It's important to visit a custom builder prior to an architect in order to save money on your home design.
Architects will design whatever you want, adding elements to your design that they think are necessary. Unrealistic fancy features will be added left and right to your home and then the final price of your home will be far outside of your budget by thousands of dollars.
Architects have designed curved beams and fancy staircases for some previous clients of ours that cost a fortune for manufacturing. It all looked great on paper and the clients adored the design, but when they were told the price of manufacturing, they weren't so in love.
At that point, you can only go back to square one and spend an extra $4,000 on another architectural design, redesigning and downsizing the house.
Ultimately, the customer is out of pocket because they're left with something that simply isn't affordable.
Therefore, going to an architect for your home design will result in a waste of both time and money.
The advantage that we have here at Style Home is that we're builders; we know how the house is going together and we know how much everything is going to cost.
When we design a home, we're not only looking at the design itself but how each of the elements are going to piece together in the final product. We focus on the reality of the project.
If you are wanting something a bit out of the ordinary, we'll look at the cost of implementing your desired elements, including the elemental and labor factors, and then whether it will affect your budget in a major way or not.
We work on the premise that you can have whatever you like, we can look at whatever options you want, as long as we know what your budget is.
You may want something specific, we'll add that into your design, and then we'll assist in looking at cost-saving methods elsewhere. We can alter different internal materials and external materials and we can balance the cost for you.
So if there's a feature that you really want, we'll focus on that and then look at how we can save your costs somewhere else in order to simultaneously stay within your budget and give you the dream home that you desire.
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ABOUT GIULIO RANERI
Giulio has over 23 years experience in the design and construction industry. The Company was started with the vision to change the way builders work with their clients.