Residential design, planning, and visualization
Residential Design Services
Based in Lakeway, 3D Home Designs helps homeowners and project teams in Austin, Houston, across Texas, and remotely when a virtual process fits. Choose the service that matches your starting point: develop the plan, visualize an existing direction, or add flexible design capacity to your team.
Develop the plan
Home & Remodel Planning
Good fit: Homeowners planning a remodel, addition, custom home, or related residential project who need to turn goals and existing conditions into a coordinated design direction.
Useful inputs
- Project address and current stage
- Existing plans, measurements, photos, or sketches
- Goals, constraints, priorities, and inspiration
- Known contractor or jurisdiction information
Typical deliverables
- Updated plans after each included interactive design meeting
- Renders when the project reaches the visualization stage
- Agreed floor plans, elevations, details, or schedules
- Permit-plan development for qualifying residential work when included
Fixed fee and meeting overflow
The agreement sets a fixed design fee and states how many interactive design meetings are included. Additional meetings use the fixed per-meeting rate named in the agreement.
Not included unless stated
Engineering, surveying, energy documentation, civil or floodplain work, trade designs, contractor services, and other licensed-professional documents remain separate when required.
How it works
We review your starting information, work through the design live in the contracted meetings, and issue revised plans after each meeting. Renders are added when the design reaches that stage, followed by the agreed final package and next-step coordination.
Visualize the direction
Concept Renders & Finish Studies
Good fit: Homeowners or project teams who already have plans or a defined design direction and want to compare spaces, exteriors, colors, materials, cabinetry, or finish combinations before committing.
Useful inputs
- Existing plans or reliable measurements and sketches
- Current-condition photos
- Inspiration images and preferred finishes
- Specific choices or problem areas to compare
Typical deliverables
- A project-specific 3D model
- Agreed interior or exterior rendered views
- Interactive walkthrough or review sessions when included
- Selected finish, color, layout, or material comparisons
Scope controls
The proposal defines the modeled areas, view count, meetings, and revision rounds so expectations are clear before work begins.
Not included unless stated
Concept renders do not replace construction drawings, permit plans, engineering, product specifications, procurement, or verification that a product remains available.
How it works
We review the source plans and decisions to test, build the model, present the first direction, and refine the selected options through the meetings and revisions defined in the proposal.
Add flexible design capacity
Builder & Designer Support
Good fit: Builders, contractors, and designers who need overflow drafting, plan development, renders, client-presentation support, or a residential permit-plan resource without adding a full-time design position.
Useful inputs
- Project scope, schedule, and current files
- Drawing, title-block, and branding standards
- Client decisions and presentation needs
- Required formats, review points, and handoff expectations
Available support
- Project-team branded plans and drafting
- Concept renders and client-presentation visuals
- Virtual client design meetings; in-person meetings by arrangement
- Marketing images or video for qualifying engagements
- Volume pricing defined in the proposal
Permit-plan support
For qualifying residential projects, we can serve as a building-design, drafting, and permit-plan partner. Requirements and the responsible project team vary by address and scope.
Not included unless stated
Support does not include construction management, contractor services, engineering, sales guarantees, permit approval, or promises that a project will meet a particular budget or schedule.
How it works
We confirm capacity, standards, scope, and ownership first; then work through agreed check-ins and client sessions before issuing the branded files, renders, or presentation materials defined in the proposal.
A clear starting process
Share your starting point
Send the location, project type, stage, available files, and the decisions you need help making.
Confirm fit and scope
We review the information, identify the appropriate service, and define deliverables, meetings, revisions, exclusions, and pricing in the proposal.
Design collaboratively
Interactive meetings and scheduled reviews keep the plans, renders, or team-support work aligned with the agreed direction.
Receive the agreed handoff
You receive the plan set, rendered views, branded files, or next-step recommendations included in the scope.
For more context, review the 3D Home Designs process and how project estimates are prepared.
Professional credential and project scope
Aaron Lytal is a Certified Professional Building Designer (CPBD) through the National Council of Building Designer Certification (NCBDC). For qualifying residential projects—typically single-family and two-family homes, additions, remodels, and related accessory structures—3D Home Designs can prepare building-design and permit-plan documents for jurisdictional review. Requirements vary by address and scope. Structural engineering, surveying, civil or floodplain work, energy documentation, trade designs, and architect- or engineer-sealed documents are coordinated separately when required. The reviewing jurisdiction determines completeness and permit approval.
Verified experience
Residential design support grounded in long-term practice
- Current AIBD Professional member and Certified Professional Building Designer through NCBDC.
- Residential design and remodeling work since 2006.
- More than 15 years using Chief Architect; currently working in Chief Architect X18.
- Named to NKBA's 2016 30 Under 30 class.
The proposal still controls project-specific scope, meetings, deliverables, timing, fees, exclusions, and separately licensed professional work.
Not sure which service fits?
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