Home Planning
Practical guidance for shaping a Vermont custom home, renovation, addition, or ADU before the expensive decisions begin.
Custom Home Design Process: A Vermont Planning Guide
A plain-English guide to the decisions Vermont homeowners should make before drawings, permits, and construction take over.
How to Plan a Home Addition in Vermont
A practical planning guide for homeowners weighing space, site limits, budget, energy performance, permits, and disruption before an addition begins.
Architect for a Home Addition: The Question Before the Square Footage
Most additions are sized before anyone asks what the space is for. What changes when a Vermont addition starts with the life inside it.
Renovate or Build New? A Vermont Decision Guide
A practical way to compare renovation and new construction around daily life, the existing house, the site, budget, timing, and long-term fit.
How to Choose an Architect for Your Vermont Home
A practical guide to finding an architect whose experience, process, communication, and scope fit your home project.
Buying Land in Vermont: A Homeowner's Guide
A practical guide to comparing Vermont parcels around buildability, access, utilities, site conditions, and the home you hope to create.
Accessory Dwelling Units in Vermont: A Planning Guide
A practical guide to planning a Vermont ADU around household needs, site capacity, privacy, approvals, cost, and long-term use.
What Does a Residential Architect Do?
A practical guide to how a residential architect helps Vermont homeowners make clearer decisions about life, land, budget, design, and construction.
Architect vs. Home Designer: Which Do You Need?
A clear way to compare the scope, questions, and project conditions that help Vermont homeowners choose the right design professional.
What It Costs to Build a House in Vermont
A grounded look at Vermont custom-home costs, the site and design decisions behind the range, and how to get a real number for your project.
What to Expect From an Architect Consultation
A practical guide to using an architect consultation to clarify the right scope, site questions, budget assumptions, and next step for a Vermont home project.
Renovating a Historic Vermont Home: What Changes, and What Stays
A practical guide to renovating an older Vermont home while protecting the character, structure, comfort, and daily life that made it worth keeping.
Converting a Vermont Barn: What It Takes, and What to Check First
What a Vermont barn can become as a home, studio, or guest space, and the decisions that come before drawings.
In-Law Suite or Separate Cottage? The Vermont Decision
How Vermont households decide where a parent, adult child, or guest suite belongs, and what each choice asks of the property.
Designing a Vermont Ski House That Works All Year
What a Vermont mountain house has to hold on a full weekend, an empty Wednesday, and a green summer.
Right-Sizing: The House Most People Live In Was Built for Someone Else
How to plan a smaller Vermont home that holds the things and people you use most.