Hello all:
I'm seeking a designer I can pay by-the-hour/half hour to help me finish some residential construction house concept/plans of my personal home. I purchased the Chief Architect Home Designer software last summer to help me visualize the impact on our property if we added a new garage and added on to our existing home. I am now ready to get serious. As a total novice, I made some significant progress recreating our current home and property with a number of exceptions (roof line and elevation issues, etc, ugg:(. I have spent a significant amount of time with the online tutorial videos trying fix/accomplish my goals but the videos show techniques related to more robust versions of the software I had purchased, by design I’m sure. Frankly, at this point I need help from a pro.
Ideally, I'd like to develop a relationship with a full-time or part-time professional residential architect/designer to help me complete some problematic areas of my existing home design and help me develop/conceptualize some plans moving forward with my help as well if at all possible? Ideally, I’d like the ability to work on plans and send them back and forth for review with you, but I am not sure that is possible? I am an Electrical Contractor by profession located in the Boston area and very familiar with many (but not all) of the components/jargon associated with most residential construction that might help expedite a learning curve and our conversations. I feel I would be very reasonable to work with.
What are my hopes for a final product? Aside from being comfortable with the final design of the house, I would like to be able to create a set of formal construction plans using them to perform some take-offs, and/or send these as PDF files to gain contractor and supplier quotes.
To be honest, with a good enough plan, I hope to tackle some of the construction personally. I don’t believe we would need to live in the same region of the country to formalize a plan. I could provide to you accurate zoning and construction requirements for my area. I would be very flexible with your time and schedule. I would also come well prepared to phone meetings, and communicate very well though email/text/photos/scans if desired as well.
Please let me you are if you are interested/intrigued or have questions and we can arrange a time to talk. Thank you for your time!! Dave
