12 Steps to Designing Your Home
1. Design Consult
Ellason Signature Homes has partnered with an Engineering firm that specializes in Passive Housing to offer you the ability to build “Green.” If this is your goal, our Passive Home Engineer will be involved in the design process alongside our Designer.
2. Designing the Plans
We will design your blueprints for your newly customized home. We will review and revise them until you are 100% satisfied.
3. Exterior Design Consult
The Designer will show you all the different and new exterior materials for your home. She will then put all your exterior materials together on a 3-D Photo Rendering so you can visualize your new home.
4. Framing Walk-Through
Sometimes it hard to visualize your house by looking at the blueprints, which is why the Designer will walk through the home with you when all the walls are up. This way, you can see if you are happy with the space we have created. Sometimes you might want to add an alcove to hang your favorite painting or changing the size of a certain window to create the perfect environment in a room.
5. Lighting and Electrical Walk-Through
Lighting is very important to give your room that special mood. In this walk-through the Designer will go through what type of lighting is best for each room. As well, equally important and often missed is the proper placement of electrical outlets based on the client’s needs. We will also discuss possible options for Smart Wiring your home.
6. Plumbing and Heating Consult
In this consult, the Builder will go over plumbing and heating options. As well, our Designer will go over design ideas for toilets, sinks, tubs, and showers.
7. Flooring Walk-Through
Our Designer will do a consult to inform you of new flooring trends and to determine what type of flooring is best suited for your home. Because people are busy with work and family, our Designer will pick up samples and bring them to you. As well, she will put the samples together in the different rooms of your home so you can get a feel of how it will look in your newly created space.
8. Kitchen Consult
This is one of the most important rooms in your home. Our Designer will sit down with you to look at all the different styles of kitchens. She will design and create a 3-D model of your kitchen so you can visually see the end result. There is so much to add to a kitchen to give it function and style and our Designer is here to provide you with all the options.
9. The Moulding and Millwork Walk-Through
In this walk-through our Designer will introduce all the different types of mouldings, fireplace mantles, feature walls and discuss various options for staircase railings.
10. Color Consult
Paint is another very important choice for your home because color trends are always changing. Our Designer will review color trends and give you ideas on how to accent your walls with color to give your home that one of a kind look. If we can’t find that perfect color for your walls, our Designer can also create custom paint colors just for you.
11. Interior Design
Ellason Signature Homes holds wholesale accounts in wallpaper, window coverings and furniture and all our clients are privileged to all our wholesale pricing. As well, our Designer works with local artists to help bring your walls to life.
12. Landscaping Consult
No house is complete without creating a bit of green space. We have two options for our clients. For our do-it-yourself clients who have that green thumb and want to save money, our builder will do the initial consultation, then, together, you will go to our wholesaler to pick up your trees. For those that have more grand plans, we will set you up with one of our trusted landscape design companies.
At Ellason Homes we have thought of every step to creating that perfect home just for you.
Custom Home
Port Moody
I would like to take this opportunity to thank and commend Mariella and Randy for their great work in building my house in Port Moody.
The house was built with very good quality. To give some examples, after the framing was done, when the window company came and did the measurements, all window openings were exactly as indicated on the drawing. Our front yard was always kept tidy, each time I talked to my neighbour they were happy with the crew. The testing colour for the walls was off by a little, Mariella noticed this during an evening walk-through, and called the painter right away. Being an engineer myself, I know that it’s those small details that gives good quality to any product.
We met Mariella and Randy after we went to one of their new houses and we liked what we saw. We then had a meeting with Mariella and Randy on potentially building a new home for us. We had no experience on building houses, and we had never talked to any other builder. It was in this meeting that we felt that they were honest and trustworthy people, so we decided to go ahead and proceed with designing and building the house. Our choice has been proven right. Both Mariella and Randy took our best interest to their hearts, and this was reflected throughout the project. There were many decisions to be made, but we were able to still focus on our own daily work knowing that our house was in good and capable hands.
Building the house has been an adventurous, overwhelming and daunting at the beginning, but also an enjoyable experience. I am glad and grateful that I had both Mariella and Randy taking care of this for us. Should the opportunity arise that we build our second home, I have no doubt that I would pick team Ellason again.
Max and Jenny
