The building of your own custom home turns lifelong dreams into reality. Prior to any work starting, it is essential to organize your ideas, dreams and desires into a practical design which meets your lifestyle and budget. Helping you find these functional design solutions to create your dream home requires the assistance of an experienced home designer to facilitate your needs into a cohesive design.
Design Alternatives assists you with not only the design process, but also provides a set of workable construction drawings which are utilized to build your custom home. While specializing in single family custom homes, our design and construction management experience will help you make decisions and choices that may have otherwise gone unforseen.
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"All Fine Architectural Values Are Human Values, Else Not Valuable." - Frank Lloyd Wright
Having over twenty two years of home design and construction management experience, owner Bill Browne takes pride in offering his clients an affordable alternative to using stock plans. Sometimes finding your dream home isn't as easy as looking in a magazine. Design Alternatives approaches every design with the goal of blending your dreams and desires into a home design which will be built entirely to your specifications and tailored to fit your lifestyle and budget.
After receiving his architectural degree from the University of Illinois in 1989, Bill has amassed substantial construction management experience in addition to his ongoing experience in custom home design. By gaining years of experience in residential project/construction management, Bill can also offer his clients the insights of what can be built and what can be built affordably. Design Alternatives was created to give all potential homeowners a chance of having their custom dream home professionally designed at an affordable price.
Design Alternatives creates custom homes suited to you and your family. We strive to make your dream home as enjoyable and practical as possible by creating the most "usable" space to meet your needs and budget. Many factors contribute to the need for a functional design, so your design elements should address and satisfy these factors.
Determining how your family will use your home in day-to-day life while spending ample time in the planning stages only enhances the overall design. Families are as different as their interests, so living spaces should reflect how a family interacts with those interests. Specific and personal details ultimately are what "make" your custom home.
Design Alternatives provides custom home design and construction drawing services for individuals and home builders seeking professional consultation at affordable rates. We will help organize ideas and provide guidance through design phase while creating a balance of budget, style and desires.
After completing the design phase, Design Alternatives produces construction documents containing pertinent drawings to build your custom home. These drawings are utilized to obtain building permits, secure subcontractor bids and ultimately as a guide to build your home.
Design Alternatives also offers project & construction consultation services for those individuals and home builders that need assistance during the building phase. We can have as much involvement in the project as the client desires. There are many steps involved with building a home, and and Design Alternatives can help keep all stages of construction on track.
While most individuals and some home builders don't have the resources to supervise all construction phases, Design Alternatives can run the job from the start by obtaining building permits to finishing the job with a final walk through. Time consuming tasks such as obtaining bids, scheduling subcontractors, ordering materials, scheduling inspections, completing site visits and approving payouts are just a portion of what we can include as part of our consultation services.
Scott & Julie R. - Columbia, Illinois
"The house plans we found online and elsewhere never completely met our family's needs. In working with Bill, we were able to take a plan that we liked and turn it into something that was perfect for us. His expertise in maintaining the strong points of our desired design - and then add to them - was tremendous."
Ed H. & Angela C. - Columbia, Illinois
"Building our custom home with Bill was a true joy. He listened to our wants and concerns from start to finish and was an invaluable asset as he made sure our needs were attended to with every step. Bill has a keen eye for detail and the ability to visualize like no other. He took our ideas, added his ability, effort and concern and made this house into our dream home."
Mike & Amanda R.- Columbia, Illinois
"Bill made our first home building experience an enjoyable one. He was always patient with our many questions and always provided progress updates. We are happy to have had Bill assist with our first home and would definitely recruit his expertise should we decide to build another home."
