Process

Find the Path That Achieves Your Goals and Follows Your Ethics

Find the Path That Achieves Your Goals and Follows Your Ethics

The Big Idea

It may start from a simple sketch, an idea from a magazine or plan book, an image in your mind, or even a completed set of architectural drawings. From the first time we meet until your project is completed, we tailor our services to your particular needs. Your confidence and satisfaction throughout the entire project is our primary goal. We recognize how important it is to choose an excellent builder, and we want you to be confident that your project is in the most capable hands.

Client Engagement

Rancho Santa Fe Craftsman homes are eclectic because each client and site offers unique opportunities, boundaries, dreams, and heritage. With so many variables to consider, each project takes on a life of its own and informs how it should be approached. Throughout design and construction, client contribution is an essential asset, as your home should reflect your desires and values.

Healthy Living

In producing a healthy environment for your family, we strive to incorporate volumes of natural light into your home while creating large multi-functional spaces that maintain proper scale and intimacy. We create innovative interior and exterior schemes based upon your preferences, lifestyle, and budget. Our focus is on you and how we can explore the potential of your property to create a unique living space in which you feel you are finally at home.

Careful Budgeting

We begin each project with a detailed budgeting process, which provides you with a realistic, manageable, and achievable financial goal that reflects the project's true costs. We proceed from there by exploring your needs and desires, then designing a home built to suit your tastes and lifestyle.

Nothing Left to Chance

Working alongside a team of dedicated staff members and associates, owners Greg Rossignol and Jim Bradford personally supervise and monitor every facet of daily operations. They make it a priority to be onsite every day. At Rancho Santa Fe Craftsman, we assist owners and designers with material selection and negotiate with suppliers and subcontractors to ensure the best pricing available while managing your project from beginning to end. The service and ease we offer in the design and construction of your home saves you valuable time and money. But it's the rapport you'll find with our staff that turns our clients into life-long friends.

Here is the step-by-step process we use to bring your dreams into reality.

Five Steps to an Exceptional Home

Placing your home on your lot in a manner that maximizes views and privacy while creating harmony with the natural surroundings is essential. Orienting your home on your lot to most effectively use the sun's heat in winter months, while creating comfortable shading during the warmer months is paramount to your home's comfort and efficiency. Using these concepts, we derive a scheme that will best address your needs.

This step in a project is typically broken out into several phases by the design team and will define the final form of the structure from the inside out. Any good process should begin with an inventory of your needs and desires for your new home. The number, size, function, and placement of the rooms in your home should reflect your family's unique requirements. We'll design your floor plan in a way that envelopes you when you're home alone yet easily and comfortably welcomes your guests.

We believe in authentic architectural detailing and the use of materials and finishes that accentuate the style of your home. These details define the character of your home with design and functional elements, such as gallery walls, art alcoves, cabinetry, deep wall finishes, elegant fireplaces, tasteful lighting, and decorative ironwork. Each element of the architectural program should convey warmth and richness that enhances your life every day.

After completing the architectural phase of the project, we'll help you select from the latest in-home technologies and conveniences. From new appliances to home automation and theater equipment, your home can include the features you enjoy. We take great care in advising you on which technologies warrant consideration and those that may leave you less than satisfied. After all, your home should function with ease and provide the comfort you deserve.

Your outdoor space should be as spectacular and soothing as the interior of your new home. We aim to create a harmonious outdoor environment for all activities and occasions. From quaint romantic dinners to lively festivities to your sports and leisure facilities, we can create the landscape that ensconces your lifestyle.

We work through the last details so that your new home has the appropriate furniture, wall finishes, and window treatments. Our talented team of designers and craftsmen are at your disposal to source and create an interior that speaks to you and reflects your taste. We'll help you make sure your home is truly complete.