DESIGN SERVICES
"WE BRING DREAMS TO REALITY"
The Stride Corporation can help you in many facets of your building and design needs.
Plan and Design
- The design process is one of the most important part of the construction/building process. No matter how good your blueprints are, no matter how competent your builder or general contractor is, your design plan must be well thought out and logically developed to ensure a well constructed home or remodeling effort that meets your needs, your lifestyle and your unique characteristics. A great new space, whether it's remodeling your bedroom, bath, or kitchen or creating a brand new space is one that you are happy to wake up in every day, which is efficient in its layout and usage, that is interesting yet practical, and that brings joy into the very basics of your everyday living.
- It involves using creativity and visualization to look at the origin of your likes and dislikes and it involves honest communication with others (your spouse and/or children) as well as your Stride Corporation designer and builder, and your banker. Take the time to discuss compromises and different options. Visualize your finished room or new addition or new home from the inside out, the feel of each room, corner and hallway-in short, what it will be like to live in.
Regulatory
- Often there are many regulatory requirements that affect your project, from zoning to allowable setbacks, buildable area, height restrictions, sewage disposal, water and utilities. Your Stride Corporation Project Coordinator can step you through this process.
Budget
- Too many people travel far down the road to their dream remodeling project, new addition or new home only to find out that they can’t afford it, many times after construction is finished. The overall costs can include: construction costs, design and engineering fees, surveying, driveway and landscaping, septic fields, and building permit fees or development charges. Your Stride Corporation Project Coordinator will assure that you are reminded of these figures, and if known, will provide them for you.
Technical
- Your Stride Corporation Project Coordinator is trained to recognize such things as constraints offered by your building site: access, wind and sun exposure, and septic field capacity, along with zoning requirements (if known).
Evaluation
- Your Stride Project Coordinator will help you look at the assignment of areas where rooms will be, look at access and circulation, and begin helping you assign a budget. Undertake the difficult but extremely important step of matching your dream with the reality of your financial situation. It is important to build in additional funds for unforeseen costs and extra spending for special features in mind. It may be necessary to modify your plans or double up the function of your space, finish the basement at a later date, or to tighten up the entire floor plan. The importance of this step cannot be over-emphasized. These are the critical decisions that still allow you to have the well designed and beautiful remodeled home you want at a price you can afford. At this point you may not have even looked at floor plans nor put pencil to paper.
Drawing Process
- This phase is best left up to your Stride Design Specialist through in house design or working with an architect or designer. At this point you and your Stride Corporation Project Coordinator or Design Specialist will have a good idea of what your entire remodeling project or new addition should look like and you should have a list to provide to the architect.
- Our Stride Corporation Project Coordinator or Design Specialist can work with you to help you establish relationships between the various rooms, help choose the primary orientation and the general feel of the home. This is the initial step to creating blueprints and should be reviewed many times by both the architect/Stride designer and yourself, the client. This is the time to make changes and add detail, because once the schematic drawings are finalized, it becomes much more costly to make changes so it is wise to spend extra time getting it right at the beginning.
Design Development
- Next comes the technical side of design; attaching exact dimensions to each room, calculating wall heights, roof pitches and stair details, construction methods, etc. Your home is definitely beginning to take shape and your Stride Design Specialist can ensure that the shape it takes reflects your dreams.
Working Drawings
- There is opportunity to make plan changes at this point, here it becomes more expensive, but of course, less expensive than changes during construction. These drawings may include detailed specifications for materials and construction and schedules for doors, windows, and finishes.
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