Value Engineering is a key for us at McMahon Architects. If you want to have your home published in a top design magazine, plan on spending more than $1200/sq. ft. to reach the ultimate level of perfection. If your budget and common sense dictate a more conservative approach to constructing your dream home or addition, we are the premier experts at getting clients 90% of the bang for about 40% of the cost. Ultimate perfection doubles and triples the construction costs.As architects and contractors (though we don't do the building) we know what minor details bust the budget.Specialties: Example: You may want a 23x23 room addition. But would you still want it if you knew a 21x25 room would save you $40K by eliminating steel framing? We tell you up front what can save money without compromising quality design. Other architects without a strong construction background would simply not know this...and you would never know that you could have saved a bundle.