Design my home.
Start with how you live. Develop a custom home with thoughtful spaces, intentional architecture, and construction practicality.
Explore custom designHomes designed around real life
More thought in
every square foot.
Custom home design and thoughtful plan improvement, shaped around how you live—and how your home will be built.
Begin with your everyday
Based on the Farris Builds design visualization
01 / THE HUMAN DETAIL
A porch isn’t just covered area.
It’s the pause before coming home.
01 / Begin with the way you live
Designed for
your everyday.
Groceries coming in. Friends staying late. A quiet place to recharge. A thoughtful plan makes room for all of it. Choose a moment to explore.
The question behind the line
Where do the bags land?
From the car to the pantry: consider the doors, the distance, and a place to set things down.
Illustrative diagram only. Not a Farris project, proposed plan, or technical drawing.
02 / Choose your direction
Improve my plan.
Take a closer look before you build. Review, optimize, redesign, or redevelop an existing plan around your priorities.
Explore plan improvementSpend the thought before the materials
Every line
has a reason.
We consider circulation, room relationships, storage, daylight, and exterior composition together. Construction experience helps keep the conversation grounded in buildability and the choices that matter to you.
How we work03 / Selected residential designs
Different lives.
Individual homes.
Residential design visualization
Grove
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
A residential design study exploring a compact footprint and everyday living.
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Residential design visualization
Willow
Middle Tennessee
A smaller-home design study with a welcoming porch and a straightforward form.
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Residential design visualization
Denali
Lebanon, Tennessee
A contemporary residential design study with an emphasis on exterior composition.
Explore the designDesign visualizations show design intent, not completed construction. Willow and Denali use AI-assisted editorial edits; original project information is linked through Farris Builds.
A useful first question
Is your plan
optimized?
Explore your routines, priorities and spaces through Farris Lifestyle Fit. Start a new home or compare an existing plan—and leave with a personal design brief.
Explore your planFrom the drawing office
Field Notes.
Follow your everyday routes
Start with groceries, laundry, guests, and the ordinary paths through your home.
Read the noteMake square footage earn its place
Look beyond room sizes to furniture, circulation, storage, and useful connections.
Read the noteBefore you send a plan for review
A short checklist to make your first plan conversation more useful.
Read the noteA thoughtful place to begin
Let’s make room
for your life.
A new home, an existing plan, or a question worth exploring.
Start a conversation