Resources
These are the working documents we use with clients: planning guides, budgeting worksheets, and checklists. Download whatever helps, use it with any builder, and bring your questions when you're ready to talk.
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The budgeting workbook built from Sean's own rural build: worksheets for land acquisition, due diligence, permits, site development, well and septic, power, the building itself, interior selections, driveways, landscaping, future outbuildings, and contingency reserves. Fill it in and you'll know your whole number, category by category, before you fall in love with a floor plan.
If you download one thing, download this. Most projects cost more than the building alone, and this workbook is how you find out where.
Download the Workbook (PDF)The guide library
For: anyone deciding how to start a custom build.
What professional preconstruction includes, why we sell planning as its own service, and what you own when it's done.
Download PDFFor: comparing quotes and specifications.
Every product in our standard kit, what it does, and the client benefit, in plain language you can hold any bid against.
Download PDFFor: households getting their goals on paper.
The questionnaire our clients complete before design begins: use, lifestyle, priorities, and the concerns worth naming early. Filling it out as a household surfaces the conversations that shape the floor plan.
Download PDFFor: tracking a project through planning.
Phase-by-phase checkboxes from first consultation to construction-ready, with the deliverable each phase should hand you. Useful with any builder.
Download PDFFor: buyers weighing pre-engineered plans.
How the Performance Series balances performance and budget, who it fits, and how it compares to the Foundation and Signature packages.
Download PDFA technical reference section is in the works: product data sheets, installation standards, and assembly details for the materials we specify, so owners and inspectors can see exactly what goes into the walls.
A suggestion on sequence
First, the Vision Workbook, as a household. Agreeing on how you'll use the building costs nothing now and plenty at the framing stage.
Second, the Investment Planning Workbook, with your parcel in hand or your shortlist of parcels. Whole-project numbers change which land makes sense.
Third, the Preconstruction Checklist and Material Standards Guide, when you start talking to builders. They turn sales conversations into specification conversations, which is the conversation you want.
Wherever you are in that sequence, we're glad to talk it through. Tell us about your project or call 541-408-5569.
Send them over. Sean reads every inquiry personally, and pointing people in the right direction is the favorite part of the job.
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