A thoughtful process.
Proven results.
Clarity in the process. Confidence in the outcome. Here is exactly what to expect at every stage of working with us.
Step by step
From first call to move-in.
Clarity in the process. Confidence in the outcome. Every stage has a clear purpose, a clear owner and a clear finish line.
Discovery and alignment
We begin by understanding how your family wants to live, exploring your property and vision, and creating early alignment around scope, budget, and timeline.
Design and development
We collaborate with leading architects and designers to create spaces around your dreams and within your budget.
Refine and clarify
Through detailed selections, specifications, consultant coordination, and comprehensive estimating, we reduce unknowns before construction begins.
Build and deliver
We manage construction with careful oversight, consistent communication, and uncompromising attention to quality, from groundbreaking through completion.
What makes us different
Clarity in the process and confidence in the outcome, plus construction of the highest quality, is what an exceptional building experience looks like.
Typical custom home approach
- Lack of coordination between builder, architect and consultants
- Allowance-based budget
- No interior designer
- Unfocused planning: lack of design and budget details, schedule overruns, cost overruns
- Decision fatigue
- Lack of subcontractor control and quality
- Transactional approach
The Gowler way
- Dedicated pre-construction process
- Single point of responsibility
- Professional project manager and superintendent team
- Complete pricing prior to construction
- Fully transparent budgets
- Proven, structured, efficient process
What you can expect from us
Five things we promise on every home.
Clear financial management and budget tracking
Daily construction updates
Professional project management
Quality control
Milestone celebrations
Moments that last a lifetime
We build the celebrations into the schedule.
A custom home is a once-in-a-lifetime project for most families. Three milestones are written into every build so the people who will live there get to mark them.
Groundbreaking
The first shovel goes in with your family on site. It is the day a plan becomes a place.
Home blessing
Before drywall closes the walls, we gather to write blessings on the framing and pray over the home.
Move-in day
Keys in hand, a walk through every room, and the first night in a home built around your family.
Next steps
Three steps to breaking ground.
Getting started is simple, and there is no obligation until we sign a Pre-Construction agreement together.
Start your homeReview needs and wants
Complete the Project Questionnaire. It tells us about your family, your land and your budget, and it is how every project with us begins.
Complete the questionnaireProject proposal
We meet to walk through your answers, visit the site where we can, and prepare a proposal that outlines scope, an initial budget range and a timeline.
Pre-Construction agreement
With the proposal agreed, we sign a Pre-Construction agreement and assemble your architect, interior designer and engineers. Design begins.
How long does the process take?
Pre-Construction: 5 to 8 months on average. Construction: 12 to 18 months.
How much does it cost?
Pre-Construction: $120,000 to $180,000 on average. Construction: $395 to $495 per square foot on average.
What is our billing structure?
Pre-Construction is cost plus, open book: you are only billed for actual expenses and tracked time. Construction is cost plus, open book.
Ready to get started?
Let’s plan your home together.
The questionnaire is the first step. Fifteen minutes now saves weeks later, and it tells us exactly how to be useful when we first sit down.