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Working with designers2 min read

Building to your designer’s drawings

Homeowners hire the designer. The designer draws the plans. TÈR executes them, to the line. Here is how that division of labor works on a live site.

The finished two-storey Mediterranean home with a barrel tile roof and a landscaped entry

Most of our clients arrive with a designer and a set of drawings. That is the arrangement we are built for, and we have no interest in changing it.

Independent interior designers stay independent. We are the contractor who makes their vision stand up.

Independent designers stay independent

A contractor who also sells design has a quiet incentive to redraw your project toward what is easy to build. We are a construction company. The design belongs to the person you hired to create it, and our job is to execute it with precision and care, not to edit it on the way through.

If you do not have a designer yet, say so early. We can introduce you to design partners we have built with, and then step back out of that relationship once it is formed.

Bring the set you have

A project starts with plans in hand: your designer’s or architect’s drawings, whatever stage they have reached. An incomplete set is not a problem to hide. It is far cheaper to find the gap at a table than to find it once the slab is down.

A real number before anything is signed

Before the contract, there is a site walkthrough and a detailed line-item budget, so the number you plan around is the number we build to. A line-item budget is also the only format in which a designer can have a useful conversation about trade-offs: when a figure has to move, you can see exactly which line it came from.

Then you both get to watch

Through framing, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and finishes, the site sends a daily report. For a designer who is not on site every day, that report is the difference between specifying a detail and knowing it was built the way it was drawn.

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Ready when your plans are.

Send us the drawings, or start the conversation before you have them. Either way, the first step is a walkthrough and a real budget.

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