  rmed with notes from phone conversations and meetings, your Cost Estimate Worksheet and completed questionnaires, we hop on a plane to meet you at your building site for the first design meeting. We will also have your local climate data, topographic maps of your site (if necessary), lot lines, dimensions, easements, setbacks and covenants.
Nothing takes the place of being there and personally getting to know you and your building site. Ideas start to germinate once we get to know first hand where the new home is going to be built.
THE SITE VISIT
During the site visit we discuss how your new home design can take best advantage of your topography, solar orientation, views, obstructions and street access.
 We discuss the comments on your worksheets, review the budget information and begin sketching design ideas. This is a very exciting couple of days! Typically, we meet with you on the first day and spend several hours at your building site. If your site is large, we walk the property and discuss possible places to site your home. Usually our customers have possible home sites in mind before this meeting, but sometimes there are perspectives they haven't thought of and our job is to present to you the best options for your home site along with the pros and cons. It's then your job to make the final decision about where your home will go.
 That evening we sketch very basic design ideas just beginning to get a feel for the general location of the rooms in your home and their relationship to each other. These sketches are brought to our meeting the next day. We return to your building site and look at the sketches from the on-site perspective. We then discuss the ideas and eventually identify an approach for your new home design that works with your lifestyle needs and fits your land beautifully.
When this first session is over, we have a design direction and some very excited customers!
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