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We specialize in designing homes & additions for homeowners, creating home plans you can understand, supporting you throughout the design and building process.

The video below is a quick explanation and video tour of addition for an in-laws suite or a master suite addition in an easy to understand format.

This video can be expanded to full screen

Custom house design and addition design for homeowners is our forte. Creating custom home designs for homeowners and watching them come to life is our passion! Our clients typically call us residential architects creating architectural custom house designs.

We show, explain, and educate, alleviating your fear regarding the unknowns of having your custom home designed and built. We are your best advocate throughout the design and building process answering your questions and giving guidance in every stage of designing and building your new house or addition.

Our job starts when you walk through our door, and only finishes when you walk through yours.

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Seeing is Believing. Our state of the art computer generated images and videos allow you to live in your custom home before you live in your house. See for yourself here.

The Design Guy believes that clarity is the single most crucial potion of design.  Read more here.

Plans submitted for building permits are rejected at alarmingly high rates. Why gamble with your home design. Read more here.

 Custom Home Project Video

 Custom Home Project Video Example

Above is a fly 30-second abbreviated video of a custom home showing the exterior views and then splits into three screens showing the floor plan, framing, and kitchen. Our clients can see and understand how their home will look.

Custom house design
Follow this home from concept to being in a magazine

Follow this project from concept to finish! Watching the architectural custom house design evolve .
Start with the finished home and follow to see how the concept is refined to the clients dream home.

VIRGINIA AREAS SERVED

Amelia , Ashland, Blackstone, Bracey, Brunswick, Caroline County, Charles City, Chesterfield, Claremont, Colonial Heights, Dinwiddie, Emporia, Franklin City, Fredricksburg, Hanover, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, Hopewell, Lake Gaston, Lousia, Mecklenburg, New Kent, Nottoway, Powhatan County, Petersburg, Prince George County, Richmond, Spotsylvania, Surry, Sutherland, Sussex

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Best of Houzz for the third time

We were voted by the Houzz community as the winner of Best of Houzz  award for 2023, 2020 & 2019 !

Our work won in the Customer Service category! We want to shout out to the Houzz community for their votes!
This emphasizes the customer service we provide to homeowners just like you!

Free Report download

12 mistakes people make when designing a custom home

This report will help prepare your to build you dream or addition. Be sure to start your custom home project with a good understanding of what you will need to prevent expensive mistakes.

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Silver Water home design featured

The home we show on this page “Follow this home from concept to this stage”  is featured in What’s Up? Annapolis magazine. Read the article

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