At Brooks Post & Beam, we’ve designed and built woodsy cabins and grand statement homes, waterfront getaways and long-planned forever homes. We take the word “custom” seriously — it’s your dream we want to make reality. With a custom home design, you can accommodate your need for space and the requirements of your particular home site, and we’ll even help you plan spaces to allow for specific furniture you want to have in your new home. Your unique lifestyle helps feed the creative process.
Standard Plan Modifications:
We would be happy to modify any of our Standard Plans to your specifications. We can change the interior layout and floor plan, we can move windows and exterior doors, and we can configure the foundation and basement plans to suit your needs – for a drive-under garage, or a finished basement for example. We consider any plan changes that do not require structural changes to the timber frame, to be a Standard Plan “modification”. We will be happy to discuss your ideas and work with you to make the plan “your own”. The added cost to make these types of modifications is usually a fraction of the cost of starting from scratch with a custom design, and we can usually apply the basic design fee towards the purchase price of the timber frame.
“Semi-Custom” Plan Modifications:
This is a sort of middle ground between simpler modifications to a Standard Plan, and a full Custom Plan. This involves more significant changes to a Standard Plan, such as adding length, width, or height; changing a gable frame to provide for a centered bank of windows; or adding dormers. While this type of work is a type of Custom Design, it is usually a shorter path to the finish line because we are not starting completely from scratch.
Custom Plan Design:
We are certainly willing and able to put pencil to paper and work with you on a Custom Design. However, while we can start “from scratch” on your custom plan, it is often not necessary. We have been designing and building custom timber frame homes for over 40 years, and we have hundreds of plans in our files, for homes of all sizes. It is not unusual for the customer to describe to us what they want, and then we can pull out a very similar plan to use as a starting point, or as the “seed” of a new design. We are the guides to the realization of your dreams!