Fine Line CAD Home Design

We had a great experience working with Sandra. She took our idea of a major home renovation (inclusive of tearing off the roof) and made it a reality. She has great attention to detail and was a true pleasure to work with.

Sandra is a professional in her line Of work & works well with my Clients designing plans and handling all the permit procedures as well..

It's not often that a firm thinks through your problem and then recommends a less expensive remedy, not using their services. Please know that Sandra did just that...and her solution and recommendations made much more sense. I appreciated her help, her thought, and her forthright way of laying out anticipated costs. She then spent some time to send me to people she trusted to do good work. So, this is a recommendation for an honest analysis. And, that she came highly recommended to me by others who had actual work done by her firm.

Sandra was very helpful and super easy to work with! Great ideas and a open mind. I would recommend her to anyone re-designing/building. Very reliable and just a great person to be around. If i have any other project, i will definitely use her again! Thank you so much Sandra!

We had a great experience working with Sandra. She was friendly, attentive to what we wanted and very knowledgeable. She designed a wonderful house and we love it!

Sandra was amazing to work with. She designed an addition space for my mother-in-law that is wonderful in every way. Not only does the addition look original to the house, it is precisely what Mom was hoping for. Every little detail was considered. During the design process, we had many questions (rookies!), but that didn’t bother Sandra one bit. She was patient, kind, answered every question and made our experience wonderful. I would definitely recommend Sandra and Fine Line CAD.

I am very happy to share that we are extremely pleased with your house design plans created by Sandra at Fine Line CAD Home Design. She did an amazing job taking our house design ideas and making them into reality on paper. Sandra is super nice and was very attentive to our thoughts. Sandra and her team made it seem so easy. Thank you so much!!!! We absolutely LOVE our NEW HOME:)

We were so blessed to have found Sandra! Our contractor recommended her to us and we could not be happier! We have dreamed of adding on to our home for eight years. During that time I constantly struggled with how we could add on to our home and have it “not look like an addition” we have a very open floor plan to begin with so I knew it would be tricky. Sandra had so many ideas from the start and was such a pleasure to work with. Sandra’s design added a bedroom, moved our kitchen, added a bathroom gave the front of our home a facelift and added a large covered deck on the back. She was great working with our budget and was always very thorough and quick to answer any questions. We absolutely love our home! I never dreamed our house would fit together so perfectly. Thank you Sandra and your team for turning our dreams into a reality. Much love the Norman’s (Wish I could add more then 4 pictures )

The first time we met with Sandra, we knew she was the one to help us bring our 1970's home up to date. She was able to see how amazing the house could be. Sandra was easy to work with, and was open to our input and suggestions. The end result is amazing! We love our home and know that it never could have looked this wonderful without Sandra. I would recommend her to anyone!

My wife and I purchased a parcel of land in 2004 with a dream of building a vacation / retirement home someday. I felt that with my engineering background I might be able to do a preliminary design of our house, incorporating nature and potential views at the building site we had purchased. Fast forward over 10 years of life, it became apparent we needed help. We live and work in the SF Bay area and just didn’t have the time and knowledge to do the project properly. In the process of purchasing the property we had used a local surveyor to verify lot lines. The initial surveyor referred me to small firm that specialized in Topographical Surveys. He completed a very accurate & professional Topographical Plot with state of the art equipment. I was very impressed with his work and ask for advice on how to proceed and who he might recommend with the abilities & talents we were looking for to help us move the project along. He immediately recommended Sandra & Fine Line CAD Home Design. As colleagues, they had worked together on many projects and he felt Sandra was a good match for us and our project. We eventually contacted Sandra and met with her at the property. A lot of information was exchanged between us and we decided to work with Sandra and Fine Line CAD Home Design do the project. She ask us to define what we wanted and expected in the house to best meet our desires. We made a list of everything we wanted, such as architectural style, square footage, number of bedrooms, mud room, single level living space, three car garage and such. She and her team followed up shortly with a preliminary floor plan by email which basically accomplished everything we had ask for. Everything seemed to be in the proper place and it all fit well into the build site and nature. Except for a few additions and improvements suggested by Sandra and her team, and a few dimensional changes. That initial floor plan remains primarily unchanged to this day. The exterior roof line, architectural style, changed to a some degree due to solar system changes. This took no more than a few moments on the CAD system. We accepted the preliminary design at that point. They went back to work to complete the plans with all the details, the engineering review phase and getting ready for submission to permitting. The County Planning Dept. required some minor detail updates and a few very small changes, overall the process went very well with the help of Sandra and the team. By this time I realized we should have already been working to find a builder to be able to continue moving ahead with the project. We went back to Sandra for referrals for builders she had worked with that she felt were a good match to work on this project and work with us. We did pick one of her referrals for our builder and have worked with him for most of the last year on the project with great results. It has been during this time that we have begun to understand the value of the Fine Line Team. Her network of very capable colleagues have contributed to the project in their own specialties with great results. Our builder has worked with Sandra throughout the project along with all the other subs with very pleasing results to this point. Although the project is still ongoing, we are nearing completion. We have found the process of building the house, from our perspective, more intense than I expected. A lot of decisions need to be made, research needs to be done and choices need to be decided. The experience of all the people involved has been valuable, without their input we may have given up. The reason we are building this house is to get what we want on a beautiful piece of property. We think we are almost there.

Working with Sandra was a pleasure! We gave her several different home styles we liked and she was able to design our home using the high points from each design. She really incorporated what was important to us. Every time I look at the house I am amazed that this is my home! 2792 Scenic Cir Camino CA

About me, I am a general building contractor, have many decades of work experience and have designed and built many homes in my career. Sandra and her team at Fine Line CAD Home Design are by far the best design team I have worked with and here are the reasons everyone should use this firm for their construction related project: •They get construction from a builder’s point of view. Builders try to use materials efficiently to minimize waste and costs to the client. Efficient design is critical to keeping costs down. Fine Line CAD Home Design does this very effectively. They understand and use up to date materials that will make it cost effective to build, materials that will last for many decades if not centuries. As an older builder I make it a priority to use materials that will last. Their use of steel roofing, steel siding, cement composite sidings and stucco to name a few are examples of how they try to give their best to their clients. •Creativity is a must in today’s construction market and they get an A+. Exterior designs pleasing to the eye with all of the knowledge to bring you into a modern clerestory or a vintage look from the past, all made to fit the client and the environment; taking into account local views, terrain, vegetation, slope and solar orientation. At the same time the interiors are well thought out and they are up to date on creating a floor plan that you will be comfortable in and very proud of for as long as you live in it. •Teamwork, they are connected to a team of other professionals that are part of their team and are as amazing to work with as Sandra’s team is. She knows who to put where and when. •Most design firms just want to design, give you a set of plans and move on. Not Sandra. I am amazed at how she and the team pursue excellence. Once you get your design and plans, she follows up regularly to make sure your project is progressing and always wants feedback on how to make things more efficient, something you just don’t find much anymore. In summary, I hope this information is beneficial in providing you with some of the information you need to select the right design firm. I cannot speak highly enough of Fine Line CAD Home Design.