Design Your Home
Walk through the same choices we'd make together at your kitchen table — size, foundation, roof, materials, finishes. There are no packages here and nothing is bundled: mix anything with anything. At the end you'll see roughly how long your build takes and what drives it.
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Your Build
Every number below is a range, because weather, inspections, and how fast selections get made all move it. We give you a real, specific timeline before we break ground — this is the honest ballpark.
Floor plan, finishes, and one fixed price. Nothing is ordered until this is done.
County permits, soil work, driveway, and utilities. Some of this runs alongside design.
Footer to final walkthrough. Once permits are in hand we are typically 60 to 90 days on a straightforward build — this is the part most people picture when they say "building a house."
Months, not dates — we hold ourselves to a specific schedule once your lot is walked and permits are in.
These are the choices in your build that add time — and why. None of them are wrong. They're just worth knowing about before you're standing in the mud wondering what happened.
You've described about as straightforward a build as we do — nothing in your selections adds unusual time. That's a real advantage, and it usually shows up in the price too.
Next Step
He'll look at what you've put together, tell you honestly what it costs on your lot, and flag anything that would surprise you later. No sales sequence, no pressure — if we're not the right fit, he'll say so.
Rather just talk? (937) 779-2744 — texting a photo of your lot is genuinely the fastest way to start.
Everything you selected comes with it. We only need to know where to reply.
Build Time
Nobody sets out to build slowly. But a few decisions quietly add weeks or months, and most builders won't tell you which ones until you're already committed. Here's the honest list.
A slab goes in fast. A full basement means excavation, footings, walls, waterproofing, and backfill — and concrete cures on its own schedule no matter how badly everyone wants it to hurry. A walkout on a sloped lot adds more still. Basements are worth it for a lot of families. Just know you're buying weeks along with the square footage.
Standard trusses are engineered, built, and delivered on a predictable schedule. Ask for vaulted ceilings, an attic-truss bonus room, or a roofline with several gables running into each other, and those trusses become a custom order — extra engineering, extra approval, extra build time at the plant before anything shows up on your lot.
This is the one that surprises people. Amish hand-built cabinetry is the reason a Legacy kitchen looks the way it does — and full custom takes a couple of months to build once the order is placed. That clock starts when you finalize the selections, not when we frame the house. Decide early and it never costs you a day.
A lot with city water and sewer at the road is the fast path. Raw acreage may need clearing, a long driveway, a well, and a septic system — and septic starts with a soil evaluation that can take weeks just to get scheduled, before anyone applies for a permit. We walk your lot early precisely so this never becomes a surprise.
Breaking ground in late fall means pouring concrete and framing through an Ohio winter. It's absolutely doable — we build year-round — but cold slows curing and weather steals days. A spring start usually runs the cleanest schedule of the year.
The single biggest thing under your control. Every selection left open is a decision that eventually has to happen anyway, only later — and by then it's holding up an order that holds up a trade that holds up your move-in. We'll give you a deadline for each one so nothing sits.
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