Consulting is a defined, contained engagement: Jan produces the plan, the elevations and the selections; your contractor builds it. You get the decisions that matter most — layout, proportion, materials — without a designer running through the whole construction period.
It works best when she is brought in early, before the layout is fixed and before anything is ordered. After the plumbing is roughed in, most of the value has already been spent.
Layout, proportion and material — the choices that are expensive to reverse.
| Included | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| On-site consultation and measured survey | The room as it is, including everything that is not square |
| Layout options and clearance checks | The decisions you feel every day, settled on paper |
| Floor plans and elevations | What your builder and millworker actually work from |
| Finish and material selections | Cabinetry, stone, tile, fixtures, hardware, flooring, paint |
| Lighting plan and switching | Wiring decisions have to be made before drywall |
| A written specification | So the builder prices and orders the right thing |
| Optional site check-ins | At the stages where a misread drawing gets expensive |
Consulting does not include ordering, tracking, receiving or installing anything, and it does not include managing your builder or the schedule. Those are full-service design and general contracting. Being clear about that line at the start is what keeps a consulting engagement genuinely economical.
Design decisions are cheap in a specific order and expensive out of it. On a drawing, moving a wall costs nothing. After rough-in, it means undoing finished work and rescheduling every trade behind it — a one-day change routinely costs three weeks in trade availability.
So the ideal moment to bring in a consultant is before the builder is scheduled, not after demolition has started. The sequence and the reasoning are in the timeline guide and change orders and budget control.
On site, walking the space and understanding what your builder is already planning.
Layout resolved and drawn, so there is one document everyone is working from.
Finishes, fixtures and materials specified precisely enough to order.
Your builder executes. Optional check-ins at the stages where a misread drawing gets expensive.
Jan designs the space and then runs the build. No hand-off, no two firms blaming each other, and nothing lost between the drawing and the crew.
Floor plans and elevations first, so you see the room before it exists. On paper, changing your mind is free. After the plumbing is run, it is not.
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Then bring the designer in early — while the layout and the selections are still free to change.
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