We design Extreme Panel homes that are ready to build.
Our team designs your home, engineers it, coordinates with Extreme Panel, prepares permits, and hands your builder a package that’s ready to build.
If Extreme Panel sent you here, you probably know SIP panels are a great fit for your build.
What you might not know, is that a properly designed SIP home takes more than a beautiful set of drawings.
Construction plans tell your builder what to build. They don’t tell you whether the design fits your budget, meets site and code requirements, or takes full advantage of the benefits of SIP panels. That gap can cost you time, money, and frustration when your plans need to be redesigned to fit your budget or your build requires change orders to look how you really want it to.
We’re here to bridge that gap, and give you 100% confidence in your home design and build cost before construction.
We’ve developed a complete design and pre-construction process for SIP builds, bringing together architects, designers, builders, and suppliers to plan out every detail of your custom home. Our team will help you get the maximum benefits of a SIP build, with a build-ready set of plans that fit your taste and budget.
Who This Process is For
This process was built for two kinds of clients:
Homeowners planning a premium custom SIP home. You want to be sure your home build fits your budget, maximizes the benefits of SIP panels, and that your contractor can build it just how you expect.
Home builders whose client wants to build with Extreme Panels and need an experienced SIP design and engineering team on the project. We work on projects across the Western United States, and we welcome well-matched projects elsewhere.
Our clients tend to value the same things: design certainty, early cost guidance, and a team that knows more about SIP panel builds than anyone else. This is more than a drafting service. We bring together a coordinated team of experts to consult on every element of your home build.
Already have a builder? Bring them. Your builder participates throughout design, contributing construction methods, regional pricing, and scheduling insight while the plans take shape. Ealy Construction and RSB Customs are available to build in North Idaho, but this process is not designed to replace a builder you already trust.
Why work with us?
Any architect can hand you drawings a permit office will accept. What a SIP home needs is a design process that answers the expensive questions early.
Design around SIPs from the beginning, so the structure, panel geometry, envelope details, and doors and windows all cooperate with each other.
Get architectural, engineering, builder, and Extreme Panel input during design. Getting everyone on the same page during design creates better plans for a better home build.
See the full range of likely project costs and requirements early. Understand your site, code, budget, schedule, and constructability constraints early to avoid surprises like costly redesigns or change orders during the build.
Hear realistic builder feedback the moment a design decision affects cost or schedule. At the end of the design process, you’ll have a full set of plans that are ready to build, fit your budget, and are ready for Extreme Panel manufacturing.
Never fall in love with plans you can't build.
It's heartbreaking to hold a finished set of plans and learn you can't afford to build them. It happens more often than anyone in this industry likes to admit, and it usually means starting over or making big compromises in the design you have.
Our process is built to protect you from that. You get cost feedback at every phase of design, and you finish with build-ready plans and pricing guidance your builder can actually hit. The final construction price comes from your selected builder; our job is to make sure that number lands in the range you expect it to.
Get every ounce of performance you're paying for.
You already know what a SIP envelope can do; that's why you chose it. But building performance is only as strong as its weakest point. The wrong window package, roofing detail, or ventilation plan can lose the efficiency your panels are built to give.
Our team specifies siding, roofing, windows, doors, and mechanical systems to match the performance of the envelope, and coordinates with Extreme Panel so every specified material is a perfect fit for your panels.
A design package is an investment. Ours pays you back in three ways.
If you are looking for the least expensive way to get a plan drafted, we are probably not the right fit. If you’re looking to invest in a thoroughly designed and engineered set of plans that can save you tens of thousands of dollars on the build itself, we’re here to make that happen.
1. Clarity on what to expect.
You'll know what you're building, what it should cost, and what happens next at every step. We set cost expectations at the end of every phase to make sure your build fits your budget.
2. A builder set up to succeed.
Your builder receives a complete, coordinated package: drawings, engineering, panelization, selections, and pricing guidance, ready to price and build without guesswork.
3. Savings on the build itself.
Decisions made on paper cost a fraction of decisions made in the field. Fewer change orders, no redesign, and materials chosen once and ordered on time.
OUR HOME DESIGN PROCESS
Four phases to plan the perfect SIP build.
We’ve spent two decades refining a process for planning remodels and custom homes. Now, we’ve brought that process to eliminate surprises before your SIP home construction begins.
Each phase is proposed, authorized, and paid for separately, and each ends with a Client Checkpoint where nothing moves forward without your green light.
- Project Qualification
- Your Goals & Wish List
- Site, Zoning & Code Review
- Initial Budget Framework
- Consultant Plan
- SIP Strategy with Extreme Panel
- Project Kickoff with Design Partners
- Concept Options: 2 to 3 Design Directions
- Early Views of Your Home's Shape & Layout
- Your Preferred Direction Selected
- Early Cost Range
- Design Refinement
- Materials & Systems Confirmed
- Window, Truss & Structure Coordination
- SIP Coordination with Extreme Panel
- Engineering Coordination Begins
- Detailed Cost Validation
- Permit & Construction Documents Complete
- Architectural, Structural, & Panel Coordination
- Panel Order Ready
- Builder Pricing Support
- Organized Builder Handoff
Checkpoint
Each phase ends with a Client Checkpoint where the choice is yours: continue to the next phase, adjust the design or target budget, or stop.
We price out the build at the end of every phase, and give you projected cost ranges during design, so you’ll always know that your plans can be built within your budget.
If the project turns out bigger than you expected or the timing isn't right, you can pause at the end of any phase with no obligation to continue.
What happens in each phase?
1 Discover
What’s possible for your site and budget?
