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We will create a custom house plan that is unique to your needs!
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Having a hard time finding the exact plan you are looking for? Well that’s the case for many of you. It is hard to find a pre designed house plan that fits your own specific needs. But it is also difficult to fine Custom Home Design Services that are affordable. Architect fees can be quite expensive. A Custom Architect Designed Home can cost anywhere from 8% to 15% of the construction cost in fees (say $40k for a $400k house). That put’s an Architects Design Services out of reach for most folks.
So are there any alternatives to this approach? You can try to find a residential designer that has lower rates - but you might sacrifice on design quality and creativity. Or you can find a Residential Architect that has created a special package of services to provide a home design tailored for you and your site for around $10,000. And this is exactly what we have done at Simply Elegant Home Designs.
We call this our $10k custom home design solution. We figure that anyone that is going to invest several hundred thousand dollars on a new home ought to have high quality design available to them; and that $10,000 is a reasonable investment that nearly everyone should be able to justify. Through our experiences working directly with many individual clients and builders we have identified the most important elements in the design process and what needs to be communicated in the drawings. We have taken our understanding of these most important elements and incorporated them (leaving out the fluff) into our $10K custom home design solution. Below is a brief summary of that package:
PROGRAM REVIEW- This begins with a meeting where we discuss your building program in detail. We discuss your list of space needs, important adjacencies, interior and exterior aesthetic goals, views, site orientation and other site issues. The meeting best takes place at your building site so we can get a feeling for the lay of the land together. Then we take what we learn from this meeting and summarize it into our Building Program document. This document serves as our guide for beginning the design of your project. For an example of a completed building program see the following link:
SAMPLE $10K SOLUTION - BUILDING PROGRAM
SCHEMATIC DESIGN - This is where we look at preliminary design solutions for your project. We will look at plan and exterior image sketches which describe possible options for the layout of your new home. After meeting with you to review the options we then refine them into one cohesive design that meets your needs. For an example of a completed schematic design see the following link:
SAMPLE $10K SOLUTION - SCHEMATIC DESIGN PACKAGE
CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS - This is where we put all the detailed pieces together that explain to the contractor the elements of the house so that they can complete the bids and begin construction. As we prepare the construction documents we provide you with updated plans that are increasingly more detailed. This helps to ensure your complete understanding of the project. In the end we provide you with plans, elevations, sections and specifications which together describe the project to your contractor. This is what they will build the house from. For an example of completed construction documents see the following link:
SAMPLE $10K SOLUTION - CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS PACKAGE
The $10K Custom Home Design Solution may not be right for everyone. Because the fee is limited to this modest amount there will need to be limits to building size and complexity of the design. To find out if this is the right solution for you please contact us. We won’t bite.
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