No. 01 Ridge House · De Luz · 3,900 sq ft
15 months planned, 15½ delivered. $2.18M contract, $2.21M final.
Design-build with one fixed price after design, on lots and acreage in Temecula, Murrieta and De Luz.
4.9 · 87 reviews · CSLB B · since 2006
Every label ends the same way: what we said it would take, and what it took.
Months read planned → delivered. Budget reads contract → final.
Nineteen more in the book.
Ask to see it at the design center.
A real-looking 4.8-acre parcel in De Luz. Put a house on it and see what the land adds.
Planning range
$1.94M to $2.52M
18 to 22 months, design to keys Design and permits 6 to 8, build 12 to 14
Planning ranges from a demo builder, not a quote.
Sent. Check your inbox for the guide and your lot study.
A 3,600 sq ft home on a gentle lot, month by month. Hillside lots add one to three months, mostly in permits and grading.
Fixed price signed at the end of month 6.
The model home is open this Saturday. Come see how the rooms feel before you draw your own.
11 AM to 3 PM
Walk the finished rooms, open the cabinets, ask Owen anything.
31780 Vineyard Rise Ct, Temecula
5 to 7 PM
Samples on the table with Priya, and what each choice does to the budget.
31780 Vineyard Rise Ct, Temecula
4:30 to 6:30 PM
A hillside home at dusk, and what its site work cost.
Address sent after RSVP12 guests
9 to 10:30 AM
What to check before you buy: slope, access, septic, water, fire zone.
A De Luz parcel20 guests
Design center appointments, Saturdays 10 to 2. Book a Saturday visit
We added the wine room at framing. The price was in writing that same week, before anyone cut a board.
Dana's Friday call was the most reliable thing in our lives that year.
We lost a month to the transformer. Owen told us the day he found out, not the day it cost us.
For the house itself, most custom homes in the Temecula Valley run $400 to $780 per square foot, depending on the finish level. A 3,600 sq ft one-story at a custom finish usually comes to about $1.7M to $2.2M. Site work on acreage adds roughly $90K to $400K: grading, septic, utilities, the driveway and fire-code upgrades. You get a planning range at the first meeting and one fixed price once the design is done.
Usually, yes. Most of our homes are on owners' land in De Luz, La Cresta, the Santa Rosa Plateau and Temecula Wine Country. Before you commit, we walk the lot with you, check slope, access, septic, water, fire zone and the county's wine country rules, and tell you in writing what the site will add. The site walk is free.
Plan on 16 to 22 months from the first meeting to the keys. Design, engineering and permits take 6 to 8 months. Construction takes 11 to 16 months for most homes, and longer on steep hillside lots or above 5,000 sq ft.
Almost always septic, outside city sewer. Most De Luz and wine country parcels use a septic system, typically $38K to $62K installed, designed to Riverside County's rules. Many parcels have water district service; if yours does not, a well usually runs $40K to $90K depending on depth. We check both on the site walk.
Once your plans, engineering and finish selections are complete, we sign one price for the whole build: labor, materials, the site work we have surveyed, permits and our fee. It only changes if you change the design, or if we hit something no survey could show, like buried rock. Every change is priced in writing before work continues.
Yes. We work with three construction-to-permanent lenders and send them the budget, schedule and draw plan they ask for. You pay by milestone after each inspection, never ahead of the work.
Yes. Before you buy, we walk the parcel with you and your agent and give you a written feasibility note: buildable area, slope, access, septic, fire zone and a site-work range. It is free if you build with us, and $750 if you do not.
Answer four questions and the label fills in. Dana Whitcomb calls or texts you within one business day.
An empty frame. Your house goes here.
