Our services

Custom Architectural Services Tailored To Your Vision

Every service is built around collaboration—tailored, intentional work from a team that cares how a house feels. Whether you're starting from scratch, modifying a plan, or developing a community, we bring the expertise.

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Your Vision, Expertly Realized

Custom Design

From a tricky lot to a sketch you have carried for years—we translate your goals into a buildable custom home.

Highlights

  • Fully custom home and drawings
  • Licensed architect collaboration
  • Site-aware layout and massing

Included

  • Discovery and site strategy
  • Concept plans and elevations
  • Full construction drawing set

How we work

We guide each phase from first conversation to construction drawings: clear milestones, collaborative reviews, and a site-responsive design that feels like home before ground breaks.

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The Best of Both Worlds

Plan Modifications

When a stock plan is almost right—extra room, layout tweak, or lot-specific change—we modify it with full architectural support.

Highlights

  • Faster path than full custom
  • Proven plan as the base
  • Drawings updated for permit and build

Included

  • Feasibility review
  • Revised plans and elevations
  • Final modified CD set

Modifications

We start from your chosen plan, assess feasibility, then move from schematic updates to revised construction drawings.

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See Your Home Before

Virtual 3D Model

A SketchUp exterior massing model you can orbit, share, and plug into AI workflows—built from your approved plan.

Highlights

  • SketchUp file and viewer for use with AI
  • Explore the exterior from every angle
  • Share with builder team, friends, and family

Included

  • SketchUp (.skp) file
  • Viewer-friendly delivery
  • Built from approved drawings

Deliverable

You get the SketchUp file (.skp)—use it for meetings, marketing, and AI visualizations. Standard scope is the exterior massing and materials. Interiors are not included.

Live preview

Sample 3D Home Model

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Sample only. Your delivered model is a SketchUp .skp file built from your approved drawings — share with your builder, present to clients, or review at home.

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Your Design, Your Way

The Configurator

Lock in exterior materials and colors with an interactive layer on top of your Virtual 3D Model.

Highlights

  • Live material swaps
  • Preset palettes
  • Shareable summary for your team

Included

  • Model loaded in the tool
  • Preset + custom selections

Real-time exterior options

After we load your model, you try presets or custom combinations—siding, roofing, shutters, paint—then save a summary to share.

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The Configurator interface: Example Cottage with roof, siding, trim, and color options
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AI Rendering Studio

AI Customizer

On each plan page, subscribers can reimagine elevations with curated styles, optional prompts, and quick compare—labeled “AI Rendering Studio” in the UI.

Highlights

  • No separate app
  • Styles + custom prompts
  • Compare to source elevation

Included

  • Studio module on plan pages
  • Secure generation
  • Subscriber access per terms

On the plan page

Open a published plan with an active subscription, pick a style (or Custom + prompt), generate, reset or iterate. Outputs live in My Creations; sign-in required. Fair monthly limits apply.

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Right Home, Right Place

Site Planning

Optimize orientation, access, and code compliance on your actual survey.

Highlights

  • Placement and orientation strategy
  • Setback and easement review
  • Permit-friendly documentation

Included

  • Survey review
  • House placement strategy
  • Drafted overlay on survey

Why it matters

A clear site plan supports permitting and coordinates grading, drainage, and landscape trades.

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Safety and Compliance

Structural Engineering

When codes or conditions require it, a licensed engineer stamps structural scope tied to your project.

Highlights

  • Licensed PE review
  • Regional code awareness
  • Simple intake questionnaire

Included

  • Structural sheets and details
  • Digital sealed set
  • Foundation and framing scope as quoted

What you get

Partner engineers review loads and regional criteria (wind, seismic, etc.), then deliver sealed structural sheets—often after CDs, via a short questionnaire.

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Energy Compliance Made Easy

REScheck

Residential energy compliance documentation for jurisdictions that require REScheck.

Highlights

  • Permit-oriented report
  • Short intake form
  • Typical 1–2 week turnaround once data is complete

Included

  • Completed REScheck PDF
  • Envelope and glazing checks per inputs

Service

REScheck is the DOE Residential Energy Compliance Checklist—proof of envelope energy compliance many AHJs require. We model your plan areas and insulation/window specs in official software and deliver a permit-ready PDF.

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Right-Sized Comfort

Manual J

Peak heating and cooling loads to avoid oversized equipment and poor dehumidification.

Highlights

  • Right-sized equipment
  • Room-by-room breakdown
  • Code-friendly documentation where enforced

Included

  • Manual J report
  • Optional notes for equipment selection

Service

ACCA-consistent load model from your envelope inputs—deliverable goes straight to your HVAC contractor.

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Complete the Picture

Landscape Planning

Outdoor spaces that read as one composition with the home.

Highlights

  • Unified home and landscape story
  • Curb appeal clarity
  • Buildable layout intent

Included

  • Planting intent
  • Walkway/patio layout
  • Coordination memo with site plan

Scope

Planting concepts, primary hardscape, and lighting notes aligned to your site plan.

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Inside Excellence

Interior Style Guide

A concise roadmap for paint, flooring, fixtures, and hardware that matches the architecture.

Highlights

  • Cohesive palette
  • Fewer showroom loops
  • Builder-ready package

Included

  • Paint direction
  • Key finish picks
  • Hardware guidance

Deliverable

Coordinated selections you can hand to builder and vendors—faster decisions, fewer mismatches.

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Plans & partnership

Builder Programs

From curated plan access to tailored options—we help builders deliver distinctive homes while keeping quality and costs predictable.

Highlights

  • Distinctive portfolio access
  • Documented quality
  • Scalable for your volume

Included

  • Plan consultation pathway
  • Builder-focused resources
  • Team introductions as needed

Why builders work with us

Thousands of proven designs, clear construction documentation, and a team that understands production schedules and sales cycles.

Typical support

  • Plan libraries and customization paths
  • Brand-consistent elevations and details
  • Coordination touchpoints for your team
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Community master planning

Developer Services

From charrettes through guidelines and plan libraries—we help developments stay on vision.

Highlights

  • Vision-to-site testing
  • Documented design rules
  • Builder-ready plan sets

Included

  • Charrette facilitation
  • Master plan narrative
  • Pattern book authorship
  • Ongoing design review

Capabilities

Higher livability and long-term value through clear design rules and curated housing product.

Includes

  • Master planning and charrettes
  • Town architect / design review
  • Pattern books and architectural guidelines
  • Model-home portfolios

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