Everything we design begins with the same essential (and exciting!) process: discovering a project's unique design parameters. These are the regulating criteria that inform every decision we make throughout a project.

For Imbue, the most critical design parameters are gathered from two sources: you (the client) and place (your project's context). We weave together how you want to live and how a place can influence your experience of living.

Each of the three partners at Imbue produces a distinct, initial design proposal for your consideration. The three proposals are presented in the form of 3D digital models, renders, and virtual reality tours.

By intentionally varying the concepts, layouts, aesthetics, and sizes you're able to explore a wide spectrum of possibilities. With your feedback, we pinpoint your position on the design spectrum and produce a schematic that is expressly your own.

Throughout the entirety of each project all three principals are actively engaged. We begin an interdisciplinary collaboration with the construction team, engineers, consultants, and permitting authorities.

Establishing preliminary structural options, cost estimates, code requirements, and sustainability goals at this stage help to mitigate unwelcome surprises later on.

Construction documents contain all the information required by permitting authorities, lenders, and contractors for issuing building permits, appraising value, acquiring bids, and building the project.

We produce the project's technical plans, drawings, details, and specifications. We submit them to the permitting bodies and negotiate the necessary permits.

During construction we collaborate with the contractor and trades to answer questions, ensure construction is going according to plan, finalize details, resolve issues, and verify fabricator shop drawings.

We're with the project from design conception to the housewarming party (as prestigious guests of honor, of course). We'll bring the baked brie.