Micasa Design + Drafting Services

Micasa offers competitive estimates for personalized home visits to discuss your design needs, or you can visit us at our downtown San Jose Office at Suite 10101 W. San Carlos Street for up to an hour with no obligation. We offer competitive estimates for Drafting Services, Residential Design, and Permitting Consultation. Your investment in our full service offerings from the initil consultation, to the drawing board, and ultimately the municipal permit will help reduce the overall cost, particularly when purchased in advance. Blocks of time to complete your project design & permitting in stages, albeit at separate hourly rates, are also available. Prices are subject to change without notice.

We invite you to stop by our downtown San Jose studio to learn more about our services and view our portfolio. Please be prepared to bring photos of the spaces in your home you seek to redesign, or other images from magazines or the internet of how you would like to inprove your home, to help provide an idea of the design changes you are interested in. In the meantime, here is a summary of our Micasa Design & Development services.

Drafting Services

Micasa provides complete drafting services using AutoCad, Chief Architect, Sketch-Up, and other programs to produce drawings for clients with their own conceptual designs in mind. Micasa also prepares drawings of existing and as-built conditions, and construction drawings depending on project needs. These drawings may include plan views and elevations for any element of your property design, in a variety of print sizes, for your contractor to provide more accurate construction bids.

Our goal is to provide you as complete a set of plans as we can to minimize change orders in the field.

Residential Design

For those clients who need complete Residential Design services, the process begins with a conceptual design meeting on-site whereby the Designer produces hand-sketches of ideas for you to visualize the new design. Once a design concept is chosen, measurements of the existing structures are then made to produce base drawings for the project using computer-aided design software. Various revisions of the design may then take place as the drawings are produced and as structural requirements dictate. Ultimately, various prints of plan views, elevations, sections, and construction drawings can be produced for your contractor to use and for submittal to your local municipality for permitting.

Permitting Consultation

The final stages of design implementation often requires obtaining permits from your local municipality before construction can begin. Micasa Design can assist with submittal in this often complicated process. This includes printing of the requisite drawings requested by the specific municipality, hand-delivery of drawings, interpretation of drawings and designs for both city planners and contractors at the time of submittal, and compliance with change-orders issued by the municipality. As your liason with the municipality, Micasa Design can help facilitate timely issuance of permits.