--- title: "Bienvenue au 41 Cordgrass Lane : votre plan de design sur 30 semaines" description: "Claire et Ben, voici le déroulé des 30 prochaines semaines : rencontrez votre équipe, découvrez les six premières semaines et suivez le chemin du lancement du 8 mars à l'emménagement d'octobre." canonical: "https://pr-110.preview.formlio.com/fr/documents/savannah-guide-daccueil-decoration-dinterieur" locale: "fr" type: "document" lastModified: "2026-11-08" alternates: en: "https://pr-110.preview.formlio.com/documents/savannah-interior-design-welcome-guide.md" --- # Bienvenue au 41 Cordgrass Lane : votre plan de design sur 30 semaines ## Welcome ### Claire, Ben, we're glad to be starting *Welcome · 41 Cordgrass Lane* This is how the next 30 weeks run. One thing from you first: the builder's latest electrical drawings, by Friday March 12. - Your lead: June Dupree - Kickoff: March 8, 2027 - Move-in: October 8, 2027 *Empty new-build living room with tall windows onto a salt marsh* *Dupree Ayers* ## What this is for A house for a family of four that works on a Tuesday morning and still feels like the marsh is part of the room. ## Your team ### Three people, and you'll know all of them We keep every project this small on purpose. Call whichever of us fits the question, or call June and she'll pass it on. ### June Dupree Founder and your design lead. June draws the scheme, runs every review and signs off anything that leaves the studio. ### Marcus Ayers Founder, specification and joinery. Marcus deals with Harlan Creek Builders on site, so you don't have to translate between us. ### Noor Haddad Project manager. Noor runs the live FF&E tracker, chases lead times and books every delivery. Invoices and dates go to her. ## The first weeks ### The first six weeks Nothing gets ordered in this stretch. It's where we learn how you actually live, so that later decisions are quick ones. ### 1. Kickoff at the house, March 8 Two hours walking the framed rooms with you and Harlan Creek. We'd bring the kids if you can. They notice things. ### 2. Site measure, March 10 Marcus laser-scans every room. The scan becomes the 3D model we use for all visuals, so nobody is guessing at ceiling heights. ### 3. Living questionnaire, by March 19 Twenty minutes each, separately. Couples answer differently about mornings and storage, and we want both versions. ### 4. Concept review, April 16 A VR walkthrough of the main rooms, finishes on screen and a sample box you can keep on the kitchen counter for a week. ## Programme ### Thirty weeks, and lead times set the pace Upholstery takes 14 weeks and the joinery shop 11, so your June sign-off is the date everything hangs from. A week late there is a week late in October. | Task | Start | End | Duration | Label | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Kickoff, site scan, questionnaire | 2027-03-08 | 2027-03-19 | 5 days | Brief | | Concept and VR walkthrough | 2027-03-22 | 2027-04-16 | 5 days | Concept | | Your review of the concept | 2027-04-19 | 2027-04-23 | 5 days | Concept | | Joinery, lighting and electrical plans | 2027-04-26 | 2027-05-21 | 5 days | Developed design | | FF&E schedule and finish schedule | 2027-05-24 | 2027-06-11 | 5 days | Specification | | Your order sign-off | 2027-06-14 | 2027-06-18 | 5 days | Specification | | Upholstery lead time, 14 weeks | 2027-06-21 | 2027-09-24 | 5 days | Procurement | | Joinery shop, 11 weeks | 2027-06-28 | 2027-09-10 | 5 days | Procurement | | Install week | 2027-09-27 | 2027-10-01 | 5 days | Installation | | Styling and snag list | 2027-10-04 | 2027-10-08 | 5 days | Installation | ## How we work ### How we'll work together The small print you signed, in plain words, plus the habits that aren't in any contract. ### Feedback and how long you get Every review has a date and a single link. You comment on the page, not over email, and we ask for one combined response from the two of you within five working days. If you disagree with each other, tell us. We'd rather help with that than get two sets of notes. ### Meetings and updates A 30 minute call every second Thursday at 8:30am until sign-off, then weekly once orders are moving. Noor sends a short written note after each one. The FF&E tracker is live, so you can see every item's status at any hour without asking. ### