Our five-step custom home process.
A transparent process refined over 100+ custom homes. No pricing tricks, no allowance shell-games, no project managers handed your file mid-build. From the first coffee to year ten, you work with one builder.
Consult
A coffee, a conversation, no pitch. We sit down with you - at your place, our office, or your land - and talk through your vision, your lot, your budget, and the dozen things you know you don't want.
- Free 45–60 minute consultation
- Walk-through of your lot, if available
- Honest feasibility & timing assessment
- Transparent ballpark cost range
Design
Plans drawn for your land, your family, your life. We bring in our architect (or work with yours), our structural engineer, and our interior designer to draft a plan around your lot, your sun line, your views, and the way your family actually lives.
- Schematic design with 2–4 revision rounds
- Structural engineering & MEP design
- Interior design coordination
- Real-time value engineering
- Permit-ready construction documents
Select
Hand-pick every finish with Dan beside you. Custom homes are made of thousands of decisions - we make them together, in the showroom, with real pricing attached.
- Showroom selections with Dan present
- Material specifications written into the contract
- Allowance items priced to actual selections
- Locked-in cost before construction starts
Build
Daily oversight from the owner. Ground breaks, and Dan is on your site. Tight trade scheduling, a clean job site, and a weekly walk-through so you always know where things stand.
- Daily on-site presence from Dan
- Weekly client walk-through and update
- Tight trade scheduling, clean job site
- Transparent change-order process
- Inspections at every milestone
Deliver
Punch list before closing, warranty in writing. We do a full walk-through punch list before the closing, not after - and we stand behind the home long after you've moved in.
- Full punch-list walk-through before closing
- Move-in ready, finishes complete
- 1-year workmanship · 2-year systems warranty
- 10-year structural warranty
- Builder available for year-five questions
Year five is the real test.
Here's one number to compare us against: most of our clients still hear from us in year five. We're not interested in being the builder who hands you the keys and disappears.
Fewer concurrent jobs, the owner on every site, and written warranties are what make a relationship that outlasts the build. Some of our earliest homes are now with their second owner - and the warranty we wrote for the first owner still applies.
Let's build the home of your dreams.
Talk directly to Dan about your land, your timeline, and what's possible. No pressure, no sales team - just an honest conversation with the builder.