A custom designed home from Method is perfectly tailored to your land and its natural environment, the topography, local weather patterns, and most importantly, you. The Method process supports full architectural customization, allowing us to unite our high level of craftsmanship with your personalized finishes, details, and specifications. We also build each project to local building codes and tailor the design to your unique site. The design process is a dynamic collaboration between the land, your vision, and the architect team.
A custom designed home from Method is tailored to your land, the topography, local weather patterns, and most importantly, you. The design process is a dynamic collaboration between the land, your vision, and the architect team.
Our in-house studio, Method Arc, specializes in integrated design-build project delivery, leveraging our modular construction expertise while still providing context driven designs. Additionally, Method collaborates with architects from across the West Coast and the Intermountain West, fostering a diverse network of design expertise. Method Arc offers both full-service custom architectural design services, and the option to act as the architect of record, overseeing production in seamless collaboration with our clients' chosen designers.
We offer seven Predesigned Series in collaboration with our architect partners to streamline the design process. Each home includes an abridged architectural engagement focused on siting the home and refining the design to best fit the unique characteristics of your property.
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Defining Project Goals: We will use a detailed questionnaire and varied architectural visuals to explore your story, understand your aesthetics, and begin to know your lifestyle to set the direction for the design of your home.
Conducting a Site Review: We’ll assess the feasibility of accessing the site and perform any necessary tests for Mechanical, Engineering, and Plumbing (MEP).
Complying with Local Zoning: We will conduct a broad review of local zoning code to confirm setbacks, height limitations, easements, shoreline regulations, and any environmental considerations for the site plan and design.
Design Inspiration: We’ll review various design images together, guiding us through the design process responding to both your vision and the specific topography, climate, and natural site conditions.
Schematic Design: We will go through multiple iterations of designs, from initial floorplans, to 3D models and photorealistic renderings, to Virtual Reality models to transform your ideas into tangible plans.
Design Development: We will refine the design of your home with the structural engineer and prepare and submit plans for permitting.
Construction Documentation: Working closely with the interior design and specifications team, we will finalize interior selections. Throughout this process, we will develop line-by-line estimates to prepare for your fixed contract build.
Your home’s construction: We’ll assign a senior project manager to guide you through the construction of your new home. You’ll receive biweekly updates and photos while they closely coordinate with the onsite general contractor.
Finishing touches: We’ll finalize casework shop drawings while our construction and interior design teams provide samples, as needed, and coordinate the final finishes.
Transportation and Delivery: Our experienced team coordinates with trucking and crane operators to place your home on to the foundation. A Set Manager from Method Homes will be on site to oversee the installation and provide leadership for the crane company, trucking company and set crew. The Set Manager will also coordinate with the General Contractor to ensure and facilitate a smooth transition to completing outstanding scope.
Setting your home: In just one day, the Method Set Team, crane operator, and trucking team will set your new home
The project manager will work closely with the site general contractor to ensure and facilitate a smooth transition. Method will remain engaged through the completion of the home and the final certificate of occupancy.
Our in-house studio, Method Arc, specializes in integrated design-build project delivery, leveraging our modular construction expertise while still providing for bespoke, context-driven designs. Method Arc offers both full-service custom architectural design services, and the option to act as the architect of record, overseeing production in seamless collaboration with our clients' chosen designers.
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Already have an architect? We are happy to work with them and have adapted many site-built plans for our prefab modular construction process. Method can build anything architects design, as long as it can meet shipping requirements including multiple module-spanning widths and open-to-below modules for vaulted spaces. Method Homes has collaborated with architects from across the West Coast and Intermountain West, fostering a diverse network of design expertise.
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If we can ship it, we can build it. Method has experience building for a vast range of locations, settings, and climates.
We build on remote waterfront locations such as the San Juan Islands, Bainbridge Island, and the islands of British Columbia. Method understands the complexities of accessing island locations, designing for waterfront and steep-sloped landscapes, accommodating local building codes, and delivering modules and materials via ferries and barges.
Island and Waterfront Homes
Method Homes has experience building modern homes in mountainous areas such as Lake Tahoe, the Tetons, and Sun Valley, ID. We are capable and experienced building and transporting to remote locations, engineering for heavy snow loads, building on slopes.
Mountain and Forest Homes
We have built homes for beautiful valley, vineyard, and peninsula settings such as the Bay Area and Napa Valley. We have experience creating energy-efficient designs that allow for indoor-outdoor connections.
Valley and Vineyard HomesMethod has built for various city environments, including tight urban infill lots in Seattle, WA Portland, OR, and Jackson, WY. We know how to make an efficient use of a small space and maximize views while maintaining a private feel.
Urban Homes
