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Building Your Vision

We’re with you from the initial design to the final inspection.

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A DESIGN BUILD PROCESS
35 YEARS IN THE MAKING

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We build a relationship with you before we build your home, getting to know your specific needs, tastes and lifestyle to ensure your home is a reflection of you. We’ll get to know you and your family, address your concerns, and answer your questions quickly along the way towards living the life you’ve envisioned in your new custom home.

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Getting to Know You

Our team of customer advocates, architects and project managers will set you on the right path. We’ll translate your unique vision into a full design, establish your project budget, analyze prospective lots, assist you in choosing the best home site and identify ways to avoid potential extra costs.

 

  • SCHEDULE APPOINTMENT
  • VISIT A MODEL
  • DISCUSS TIMELINES
  • ESTABLISH A BUDGET
  • FIND THE RIGHT LOT

Designing Your Custom Home

Whether you start with a design from our Portfolio Collection or choose our Design-Build service, we’ll tailor our process and your home plans to best match your needs.

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PORTFOLIO HOME

We offer a variety of stylish and contemporary designs in a myriad of sizes and floor plans. Whether you need a narrow house on a small lot or an expansive stately home, our designs will maximize your available space and optimize available natural lighting. Similarly, our team can modify the design to fit your needs and your budget.

  • Review our model floor plans and narrow down your choices.
  • Meet with our team to discuss how to customize your plan.
  • Review options and pricing for your design ideas.

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DESIGN SERVICE

We’ll take your unique vision and turn it into a one-of-a-kind custom home that showcases your personality and style, including a personalized exterior elevation and the perfect floor plan for your family.

  • Meet with our architects to review your needs, style, design, and inspiration.
  • Expand on your ideas in regular meetings with your project manager, architect and interior designer.
  • Develop the project budget and related scopes and specifications for your unique touches and add-ons.

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Kicking Off the Project

While you’re finalizing your home site purchase and financing, our architects will start creating plans, and our project managers and pre-production team will prepare permit applications and purchase orders for construction supplies. At your orientation meeting, you’ll meet with our team, review the next steps and set appointments to meet our designers at appropriate showrooms.

  • ENGINEERING
  • SITE PLANS
  • PERMITTING
  • SELECTIONS

Construction

At a pre-construction meeting, you’ll meet the team that will be on site every day—rain or shine—building your custom home. We’ll keep you informed of our progress with weekly updates through BuilderTrend, our online portal. Plus, we’ll arrange pre-scheduled on-site meetings with your Classic Homes representative in order for you to closely monitor the progress of your build.

  • EXCAVATION TO COMPLETION
  • ON-SITE MEETINGS
  • WALKTHROUGH / ORIENTATION
  • KEY MEETING

Quality Control

Our Quality Control program includes multiple inspections. Our Warranty Team will complete a walk-through 90 days after you move into your new home and again at 11 months to address any minor repairs. Rest assured that even after your warranty ends, the Classic Homes team will continue to be available to help in any way we can.

 

  • PUNCH LIST
  • 90 DAY WALKTHROUGH
  • 11-MONTH WALKTHROUGH
  • ONGOING SUPPORT

 

Experience Partnered with Perspective

Decades of uninterrupted local building experience is a prime reason to choose one builder over another. When you add the insights and architectural innovations gained by our teaming with renowned Bethesda architect Carib Daniel Martin, we think it’s a collaboration you’ll be thrilled to live with.

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“Their staff understands the fears held by clients new to custom home building and work to make you feel comfortable throughout the design and build process.”

—Thomas via Google Business

“My home building experience with the team at Classic Homes was great!! They acted professionally at every step of way – from selection of interior colors to the leveling of the front yard. There were no hesitations in returning my calls or answering our many questions, as new homeowners.”

—Shuran via Google Business

“This has been the most amazing experience only because of the character of the folks at classic and their vendors. I couldn’t be happier with the process and the people I get to work with. This could have been the most stressful experience but has been really streamlined. I cannot wait to see the finished product.”

—M.A. via Google Business

“I cannot describe how wonderful the experience was. From the very beginning when we were just looking at the lot that we ended up purchasing and building our home on, the team at Classic was incredible. They did a great job managing our expectations through the entire process.”

—Nikki via Google Business

If you can envision it we can build it.

It’s simple to get started.  And we’ll keep the process moving at a pace you are comfortable with that meets your goals.

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