The art of building a custom home is delightfully personal and complex. Each custom home built by Alair Homes Orillia is the owner’s dream realized by a highly skilled local professionals. Pricing a custom build is as individualized as the home itself.
How Do We Price a Custom House?
A custom-built home, unlike a production home, means the homeowner, decide every detail of your home’s design from the light fixtures to the flooring and even where we place your light switches, windows, and rooms. You’ll work with our designers to create your dream home. So, when a potential client comes to us and asks right away how much it will cost per square foot to build a custom home, our answer is honest and straightforward: there is no simple answer.
At Alair Homes Orillia, we can’t price a custom-built home based on square footage alone because each home is unique. The cost depends on what you select for your home, the complexity of its blueprint, lot pricing, and additional costs such as excavation, utilities, permits, and engineering costs. All of these cost factors are unique to your home.
The Process of Creating an Estimate:
To provide an estimate on a custom build, we will have extensive conversations with our clients regarding their vision and expectations for their home so that we can begin creating a detailed budget and costs assessment. Our designers will work with them to address answers to important questions such as:
- What style of home do they envision?
- Do they want a lot of interior trim moldings or a more contemporary look?
- Is it a single story?
- What would be the ideal square footage for their new home?
- Do they want high-end finishes including designer faucets and other hardware?
The answers to these questions and others help us understand what type of home they envision. We can then show them pictures of similar homes Alair Homes Orilla has built, and we can establish an estimate for their project.
Our Client Control™ Portal:
In addition to these meetings, we offer our clients a unique proprietary client portal where they can monitor the entire process including budget, costs, and timeline for their project from the initial design phase through approval of payments and real-time scheduling. The portal provides all Alair clients complete transparency and peace of mind.
If you are interested in building a beautiful custom home, contact Alair Homes Orillia to schedule an initial meeting. We look forward to building your dream.