Renovating your home can be both exciting and stressful, depending on the particulars of your project and your project teams. On the one hand, there’s the excitement of improving your home or building your home from the ground up. The goal is to make your living space truly what you envision to better meet the demands of your family’s lifestyle.

However, there are also headaches that sometimes come with these types of projects. It can be as simple as things not moving along as planned or as complex as disputes among project partners.

When you work with the right team, you minimize the risks of what you could encounter as you move through the project. Some of the possible hiccups occur because of trying to work with different teams to bring your vision to fruition. Discover five amazing benefits of hiring a single firm to complete both the design and build.

A Simpler Process

Completing any construction project is not as simple as deciding you’re going to do it and then starting the work. Rather, there’s an effective residential design and build process you should use, which starts with substantial planning. This planning usually starts with a design team that includes an interior designer, architect, engineer, and contractor.

The paper portion of the planning process focuses on how the finished product will look and feel. The concepts are initially planned out by your interior designer until the space resembles what you want. It then goes to the architect and engineer to work out how to bring the concept to reality. This includes how it will bear weight, where wiring and plumbing will run, and all of the intricate details. Once they complete this and it passes the municipal evaluation, it goes to the build team to make a reality.

The entire process can get hung up at any point if you’re working with independent designers, architects, and engineers. Trying to get them to communicate to make sure your project is moving forward as planned is challenging. When you work with a firm that has all of the needed talents already on staff, you minimize the back and forth and the arguments about the best approach for parts of the project. Rather, they work together from the start of the process, making the entire thing easier to manage. Add to that, you only have one person to stay in contact with who’s overseeing your entire project and you only have one bill to pay.

Accelerated Project Completion

Any construction project brings with it the headache of trying to get it done on time. There are many points throughout the process that things may stall as you try to coordinate various people to come in and complete their job. Issues with inspections can cause significant delays without prescheduling the skilled professional to come back out.

Successfully completing any type of home renovation or new construction project requires a team that is already experienced at working together. Having a single firm that handles every aspect of the project means they can maneuver workloads to get your project completed on time.

Less Risk of Going Over Budget

If you read the experiences of anyone who’s attempted any sort of home-building project, you’ve likely also heard some stories about how the project cost ballooned as the project progressed. This can certainly happen when you don’t take the time to plan properly at the beginning or if you decide to change directions mid-way through the project.

However, it can also happen when you have different teams working on the project trying to estimate what other people are going to do. There’s a lot of room for error when communicating between different firms and some firms have upcharges that others do not. In the end, you experience sticker shock from what you thought was the project budget.

Less Project Conflict

When building or renovating a home, you want to make sure you have people who are highly skilled and experienced in what they are doing. Unfortunately, that level of skill and experience can also come to an ego and a rigidness with how to complete certain parts of the job, sometimes ignoring new technologies or techniques that may prove more efficient and cost-effective.

These competing opinions may result in delays in your project and increases in your final cost. Having a team that’s used to working together means they’ve gotten over the competition of whose stick is bigger, and know how to work to develop the best possible project for you and your home.

Simpler To Make Changes

It almost seems inevitable that you may think of something new or see how things are shaping and want to make a change as the project progresses. Part of what makes mid-project changes detrimental is the number of people involved to make it happen.

Working with a team that has the entire design and build team together removes most of the pain associated with changes. The team can quickly move to plan and implement the changes, minimizing the impact on the completion date and the amount it’ll push your project over the initial budget.

Whether you want to finish a basement, renovate your kitchen, completely remodel your house, or a building something completely new, Denver Urban Builders has the expertise, vision, and talent to pull it together. Our team moves fluidly through the design and build process to bring your dreams for a luxury home into a reality. Call to schedule a design + build consultation with our friendly and experienced team.