Design services
Custom Home Design & Site Planning in Colorado
We design with the build team already in the room — and we help you read the land before you buy it, so the home fits both your site and your budget.
What our design work covers
Design with the builder in the room — not drawings handed off to a stranger.
In the usual arrangement you hire an architect, then bid the drawings to builders and hope the two agree on what the home should cost. Our design work is part of building your home: the people pricing and constructing it help shape it from the first sketch. That’s how a design stays buildable and affordable instead of becoming a beautiful plan you have to value-engineer apart later.
Land & site
Where the house sits decides what it costs. We read that early.
On Front Range and mountain lots, the land itself drives the budget as much as the floor plan does. Expansive soils can mean an over-dig and amendments; bedrock or boulders can mean blasting; a lot may need a deeper well, a cistern, or an engineered septic system. Access, driveway length, utility hookups, and where the home is placed for views and fire-safe egress all change the number. We walk sites with clients — ideally before purchase — so those costs are known going in, not discovered mid-build.
Into the build
One team carries the design into the finished home.
Because the same team designs and builds, nothing is lost in a handoff. The judgment calls made at the drawing table are made by the people who will stand on the site, so your home is built the way it was drawn. Explore the portfolio to see how our designs become finished homes.
In their words
What it's like to work with us
Their homes are unique. They will customize the home to the individual. I hired Stauffer & Sons Construction because they showed great concern about building what I wanted and everything was explained. All the others didn’t discuss my preferences or offered a “take it or leave it” design and contract. My favorite part of my new home is the space, openness and overall construction and floor plan.
Design questions, answered
Can I hire you just to design my home?
Our design work is part of building your home, not a standalone drafting service you hand to another builder. Design-build means the people who price and construct your home help shape it from the start, so the plan you fall in love with is one you can actually afford to build.
Can you look at a lot before I buy it?
Yes — and it's one of the most valuable things we do early. Where a house sits on a piece of land, how it's reached, and what's under the surface drive both what's possible and what it costs. We'd rather help you evaluate a site before purchase than design around a problem you didn't know you were buying.
