Plans for a house that hasn't been built yet

A new house is the one project where the drawings carry the entire idea. There's no existing building to fall back on, no wall to point at during a site visit. Everything the contractor will do exists only as lines on a sheet until the day it doesn't — which means every ambiguity you leave in the set becomes someone's guess on site.

What a new construction set covers

A complete house set is a coordinated document, not a stack of unrelated drawings. Changing a window changes the elevation, the lintel schedule, the electrical layout and possibly the framing. We draft it as one system so those relationships hold.

• Site plan — placement, setbacks, lot coverage and access, prepared from your survey
• Foundation plan — footings, stem walls, slab layout, thickened edges and anchorage details
• Floor plans — fully dimensioned, with door and window schedules, wall types and every note the field will need
• Exterior elevations — all four faces, with materials, finish grades, heights and rooflines resolved
• Building sections and stair sections — wall assemblies from footing to ridge
• Interior elevations — kitchens, baths, built-ins and anything millwork-dependent
• Electrical plan — devices, fixtures, switching legs and panel location
• Roof and floor framing plans — member sizes, spans, direction, bearing and uplift connections
• Lintel and header schedules — coordinated against the actual openings, not generic
• Structural details — connections, assemblies, and the sections that answer "how does this actually go together"

Custom homes

One house, one client, one set of decisions that have to be right. Custom work usually involves a design development phase — plan options, markups, adjustments — before drafting starts in earnest. That phase is where the money gets saved, because moving a wall on paper costs a conversation and moving it after framing costs thousands.

This is also where our 3D visualization add-on earns its keep. A floor plan asks you to imagine a space; a walkthrough video shows it to you. Clients designing from a blank page catch things in a model they'd otherwise catch during framing.

Production and spec homes

Different problem entirely. Here the drawing set is an asset that gets used dozens of times, so what matters is consistency, clean option management, and the ability to spin a lot-specific variation quickly without breaking the base model.

We build production libraries so elevations, garage swings, bonus room options and lot fits stay coordinated instead of drifting into a folder of near-identical files nobody trusts. If you're a builder working a community, our trade professional page covers volume pricing and working to your standards.

What we need from you

• The property address and a current survey, if you have one
• Your design — sketches, a plan you like, a room list, or just a conversation
• Square footage target and budget range, even approximate
• Any HOA or architectural review guidelines that apply
• Your builder's or engineer's preferences, if either is already on board
• Reference images of the look you want — these communicate more than adjectives do

Don't have most of that? Send what you do have. The first conversation is free, and part of its job is figuring out what's actually missing.

Common questions