Architect

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Originally Posted by TheProfessor

This is an attached garage. Not a fancy home or fancy home addition.
Basically doors and windows. The siding can match the house. The windows, if chosen, can match the house.

Come on now.

An architect certainly can make/draw some pretty colored CAD renderings.

But really. A garage. With one, two, or three doors. Ain't no rocket science.

A half hour of builders/carpenter time for drawing/renderings or $3,000 plus/minus of pretty architect renderings.

The choice is the homeowners. If they have the funds and colored pretty CAD drawings would make them happier. Well . . . then hire an architect.

All I'm saying is that I know people who have added on to their homes and made mistakes that an architect almost certainly would have prevented.

Given the costs to build today, and given the long-term impact on use, maintenance, and resale, I think it makes absolute sense to consider consulting an architect*.

*The assumption here, of course, is that the OP has a home that's worth going this route. If we're taking about a circa 1970's split level that only needs a matched roofline and similar siding/trim/doors/windows, that's different. Since the OP is asking, I assume that there's a style, application, usage needs, etc. to match/meet that an architect would add value to.

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