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Ultimate Cost Guide
Your perfect home starts here.
It pays to begin with an investment goal before starting to design your renovation or custom home. We've crunched the numbers for you based on up-to-date construction costs in the Charlotte, NC area.
Get realistic financial insight into these popular projects:
- Kitchen remodeling
- Bathroom remodeling
- Home additions
- Outdoor living spaces
- Custom homes

Start with a Reality Check
It will save you a bunch of headaches later!
Many homeowners assume hiring an architect is the first step when planning a major renovation or custom home. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of projects designed by architects never get built - often due to budget constraints, permitting challenges or feasibility issues.
The result? Time, effort and money wasted on designs that never come to life.
This isn't because the architect lacks skill - it's the outdated design-bid-build process in which architects and other designers work in silos, focusing on meeting the expressed wants and needs of the client, without getting accurate cost input from a builder.
There is a better way!
Design + build is the smart project development process.
Having a builder involved during the design phase of your remodeling or custom home project ensures realistic budgeting, feasibility, and constructability - reducing costly redesigns and increasing the likelihood of project success.
Waiting to engage a builder until the design is done is setting yourself up for unnecessary stress and disappointment.
So, what are you waiting for?
Download our Ultimate Cost Guide now and get the information you need to make wise decisions about your perfect home.
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This guide is packed with the information you need if you're really serious about remodeling or building a custom home in the Charlotte area. It helped us plan our investment strategy before spending time and money planning our dream home.
- Emily Wright, Homeowner
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