H & N Custom Homes helps turn their customers’ homes into castles through inspired design, precise estimating, and production of residential remodeling projects. It works exclusively on older urban homes in Nutley and specializes in residential remodeling. It makes a profit for the owners of the company and provides an enriching and exciting environment and fair compensation to its employees and trade partners. H & N Custom Homes strives to enrich and support the communities where it works and is located.
Design Build Process : Overview
H & N Custom Homes is a Design/Build firm. Design/Build means we can work with you on your project from the preliminary design and estimating phase all the way through construction. If you already have a professional design, H & N Custom Homes Building & Remodeling will work with that design to produce a line-item specification with all the details necessary to give you a firm price on your project.
The design/build process, as the words would indicate, is broken down into two phases. The design & planning process works as follows:
1. Please start by giving us a phone call or to discuss what you want to accomplish with your remodeling project, any special needs, and what type of investment you want to make in your home. As we discuss the project over the phone we will be taking notes to pass along to the sales person or designer that visits your home. Often times we will schedule an appointment to meet you at your home, but sometimes a designer will call you back to schedule this first visit.
2. During the first visit to your home we will discuss the project(s) with you, take photographs, and measurements and explain how H & N Custom Homes performs the design & planning process. We will leave a copy of our pretty brochure that contains information about H & N Custom Homes, our team of professionals, photos of projects, and our annual infographic.
3. After the appointment, we will email you a budget estimate of costs for your project. A PDF copy of H & N Custom Homes’s Design & Planning Contract will also be emailed.
4. The design costs associated with the drawings and the detailed estimate usually equal approximately 2-4% of the project budget, depending on project design complexity and the hours H & N Custom Homes expects to spend on each phase of the Design & Planning Process. The way to keep design and planning costs down is to invest some time upfront determining how the job should look when completed, making precise decisions, and not changing the budget or scope of the design project numerous times.
5. If you are already working with an architect or other professional designer, we will work with them to put together the specifications and help with interior design selections at a negotiated fee based on the complexity of the project. If no design is necessary due to the nature of the project, the specification fee can be negotiated. Working with an Architect can be a very different process than working with a Design / Build remodeling firm.
6. With your approval of the design and planning agreement, we schedule our first design meeting and begin the design and planning process!
Click here to start the process of working with H & N Custom Homes or give us a call to discuss your remodeling wants and needs.
