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BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – DREAM HOME DESIGNER, HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND

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The two of us . . .

Each and every participant in dream home plans — know this: nothing replaces knowledge, experience, impassioned and untiring vigilance. AG '03

Before The Architect -

Designs your unique dream home design, draws your unique dream home design, reviews and repairs your home design done by others.

Principals Ralph (a/k/a Autocad Granddad, AG) and Jean Pressel (a/k/a Mrs. AG, The Missus) have worked together, hands-on in home plans designing and building going on four-plus decades both on their own and for hire. AG runs Autocad and home plans contents; Mrs. AG does your serious home designing, and keeps an eye on what AG's up to.

Operates nationwide.

Begins your unique dream home design with owner's stock plans or architects' or other home designers' work product (explicitly released by authors for use by others) or with owners' own home drawing by-hand or by store-bought software. Clients, very selectively chosen, are often professionals planning their dream homes. The firm's business platform is principally email-centric, permitting time for review, research, reflection, and reply.

Has worked on properties in 28 states and the District of Columbia, in home designing, home drawing, reviewing, and repairing from a few hundred square feet to just shy of 20,000 square feet in wide-ranging home designer styles, principally Traditional.

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In its essence, what makes Before The Architect different from the others?
Before The Architect’s principals have been both your home designers and home builders together for going on 4 1/2 decades.
You can see it in their dream home plans work –
Respecting owners in attentively home designing safety, durability, and convenience functions into owner-desirable forms and

Respecting builders in builders’ own language, taking much of your home design out of residential contractors’ hands, and directing them to their job of home building construction without a whole lot of wiggle-room.

You get your dream home designs that go way past most common home design standards in attention to - a) home designing into plans the owners' needs and wants and b) home drawing and writing into plans extraordinary detail and specification –
It takes an extra effort to minimize ignorance, unpleasant surprise, misunderstandings and, worst, attempt to defend against deceit. Before The Architect new home plans can run roughly 25-50 sheets of text and home drawing developed over the course of months and and can take roughly 600-1000 hours. Time spent varies somewhat directly with size of real property.

Common home plans standards are not especially informative or disclosive either to owners or builders, leaving others to home design for you or surprising you about immediate decisions for which you're immediately unprepared.

You hire individuals who have spent most of two working lifetimes with home plans - home designing, home building construction, remodeling, repairing, consulting.
Generally, Before The Architect’s principals used to give away home plans designs to assess other ways to build or rebuild, to reckon a potential investment’s viability, to do the work they’d home-designed, to get the job, to explain something or other to someone or other.

Now Before The Architect’s principals design the home plans, letting younger and stronger backs dig and lug and do the heavy lifting.

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