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Construction experience and good design go hand in hand!
Many building problems can be avoided when a designer brings construction know-how to the design process. Our designer is a journeyman carpenter with ten years of residential building experience and has seen how small design details, done right, can make all the difference to the final quality of a project and the client’s enjoyment of their new home or cottage.
Some useful planning information:
* Allow as much time as possible for the design process, working a year or more ahead is not too soon and you’ll want at least a three months to allow time for preliminary designs, revisions and final construction drawings.
* Come with as much detail as possible:
- building site location, map orientation, size, access, contours, tree cover and any required setbacks or design limitations
- pictures of your site and a survey plot plan are a big help
- a list of the key spaces and rooms, and how you want them to relate to each other
- views you want to take advantage of, and any that you want to avoid
- any magazine clippings that show home styles, interior and exterior finishes, colours, or important features that you want to incorporate
- a sense of your construction budget, timeline and level of involvement in the construction process.
Design Costs
Our design service has a simple fee structure:
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| Initial meeting to discuss key design details |
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A design budget estimate is provided at our initial meeting. A deposit of 10% is requested to begin design work. |
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| Preliminary floor plans and one or more elevations |
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| Revised / approval set |
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Half of the estimated fee is due upon acceptance of the approved preliminary set. |
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| Final Construction set |
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The remaining balance is due upon delivery of the construction set. |
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The final set will be provided in a 11”x17” page format along with an Adobe Acrobat PDF from which additional copies can be printed in a variety of larger sizes. Large blueprint size (24”x36”) copies are available at a cost of $4.00 per page.
The cost of an engineer’s review will be billed separately. We only bill for the actual review cost.
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