The Walnut & Stone Standard

The year your home is built should be one of the good ones.

A clear plan, a settled budget, and a front-row seat as the land you chose becomes the home you imagined. Here's how the year unfolds.

A complete budget before ground breaksEvery selection and allowance settled, transparent, and in writing.

One point of contactOne person who knows your project end to end — and answers when you call.

You always know where things standPhotos, milestones, and decisions in one place, from anywhere.

The build, phase by phase

Five phases, start to settled-in.

2–4 weeks

The Land

We walk your lot with you — light, views, slope, where the home wants to sit. You leave with an honest read on what's possible and a real budget range, before a dollar is committed.

And when the project moves forward, we map the land itself: a LiDAR drone overflight captures the true shape of your terrain — drainage, grade, detail the eye can't catch — and becomes the grade plan your home is designed on. (Design-grade terrain intelligence — not a boundary survey; your closing still uses a licensed surveyor.)

We bringThe site assessment, the buildability read, the LiDAR terrain model, the numbers.

You decideWhether the land and the budget fit the home you imagine.

Varies with how you arrive

The Design

Bring us in as early as you like. Some clients have us beside their architect from the first sketch — pricing the design as it's drawn, so the blueprint and the budget grow up together. Others arrive with finished plans, and we price and refine from there. Both paths work; both end in the same place: a design you love and a number you trust.

We bringLive budgeting, constructability, options when a choice can buy you more home.

You decideThe design itself — it's yours.

4–8 weeks

The Budget

Every selection, allowance, and milestone settled before ground breaks. You choose the contract that fits you — fixed-fee or cost-plus — and either way, the budget is complete, transparent, and in writing.

We bringThe full proposal, the schedule, the selection list.

You decideFinishes, fixtures, contract structure, and the green light.

10–16 months

The Build

The best part. Ground breaks, and your home starts rising out of the land. A private project portal carries photos, video, decisions, and budget in real time; a written update lands every week; drone flights capture the views opening up. One person runs your project and answers your calls — whether you're ten minutes away or six hundred miles.

We bringThe site, the trades, the schedule, the quality — and the window to watch it all.

You decideOnly what's genuinely yours to decide, with time to enjoy deciding it.

Move-in and beyond

The First Years

A final walkthrough, a real warranty, and a team that answers the phone in year three the way we did in week one. Move-in is the start of the relationship, not the end.

Begin

The first step is a walk on your land.

No pressure, no obligation — just a clear-eyed look at what's possible.

Begin with a Site Walk →