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Luxury Home Design Process

The design process for a custom luxury home is all about you – not the builder. You have worked hard and deserve the best in custom homebuilding skills and expertise.

Towne Craft is ready to guide you regardless of where you are in creating your southern Maryland jewel box: you may have ideas on a napkin, you may have purchased a luxury home construction plan online or you may be working with an architect. We are a design build company that can pick up wherever you are in this exciting phase of your life.

We Will Talk About …

• Your Goals
• Lifestyle at Home
• Stage of Life
• Personal Interests for All Family Members

Click here (PDF) for a convenient form that helps you define more clearly your vision of your luxury home.

We’re not selling you a house. We’re providing you with a service designed to make the custom homebuilding process from start to finish a cooperative effort between you and Towne Craft.

Our Overall Process in St. Mary's and Calvert Counties

We will guide you through these construction phases:

• Consultation Meeting
• Meet Our Designated Lender
• Visit Designated Suppliers’ Showrooms
• Contract Development Services
• Lot Search
• Lot Review
• Construction Specifications Meeting
• Preliminary Contract Meeting
• Preliminary Site Plan
• Initial Architectural Meeting
• Concept Plan Design Meeting
• Selections Meeting
• Plan Development Review Meeting
• Construction Documents Meeting
• Final Contract Pricing
• Final Site Plan
• Permit Application
• HOA/Community Approval
• Start Meeting
• Construction Loan Settlement
• Pre-Close-In Inspection
• Pre-Occupancy Inspection and Final Draw Authorization
• Your Home is Complete

For more details on the above points, click here (PDF).

From the initial meeting to the final walk-through, Towne Craft homeowners are in full control of the design and construction of their custom home.

Retail Homebuying vs. Custom Designing

If the process starts with a standard plan no matter how many options are available, it is not a custom home.

Retail home building begins with the packaging and marketing of a predetermined product on a predetermined lot with predetermined specifications and incentives.

Custom homebuilding is more discerning. The process begins with the question “What do you have in mind?” and expands from that point. The approaches to the process can vary substantially.

• Have you already purchased your lot?
• Have you already selected an architect to create a final set of architectural plans for your luxury home?
• Have you purchased a custom home plan online and you want a qualified builder to help you modify the plan and construct your own architectural masterpiece?