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Drawings your crew can actually build from.

Construction-ready CD sets from a residential designer who spent 20 years building custom homes, not just drawing them.

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Daniel Allen Designs construction-ready custom home floor plan with full dimensions, schedules, and engineering coordination in Buckhead, Georgia

Construction-ready residential design documents for Atlanta-area builders — produced by a designer who spent 20 years building custom homes before picking up the drafting pencil. Daniel Allen Designs delivers complete CD packages formatted to current Georgia residential code, coordinated across every consultant, with the level of detail your estimators and field crews actually need. No ambiguity. No "verify in field" notes. No change orders caused by incomplete drawings.

Builder Partnership at a Glance
  • Document Quality: Floor plans, elevations, sections, roof plans, schedules, electrical plans, and full engineering coordination — every sheet your crew needs.
  • Code Compliance: All documents formatted to current Georgia residential code with county-specific requirements addressed.
  • The Builder's Eye Guarantee: Every design passes a 7-dimension constructability review before it reaches your desk.
  • Partnership Model: Spec homes, subdivision communities, custom partnerships — flexible engagement for builders and developers of any scale.

Construction Documents

A spec sheet for our CD package.

You will not have to ask what's in the set. Every Daniel Allen Designs custom-home package contains the following, formatted to current Georgia residential code and coordinated across every consultant on the project:

  • Floor plans for every level, with full dimensions, room labels, door/window callouts, and notation tied to schedules. Typical range: 4–8 sheets depending on home size.
  • Exterior elevations — four-sided, with material callouts, grade lines, roof pitches, and height dimensions. Built for both permit submittal and accurate bidding.
  • Building sections and wall sections revealing construction assemblies, ceiling heights, structural relationships, and insulation details. We draw the section through the part of the home that's actually hard to build, not the easy one.
  • Roof plan with slopes, ridge and valley lines, drainage patterns, and pre-resolved mechanical penetrations.
  • Door, window, and finish schedules — coded back to the plans, alphabetized, and vendor-agnostic.
  • Reflected ceiling plans and electrical plans coordinated with HVAC routing.
  • Structural coordination drawings prepared with your engineer of record. We manage the engineering relationships so your office doesn't have to.
  • Specifications at a level your subs can bid against without making assumptions.

Typical sheet count for a 6,000-sf custom home: 18–24 sheets. We deliver full 2D coordination layout sets alongside photorealistic 3D walk-through renderings, keeping your crews aligned. Every set issued is dated, versioned, and accompanied by a one-page revision log.

Workflow

The way we run the design side, end to end.

RFI Response Time

We maintain a 24-business-hour SLA for clarification RFIs and 48 hours for RFIs requiring revised drawings. Every RFI is logged and answered in writing, so the answer follows the drawing directly into the field.

Change-Order Discipline

When a builder-side request triggers a design change, we cost the design time before the change is issued, not after. No surprise invoices. Minor builder-requested details are absorbed inside the original engagement scope.

Bid-Scope Defense

When subcontractors come back claiming they need to charge extra for elements already documented, we will get on the call and walk through the drawing details with you. We stand behind and defend our bid sets.

Site Presence

We are onsite at framing for a one-hour structural walkthrough at no charge on every project we design in Metro Atlanta. Additional site visits are available at a flat day rate to assist your superintendent.

Permit Support

If the local jurisdiction kicks back drawing packages, we handle the resubmittal directly. We track municipal comments and prepare structural/civil adjustments for resubmission within 48 hrs.

Substitution Review

Custom building requires product flexibility. Send us a material substitution cut sheet, and we will review and either approve or counter-propose a fit within 24 business hours to keep your schedule moving.

You will coordinate with Daniel directly. No account managers or junior draftsmen placed between you and the answer.

After Project #1

What changes when you bring us a second project.

Personal Callback Line

Repeat-builder inquiries and RFIs route directly to Daniel's personal callback line, ensuring same-day phone and message returns.

MSA Volume Terms

Builders running 6+ custom projects per year qualify for a Master Services Agreement that locks in priority layout schedules and volume discounts.

Standard Plan Library

For builders running spec programs, we develop a custom house type library—fully drawn, lot-adapted on request.

Field Feedback Loop

After completion, we sit down with your superintendent to review what worked in the field. Your next set will incorporate those exact preferences.

See For Yourself

Request a real CD sheet.

We will send you a complete detailed sheet from a recent Metro Atlanta project—not a marketing illustration. Evaluate our dimensions, scheduling, and structural coordination first-hand.

Designed by a builder. For builders.

One conversation tells you whether we're the right fit for your pipeline. Bring a project, a question, or a sample of a set you're not happy with—we'll respond honestly.

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