One family carries the whole build.
Every project moves through three phases. The same two people are responsible in all of them.
Imagine
- Typical length
- 4–6 weeks
- Where it happens
- On your land
- Your commitment
- A conversation — no obligation
We sit on your land before we draw a line.
The first phase is questions and walking the property — what the land is asking for, where the light lands, where the water goes, what you're trying to build. Most owners arrive with a clear idea of the house. Fewer arrive with a clear idea of the land. Our job here is making the two agree.
A first conversation, by phone or in person. If we're a fit, we walk the property together — usually with the owners, sometimes with the architect. We come back with a written summary: what we heard, what we saw, what we'd look at next.
This phase takes four to six weeks, unhurried on purpose. The decisions made here cost nothing on paper and everything later if they're wrong.
You leave this phase with
- A written site assessment, in plain English
- A scope sketch — what the project is and isn't
- A budget range, honest about what's still unknown
- A short list of architects, if you don't have one
- A clear next step, with no obligation to take it
Design
- Typical length
- 4–7 months
- Deliverable
- Permit-ready drawings + line-item budget
- The spine
- A written decision schedule
Plans, permits, and a written decision schedule.
Every allowance is named, every choice has a deadline, and every question has someone on our side who owns the answer. Design is where the build is won. It's also where most of the projects we hear about went wrong, long before the first shovel.
We work with your architect to produce permit-ready drawings. Alongside them, we build the decision schedule: every choice the build needs, when it has to be made, and what it costs to miss. Then we turn the drawings into a real budget, line by line, with allowances we'll defend in writing.
This phase runs four to seven months and pulls in the township engineer, the architect, the structural engineer, and the trades we're already locking in. From the outside it's the quietest phase. It's the one that decides everything.
You leave this phase with
- Permit-ready architectural and structural drawings
- A written decision schedule — the spine of the project
- A line-item budget with named allowances
- A trades roster — everyone who'll be on your build, by name
- A construction schedule, milestone by milestone
Build
- Primary residence
- 12–18 months
- Cadence
- Weekly photographed site walks
- Capacity
- 3–5 projects a year
Weekly site walks, photographed and logged.
By the time the framing crew arrives, every choice is made and every trade is scheduled. What's left is execution, on the calendar we wrote together. The build runs on a schedule, not a hope.
Caleb owns the site — there every Tuesday at a minimum, usually more. The week's progress is photographed and logged in a file you can open from anywhere. Trades are sequenced to the day, allowances tracked against budget, and any decision that needs you comes with a clear deadline for the call.
A primary residence runs twelve to eighteen months. Estates run two to three years. We tell you which week each season change matters, and we plan for the season we'll lose to weather.
You leave this phase with
- A weekly site report — photographs, progress, decisions
- A change log — every variation, dated and authorized
- A monthly budget reconciliation, line by line
- A finished building, walked through twice
- Two years of warranty support after handover
We take on three to five builds a year.
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