New Leaf Home Design

What about fees?

Every project is different.

Your home is unique, and the design for your renovation will be unique too, reflecting your family’s lifestyle, character, & goals. The process of designing to fit your needs includes matching the fees for your project to your scope of work.

Getting a Proposal from New Leaf

• Free Introduction Meeting. I’ll begin with an initial visit to your home at no charge, so we can talk about what you hope to accomplish.
• Written Proposal. Then I’ll return to my office, determine how many elements will need to be considered and what drawings you will need, and put together a written proposal for your review, based on the approximate amount of time that will be involved in your design.
• You’ll know what to expect. The proposal will give a specific fee for the architectural services for your project, perhaps broken down into several phases. This way you have more information about costs before we begin than if the fee were based on an hourly rate.

But about how much will that be?

If you are in the early phases of considering a project and would like a rough idea of architectural fees so that you can do some planning, you can use the industry standard range of 10% to 20% of construction costs as a guide. A simple, but fairly large project would tend towards the lower end of this range, while more complicated or small projects would be at the upper end.

What’s the value of using New Leaf Home Design for my project?

• Spending your renovation dollars well. Careful planning is what makes a project the best it can be. “Where does the sun come in? Where do the shoes go? What is the view from this spot? Will the people in this room feel connected to activities in the next space?” A New Leaf design considers these questions and many more. After all, you don’t just want another 500 square feet, you want a place where you will feel at home.