Foursquare Design + Build

Measured, field-ready, and human.

We are a residential design-build company for homeowners who want the details handled and the reasoning made clear.

Close view beneath a deck showing the beam, posts, footings, guards, and house connection

Field detail · structure + house connection

Why design-build

Good ideas need someone to carry them into the field.

When design, estimating, selections, permitting, and construction are disconnected, homeowners are left translating between teams. Foursquare keeps those conversations together.

The goal is not simply a beautiful room. It is a room that can be priced, approved, ordered, built, and lived with, without losing the decisions that made it right for the home.

Raleigh
Durham
Chapel Hill
Cary
Apex
Morrisville

Show the work

Drawings, scope notes, material decisions, and site conditions are part of the client conversation.

Protect the home

Access, dust, shutdowns, cleanup, and communication are planned as deliberately as the finished details.

Close the loop

The same team carries decisions from the first walkthrough through inspections and punch list work.

Planning examples

A drawing should answer a field question.

These standalone examples show the kinds of decisions a project model resolves before work is released to trades or fabrication.

Architectural kitchen coordination model matched to the built room, with the range wall, sink below the window, refrigerator, island, lighting, and dining-room opening aligned to the finished kitchen — Kitchen · coordinated layout

Layout + utility coordination

Cabinet runs, appliances, sink location, ventilation, lighting, power, and working aisles are checked on the same geometry.

Measured plan
Cabinet elevations
Appliance clearances
Electrical + plumbing notes

Bathroom coordination drawing with shower, tub, window, vanity, and dimensions — Bathroom · wet-zone plan

Wet zone + fixture access

The waterproof envelope is resolved alongside valves, glass, ventilation, vanity storage, and usable clearances.

Fixture layout
Waterproofing limits
Glass + valve access
Lighting + ventilation

Deck coordination drawing showing the house, platform, rails, and central stair — Deck · structure + access

House connection + structure

The model relates doors and grade to the ledger, beams, posts, stairs, guards, and two usable gathering zones.

Site relationship
Footings + framing
Stair geometry
Guard + handrail details

Considering a renovation?

Start with what is not working.

Use the service guides to gather the conditions and questions that will shape a useful first conversation.

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