We begin by understanding you and your site. What are your goals? How do you want to live? Together, we explore possibilities and uncover the site’s potential by:

• Creating a project program that defines your lifestyle, priorities and goals

• Reviewing zoning, codes, and site opportunities through preliminary diagrams

• Coordinating initial surveys and soil testing with engineers

Here, your new home begins to take shape. We explore multiple plans and 3D models to identify the design approach that best supports your goals and expands the project’s potential, with a focus on:

• Form: Crafting building shapes that respond to the site

• Context: Maximizing views, sunlight, and privacy for indoor–outdoor living

• Flow: Ensuring spaces connect naturally and function effortlessly

• Experience: Creating rooms and moments that feel personal and memorable

At the end of schematic design, we help you select a contractor to join the project and collaborate with us throughout the build. They provide valuable pricing insights, construction expertise, and guidance to inform decisions as the project moves forward.

We refine every detail of your home while coordinating with consultants such as structural engineers, landscape architects, and mechanical contractors.  In this phase we focus on these aspects of the design with you:

• Fine-tuning and enhancing aesthetics inside and out, including kitchen and bathroom layouts, built-ins, and preliminary material palettes

• Selecting mechanical systems

• Developing lighting design

• Selection of window/door manufacture

We bring every detail together in a comprehensive set of drawings that guide the build.  While we're working on the technical drawings, we also fine-tune the following design elements with you:

• Finalizing materials and finishes—flooring, tile, cabinets, exterior materials, and more

• Selection of appliances, hardware, decorative lights

To streamline the permitting process, we submit your permit drawings while continuing to refine interiors and construction details during the approval period. These drawings also allow contractors to prepare final bids and pricing.

Construction is an exciting next step, and our collaboration continues on-site to ensure your home is built as envisioned:

• Meeting regularly with the contractor

• Reviewing shop drawings and coordinating subcontractors

• Fine-tuning design details and finalizing materials