Customer Story - Marnie Marr
We recently built a very large fully custom home on an acreage with McKee. This is our dream home and we needed it to be perfect. We looked at a lot of custom builders and ended up choosing McKee for their professionalism and experience. We're SO glad that we did!
Prior to hiring McKee, we had gotten a drafting company to try to design our home. We spent many thousands of dollars and many months trying to get a design together. We had very specific requirements and wanted a mid-century style. Working with the drafting company was extremely frustrating, expensive, and never did work out with a buildable set of plans. We had to start fresh with a new design.
We had built a custom home with McKee in 2008 and had found Grace's design skills to be terrific so we went back to Grace and asked her to design this new house too. Her very first set of drawings were pretty much exactly what we wanted! She listened, understood, and drew it up perfectly - it was like she could see inside my head but better than I could have done it! She has a unique sense of what's functional but also beautiful. She completely understood the mid-century aesthetic and did a bunch of research on special details to include in our home. She also told us about what she viewed as 'must haves' in a high end home and what we may be able to skip to save on the cost. Her guidance was absolutely amazing and I guarantee we wouldn't have gotten such a spectacular home without her input.
The building process was long but that's normal in this type of project. McKee's communication was fantastic throughout and they were on top of the trades to ensure quality work at every turn. We did have some issues once we moved in, which is understandable in a custom home like this which presents a lot of unique challenges in building. As much as it's very frustrating dealing with trades coming into our home to fix things, I have to commend McKee on making sure that everything has been properly fixed and that the trades all complete their work to a very high standard. They never made us feel bad about being picky - they understood that this is a once-in-a-lifetime house for us and supported us in that the whole way.
It's a very stressful thing to entrust a builder with this sort of project - it's a huge financial outlay and the stress to get it perfect is intense. McKee gave us peace of mind and I'd recommend them to anyone looking to build a high end custom home. Thanks to everyone at McKee who has helped us so much (Thanks especially to Grace, Mike, Tiffany, Elaine, Clark, and Andy)!