The Million Dollar Question |
IS THE PRICE RIGHT? Maybe the better question should be this. How it is designed… Architectural custom design: There are as many good architects as there are different types of personalities in homebuyers and their design preferences. One type of architect that can affect price is one that dreams of creating something that will have creative significance. This Frank Lloyd Wright soul can transpose a home into an artistic statement. By the design and composition of a building the facets of space, function, innovation, and artistic flair may not allow the home to be built for less then $800 per square ft. If you want something of a Picasso creation as a home style, you will pay what the market for Picasso demands. This type of architectural creativity may be what you desire, it may be worth the price and it will definitely affect your price. Not every architect is like this; there are many that work within the parameters of price that you set for them. Their schooling can take your ideas and add practicality of design and cost demands into consideration. If you don’t know an architect first hand Best Builders can refer you to one who can build a mansion or the perfect home for an active family. Choosing from a Plan books: Purchasing your own house plans can affect price. Plan books can be purchased to build houses in any style Victorian, Cape Cod, Swiss Chalets, and contemporary designs. People may fall in love with the exterior design from a specific plan book but not like the way the interior is laid out. Most plans take in the fact that living is practical and certain layouts are efficient for the flow of family life. Yet individual preferences will want to exact some changes for their lifestyle choices. Most plans from books can accept some small changes in design. A simple change like moving or expanding closet space in adjoining bedrooms is not hard. Just remember this fact, when you take a plan and start changing it, you may be adding a tremendous amount of cost to conform a plan to your liking. For example, the original plan may show two bathrooms, you may want to add a third one in your family room located on the wing opposite of the other two. Unfortunately, the plumbing was engineered and fitted to be the most efficient with two stacked, one on the 2nd floor and one directly below on the main floor which is your master bathroom. You may have started out with a home that could have been built for $150 dollars per sq ft. working off plans. By the time you pay to have the plans reformulated and then specked out with additional materials and labor the builder will need to adjust to your new plans, the additional price may shock you. You may want to consider creating a custom home after all. That way you get what you want and save the headaches of a piecemeal home with costs you didn’t expect. Overall, plan books can be used to your advantage; it will give you ideas on what you may want your house to eventually look like. There are plan books and floor plans here on our site to look at and purchase. Yet as your builder, we like to establish a relationship with you to help you walk out your plans. At Best Builders we understand what is truly practical, and will take into consideration your lot and plans with your changes. Please just realize it may very well affect your price. How is it built? Normally, the company structure can dictate how it affects price. For example, mom & pop construction outfits that have one or two principle people and no in-house construction employees, have to make arrangements of labor solely relying on sub-contractors for their performance. If the best subcontractor in a given field is committed elsewhere, their level of efficiency dwindles, this along with delayed scheduling adds to the price and detracts from overall quality of the project. Delayed scheduling is costly because other trades cannot complete their tasks. The usual result is surcharges or adjustments for labor, which is passed to the homeowner. Best Builders keeps a core group of twenty (20) construction specialists under our direct employment. Grooming and keeping good workers can only nurture expertise in construction leadership. By maintaining this group, we can control price because we know we can insure a level of excellence for on the job performance. Any subcontractors utilized have been proven able to work the Best Builders System. These subcontractors have had a long-standing relationship and merely augment our construction team and work under our supervision. Investment in regular employee’s costs a little more, but the long-range dividends for the homeowner is evident in the quality and satisfaction that the price was right, because the workmanship was the best.
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