Custom Home Design Advice

Custom home design is a unique and personal process that begins with a vision and is supported by the relationship between the homeowner or client and the design team.

Keith Baker offers his insights into this process in this article from SPRUCE, Victoria’s Home & Design Magazine.

Below is an excerpt from the publication. You can read the full article HERE.

What should people know before they embark on a custom home build?

Be open-minded. That’s a good place to start. Some people don’t have all the answers of how they want it to go together; they just know it needs to feel this way, and they need this number of rooms. And some people are very specific and very prescriptive — that’s actually harder. I encourage people to have an open mind in terms of the home showing up perhaps even better than they can imagine. Allow the design process to unfold in a positive way, rather than having tunnel vision about how you think it should go or what you think you have to have. Understanding the process means you move, take another step and then you find out, “Oh, there’s another question I need to ask.” It is iterative. It isn’t a straight line from A to B.