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Designing a custom home is a highly collaborative journey. At G.D. White House Plans, my goal centers on providing you with a comprehensive, high-quality architectural base that brings your unique vision to life.

To ensure my design services remain as affordable, accessible, and transparent as possible, my pricing is strictly objective. The core architectural design—the spatial layout, exterior aesthetics, and structural massing that define the character of your home—is priced on a flat per-square-foot basis. If you desire highly specific, bespoke documentation for certain rooms, you can easily add targeted detailing packages.

Use the estimator below to build your custom quote. You can explore different phases, apply relevant discounts, and see exactly how your investment breaks down in real-time.

G.D. White House Plans - Custom Quote Estimator

1. Project Specifications

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2. Targeted Detailing Additions

Basic layouts for these items are always included in your core plan set. However, these optional additions provide dedicated, highly detailed drawings (such as interior elevations and custom profiles) to ensure your builder perfectly captures your exact design intent. While a builder can execute these spaces without extra drawings, the final results can vary.

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Inclusions and Exclusions

Every construction site, municipality, and contractor operates differently. Therefore, I intentionally defer certain highly technical and site-specific documents to your local builder and their trusted network of plumbers, electricians, and engineers. This collaborative approach keeps your upfront design costs low and guarantees that your home is precisely engineered and permitted for your specific piece of land.

The following breakdown details exactly what is included in your architectural package, and what items are excluded so they can be optimally handled by your local build team.

What Is Included in Your House Plan

Our plan packages deliver the necessary details to convey the scale, style, and flow of your new home. Your customized package will feature:

  • Floor Plans: Comprehensive overhead maps of each level, detailing exact room dimensions, interior and exterior wall placements, spatial flow, and the locations of all doors and windows.

  • Ceiling Plans: Specific diagrams illustrating ceiling heights, framing intents, decorative treatments, and any unique overhead architectural details throughout the home.

  • Exterior Elevations: Accurate, scaled flat-plane views of every side of the home (front, rear, left, and right). These illustrate the final exterior aesthetics, roof pitches, window styles, and specified cladding materials.

  • Roof Plan: A detailed overhead view illustrating the complete roof geometry, including pitches, ridges, valleys, and overhangs.

  • Building Sections: Vertical cut-through views of the home, provided to clearly convey building massing, floor-to-floor heights, and interior spatial relationships.

  • General Foundation Plan: Layout illustrating the overall perimeter footprint and exterior dimensions, providing a clear geometric outline of the home's foundation.

Important Foundation & Framing Notice: The provided foundation plan is for general reference and design intent only; it is not for construction. Because local building codes, soil types, and geological conditions vary greatly by region, the customer is responsible for having a local, licensed structural engineer or architect verify and engineer the foundation and framing plans as required by local code.

What Is Not Included (Exclusions) & Why

To ensure your home meets the precise physical and legal requirements of your build site while keeping our base plans accessible, certain technical documents must be procured locally. The following items are not included in this service:

  • Architectural Stamp: Our documents are drafted to reflect standard residential building practices, but they do not carry a professional seal or structural certification.

    • Why: Local building codes and structural requirements vary drastically by municipality. It is most cost-effective to have a local licensed professional review and stamp the plans for your specific jurisdiction, rather than applying a blanket engineering fee to our base design which you may have to modify with your builder anyway.

  • Mechanical Drawings: Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning schematics and ductwork routings are omitted.

    • Why: It is best to have your builder, and their dedicated HVAC contractor design this system on-site. They can accurately size equipment and route ductwork based on your regional climate demands and preferred installation methods.

  • Plumbing Drawings: Diagrams specifying pipe sizing, drain lines, and water supply routing are excluded.

    • Why: Similar to mechanical systems, your builder's specific plumbing subcontractor is the most qualified person to map out the most efficient, code-compliant pipe routing for your foundation and local utility tie-ins.

  • Electrical Plans: We do not supply wiring diagrams or mapped locations for outlets, switches, and light fixtures.

    • Why: Electrical layouts are highly subjective and best finalized during an on-site walkthrough with your builder and electrician. Deferring this allows you to place outlets exactly where you want them during framing, avoiding unnecessary upfront drafting fees and revisions.

  • Site Plans: Plans illustrating the home’s placement on your specific property, boundary lines, setbacks, and topographical grading are not provided.

    • Why: Every piece of land is entirely unique. A local engineer, architect, or your builder must evaluate your specific property lines, topography, and local zoning.

  • Structural & Environmental Calculations: Advanced engineering data—such as seismic, wind, and snow load analysis, energy code compliance worksheets, or manufactured roof truss designs—are left out of the baseline package.

    • Why: These calculations depend entirely on your exact geographical location. By leaving these tasks to local engineers and truss manufacturers, the plans remain highly affordable while ensuring local experts handle the environmental variables specific to your region.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Basic layouts for kitchens, bathrooms, and fireplaces are always included in your core plan set. However, targeted detailing additions provide dedicated, highly detailed drawings—such as specific interior elevations and custom cabinetry profiles. This ensures your builder perfectly captures your exact design intent without having to guess your vision.

  • Absolutely. In custom residential construction, it is standard practice for the licensed subcontractors (electricians and plumbers) to design and route their respective systems on-site according to local code. This allows you to walk the framed house and choose exactly where you want your switches and fixtures to go.

  • Yes, but expect the total price to be approximately 3 to 4 times the quote you see in the calculator above. Providing full site plans, stamped engineering, HVAC schematics, and trade-specific drawings requires extensive additional technical coordination and specialized sub-consultants, which significantly increases the overall project investment.

  • I am always happy to answer general builder questions and clarify any ambiguities, missing dimensions, or potential errors at no additional cost. However, if your builder requests structural redesigns, plan modifications, or new design work after the plans have been finalized, those changes will require a separate design contract.