We start by getting to know you, your site, and your goals. Your design team leads discovery and programming meetings, reviews zoning and code basics for your property, and works with Extreme Panel on your preliminary SIP strategy while we set a budget framework together. By the end of Discover you'll have a clear project definition, a consultant plan, and a realistic picture of whether your goals and your target investment belong in the same project before any serious design dollars are spent.
Once the project is defined and the team is identified, we bring everyone to the same table: you, your architect, your builder, the structural engineer, and Extreme Panel. This meeting aligns the whole team on goals, budget, site, and SIP strategy before the design advances, so no one is discovering constraints after decisions have been made.
2 Design
Does the design match the vision and the budget?
Your architect develops two to three concept directions, and together we select and refine one into a coordinated design: floor plans, elevations, 3D views, and early material and interior direction. Because our construction team prices as the design develops, you'll see an early cost range for the direction you love while it's still easy to adjust. Design ends when you approve the coordinated design and the numbers support moving into documentation.
3 Define
Is every decision made and documented?
The approved design becomes a complete technical package: construction documents, structural engineering, final selections, and panelization coordinated directly with Extreme Panel. This is where cost validation gets detailed, with real trade partner pricing behind the numbers instead of square-footage guesswork. Define ends the design process: every major decision is reflected in your plans, and we’re ready to submit permitting, coordinate with your builder, and set Extreme Panel up to manufacture the panels.
4 Build Ready
Can your builder take it from here?
Your project becomes a permit-ready, panel-ready, priceable package. We submit for permit with a normal-response allowance included, Extreme Panel receives what it needs for panel ordering, and your selected builder gets an organized handoff with pricing support, procurement guidance, and lead time planning on material selections. Whoever builds your home starts with everything they need to do it right.
What's included in the standard package?
Our standard scope is a coordinated architectural construction-document package suitable for a premium custom SIP home. It includes conceptual massing studies during Design, several exterior rendered perspectives of your home, and the complete architectural drawing set with the SIP-specific coordination your project requires.
Want more visualization or interior design support? Interior renderings, detailed interior elevations, product and finish selections, and extended visualization are available as additional services, and we will include them in your proposal if they fit your goals.
Your plans will be fully engineered and prepared for SIPs panelization.
Additional services your project may require
Depending on your project, additional services may include structural engineering, Extreme Panel shop and panel drawings and engineering, surveying, geotechnical investigation, civil engineering, permit and HOA fees, interior design and selections, landscape design, specialty consultants and inspections, or travel for site visits.
No two sites and no two jurisdictions ask for the same things, and part of Discover is identifying exactly which of these your project will need. You will be prepared for those costs from the beginning instead of discovering them mid-project.
What does this design process cost?
Every project is different, so rather than publish one-size-fits-all pricing, here is a realistic example. The assumptions behind it:
A premium custom SIP home of approximately 3,500 square feet,
An anticipated vertical construction budget of approximately $1.5M to $2.5M
A buildable site without unusual complexity, eg. cliffside builds
A moderate to high level of customization
Pricing shown is an example based on a premium custom home of a defined size, scope, site condition, and construction budget. Your project may be higher or lower depending on its location, complexity, travel requirements, HOA standards, consultant needs, and desired level of design service.
Each phase is proposed, authorized, and paid for separately, and you can stop or continue at the end of any phase.
After our first conversation and the Discover phase, you will have a proposal specific to your project, not a guess.
The expertise your SIP home build needs.
We bring together the expertise of many architects, designers, builders, and suppliers to make sure your SIP home build is set up for success.
When you hire Ealy Construction for design, you are hiring a coordinated team: licensed architects, structural engineers, experienced custom home builders, and product specialists, with Extreme Panel involved from your first SIP strategy conversation.
If you already have a builder, this team works with them. Your builder joins the process early, contributes cost and constructability feedback throughout, and receives the complete package at handoff.
We bring award winning design to your SIP home.
Our team's work has earned regional and national design awards. What matters more to us is why: we invest time and effort designing homes people love living in, and prepare thorough plans so the final build matches the plans exactly.
Your Extreme Panel home deserves a design process made specifically for SIPs builds.
Give us a call or email today for a no pressure, no obligation conversation about your plans.
Tell Us About Your Project
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. We can collaborate with your selected builder throughout design, and the entire process is built to hand your builder a package they can price and build successfully.
If you'd like help identifying a qualified Extreme Panel builder, we can suggest options, though you'll contract directly with whoever you choose.
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One of our licensed architect partners leads the design process. Our in-house design department and construction team work alongside them, providing design and build cost input throughout the process.
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The final construction price and contract come from your selected builder, working from the coordinated package we prepare.
However, with our experience designing and building homes, we design the home to fall within a total cost range you decide on.
We share an estimated total build cost at the end of each design phase, and provide selections and material packages to your builder that we’ve priced out in detail.
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You can. Each phase is priced and delivered on its own, and every phase ends with a Client Checkpoint where you decide how you would like to continue.
If the project is bigger than you expected or the timing isn't right, we can pause or stop work at the end of any phase.
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The “Build Ready” phase includes the initial permit submittal and up to eight hours of normal permit-response coordination.
Work beyond that, such as unusual jurisdiction requirements or major client-directed changes, is billed hourly with your authorization first.
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A mid-level custom home typically runs about 15 to 27 weeks through the full process, excluding permit review and decision delays.
If you’re aiming for a date to start construction, let us know - we’ll talk through how the process can be accelerated, what materials need to be sourced as soon as possible, and what your builder can do to get ahead of schedule.
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Yes! We return all communications withing one business day. Give us a call at (208) 596-1181, or send us an email here.