What we have learned building and furnishing houses in central Iowa, written down before you need it. Most of these start as a question a client asked us in the showroom.
Minimum clearances tell you a room fits. They do not tell you how it will read once the ceiling height, the real furniture and the people using it are all in there at once.
Building new with a designerTwo builders priced the same drawings and came back tens of thousands apart. The gap sits in what the plans never specified.
Designing for how you liveTen ways clients describe the house they want. We hear them a lot, and none of them means only one thing.
What it actually costsA house has hundreds of line items and almost none of them tell you which ones matter. Two questions sort them.
