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Home Design Choice

Many of our customers are building a custom home for the first time. Often they have a general idea of what they want but not a finished design. Linwood has developed a number of plan books showing examples of different styles of homes to stimulate the imagination and help conceptualize the vision. Design development is a process and quite natural. You are encouraged to give free expression to your ideas; after all, it is a custom house that you are building. The final design will evolve as all the important individual components are brought together. We find that most customers have a certain external style in mind. With our design expertise we can generally meet the specific space and layout needs within the envelope of the look chosen. Linwood representatives are trained to help you design what you want. Many competitors say they are custom builders but really want you to work within the parameters of a few existing models. At Linwood we are happy to build a true custom home.

Once your design is finalized, you are given a firm price quote for a home package which will enable you to proceed to the lock-up stage. At this stage, a contract is signed and the package price guaranteed for three months. By contrast beware of others in the industry who have open-ended ability to increase prices even after you think you have a contract. Linwood will send you within two weeks of contract signature a set of large scale preliminary drawings showing elevations and floor plans. You can use them to make revisions which are incorporated into final construction blueprints. You may still change these blueprints once again if necessary to fine-tune your design at no extra charge. The final set of blueprints are highly detailed and will enable you to obtain planning approvals and then proceed to construct your home.