Design a custom home that truly fits your family’s lifestyle and protects your financial future.
Building a custom home is a once-in-a-lifetime decision. One overlooked design choice can cost you comfort, money, and flexibility for decades. I help families plan smarter before those mistakes are finalized in concrete.
Most homeowners only build their ‘forever’ home once. Over the last fifty years, I’ve been involved in hundreds of projects.
I’m a professional residential designer with a degree in architecture, a former ‘Class A’ licensed homebuilder, and a real estate developer. I’ve seen what works, what fails, and what quietly drains budgets long after move-in day.
This site exists to protect everyday families from expensive, irreversible mistakes – not to sell you on trends, upsells, or glossy inspiration that ignores real-world consequences.
This is a process that my wife and I have been through ourselves.
The photograph below shows a house we are using as an example in this blog, one we designed and built ourselves back in 2007. Unfortunately, our adventure wasn’t successful. The photograph was taken by our realtor when we moved out.
I hope you will learn from our mistakes.
Most people start a custom home project the wrong way:
By the time problems appear, it’s already too late – the concrete is poured, the framing is up, and the budget is gone.
A poorly planned home doesn’t just cost more to build – it costs more every day you live in it.
These are mistakes most homeowners didn’t even know to watch for.
Successful custom home projects aren’t accidental – they’re planned.
Here, you’ll learn how to:
Everything is explained in plain language, with real-world examples – not theory.
This site and channel walk you through the custom home process in the correct order:
This is a professional guide standing beside you before every major decision
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