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Chapter Seven Tools & Guides

A thoughtful start to your next home

Whether you are ready to build or still gathering ideas, these free tools can help you explore your budget, space needs, and homesite. Bring your questions to a conversation whenever you are ready.

Real numbers, honestly explained. Use them however you like.
Tool One

What will my build cost?

Most builders will not put a number in front of you until you are sitting across a desk. Here is ours. Move the pieces around and see a real range built on what we are actually building today in Montgomery, Harris, and Grimes counties.

Conditioned square footage 3,200
2,000 SF 6,500 SF
Level of finish
Where you are building
The things people forget to budget
Your likely investment
$0,000,000
to
$0,000,000

Your range is ready. Tell us who you are and confirm your email, and we will show it to you and send a copy you can keep.

This is an honest planning range, not a bid. It covers the house and site work, and excludes land, and it moves with your lot, your selections, and the market. A real number takes about two weeks and a set of drawings.

Get a real number
Tool Two

How many square feet do I really need?

Square footage is the number everyone guesses at and almost everyone gets wrong. Tell us the rooms you actually want to live in and we will work backwards to the size of house that holds them comfortably.

The essentials
Bedrooms Including the primary suite
4
Full baths Including the primary bath
3
Half baths Powder rooms and pool baths
1
Garage spaces Counted separately, not conditioned
3
The rooms that make it yours
The house that fits
0,000
Conditioned square feet

We have your number. Tell us who you are and confirm your email, and we will show it and send you the room-by-room breakdown behind it.

Tool Three

Browse the floor plans

Every one of our 35 plans has its own page with elevations, floor plans, and specifications. Filter by size, bedrooms, or stories, save the ones you like to your shelf, and we will walk through them with you. Full dimensioned drawings come out when we sit down together.

35 Plans in the collection, from 2,390 to 5,032 square feet, plus available bonus rooms
4 Lakefront townhome plans at The Harbor on Lake Conroe
1 Conversation to help you understand your next steps
9 Counties we build in across Greater Houston
Tool Four

The build on your lot checklist

Before you buy the land, and before you fall in love with a plan. Fourteen things to confirm about a homesite in Greater Houston, in the order we would confirm them.

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Looking at a specific piece of land and want a second opinion? Send us the address. We will tell you what we see, whether or not you ever build with us. Ask about a lot

Tool Five

How to interview a builder

A clear set of questions helps you compare builders with confidence. Take this list to each conversation, including ours, and ask for the details that matter to your home.

0 of 12 asked

Want the longer version, with what a good answer sounds like? Read Choosing Your Builder.

When you are ready, we are here

No pressure and no timeline of ours. Bring your notes, your questions, and the lot you have been driving past. We will tell you what we honestly think.