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Starting the Process of Designing Your Custom Home
Let’s Get Going!
Once you have chosen ECOterra DESIGN-BUILD as your custom home builder, it is time for us to learn all about you! We want to review and discuss what is most important to you and your family in your new home.
We will provide you with a comprehensive design questionnaire to complete.
Here are some of the subjects covered in the questionnaire that you will need to consider and ultimately make decisions about:
Style of Home Exterior
Exterior Finish
Roofing Material
Window Trim
Square Footage of Home
Single Story?
Two Story?
Room Delineation + Flow
Foyer | Living Room
Family Room | Great Room
Kitchen | Dining Room, etc.
Room Styles + Treatments
Fireplaces | Ceiling Treatments
Window Treatments
Floors | Lighting
Kitchen
Shape | Size | Appliances Style
Kitchen Island?
Cabinet Style + Finishes
Dining Room
Shape | Size
Lighting Fixtures
Flooring
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Window Treatments
Master Bedroom
Shape | Size
Fireplace
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Master Closet
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Sitting Area
Ceiling & Floor Treatments
Master Bathroom
Shape | Size
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Vanity Area
Fixtures | Shower
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Soaking Tub
Additional Bedrooms
Quantity | Sizes | Configurations
Closets | Bathrooms
Additional Bathrooms
Quantity | Sizes | Styles | Fixtures
Showers | Bathtubs
Additional Rooms, Spaces
Laundry Room | Utility Room | Closets
Garage Size and Configuration
Outdoor Spaces
Patios | Courtyards | Pool | Landscaping
Gardens | Pathways | Sidewalks | Pavers
Renewables
Solar Collectors | Passive Solar
Build Green | Energy-Efficiency Features
Water Conservation
Water Collection | Water Storage
Xeriscaping
Other Features
Home Automation | Home Security
NM Energy Tax Credits
Your Budget
We encourage you
to start to gather “inspiration” images of styles, treatments, finishes, etc. you may want to incorporate into your home. You can start a physical scrapbook or use a free digital image- collection website like Houzz or Pinterest.
Once your questionnaire is complete, ECOterra will meet with you to review your questionnaire and images in detail.
When the initial design meeting between you and ECOterra has been completed, we will use your feedback to prepare an initial draft of the home shape and proposed floor plan. In this first draft, we take into consideration the placement of the home on the lot, the home’s orientation in relation to the sun (to optimize solar efficiency) and any views from the lot.
Upon agreement of the home shape and floor plan, ECOterra begins the architectural drawings. This starts an iterative process of you providing feedback to ECOterra so that we can fine-tune the floor plan, features and elevations until you are happy.
If you are a client relocating from out of the area, ECOterra will work with you on home design via ZOOM, email and phone calls.
The ECOterra design phase can take approximately two to four months.
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