From first walk to handover: what happens, what we do, and what we need from you. We understand you have a busy life — the process is designed to make building clearer and less demanding.
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We walk your land, or help you judge one you are considering. We talk about how you actually live, what the house has to do, and what you want to spend. You leave knowing whether the site and the budget agree with each other — the single most useful thing to learn early, and the thing most builders defer.
What we need from youYour site, your budget range, and a sense of how you want to live in the house.
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Our architects and designers are in the same office as the people who will build the house, so what gets drawn is what can be built at your number. Plans, elevations and selections develop together rather than in sequence, and you see the house in three dimensions before anything is committed.
What we need from youDecisions, at a pace we set out in advance so nothing waits on a single choice.
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The house is priced off finished drawings. We contract at a fixed price with allowances, and the allowances come from real completed jobs in your market. The contract is written to protect you: every change order and every allowance item is priced, approved and signed by you before it happens.
What we need from youA signature, once the number is one you are comfortable with.
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Permits, surveys, engineering and the trade schedule. Materials with long lead times are ordered now rather than discovered later — the delays that wreck custom builds are almost always things nobody bought early enough.
What we need from youNothing. This is ours to carry.
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One project manager, running a handful of homes at a time. You get a weekly project update with progress photos and a schedule kept current. Draws are requested only against work that is complete, and every trade on your site is vetted, insured and verified before they work. Many of our clients build with us from out of town.
What we need from youSelections on schedule, and a walk of the house whenever you like.
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Before you walk the house, we walk it — quality-control walks by the founder, the VP of Construction and the other project managers. Then we walk it with you, list what is not right, and fix it before you move in rather than after. You get the manuals, the warranties, the names of the people who installed everything — and the same team on the phone afterwards.
What we need from youA walkthrough, and an honest list.
Luxury building fails when details live in inboxes and memory. Every Seven home runs on a private project system that ties plans, competitive trade bids, purchase commitments and the job budget to the same numbers we signed with you — so craftsmanship stays personal, and the business of building stays clear.
Bid against a real budget line
Trade work is bid competitively against a real budget line. Award is about scope and value.
Everyone builds from your drawings
Plan sets and revisions are controlled. When plans change, every affected trade re-prices from the new set — nobody is building from last month’s drawings.
Commitments you can see
Awarded work becomes a written purchase commitment against the budget, so an overage surfaces early, with a reason.
Visibility without homework
Your project lives in one place — plans, status, budget. You see it whenever you want. You never have to manage it.
The system doesn’t replace your builder relationship. It protects it — so the conversations stay about design and quality, not a hunt through old emails.
Every change order and allowance item approved and signed by you
Draws requested only on completed work
Quality-control walks by the founder, VP of Construction and project managers
We deal with our clients and our trades straight. The same crews have built Seven homes for years, and it shows in the houses.
David Lyne
Founder
Jeff Gerlach
VP of Construction
Your project manager
On your site, every week
Jillian Rice
Selections coordinator
Blake Bellamy
Sales
Your project lives in one system — plans, status, budget — and your project manager sends you a weekly project update with progress photos. You aren’t left reconstructing the job from text threads, and you’re welcome on site whenever you want.
Revised plans go to every affected trade, and pricing is updated against the new set — everyone builds from the drawings you approved, not last month’s version. Nothing proceeds until you’ve signed off on the change and its cost.
We invite qualified trade partners by scope, track who responds, and compare bids like for like — so award is about scope and value, not whoever answered first.
Personal is the design meetings and the craftsmanship. The system handles the logistics so your team stays focused on the home — and so a one-of-a-kind house still has financial discipline, controlled drawings and accountable trades.
Four quick questions, then where to send the answer. We’ll call back the same business day. Rather talk now: 512-662-1349.
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