How pricing works.

Every plan in the library carries a published base price. That number covers the complete house from the top of the foundation up: framing, roof, windows, siding, kitchen, baths, flooring, trim, paint, fixtures — everything in Our Standard, which is the spec other builders call the upgrade sheet.

The base price moves for exactly one reason: you change the house. Pick the basement instead of the slab, add the garage, and those options are priced in writing too — line items, not change-order roulette. There are no allowances hiding in the walls of the house itself.

First, a thing other builders' sites leave fuzzy: your base price already includes the standard foundation — an elevated stem-wall slab, wrapped in stone, so the house sits up out of the water. Every number we publish is a complete house standing on its own foundation, not a house floating above a second bill.

The full basement is the option. One published price per plan, and it swaps the slab for poured walls, a basement floor, and all that unfinished square footage below — storage, shop, or rooms-in-waiting. Finishing it into living space is its own scope, quoted in writing whenever you're ready: with the build, or years later.

Underground is also the one place on a building site where honest people admit they can't see. Two things down there can genuinely surprise anybody: rock, and grade.

So we put both in writing before you sign. If excavation hits rock, it's billed at published unit rates — $275 an hour for hammer drilling and $225 a cubic yard for rock removal — not renegotiated in the driveway. Basement pricing assumes up to nine feet of retained height; if your slope needs more wall than that, the difference comes off a published schedule, not a shrug.

No trick to it: exactly what happens if we hit rock, in writing, before you sign. You shouldn't accept less from anyone.

Neither is included in the base price — both are add-ons, published on every plan and priced the same fixed way the house is. The difference between them is bigger than the price, and the word carport undersells ours badly, so here they both are.

Between the county road and the top of your foundation sits work no builder can honestly fix-price sight unseen: the driveway, the clearing, the well, the septic. Anyone quoting you a firm number for that work before walking your land has either padded it heavily or plans to make it up later. We do neither.

Instead, we publish the typical ranges we see on corridor lots — then walk your specific land and tighten them into real numbers at the site evaluation, before you've committed to anything.

It's the fastest number in the business and the least honest. Dividing by square footage rewards big, empty boxes and punishes the things you actually live with — deep porches, real windows, tile, trim, doors that close like they mean it. We'd rather show you the whole number and what it buys.