Emily Day Architecture
Foundation
Complete Home Design
For clients working with a builder they know and trust.
Everything your home needs to be designed beautifully and completely — a home that's unmistakably yours, not a stock plan with your finishes. When construction begins, your builder receives a finished vision with nothing left to guess.
Understanding Your Land
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A design that's buildable from day one
Setbacks, height limits, and city regulations reviewed before we design — so nothing gets rejected at permitting.
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A home placed to capture the best of your lot
Sited around your land's sun path, topography, and views — not simply dropped in the middle.
Designing Your Home
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A design you love, not just approve
Two distinct design directions developed and compared, so you're picking the best one — not accepting the only one.
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A home planned down to the last room
Every space fully resolved on paper before construction starts, where changes are still easy.
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Drawings your builder can follow with total clarity
Complete floor plans, exterior elevations, sections, and interior elevations — everything needed for permits and building.
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A chance to walk through your home before it's built
A 3D Revit model you can explore digitally, room by room.
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Enough time together to get it right
2 in-person design meetings and 2 rounds of revisions.
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Every finish thoughtfully decided
Flooring, tile, trim, and fixtures specified for you, room by room.
While Your Home Is Built
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Help available whenever you need it
Construction oversight by request, billed hourly for time spent.
Foundation is the right fit when you have full confidence in your builder to carry the design through construction on their own.
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Emily Day Architecture
Signature
Design + Construction Oversight
For clients who want the home they approved on paper to be the home that gets built.
A new home takes twelve to eighteen months to build, and hundreds of decisions happen on the job site. Signature means I stay involved through all of it — so those decisions strengthen your home rather than quietly chip away at it.
Designing Your Home
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The complete Foundation experience
Land analysis, two design directions, full drawings, and a 3D Revit model — your home designed completely.
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More room to refine the design until it's right
3 in-person design meetings and 3 rounds of revisions.
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Trim chosen with real intention
Guided selection of trim & millwork styles throughout your home.
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A preview of your home in color and light
2D renderings of key rooms, before a single wall is framed.
Getting Ready to Build
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A builder chosen with confidence
I help you evaluate builders so you choose one suited to a home like yours.
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Assurance you're paying a fair price
Your builder's bid reviewed line by line before you sign.
While Your Home Is Built
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The design checked at every stage
Site visits before and after each construction phase, typically twice a month.
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A clear finish line before you move in
A final walkthrough together, with any remaining items documented on a punch list.
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Emily Day Architecture
Legacy
Design + Full Involvement
For clients building a once-in-a-lifetime home, who want their architect there for all of it.
Legacy is a full creative partnership from choosing your site to the day you move in. Nothing is delegated, nothing is decided without me, and the smallest details receive the same care as the floor plan.
Choosing Your Site
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Confidence in the land before you buy it
I walk potential properties with you to assess buildability, views, and site challenges.
Designing Your Home
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The complete Signature experience
Land analysis, two design directions, full drawings, 3D Revit model, trim guidance, and renderings.
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Room to explore every possibility
5 in-person design meetings and 5 rounds of revisions.
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Trim you can see and touch before installation
A physical mock-up built for every room, so you know exactly what you'll get.
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A walk through your home before it exists
A VR walkthrough at full scale, before construction ever starts.
Getting Ready to Build
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A builder and bid reviewed with the same care
The full evaluation and bid review process from Signature.
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Every remaining selection guided personally
Plumbing fixtures, materials, hardware, and window & door selections, guided room by room.
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Selections made together, in person
I accompany you to showrooms to choose the pieces that will define your home.
While Your Home Is Built
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An architect present for all of it
Weekly site visits, and whenever questions arise — essentially unlimited involvement through the entire build.
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A clear finish line before you move in
A final walkthrough together, with any remaining items documented on a punch list.
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