WE MAKE NO CLAIM to design your dream home—at least not in the fantastical sense. The dream homes we help you design are built on the corner of most important and just right. We help you discover, visualize, and build a home that is best aligned with your priorities and lifestyle. What do you value most? What will have the right look and feel? How do we make it less challenging to build and easier to maintain? How can we achieve your goals within budget? Is it comfortable and enjoyable for you to live in? Will it adapt as your life and family change over time? In short, what home will best fit YOU?
A home that fits. Just right.
After all, isn’t that the point of a custom home?
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You NAILED it. I almost cried happy tears! Oh my goodness I love it!! Exactly everything I imagined. Love the windows, ceiling height, arch ways, everything everything everything. Looks so great.
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Hannah - North Ogden Home
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After five years of being in our home we're happy as punch... and to our amazement and complete delight, there's still not one single thing we'd change about our home. We love it!
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Reese - Mantua Home
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We are in LOVE with this house. Both feeling so good about all of it. We are seriously so pumped about how it has turned out. THANK YOU!
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Lindsey - Willard Ranch Home
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She is dying, she loves it. Let's continue on with that. Looks great. Thanks for the additional comparison pics!
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Shad - North Ogden Home
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Working with Ryan allowed us to create a truly customized home with smartly designed spaces that are not only beautiful, but also useful, organized, and efficient. He was able to incorporate our wants and needs while also improving our design with his own considerable expertise and innovations.
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Katie - Mantua House
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I can always depend on Ryan to get projects done right.
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Steve Jayme - Stonely Contracting
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When we built our dream retirement home we spent a lot of time looking for ideas. We found a home that was what we wanted on the outside but we needed an entirely different floor plan on the inside. It seemed impossible. We worked with a few different people to try to get that dream plan. Ryan was the one who pulled it off!
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Eva Jean - Mantua Home
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It was so nice to have detailed plans. Some contractors wanted to just glance at the plan and then do it their own way. We had to keep reminding them to follow the plans exactly because they had already been very well thought out and perfected.
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Nathan - Mantua House
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Ryan is not intimidated by large, complicated projects. In fact, he accepts and even thrives on the challenge. He is concerned with doing things right and pays attention to detail.
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Garold Salmon - Mentor
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ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!
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Shad - North Ogden Home
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We've built two homes. I don't remember who designed the first one. We liked the home but learned a lot of things we'd do differently the next time. I do remember who designed the second one—Ryan Carter. What helps me remember is all the problems that his design work helped me avoid.
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Reese - Mantua Home
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We really love these options!
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Lindsey - Willard Ranch House
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Great work! You captured exactly what we had in mind.
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Hannah - North Ogden Home
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Ryan's technical expertise is amazing and his attention to detail is unparalleled. He is thorough, professional, committed, and very easy to work with.
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Nathan - Mantua House
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Perfect! Thank you so much!
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Shad - North Ogden Home
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I was especially grateful for Ryan's attention to detail. The foundation and framing contractors said they'd never seen such meticulous detail on a plan.
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Reese - Mantua Home
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Ryan has the ability to see potential problems and find effective solutions.
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Steve Jayme - Stonely Contracting
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This is absolutely incredible! Thank you so much! It helps us so much to get the feel of everything. We LOVE everything!!!! You have done an amazing job!
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Hannah - North Ogden Home
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We LOVE everything about the house. Thanks!
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Lindsey - Willard Ranch House
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We always felt that Ryan listened to us and respected our opinions, and we couldn't have the home we do today without his tireless efforts.
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Katie - Mantua House
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Ryan's design work had everything to do with the satisfaction we have with the completed project. Kudos to Ryan!!
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Reese - Mantua Home
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I did not think I would love the layout of the kitchen this much. It is exactly what I had pictured. The layout is perfect, the spacing is perfect. We love the extension of the island idea. I can imagine it in my mind. Seeing it like this brought it all together. I LOVE IT!
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Hannah - North Ogden Home
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This [3D model] is amazing. We love the dormer over the garage. Great idea. Lets go with it.
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Shad - North Ogden Home
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Ryan was amazing to work with! He helped us through every step of our home design process. His construction experience was super helpful. He wasn't just interested in making a pretty plan, but also thinking through things so that the construction process would go more smoothly.
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Nathan - Mantua House
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You are the best! Everyone we talk to we are sending your way. You’ve been so incredible to work with. Including our lot situation/reconfigurations and everything. I just want to thank you for your hard work! LOVE IT!
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Hannah - North Ogden Home
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We began the process with another recommended design person. We loved her personality, but honestly she was just out of her league with our custom home and in the end we had to have Ryan fix what would have been serious design problems. The difference in the details on her plan and Ryan's plan was huge.
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Reese - Mantua Home
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Mr. Carter implemented a process to ensure that all requests to modify product were documented and communicated effectively. This process has dramatically improved our company’s ability to effectively manage change to our architecture and specifications.
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Chris Kelly - VP of Operations Pulte Homes
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The plans included everything! HVAC, plumbing, electrical, space for trim around the doors, even exactly where the closet rods would be!
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Nathan - Mantua House
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We love it! Great idea! We think it will look amazing as well. Let’s do that.
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Shad - North Ogden Home
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The day they were digging the hole, the excavator did not have plans. I immediately retrieved a set. Looking at the detailed specs, he realized he was a foot too deep. If it was all dug that way, it would have been a disaster and made the walkout basement impossible! That's one of many times Ryan's detailed plans saved my bacon.
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Reese - Mantua Home
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Ryan is very detail oriented; using that detail to produce cost effective results. He is very dedicated and realizes his success for the company. He takes total responsibility for his department using all his team resources to produce positive results.
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Ron Smith - VP Whisper Creek Homes
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Awesome! This is great. Thank you!
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Shad - North Ogden Home
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When we approached Ryan with ideas, he put great effort and thought into how they could become realities, rather than shying away from new or challenging tasks that would have been easier to dismiss.
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Good design is a process of discovery—uncovering the best-fit concepts, exploring arrangements, visualizing livability needs, identifying best construction methods, finding the right materials, optimizing the design to minimize costs and maximize value.
Comprehensive planning and precise construction drawings, inoculate you against one of the most frequently cited negatives of building a custom home: the stressful, unrelenting march of decisions that have to be made during the expensive building phase. Detailed design beforehand leaves time to figure all the angles and anticipate the consequences. We’ll help you explore the key decisions early on and make sure your priorities and choices are communicated clearly in your plans.
High-quality design makes the whole process so much more enjoyable!
Designing and building a just-right home is an investment that will pay off for years to come.
Our goal is to make sure you love your new home as much in ten years as the day you move in.
Not only will your home be right visually, it will be right functionally and loaded with the details that make living in the home a joy—no regrets over what got missed, over options not explored, facets unpolished. Why live with the consequential weight of the things you didn’t realize, questions you didn’t know to ask, opportunities unknown, areas that were never quite right?
Thorough meticulous design pays off!
Get in touch. Let’s start the process of designing a home that is less stressful to build and a pleasure to live in.