Pre-Designed plans: The advantage of a starting point.

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Maybe your perfect plan already exists?

The allure of a custom designed house is understandable. Every decision is designed for you, your family and your lot. While that works for some people, not everyone has the desire, the time or the design budget to invest in the custom process. If you want a running start and are less interested in the step by step of starting with a blank screen and all the possibilities before you, choosing a pre-designed house plan is a great way to go. A house plan allows you to streamline the process and get building  more quickly.

10 reasons to use a pre-designed house plan.


Cost: You save money. Pre-designed plans are less expensive than a custom design and ensure lower design cost. Why? Savings are found by leveraging the effort the design team has already put into floor planning and exterior creativity. Win! What’s more valuable than money?

Time: You save time. Most plans are construction ready and can go directly to your builder. You will be up and running in weeks, not months. This is for the same reason as above, leverage. For reference, a typical custom designed house will take 4-6 months to design. How do you speed the process up?

Simplicity: You save the headache of starting from a blank screen. It’s much easier to make decisions when you can see a plan and make comparisons between finished floor plans side by side. But if you like one idea on plan 1 and want to integrate it into plan 2, then what?

Flexibility: Make it your own! Pre-designed plans give you the flexibility to customize as much or as little as you want. All plans can be adjusted to meet your specific design needs and goals. Floor plans are the first phase of design. The next step is exteriors. How do you get what you want?

Exteriors: There are so many styles to narrow in on. Don’t compromise, you can now start with your favourite floor plan and pair it with any number of exteriors. From Farmhouse to Euro this allows your personal design style or your neighbourhood requirement to be met with out hassle. How do you make sure that it’s not generic?



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Professionally designed: Pre-designed plans are created by professional designers, and at the same level of care that custom homes are designed. Custom look and feel…off the shelf convenience. 

Variety: You get selection. The number of pre-designed house plan options is constantly growing and provide a wide range of options to meet different needs and lifestyle

Visualization: Pre-designed plans have exterior and increasingly interior visualization available. This gives you the opportunity to experience the house before you build.

Already built: You get the benefits of the home already having been built. The feedback from builders back to the design team gets implemented into the next version of the design and improves build-ability and cost efficiency for your build.

Show homes: Some of the most successful designs on offer started as a show home. Being able to walk through a finished product is the best way to get real world feedback on the function and feel of a house.

 
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