questions about our process

Custom home builders and remodelers use us to help them develop and finalize home and remodel designs, create HOA exhibits, and sell projects by utilizing our 3D video walk-throughs to give customers a true sense of their future build. Our average home's floor plan is an open concept with a 2000-3500 square foot footprint. We also work with folks who don't yet have a builder, helping them create plans to send to builders for cost estimation purposes.

Using an architectural designer with construction knowledge and a good eye for detail is a good option if the architectural designer provides quality work for a lower price than an architect or architectural firm. Our house or remodel plans are of competing quality compared to architectural plans you would receive at a more significant cost. Plus, we include 3D visualizations with our deliverables. Depending on the project type, we charge $1.25 per square foot for the area under the roof for 1-story buildings.  We charge $1.50 per square foot for the air-conditioned floor space and $0.75 per square foot for the unconditioned regions of the plan for two-story buildings. Otherwise, our hourly rate for the second and subsequent revisions is $70 per hour.  We also use the hourly rate for smaller projects.

We recently did a project for a barndominium and entry road. The site was covered with trees and varied terrain. Typically, an architect would ask for an elevation survey for the project site from a land surveyor, which would easily run a few thousand dollars and take time and effort to complete. 

However, we have technical mapping skills that many architects and surveyors do not. We use LiDAR (laser elevation point data) to create very accurate topographic contours for your project site.  

We downloaded this data for free, imported it to our software, and overlayed the survey and aerial photo on our plot plan. Then we sited the house and road centerline; please see the Barndo project video.   We are experts at using free and high-resolution elevation data for every project we work on. This saves the customer time and money and increases project accuracy. We also did the civil design for the road, ready for a surveyor to stake out.

The plans that we have produced for builders and homeowners alike have been successfully used to build homes, remodels, pools, and backyard designs.  As former builders, we have worked in construction and understand the trades.  We apply our construction knowledge to all of our designs.  Our designs focus on common sense building techniques and classic styles that work. 

We have produced 3D renderings and walk-through videos for architects to help them get their projects through the concept phase with their customers. We also love designing pools and outdoor spaces for pool builders; we can create these plans remotely using our various data sources.