The lights dim and a conductor takes to the stage. Before him sits several individuals poised at the ready to play. He lifts his hand, and with a flick of a wand, the orchestra plays and music fills the air. Those who have come to hear a concert are pleasantly rewarded.
When a person has a dream, and that of a new custom home, they seek out an architect or designer. And like an orchestra, the design team under its conductor, the architectural designer rewards the future homeowner. The designer uses their creative mind like that of the conductor to bring out within a group of professionals and engineers their very best. The music played is the design coming to life for the audience member, you the future homeowner.
I have been and continue to be that architectural designer for over thirty years. In that time, homeowners have asked many questions about how to best go from buying a blank piece of ground to getting a building permit for their dream. I want to put within this blog my thoughts for those wanting to take that leap, purchase a parcel of land, and seek out a designer to place their dreams and longings onto paper.
There are many steps in this process, and this blog will cover those from the initial meeting with a designer, to achieving a permit that will allow that owner the valued special moment of sticking that shovel for the first time into the dirt they own.
May all of you who read this have great success in this process,
Gary Miller
Principal and Architectural Designer
Timbertree and Stonecastle Designs, LLC
Hello Gary –
What a brilliant and poignant and relevant analogy you draw comparing the architect – literally and figuratively – designing and bringing forth a house of a person’s dreams to a conductor of an orchestra.
I am aware of your prior works and would highly recommend your architectural services to anyone thinking or even at the dreaming stage of bringing forth a new home – and with it, the radiating future they will be living into.