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Home Designs

Creative. Intuitive. Practical.

Calgary’s Most Experienced Home Designers

Live in your dream home with New Century Design. As award-winning home designers in Calgary, our visionary approach to intuitive, forward-thinking designs instantly elevates your lifestyle while enhancing your home’s quality, functionality and value. Embrace the versatility and imagination you deserve with our innovative and collaborative design experience.

Our Design Expertise

Inner City Homes

Multi-Family Residences

Estate
Homes

Acreage Homes

Vacation Homes

Let’s Bring Your Dream Home to Life

Just What You Need

Life is Better with a
Custom Home Design

Live in a home that’s made for the most important person: you. At New Century Design, our approach to home design isn’t to cookie-cutter the latest trends and supplant them into your layouts. We’re about individuality and uniqueness, and nothing epitomizes that more than your lifestyle. Our team will strive to understand what you want in a home, both functionally and aesthetically, and build on them. Our Calgary home designers will form and fit creative designs that are made for your lifestyle.

See For Yourself

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custom designed projects completed over the last 15 years

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years of combined experience as custom home designers in Calgary

We create designs around your unique lifestyle

Tell Us About Your Dream Home & We’ll Make It A Reality

We offer a quick turnaround with open communication

We set the benchmark for creative home designs in Alberta

We have extensive knowledge in acquiring permits

Our attention to detail & eye for innovation are second to none

"Our company has worked with Shawn and his team at New Century design on many projects. His depth of knowledge and detail is experienced in each project he completes. If you're looking for experience, you've come to the right place. We have nothing but great things to say about New Century Design. You'll be happy you called them first."

"Shawn and his team are great to work with. They are very professional, very attentive and have great ideas. We are doing an extensive reno on the family cabin that has been in the family for generations. I am grateful to have found the right person for the job."

"Great to work with and get things done. New Century came into a project where another vendor didn't think the discretionary items we wanted to build would get approved. They got all of our discretionary build items, and we got a rear attached garage in an infill. We have referred friends to them who used them and were also happy. We will use them again for future projects."

"We are so very pleased with our experience with Shawn. He's very knowledgeable and helped us achieve a house plan that met our vision and needs. He had great tools to help envision our home, which was so valuable in the design process. The end product was just what we were looking for."

"We hired Shawn a year ago, and we weren't sure what we were even going to do with the house. Shawn's 3D technology and his creative knowledge helped us design a beautiful new addition to our home along with a new roofline. It allowed us to have the visual so that our contractor and ourselves were all on the same page. We would highly recommend New Century Design."

What We Do

Designs

Design is where every project begins. By continuously collaborating with you, we set about creating drafts that represent your ideal home, highlighting both functionality and aesthetic appeals. We use advanced design software that allows us to create detailed 3D renderings, design massings, and interactive floor plans that provide you with a clear insight into how we’ll merge your home, lifestyle and needs into one innovative design.

Construction Documents

For us, constructing your dream home means providing your builders with immaculate, accurate and detailed documents that streamline the construction. Our finalized construction drawings contain the essentials of your design: power source locations, ceiling and floor plans, contemporary features, specifications for size and space, and all other essentials. Most importantly, it highlights the relationship of how all these features sync together to create your unique home.

Permitting & Approvals

Putting together permits and applications for land use upgrades, developments and infills can be complex, time-consuming and overly detailed, considering the pinpoint information required. We mitigate all these hassles by assisting you with all residential permit applications. Our expertise and knowledge on getting building permits successfully accepted means we simplify your construction process, making it easier to build the home you want.

Site Assessments

Every custom home design starts with a site assessment. They’re crucial to understanding the parameters, land use requirements and allowances, and potential challenges, such as slope stability, streetscape compatibility and access problems we face when designing. Gathering these preliminary measurements and details allows us to get an accurate understanding of what we’re working on and how we can create a design that works for you and your family.

Our 4-Step Custom Design Process

1. Introduction

Contact us via phone or email to set up an initial consultation. During this session, we’ll converse about your vision, lifestyles and needs, while simultaneously setting up a site visit, allowing us to work within your home’s opportunities and limitations, be it in Canmore or the Columbia Valley.

2. Layout Design

We commence your design by putting your vision onto paper, showcasing how we’ll merge your home and ideas. We will pause, reflect, and communicate throughout this entire stage to ensure we are heading in the right direction.

3. Exterior Design

Using detailed 3D models and images, we help you visualize your home’s exterior, finalizing the concept until you’re happy. Working within Community Guidelines or City Bylaws, we’ll ensure your design meets any restrictive requirements while still adhering to your vision.

4. Permit Drawings

As we finalize the construction documents, we will begin filing permit and development applications with the respective authorities. Upon approval, we will coordinate with you and your builders, handing off the essential documents, so your builders can proceed with your construction.