DeHaan Homes
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Photography: Ashley Avila Photography
Integration, collaboration, and innovation: there are many benefits inherent to the design-build process, where its delivery method is based on having a single-source contact accountable for all aspects of the build and is supported by a skilled team of craftspeople with the singular goal of realizing their clients’ vision within the built landscape. It is about the goal of creating a sense of ease in a complex construction process, where an integrated, collaborative team works to address schedule-related challenges, cost and selection decisions, and practical site nuances from design, engineering, estimating, and specification writing, to construction and, finally, post-construction phases. For DeHaan Homes, a custom residential design-build firm with nearly 95 years of experience across four generations in Hudsonville, Michigan, it is this very delivery process that defines its work as its experienced design-build team guides clients and homeowners through best-value solutions from initial design through move-in and through warranty. It is about the experience delivered to their clients and the trust established in the partnership through communication and service, and a flexibility to adapt to ever-evolving challenges in an industry faced with external disruptions. “Today, it is all about the journey and creating a great experience,” said Douglas DeHaan, president, fourth-generation craftsman, and owner of DeHaan Homes. “At times, the actual sketching and creative design is the easy part of the process; listening and being respectful and thoughtful of what our clients want to create, that is the hard part. Design is the graphic portion of listening to our clients’ lifestyle, capturing their vision of how they want to live in their home and the feel they desire to obtain upon completion.”
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THE CUSTOM BUILD
