Designing a Dream Home

It’s time to build your dream house! You’ve spent years imagining design and layout. The perfect amount of yard space, a garage just the right size. A home with enough room for entertaining, plenty of storage space, a floor plan that fits you to a tea. Then there’s style. You’ve looked at magazines, websites, photos, and actual houses built and over the years developed a taste for what your ideal home would look like. When you hire a team to start sketching out this house, the person you want to give your wish list to is the architect.

Building a house takes a large team and each member brings something to the table. The architect brings the artistic design piece. They specialize in creativity and innovation. A team that designs a house will often include a surveyor to do measurements on the property and gather information about the topography. A civil engineer to design a septic system and driveway, a structural engineer who will work to make sure the house is functional. And the architect. The architect can review form, fit, function and the artistic element that you are looking for.

To build a custom designed home a residential architect is trained to work with all your needs and is familiar with your local community. The first thing the architect will do is create a program for your home. This spells out what the intended use of the building will be. Based on those needs, the architect takes what you want for the home, like 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms plus an industrial kitchen or a home theater. Based on this program the architect will use experience, your ideas, their own creativity, the character of the local neighborhood and local building codes to design the house of your dreams.