Phase 1

Choosing Your Homesite

If you have not yet purchased the property for your new home, Stephenson Custom Homes will assist you. Together, we can be sure that the site you choose will compliment the master land plan you desire to create upon it. We will verify that there are no recorded easements or restrictions that could disrupt the master plan of the estate. We can also counsel you regarding potential soil considerations and possible remedies.

Order A Lot Survey
Stephenson Custom Homes will order a lot survey that will tells us the locations of easements, trees, topography, power poles, floodplain, building set back lines, and street locations. This is a tool that the architect and Stephenson Custom Homes will use to design the estate home. Stephenson Custom Homes wants to be able to design the home to compliment the homesite without sacrificing trees.

Meet With Approved Architects
Stephenson Custom Homes has a relationship with M.J. Mathews and Associates, Richard Drummond Davis or John Allen to help you with your new estate home design. We will take the lot survey and sit with one of the two architects that you select and create a “master list” of what you want in your home. Stephenson Custom Homes recommends that you start collecting pictures and floor plans of homes that fit your needs so that we can be as precise as we can to meet your expectations. We will provide past floor plans that we have built to create the momentum for your home.

Design Front Elevation
Once the floorplan is complete and approved by the purchaser and Stephenson Custom Homes, the front elevation will be drawn.

Approve Elevation
At this meeting the architect will present us with the front elevation of your home. We will approve the elevation and move to the final plans for construction.

Pre Construction Plan Review
At this meeting we will walk the floor plan to discuss finish out in your home. This is when you tell Stephenson Custom Homes what materials i.e. flooring material, trim material, cabinet material, etc. that you have chosen. This is a very simple meeting that will give us the direction on creating the budget for your new home. You will be charged the balance of the plans at this point.

Creating the Budget
Stephenson Custom Homes will issue a set of plans to all of our vendors to gives us the price it will cost for your new home. This process takes 7 – 14 business days.

Execute Construction Contract
This meeting will take place as soon as the budget is complete. Stephenson Custom Homes will present the price of your home. You will be provided with your allowances to make selections for your home. The buyer will execute a construction contract that will be scheduled to close in 30 days. Stephenson Custom Homes will begin construction as soon as this contract is closed and funded at the title company.