Our Process
The five steps from first conversation to a builder-ready set of drawings.
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Custom home design
Why shouldn’t you live in a house that is perfect for you? This will be the place you live in, laugh in, love in. This will be home.
Where it starts
How do I get started?
Our process is so much simpler than people believe it will be. We take your ideas and bring them to the page.
Bring us anything that you have been looking at, sketching up, or dreaming of. We’ll take your ideas and bring them together to form a preliminary design that you can take home and rearrange or alter until you are happy with it. We won’t call the plans complete until you have the details just right.
The Bostock family has been designing dream homes since 1957 — from “tiny houses” before they were trendy, to welcoming family homes, to breath-taking large estates. We design homes that people can’t wait to live in.
No starting point? That’s fine.
What if I don’t have any ideas?
We hear this question a lot. We have an assortment of stock plans in all sizes and styles that can be used to get started, and we can customize any of them to make them fit your life.
Our process is like a one-on-one conversation with a good friend. We’ll go back and forth exploring the options and weighing the choices. We’re dedicated to giving you the time to make decisions and develop a design that is as individual as you are.
You might be surprised about how many ideas you have and don’t realize.
Things worth bringing
- Photos you’ve saved of houses you like
- A rough sketch, however rough
- Your lot dimensions, slope, and view
- How many bedrooms, and who lives in them
- The rooms you actually use every day
- A stock plan that’s close but not quite
Fees
Will this fit my budget?
You’d be surprised how affordable a custom design can be.
Our fees are based on heated and cooled square footage, so the size of your home is what determines the cost of your plans. There’s no mystery to it and no meter running while you think.
Just let us know the size you’re looking to make your home, and we’ll work to create a wonderful space designed just for you within that boundary.
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Questions & Answers
Timelines, what a plan set includes, engineer stamps, revisions, working with your builder.
Read the Q&AStock Plans
Finished designs, ready to build — and customizable if one is close but not quite right.
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