If you have a vision of designing and building a custom home which is uniquely your own, you have two ways of going about it:
Work with a home builder. You can either choose to modify one of their existing home plans to suit your needs or request that they design you a custom home entirely from scratch.
Work with a custom home designer. Once your custom home plans have been designed, you can put the plans out to tender and then hire a builder to build it.
Regardless of which option you choose, the end result will be the construction of your dream home. However, the problem with going with Option 1 is that you will be locked into using the builder who designed your plans. You won’t be able to shop around and get quotes from different builders, as the builder you have engaged technically owns your plans.
Additionally, if you want to make changes to your plans after construction has commenced, it can become very costly due to variation fees. Getting your floor plans to a point where you are completely happy with them is extremely important.
For you to be able to stay in control of your construction costs, you need to own the plans for your custom home. So if you’d like to have greater flexibility and freedom throughout the building process, it can be well worth you while to approach a custom home designer instead.
Whether you’re building your very first home, or you’ve been around the block a few times, the team at Design 360 will walk you through the design and certification phase of construction.
If you have a unique vision in mind for your new home, we will take your vision and put it on paper. You will have total ownership over these plans and will be free to approach any builder you like for construction quotes.
We’ll also work with you to ensure that you are happy with every single tiny detail of your home prior to construction. Our aim when designing any home is to always take the unique properties of your land into account.
