Designing your home

This is one of the most fun parts of the homebuilding
experience. You get to design your
home around the way you live your life.

We like to sit with our customers and design their home together.
It is important that your builder is part of the design process. Your builder should understand how you live your life. Your builder also needs to participate in the design in order to give you a realistic appraisal of the cost to build your home.

How do people come up with a design for their home?

1. They may take one of our designs and ask us to modify it (or keep it as is).

2. They may have purchased a design software at a big box store and played around with their own design.

3. Some folks come to us with hand drawn plans on one or several pieces of paper.

4. Others may have found plans on the internet or from a book. They come in with two or three plans as examples. None of them may be right, but they like bits and pieces of each of them. If a customer likes a plan exactly as it is shown in a book, we will purchase the plan. We will not violate copyright restrictions.

5. People will take pictures of homes they like and show us.

6. Lastly, there are people that have no idea for a design they just know they want to build a home.


As you can see it happens lots of different ways. One way is not better than the other.

When we design our homes we like to use a software by the name of Chief Architect. This software allows us to show our customers what their home will look like in 3D - - Before it is built.

We can show customers what the inside of their home will look like. We can show customers what the outside of their home will look like. Again, all of this happens before the home is built. It takes the worry out of the design process.

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