Custom Home · Palatine
Board and Batten Custom Home in Palatine
A custom home in Palatine, built start to finish by the same crew, on a plan that was settled before anyone was asked to price it.
Same crew, start to finish
Most builders are handed a finished set of drawings and asked for a number. By then the expensive decisions have already been made and the only lever left is swapping one material for a cheaper one. We would rather be in the room earlier than that, while a roofline or a span can still be reconsidered.
That is how this house was run. The plan came first and kept moving until it was right. The specification was written next, in detail, and the price was built off it. Nothing on site was a surprise, because the thinking had already been done at the stage where thinking is still free.
The short version
- Type
- Custom Home
- Where
- Palatine, IL
- Scope
- White board and batten with a covered porch
- Photographs
- 13
The gallery
A board and batten build
One continuous crew means the finish matches across trades, which shows up in a full set rather than in any single frame.
Worth noticing
Three things about this one
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A ground-up house in Palatine
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Builder in the room before the drawings were finished
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Changes priced before they were built, never after the fact
Ask what this one cost
We can tell you the budget, the schedule and what went sideways on the way. Every job has something. The useful question is what happened next.