Our Process
Residential Architecture
Melby Design is dedicated to navigating the design journey. We provide expert residential architecture services to transform your vision into a beautifully crafted reality.
Our design process starts form abstract ideas and ends with a finished home. We break the journey into clear milestones including: Programming, Design Development, Documentation, and Administration. Through these milestones, we provide a roadmap that will give you an idea of what to expect. Using this process, we keep your project on track while allowing for creativity to flow and create a home fit for your needs.
Good design meets all the client goals. Great design improves the way you live.
Step 1
Lifestyle & Programming
The clients program will outline the dreams and goals of the owner. This will accumulate through an array of meetings, sketches, site exploration, and more. We do these together as this is an exercise that goes beyond room sizes and will get granular on how you live.
Step 2
Design Development & Renderings
After we have an established program and clear direction on how our clients want to live, we take the sketches into a schematic level. We believe strongly in the power of options. We will put together different floor plans and site options to challenge and confirm our initial conversations. We support these plans with sketches and renderings to bring the 2D imagery to life.
Step 3
Construction Documents
When the overall design has been approved this is the moment we push into documentation to further detail the design that has been developed. Coordination with engineers, interior designers, and all other necessary consultants is largely part of this phase. We are now creating plans for your builder to craft your home.
Step 4
Final Review & Construction
Once construction begins, we will be a presence throughout with site visits and communication with your designer and builder as needed. As an option, we offer different levels of construction administration based on client, designer, and builder requests.
Get Started
Contact our team today to start the conversation on building your home to match your lifestyle and personality.
