Custom homes
built around you.
Custom residential design for Ventura County and Southern California. Every home begins with a conversation; every drawing earns its place through careful iteration.
Custom residential design for Ventura County and Southern California. Every home begins with a conversation; every drawing earns its place through careful iteration.
A custom home is not a catalog purchase. It is a dialogue between how you live and how a place is shaped to support that life. David Foote has been having these dialogues for forty years, across fifteen hundred homes, and every single one has started with a sharpened pencil and a blank sheet.
Whether you are planning a hillside contemporary, a coastal ranch, or a modern farmhouse on two acres, the process is the same. Listen first. Sketch. Refine. Build.
You work directly with David. No junior designers. No handoffs. Every line on every drawing is reviewed and approved by the principal designer before it reaches your desk.
Complete residential design services from the first conversation through the certificate of occupancy.
Site analysis, programming interviews, and initial massing studies. We explore three to five different directions before narrowing.
Floor plans, elevations, and material palettes. This is where your home takes shape on paper.
Detailed drawings with structural coordination, MEP integration, and material specifications.
Permit ready drawings with full structural, Title 24, and mechanical coordination.
We submit and coordinate with your jurisdiction. Every redline, every RFI, handled.
Designer of record support through completion, including site visits and contractor coordination.
We walk the property together, discuss zoning, views, solar orientation, and site constraints.
Deep interview on how you live. Room by room. Lifestyle by lifestyle. Budget framework.
Hand sketched options. Three to five directions. You pick the one that feels right.
Refined drawings. Materials, finishes, structural ideas all integrated.
Full permit set. Structural, Title 24, MEP, everything coordinated.
We handle the city. You handle picking finishes. Construction support throughout.
Start your building program online and David will call within one business day with a tailored fee proposal.
