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Understand the Benefits of Working with a Design Build Contractor for Your New Luxury Home in the Washington DC area

Working with a design build contractor is a fairly new concept to many people in the Northern Virginia area, but once familiar with the concept homeowners quickly see the benefits. Rather than traversing between design firms in Georgetown and contractor meetings in Chevy Chase, design build teams provide clients with a one-stop approach. One entity is responsible for delivering your luxury custom home from start to finish, on time and on budget.

Design build firms take a team approach to building luxury homes with the full understanding that once a budget is established and agreed to, it is their ultimate responsibility to stay within that budget without compromising the integrity of the design. Reputable design build firms will always approach the homeowner with alternative approaches to design, whether it will increase or reduce the budget, for approval; they understand it is their project, but your home and your money. The security of knowing the project budget will not increase without your permission is worth its weight in gold.

Trusting a design build contractor to build your custom luxury home is a big decision. Building a new home requires a large investment, perhaps the biggest expenditure of your life, and you must make sure you get the quality you expect. Working together, the team of architects, engineers and contractors are able to place their focus on the overall quality of the project rather than the individual interests of three separate businesses. One team working together in the same location greatly reduces the likelihood of miscommunications and misunderstandings, thereby reducing the length of the project as well as increasing the overall quality.

Since the entire project team works together on the design build home, many aspects can be completed simultaneously reducing the overall delivery time significantly. Design and construction activities can overlap; the contractor can begin buying materials, scheduling labor and subcontractors while final plans are still in the approval process. This streamlined efficiency would not be possible without a design build contractor team in place.

The professionals at Hanlon Design Build have been creating custom built, luxury homes in the Washington DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, McLean and Georgetown communities for a total of 60 years. Cookie cutter homes are not the style of Hanlon Design Build, as the team specializes in high end remodeling and custom luxury home building throughout all of the Northern Virginia metro area.