Home Design Cost (Roma: house, buy, calculated)

[hahmad528]

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[SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]We are planning to build a two story 4000sf A/C home with2300sf of garage, patio and drive way area. How the cost of the designwill be calculated and what do we expect to get for that price asdeliverable? [FONT="Arial"][/FONT][/FONT][/SIZE]
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[DSL_PWR]

There are way too many variables to this. I know people that have paid $500 for a set of plans from a floor plan website and people that have paid $10k from a custom firm. You will need to call specific architect's and see what they charge. It's usually per sq ft but some companies offer plan packages or a reduced rate if you buy their already drawn plans.

Good luck.

[marksmu]

If you go fully custom its all over the place...will the architect give you building plans and engineering as well or will you just a set of house plans that then need to goto the engineer to be drawn for real and made legit?

I paid $4/sqft for my fully custom plans, spent probably 60 hours with designer/architect/engineer....They were associated with a builder who gave a $1/ft discount on the designs if you built with them..In the end I spent about $18,000 on my plans and its worth it.

[ToyYot]

Originally Posted by marksmu

If you go fully custom its all over the place...will the architect give you building plans and engineering as well or will you just a set of house plans that then need to goto the engineer to be drawn for real and made legit?

I paid $4/sqft for my fully custom plans, spent probably 60 hours with designer/architect/engineer....They were associated with a builder who gave a $1/ft discount on the designs if you built with them..In the end I spent about $18,000 on my plans and its worth it.

These sound like a good numbers for fully custom. Our total outlay for designer/architect/engineer for 'just' an extensive remodel will likely end up to be about half of that.