CUSTOM HOMES
Have you already designed it in your head?
Good. That's where every house starts. Every home standing today was designed around somebody else — their family, their habits, their idea of where the morning light should land. Yours gets to be designed around you: the room you'll be in every day, the view worth turning the house toward, the ceiling that should be higher than the rest.
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A PLACE TO STAY
Three furnished homes, for Forward clients only.
If you would rather not live through the dusty weeks, we have three furnished homes reserved for the families we build for: two a few miles from Ann Arbor and one on Gilletts Lake. Your Project Consultant lines up the dates with your schedule.
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THE HOMES
Four houses. No two alike.
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Modern Transitional Custom Home
A 4,500-square-foot custom home in the Ann Arbor Hills, built around the backyard view
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Year-Round Lake House in Pinckney
A year-round lake house in Pinckney, built from the ground up on the water
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Modern Farmhouse Custom Home
A modern farmhouse for a family of six, with a primary suite down and the kids upstairs
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Garage ADU in Burns Park, Ann Arbor
A detached garage ADU in Burns Park for music, family time, and overnight guests
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BLUE BIRCH INTERIORS
The final layer: integrated furnishings.
A new home isn't finished when construction ends. Through our in-house interior design service, Blue Birch Interiors, we offer complete furnishing and styling. Our designers can plan, procure, and install the perfect furniture, window treatments, and decor to complement the architecture, so the house feels like home the day you move in.
THE FORWARD DIFFERENCE
The land, the number, and the architect.
ON YOUR LOT
What this looks like on your lot.
A house shaped by the land it sits on — where the sun crosses, where the trees are, what you want to see out the kitchen window. Architecture and interior design together, from the site plan down to the cabinet pulls. Every room sized to what actually happens in it. Permits and township approvals handled. Built by our own project managers and carpenters, on land you already own or a lot we walk with you before you buy it.
A KNOWN NUMBER BEFORE WE START
Knowing the number is what makes you free to choose.
Design and budget move together here, from the first sketch. That isn't a restriction — it's what lets you decide well. When you know what something costs while you're still deciding, you can spend on the window that matters and put the money somewhere else where it doesn't. You'll see the whole scope and the whole number before anyone picks up a tool.
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ARCHITECT-LED
An architect is at the table from the first conversation.
Not consulting. Not reviewing drawings somebody else made. Designing — and still there when it gets built. That's what makes a house that could only be yours: someone thinking about proportion and light and how you move through a Tuesday morning, sitting with someone who knows exactly what it takes to frame it.