketches and field visits, and assure that the design is executed as intended.

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