Deliverables
Schematic Design - New Custom Homes
The schematic design for your new custom home is where your ideas start taking clear shape. It includes a detailed site plan with key information worked out early to confirm zoning compliance, verify overall project feasibility, and establish the best placement and orientation of the home on the lot.
This phase is also where we fully incorporate your wishes, priorities, and lifestyle needs, along with any design inspiration you’ve shared, previously discussed features, and the styles or homes you’ve told us you like. These inputs guide the direction of the design so the concept feels aligned with your vision from the start.
You’ll receive well developed, functional floor plans focused on space planning and flow, including furniture layouts, clear room sizing, and how each area connects day-to-day. We’ll explore options for how the home lives and feels, refining layout decisions to improve comfort, function, and overall livability before moving into more technical detail.
To help you visualize the overall look and massing of the home, we also provide conceptual, full-colour exterior views from multiple angles. These images support the design intent by showing proportions, rooflines, and overall style, giving you a strong sense of the home’s character before advancing into the next phase.
Preliminary Drawings - Additions & Renovations
Preliminary drawings for your addition or renovation are where we really dive into the project and start working through the realities of the existing home. We begin with a detailed site plan and key data worked out early to confirm zoning compliance, verify overall project feasibility, and ensure the proposed changes are viable before moving deeper into design.
This phase also focuses on understanding the complexities of the existing structure, how the home is built, what constraints we’re working within, and how the new spaces will connect to and function alongside the old. The goal is to create an addition or renovation that feels integrated, makes sense structurally and spatially, and improves the way the home works.
These drawings are prepared as clear, client friendly presentations so you can easily review and understand the direction of the design before moving forward. You’ll receive existing and proposed floor plans that clearly highlight what’s changing, along with key layout decisions showing how the new areas relate to the existing spaces. Where helpful, we also include black-and-white 3D views to visualize the addition in context with the current home, helping you see the overall massing and how everything ties together.
Design Development
Design development is where the project shifts from ideas and inspiration into a refined, well-resolved design. Now that your wishes, goals, and preferred features have been translated onto paper, the process of tailoring and improving the plans begins by shaping the design further so it truly fits how you want to live in the home.
Through continued client input, we refine the layout and exterior design as the details become clearer. This is the phase where adjustments are expected as ideas evolve: room relationships are fine-tuned, sizes and proportions are balanced, and design elements are clarified so the home feels cohesive.
We further develop the floor plans and exterior concept proportions, rooflines, window placement, materials, and key architectural features until it reflects your vision and functions the way you need it to. As decisions are confirmed, the drawings become more detailed, specific, and aligned with your goals, setting a strong foundation for the next step.
Once the design is dialed in and the major choices are finalized, we’re ready to transition into construction drawings.
3D Visualization
3D visualization provides an immersive way to experience your project before it’s built. We create multiple detailed, photorealistic renderings of both the exterior and interior, helping you understand materials, lighting, scale, and overall atmosphere long before construction begins.
Nothing beats the feeling of actually “standing” in the space with correct proportions and real-world perspective, seeing ceiling heights, window sizes, room depth, and how everything relates at true scale. This clarity helps confirm decisions, reduce uncertainty, and solidify your confidence in the design before the structure is ever started.
If desired, we can also supply animated fly-arounds and fly-throughs to show how the home looks and feels from every angle, giving you a smooth, realistic sense of movement through the spaces.
Together, these visuals offer the clearest possible representation of the design—so you can make informed choices and feel excited about what’s coming, with fewer surprises along the way.
Construction Documents
Construction documents are created once you’re happy with the design and ready to move forward. At this stage, the drawings are finalized and converted into a technical construction set—presentation items are removed, and the focus shifts fully to buildable information.
Floor plans, elevations, and roof plans are detailed with the specific dimensions and notes required to construct the home, while building sections and construction details are added to clearly show how everything comes together.
These are the drawings you are ordering and the set used for building permits, pricing, material takeoffs, and coordination with other professionals (engineers, energy advisors, surveyors, and more). The builder uses this set to build from, and once the permit is approved, the drawings become part of the official record with the city as a legal permit document.
The documents are highly detailed, with the intricacies of the building worked out so the set can be handed to anyone involved and confidently read and used for the project.
Rezoning & Development Application Drawings
Rezoning and development permit applications require a specific set of drawings tailored to municipal review, and they rely on a clear understanding of the zoning bylaw—whether the intent is to change from one zone to another or establish a brand-new, site-specific zone. We also show how the proposal aligns with the OCP (Official Community Plan) by illustrating how the project fits with the community’s broader planning goals and policies.
We guide the rezoning process by preparing the required plans and diagrams—such as massing plans, basic interior and exterior design mockups, grade and height information, and full site sections—so the proposal can be properly evaluated and supported.
Because these approvals are highly visual, 3D visualization is often an important part of the package, including full site modelling and photorealistic renderings to clearly communicate the project’s scale, form, and overall impact.