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You shouldn’t have to wait until construction begins to understand whether your home feels right.
Our Story
From an Idea to a Project You Can Experience.
You shouldn’t have to wait until construction begins to understand whether your home feels right.
NowThen coordinates design and planning with experienced design professionals, helping transform ideas, sketches, inspiration, and existing plans into a project you can see, experience, evaluate, and refine before construction.
START WHERE YOU ARE
You Don’t Need Finished Plans to Begin.
Every project enters the process differently.
Starting From an Idea
Bring us the vision.
That may include:
- Inspiration photos
- Sketches
- A property or lot
- Homes you like
- Room requirements
- Lifestyle goals
- Ideas you’ve been collecting for years
We help organize that information and coordinate the design process with the appropriate design professionals.
Already Have Plans
If architectural or construction plans already exist, we can use them as the foundation for the NowThen Decision Experience.
Already Have a Designer or Architect
Excellent.
NowThen does not need to replace them.
We can work alongside your existing team to create the interactive environment, visualizations, and decision tools that help everyone understand and evaluate the project together.
THE DIFFERENCE
Don’t Wait Until the Drawings Are Finished to Discover Something You Would Have Changed.
Traditional design often asks homeowners to make major decisions from drawings, elevations, samples, and imagination.
NowThen introduces the experience earlier.
As the design develops, you can begin to understand:
- Room scale and proportion
- Circulation and flow
- Furniture relationships
- Kitchen and island dimensions
- Window placement and views
- Exterior proportions
- Material relationships
- Lighting concepts
- Important selections
- How design choices affect one another
The goal isn’t simply to create drawings.
The goal is to create a project you understand well enough to make confident decisions about.
HOW DESIGN & PLANNING WORKS
From Idea to Buildable Direction.
Discover
We learn about your vision, property, priorities, lifestyle, budget considerations, and where the project currently stands.
Design
Working with experienced design professionals, the project begins taking shape in three dimensions.
Experience
Instead of waiting for construction, you begin experiencing the project while the design is still flexible.
Evaluate & Refine
Explore alternatives, compare options, ask questions, and make changes while they are easier to address.
Document
Once the major decisions are aligned, the project moves toward the documentation required for construction.
Build With Confidence
Your builder receives a project that has already been thoughtfully experienced, evaluated, and refined.
Engineering, surveying, permitting, and other licensed professional services are coordinated or provided separately where required.
WHAT YOU MAY RECEIVE
One Connected Design Journey.
Depending on your project and selected level of service, the engagement may include:
- Project discovery and design coordination
- Residential design development
- Detailed 3D model
- Floor plans
- Exterior elevations
- Construction documentation
- Photorealistic imagery
- Interactive model access
- Immersive walkthroughs
- Material and finish visualization
- Design revisions
- Decision capture
- Builder and stakeholder collaboration
THE NOWTHEN DIFFERENCE
Design Is Only the Beginning.
A set of plans tells the builder what to construct. The NowThen experience helps you understand what those plans will become.
That is why design and Decision Confidence belong together.
Experiences
Evaluate
Align
Decide
Build
Wherever You’re Starting, Let’s Understand the Next Step.
Whether you have an idea, an existing set of plans, or a project already underway, we’ll help determine the best path forward.
