We specialize in designing homes & additions for homeowners, creating home plans you can understand, supporting you throughout the design and building process. The video below is a quick explanation and video tour of addition for an in-laws suite or a master suite addition in an easy to understand format.
Custom house design and addition design for homeowners is our forte. Creating custom home designs for homeowners and watching them come to life is our passion! Our clients typically call us residential architects creating architectural custom house designs. We show, explain, and educate, alleviating your fear regarding the unknowns of having your custom home designed and built.
We are your best advocate throughout the design and building process answering your questions and giving guidance in every stage of designing and building your new house or addition. Our job starts when you walk through our door, and only finishes when you walk through yours. Seeing is Believing. Our state of the art computer generated images and videos allow you to live in your custom home before you live in your house.
Custom house design and addition design for homeowners is our forte. Creating custom home designs for homeowners and watching them come to life is our passion! Our clients typically call us residential architects creating architectural custom house designs. We show, explain, and educate, alleviating your fear regarding the unknowns of having your custom home designed and built.
We are your best advocate throughout the design and building process answering your questions and giving guidance in every stage of designing and building your new house or addition. Our job starts when you walk through our door, and only finishes when you walk through yours. Seeing is Believing. Our state of the art computer generated images and videos allow you to live in your custom home before you live in your house.
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3. We are your reliable source for needed information on your project. Whether it is a question from the builder or anyone else involved in your home design we will have or find the required answer. IE: If someone states that can't be done. Call 1-800 Ken for the real solution. 4. Our home design video updates, online meetings, and 3d presentations will keep you informed and updated.
The Design Guy is our new easy to remember branding name. While we used SD & D Designs for over twenty years, the name did not reflect our us in the manner we needed. We are using the latest in 3d cad technology creating videos of your project and use online meetings to save your valuable time after our initial meeting.
Many of our clients know about what they want in their addition but are not sure where to start. Our specialty is advising homeowners of choices and ideas they would never have thought of to include in the design and informing you if we see problem areas or ways to improve the project. Heres a quick overview of our home addition design process.
The Design Guy believes that clarity is the single most crucial potion of design. With clarity in the design process, we can deliver to you the peace of mind in understanding how your home will function, how much it will cost to build, what your home will look like and much more. We begin with a meeting in-person or online.
In past years Henrico County in Virginia rejected 75% of plans submitted for a building permit and Chesterfield County follows closely behind. The high rejection rate indicates a lack of knowledge of codes and/or attention to detail. We average 98.5% pass rate on the 1st submittal, saving you time, money, and unnecessary stressful trips to the inspections department.
Reviews (10)
Jeffrey East
Dec 14, 2020
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Ken was the first to actually work with me to design my addition to mske my home and living space wheelchair accessible. His devotion to his craft and knowledge was far and beyond more than I expected. He took everything I wanted and we made it work so that the plan was feasible and exactly what I wanted and needed. His process is unmatched. No other designer I spoke with did what he did. I csnt praise him enough.
Michael Santos
Sep 21, 2020
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My wife and I bought a fixer upper and had been working on various portions of the house and property. We decided that a single story section of the house just needed to be torn down and rebuilt. We wanted to keep the original footprint, but rebuild it two story resulting in a 1400sqft addition. This created some architectural and engineering challenges that required some professional assistance. I did some research and found Ken The Design Guy. We elected to use Ken because of his knowledge of the building codes and his success rates obtaining permits the first try. I have been involved in various
David Fox
Sep 06, 2020
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Chad Muller
Oct 30, 2019
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Stephen W. Carroll
Dec 13, 2018
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I recently met Ken at the March home show at the raceway. We talked and Ken explained what he does as I his watched his project videos on two tvs.
He seemed friendly, knowledgeable and helpful.
Within a few weeks, I did need his services to obtain a building permit on a project that someone else had drawn, and the inspections department rejected. I'm a non-technical person when it comes to building and remodeling. I called Ken and explained the problems and asked if he could help. He requested that I email him the pdf files and he would review them that day and let me know if he could help or
He seemed friendly, knowledgeable and helpful.
Within a few weeks, I did need his services to obtain a building permit on a project that someone else had drawn, and the inspections department rejected. I'm a non-technical person when it comes to building and remodeling. I called Ken and explained the problems and asked if he could help. He requested that I email him the pdf files and he would review them that day and let me know if he could help or
Woodlandbeauty
Nov 11, 2018
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I first met Ken when I needed plans drawn for permit approval on a remodel. His expertise and professional nature was invaluable. He guaranteed that the plans would be approved and he even helped me resolve an issue when the contractor did not perform the work according to the plans. If you need plans drawn before remodel, Ken is the guy to contact. He's great on follow-through and you can count on him and his word.
David Mortimer
Oct 08, 2018
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E. Penn
Sep 16, 2018
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I'm was living in N.Y when we worked together. We were apprehensive about working with someone we had never met, but he came recommended by the contractor we trusted. Ken " The Design Guy" helped me with an addition design for my home in Henrico County Virginia. The online meetings were a GREAT way for us to see our house in 3d and stay updated on the progress since we were living out of state at the time. I would not hesitate to recommend The Design Guy
Bobby Warren
Aug 23, 2018
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Brad Lower
May 11, 2018
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As someone who enjoys being close to the process of designing and remodeling, I found my first conversation with Ken (note that he answered the phone the first time I called him) a refreshing one. Ken and team followed up with a lengthy and thorough site visit that allowed following meetings to take place virtually. I wasn't sure how this would work; however, my wife and I both found this method to be efficient and effective with Ken making fairly significant plan changes on the fly. When faced with some zoning/setback challenges, Ken took the initiative to contact the town, the surveyor and previous
