Planning a New Home: The First Six Decisions

Site selection, orientation, budget structure, family timeline, contractor route and approvals sequence — these six decisions shape a home more than any material board.

Clients often arrive with a Pinterest board and no site analysis. We reverse the order: understand the land, then the life, then the look.

A realistic budget includes design fees, statutory costs, contingency and landscape. Omitting any of these guarantees compromise later, usually to the finishes you cared most about.

Give the process time. The best homes we have built had an unhurried design stage and a fast, confident site stage.