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The Benefits of a Contractor with an In-House Design Team

The Benefits of a Contractor with an In-House Design Team

MC Homes takes pride in being a design + build contractor. We can build and design your custom luxury home from initial ideas to the finished product, even if you’re unsure of what that finished product is.

Not every contractor can handle the design aspect of a build. While it’s not standard for luxury home builders, it’s a benefit to have an in-house design team.

When building a home, there are two main milestones: designing and constructing your home. Most are familiar with the “building” part. Your contractor will gather the materials and work from the blueprints to construct your home.

For the “design” part, it covers two aspects: the design of your home’s structure and layout, and the design of the finishes like floors, tile, wall colors, fixtures, and details like furniture and decor. They go hand-in-hand, but on many builds, that could mean many hands.

A homeowner can purchase online blueprints for the desired size and layout of a typical home style. Often these online plans need some changes to make them fit the needs of your lifestyle.

A homeowner or contractor might partner with a design firm to create the layout and design from the blueprints to the room colors, floors, tile and other finishes.

We offer a third option: work with a design and build contractor. In this option, we create a floor plan with our designers to control the build from ideation to completion.

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At MC Homes, we know collaboration can make or break a build, affecting budgets and expectations. Early on, we worked with an interior designer on our builds. (We revisited that collaboration on a recent lake house build, which you can read about here.)

Through that partnership, we advanced our builds, understanding the nuances of executing a luxury build and the design intent. It’s helpful to know how a home will be finished and lived in before starting the build.

Many contractors and homeowners might agree: if there’s an easier and cheaper way, they’ll choose that route. However, that cheaper, easier version might compromise the expectations you have for the finished home.

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It could be as simple as ductwork or light fixture placement, or it could mean a bathtub ends up on the wrong side of the room, a closet size is cut in half, or your master bed doesn’t fit between the bedroom windows.

Sometimes, contractors might make a building decision that makes sense but changes things design-wise, and you, the homeowner, might not see it until it’s too late.

Contractors will ask you to make many decisions throughout the home building process, but not every decision.

That’s why you need to trust your builder and designer to make decisions on your behalf.

Our in-house design team collaborates with us on every build, even if you have all the finishes laid out. They communicate directly with the project managers to ensure decisions align with the finished house’s appearance when we hand over the keys.

The project managers and their teams are aligned on every decision daily.

When a draft designer, an interior designer, and a project manager work together daily, cohesion happens that won’t occur with those tasks spread out among unfamiliar parties.

Sharing these tasks with one company eases the homeowner’s process, as your contacts are in one place and already communicating to accomplish your build on time, on budget, but beyond expectation.

James & Glen

At MC Homes, we want every job to surpass expectations. That means working closely with our teams to keep projects on their timelines, within budgets, and check every box the homeowner has.

No job goes perfectly and no timeline is obstacle-free. The important thing is that you, the soon-to-be homeowner, never worry about your needs being met once we hand over the keys.

Want to see our work? Check out these recent builds:

Schroeder House

View the Schroeder House

Eagle Landing Lake House

View the Lake House
  • October 10, 2024
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