Be happy. Build A Bensonwood Home.
Is it possible to be happy while building a home? The traditional house building process can often foster some pretty adversarial relationships between builder, owner, workers and designers.
Nevertheless, the vast majority of Bensonwood customers consider their homebuilding experience to have been a wonderful, fulfilling time in their lives. What do we do different?
We create good plans. Good plans keep budgets from growing, schedules accurate and the egos, personalities and capabilities of everyone working on your house heading toward the goal of building the best house possible.
We have great people. From the people who design your home, to the people who raise the frame and wall panels, the people at Bensonwood are career professionals. Each of the 75 people who work here are committed and contribute to the art and science of great homebuilding.
We foster good relationships. It starts with the building of a great relationship with you. Then we help you identify the right general contractor for your project early in the planning process.
We engage in stewardship. At Bensonwood, we don't have project managers. We have project stewards who will keep the many people who will create your home working together harmoniously as a team. Project Stewardship is also a wonderfully open process designed to eliminate mystery and make costs understandable and controllable while keeping you thoroughly informed and engaged throughout the entire process.
We keep costs accurate. Because our plans are accurate, we fix the cost for your Bensonwood frame, shell package and millwork package early in the schematic design phase. Knowing the absolute cost of creating and erecting the largest components of your home means that overall, the estimated cost of your home will be more accurate.
While it's possible to buy stairs, cabinets, doors and other millwork from different vendors, people often purchase these components from Bensonwood because they all become part of the fixed absolute cost.
While your general contractor's costs will have a range, your project steward will gather construction costs local to the project site, then combine these costs with Bensonwood's database of historical costs to deliver thorough cost estimates to complete your Bensonwood home.
We're very coordinated. When it comes to the design of a Bensonwood home, the most important elements are the ones you see, feel and touch everyday. That's why so many of our customers choose our factory-built stairs, interior doors, balusters, deck railings, mantels—even fine Bensonwood furniture—to complete their home. In large part, these elements coordinate to make a Bensonwood home a Bensonwood home.
We make the trains run on time. Scheduling ranks close to budgets in the hierarchy of angst-producing construction issues. Using powerful software and their years of experience overseeing projects, our project stewards maintain an overview of your home's schedule to balance your desires with the realities of construction. A key element of scheduling includes synchronizing Bensonwood's work with that of your general contractor's.
Our project stewards work with your general contractor to carefully orchestrate the complex symphony of events that must happen to complete your home. Think of the contracts—the Bensonwood shell package and millwork package, as well as your general contractor's—as the score to that symphony; the better the contracts are written, the more beautiful the music.
Through frequent meetings, email and phone contact, your Bensonwood steward coordinates the work of Bensonwood's various departments and ensures consistency. When problems arise—as they inevitably will on a construction project—the project steward is often central to their resolution.