Conceptual Design

Our conceptual design process begins with an introductory meeting. We’ll talk through your general goals, assess your current and future needs and discuss your budget.

Our design team then goes to work on a conceptual design. We’ll research city-zoning requirements and document the specifications of your current home. With that information and the input from the introductory meeting, we will create conceptual design drawings. In the conceptual design phase, our goal is to create a design that is do-able, within your budget and that captures the majority of your needs. During this phase, it’s important to note:

• Conceptual drawings depict a general room layout with relative room sizes, general window sizes and design themes.
• Details are omitted and not all design challenges are addressed.
• Only certain elevations are included to give you a feel for the final product.

We will present our conceptual design to you. At that meeting, we will explain the look and feel of the design as well as its functionality. We will also answer your questions. However, there is a lot of information to digest so we give you the conceptual design to take home and digest for typically three weeks or so.

We expect to go through multiple iterations on a conceptual design as you refine your priorities and budget. We work back and forth with every client until they are completely satisfied with their design.

Further, during the conceptual design phase, we initiate discussions and information discovery sessions around components of construction. I.e. windows –we take the time to educate our clients on the pros and cons of certain manufacturers and research costs so that our clients can make informed decisions on construction components that create value for them. This work is all done to help clients understand the cost/benefits of each decision we make during design and to create a solid list of project specifications that are unique to each client.