If you bill yourself as a "design-build"
company, you're probably asked not
only to design new houses from the
ground up, but also to make modifications
to plans customers bring into
your office. These "stock" house plans
often need tweaking to comply with
your local code — changing the foundation
type, making the stairs longer,
or moving the garage doors off the
street. You may also see lots of pages
torn out of plan books, with customers
asking you to incorporate this or that
detail from one plan into another. You
might even be asked to draw up a set of
plans from scratch based on a photograph
or floor plan a customer has
clipped out of