Designing Your Home with Mountain Architects
Step 1: Inspiring Your Design
From the moment you decide to build your dream home, everything changes. A leisurely drive turns into a review of the architectural detail in the surrounding homes. A trip to the book store becomes a source of design inspiration. Your dinner napkin takes the shape of a sketch pad. Wherever you go you find yourself thinking about the size, layout and look of your home. Keeping a collection of photos, floor plans, and sketches is a great way to communicate your vision to your Mountain Architects designer. Get more design inspiration by viewing our Photos or visiting our Floor Plan Gallery.
Step 2: Helping Us Understand Your Vision
Understanding your vision starts with us listening to you. We begin by walking your property, taking pictures and talking about the features that inspire you most. When you attend your design meeting, either in person or using the latest in online conferencing technology, you and your architect will continue to discuss your vision, sketch out ideas and formally establish budget parameters.
Working together, you and your designer will develop the framework of a unique design, elaborating on your design ideas to create the perfect plan for you! In the weeks following this meeting, your designer will develop Conceptual Design Drawings illustrating the basic layout and appearance of your home through floor plans, elevations and renderings.
Step 3: Reflecting on What We’ve Created for You
After a few weeks of eager anticipation, it’s time to see what Mountain Architects has created for you! Meeting with you one-on-one, your Mountain Architects designer will present your Conceptual Design Drawings and preliminary Turnkey Cost Estimate. Together, you will ensure that the layout of your home, its look and feel and estimated cost meet your expectations. Based on this conversation, we will make any adjustments to the plans that you direct us to, always contemplating the impact on overall budget and architectural styling.
Step 4: Ready to Move Forward
Your Conceptual Design reflects the home you’ve dreamed of and the preliminary Cost Feasibility Study confirms that your timber or log home can be built within your specified budget. Now, you are ready to give the approval to move forward with Pre-Construction Planning, the next phase of our Design Build process. During this phase, we will refine your plan, prepare your final construction documents, and develop a control estimate.