Custom Residential

Why Choose Custom Residential?

A custom designed home from Method is perfectly tailored to your land and its natural environment; including topography, local weather patterns, and most importantly, you and your lifestyle. The design process is a dynamic collaboration between the land, your vision, and the architect team.

Our in-house studio, Method Architecture, specializes in integrated design-build project delivery, leveraging our modular construction expertise while still providing for bespoke, context-driven designs. Additionally Method collaborates with architects from across the West Coast and the Intermountain West, fostering a diverse network of design expertise. Method Arch offers both full-service custom architectural design services, and the option to act as the architect of record, overseeing production in seamless collaboration with our clients' chosen designers.

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Site Selection

We encourage clients to work with local real estate agents who are knowledgeable about new construction and site selection. Method can provide an initial site assessment prior to writing an offer on the land.

Consultation

Consultation begins with a scheduled phone conversation with our Design and Sales Team. We review your goals and vision for the home, site, budget, schedules and process. Method will then provide you with schematic cost estimates for your project and discuss financing options. Method provides a variety of design approaches: working with long established architects who are familiar with the process, with architects that are new to the process selected by our clients and in house design options.

A method homes employee consulting on a piece of land

Feasibility

Method homes delivery trucks boarding a boat for a complex installation

For some sites, a feasibility study will help clients better understand the infrastructure needs of the property they are purchasing. During a feasibility study Method can review the site for access, coordinate soils testing and topographical surveys, and review the zoning and permitting timelines. Method will review design goals and further evaluate modular and local building costs, transportation and set logistics and provide a full review of the project prior to entering into a full Pre-construction Agreement that will engage the whole team. Method offers a Schematic Design option that is in conjunction with the Feasibility study for projects that have unique site and/or design goals.

Financing

Master project dated sheet for a method homes project

If financing is required, it is important to have a budget in mind and to get pre-approved for a construction loan. We can put you in touch with preferred lenders or work with yours.

Design & Permitting

House plans laid out at the method homes facility

A pre-construction agreement fully engages the Method team for all of the activities leading up to a fully-permitted set of plans. Method will engage its design team, as well as structural engineers, who will work together to develop detailed specifications for the home. Method coordinates directly with the local general contractor with a detailed scope of work, once the final specifications and detailed estimation is complete.

Interior Design & Specifications

A color board showing stylistic elements of a home

Method will fully review all of the interior details with our interior design team. With custom construction, Method Homes will work with you to select your custom finishes. Our estimation team provides line by line detailed costs, which allows our clients to dial their finishes up or down to fit aesthetic and budgetary goals.

Permit & Contract

Once the detailed estimation is complete and coordinated with the local general contractor, Method contracts are executed with a a 25% initial payment for the modules. Construction commences typically 4-8 weeks from the signing of the build contract, and after permits are issued.

Fabricate

Fabrication inside a method homes facility

A dedicated project manager will coordinate the factory construction and stay involved through the completion of your home. Fabrication for custom projects takes between 16 and 20 weeks, though it may take longer with specialty items and/or very large projects. The payment schedule for factory construction begins with a 25% initial payment due upon execution of the Construction Agreement. A 25% progress payment is due halfway through the factory construction process, 25% is due at the completion of the wall covering, and the final balance of the modular construction contract is due upon delivery of the modules.

Deliver

Homes are delivered and installed (on average) four months from the fabrication start date. In most cases, a crane places the home at the site in one day. Method coordinates with site GC’s to complete the home’s stitching process, which typically takes 2-4 months.

An on-site crane installing sections of a prefabricated home

Welcome to your new home!

Custom Residential

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Why Choose Custom Residential?

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Site Selection

Consultation

Feasibility

Financing

Design & Permitting

Interior Design & Specifications

Permit & Contract

Fabricate

Deliver

Welcome to your new home!

pricing for custom projects

pricing for custom projects

soft costs - $40,000+

modular costs - $300 to $400+ per sq ft

site costs - 70% to 120% of modular costs

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