Our Process
Step 1: Design
Begin our process with a country drive to our model home display office and workshops in picturesque Bolton, CT, or virtually from the comfort of your home. Our expert staff will help determine the size, style, and floor plan of a home that best suits your family’s needs, lifestyle, and budget.
Preliminary design sketches and an itemized quote are then prepared for your Home Building Package, clearly outlining the labor and material responsibilities of Early New England Homes. With these documents and our “Understanding the Process” booklet, you can meet with a general contractor to obtain an estimate for complete construction costs.
Step 2: Preconstruction
With our engineered building plans, your GC/Builder will secure building permits and all necessary subcontractors. Early New England Homes will also supply comprehensive construction booklets such as “Construction Details,” “Fireplace & Chimney Details,” “Exterior Trim Details,” and “Finish Trim Details.”
Before construction begins, your GC/Builder will typically work with an engineer to develop an approved site plan outlining approximate locations and elevations of the proposed building(s), well, and septic. With permits in place, Early New England Homes and the GC/Builder will work closely to coordinate project logistics.
Step 3: Manufacture
In our workshops, we handcraft our unique pre-cut timbered ceiling and exterior wall studs and rafters. You can also choose to add some or all the custom handmade options for your house kit. This includes bead board trim, wide floorboards, hand-planed paneling, stairs and doors, hand forged hardware, and built ins.
Step 4: Delivery
Within New England and the greater New England area, we deliver our home building package in three separate shipments. This includes the option of our crew and crane to help your carpenters set the timbered ceiling system. For those outside our delivery range, we use a local broker to carry the home building package by tractor trailer in one shipment, which the GC/Builder is responsible for offloading.
Step 5: Build
By adhering to our engineered plans and construction booklets, professional home builders have the support necessary to achieve 100% satisfaction for our mutual customer. Early New England Homes hopes to achieve ongoing relationships with every builder and general contractor that contracts to assemble one of our home building packages. So, we encourage all questions and remain available for consultation throughout all stages of the construction process. You can also ask us about builder recommendations in your area.
“After a year of researching the style of the house that we wanted to build, we kept coming back to the cute picture of the red model cape in a local magazine and decided one Saturday to pay a visit to Bolton, Connecticut. When we walked through the kitchen door all we could do was sigh and say to ourselves ‘this is it … we’ve fallen in love with this house’. After touring the model with Bruce, we knew that no other company or plan would do.”
Mark and Mary Ann, Hillsdale NY
“I can’t even begin to tell you how thankful we are to have chosen Early New England Homes to build our new home. Every single craftsman and contractor who has worked on this project has been extraordinary. In today’s business culture it is not often one finds such an example of service excellence and pride of workmanship.”
Kim and Karl, Stafford CT
“We have been in our home two months now and are thrilled that the Early New England Homes model we saw in Bolton a year ago is now our home in Coventry, CT. It is the most relaxing and best home we’ve ever lived in. After becoming empty nesters, we searched throughout New England trying to find the perfect “historical” home that we would eventually retire in. Nothing seemed to fit our needs in size or the amount of work it would take to restore it. I [Sue] remember the day I was browsing Yankee Magazine and saw an advertisement for a 18th
century cape.”
Sue, Coventry CT
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