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Modifying Your House Design Easily

How to Modify Your Home Plan

Simple modifications to your dream home, including minor nonstructural changes and material substitutions, can be made by you and your builder with the consent of your local building official, by marking the changes directly on your blueprints. However, if you are considering making significant changes to your chosen design, we recommend that you use the services of our staff. We will help take your ideas and turn them into a reality, just the way you want.

Here’s our procedure:

Call 800-482-0464 and order your modification estimate. The fee for this estimate is $50. We will review your plan changes and provide you with an estimate to draft your specific modifications before you purchase the vellums. PLEASE NOTE: A vellum must be purchased to modify a home plan design. After you receive your estimate, if you decide to have us do the changes, the $50 estimate fee will be deducted from the cost of your modifications. If, however, you chose to use a different service, the $50 estimate fee is nonrefundable. (Note: Personal checks cannot be accepted for the estimate.)

A 75% deposit is required before we begin making the actual modifications to your plans.

Once the design changes have been completed to your vellum plan, a representative will call to inform you that your modified vellum plan is complete and will be shipped as soon as the final payment has been made. For additional information, call us at 800-482-0464. Please refer to the Modification Pricing Guide for estimated modification costs.

Reproducible Vellums for Modification Ease

If you decide not to use our services for your modifications, we recommend that you follow our same procedure of purchasing vellums. You then have the option of using the services of the original designer of the plan, a local professional designer, or an architect to make the modifications. With a vellum copy of our plans, a design professional can alter the drawings just the way you want, then you can print as many copies of the modified plans as you need to build your house. And, since you have already started with our complete detailed plans, the cost of those expensive professional services will be significantly less than starting from scratch. Be cautious however regarding any Copyright Laws that may be associated with the designer's plans.

Modification Pricing Guide

Prices for changes will vary depending on the number of modifications requested, the house size, quality of original plan, format provided and method of design used by the original designer. Typically, modifications cost around $1500, excluding the price of the (hand-drawn or computer generated) vellum.

Please contact us to get your $50 estimate at: 800-482-0464

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