Design Timeline
Consult
We start with a personalized consultation to discuss your vision and project goals. Share your ideas, inspiration and any specific styles or photos you may have—this helps us understand your lifestyle and tailor a design that fits you. From there, we’ll provide a estimate based on your project’s unique requirements.
Design Agreement
Once we've discussed your project, we define the scope, including services, costs and timeline. This ensures clarity and alignment, so we’re on the same page before moving forward.
Concept Design
The initial design is crafted based on the style and features we've discussed. We take your ideas and translate them into paper form. Think of this as the 'rough draft' of your home, shaped by everything you’ve shared so far. From there, we send you the initial concept design and get your feedback.
Revisions
We refine the design based on your feedback, providing updated plans that reflect your vision. This collaborative process allows us to adjust the layout and elevation until you’re satisfied with the design.
If your plan includes 3D renderings, these will be provided once the design is finalized. The renderings offer a realistic preview of the exterior of your home, ensuring the concept aligns with your expectations and helping to avoid costly changes during construction.
Bid Set
Once you're happy with the design and exterior elevation, we'll provide a bid set that you'll review with your builder. After you review this with your builder, we will make the changes need to help your custom home stay within your budget. Once the changes to your home are approved, we will provide final plans.
Final Plans
You’ll receive construction-ready plans that include all final revisions, meet current code and ensure a smooth approval process for builders and trade professionals.
FAQ
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The budget, style and timeline of building a home is important. We want to design a home you can build. Knowing your budget helps us guide you to stay within what you can afford. If you know the style of home you are looking for that makes the process smoother. Feel free to collect photos, links from Pinterest, colors or anything else that can help us create the home you’re dreaming of.
It’s not just giving you a number. The cost of building a home depends on a variety of factors such as size, features and location. Those all impact the cost of your home. We recommend bringing your builder into the design process early to help guide the cost of your custom home.
The design process can take weeks to months depending on where you are in the process. If you have an idea or concept of your home in mind, we can draft your home faster versus designing from a blank canvas, to then get to the drafting and code compliance.
Contact us and we can get a feel for your project.
We’ve designed plans all over the Midwest, but our bread and butter is where we call home, Iowa.
We help you in getting your home construction ready for your builder and/or your interior designer. That is why we recommend bringing them into the design process early. That relationship built during the design phase helps to ensure that the stage is set for a successful construction process. We have long standing relationships with many builders and interior designers in Central Iowa. We value our builder and designer relationships and will communicate your design with them when questions arise.
We design builds for all prices. Get in touch with us to talk through your ideas and we can give more specific numbers. Entry level to high end customs, remodels and additions is what we do.