APPROACH
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Establish manageable design budgets, design schedule, comprehensive construction budget and timing expectations with our clients.
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Execute client expectations by establishing a fully comprehensive project budget and construction schedule that encompasses the design, site improvements, vertical construction and landscape that serves as a reliable and accurate project baseline to work off of and update as the project progresses.
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Deploy ‘subprime’ market vendors from Sacramento, Roseville, Fairfield and Vacaville, into ‘prime’ markets like Sonoma, Healdsburg, Santa Rosa, Napa, and the Silicon Valley to capture the 10% to 15% savings on labor rates.
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Leverage discounts established by our Founder | CEO Rob Auger’s 200-million-dollar relationships with the industry’s largest commodity suppliers, such as, lumber mills, concrete suppliers, window suppliers, roofing suppliers, drywall suppliers etc...
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Leverage finish material discounts scouted by our sister company ‘The Design Company’s’ Founder | CEO, Jessica Lauren. Jessica has been able to achieve multi-million dollar looks for much less through utilizing finish material selections practiced in her 2 million to 20 million dollar spec home and custom home projects in the highly desirable Silicon Valley, San Mateo, Sonoma and Placer Counties.
PROCESS
EXECUTION
Production Building Based Scheduling Techniques
‘stack’ our subs when possible and when it will not sacrifice quality. Several ‘behind the wall’ and ‘rough trades’ can work in the house at the same time together including while the roof is going on and windows are going in. We use Microsoft Project ‘Gantt Chart Schedules’ which allows us to always know the fastest ways to finish our projects with its ‘Critical Path’ feature.
Production Scale Core Subs
Many of our vendors are large scale companies with large staffs allowing them to complete their projects much faster given the repetition, without sacrificing quality, compared to smaller companies in the same trade. These large-scale companies also work off tighter profit margins which creates savings for the project.
Expert Project Management
Our project managers have all overseen a variety of ultra-high-end custom homes ranging from 1.5-milion to 25-million-dollar projects on a multitude on property types such as flat lots, hillsides and mountainsides. The experience our project managers add to our homes equates to quick problem solving when the ‘unknowns’ happen and enforcement of the highest quality control.
High End Finish Subs
Quality, quality, quality is the name of the custom home game and a huge focus for us. Achieving a multi-million-dollar look requires the most experienced and detail-oriented craftsmen. Our custom cabinet makers, master carpenters, expert tile and countertop setters have been groomed over the last decade to achieve the quality expected by The Custom Home Company.
High Value Low Cost Finish Materials
Our Principal Designer, Jessica Lauren, is an expert at achieving the highest end looks… for less. Jessica stuns her clients by providing $5 to $7 tiles and hardwood samples that are typically un-distinguishable to the $15 to $20 samples that are the same size, color and or pattern. Jessica has taken decorative electrical and finish plumbing packages created by homeowners or a homeowner’s designer for their custom home that ranged between $60,000 to $100,000, and value-engineered remarkably similar packages for $20,000 to $35,000. Jessica has even produced decorative electrical and finish plumbing packages for $7,000 to $9,000 in homes that valued or sold between 1.6 million to 3 million dollars.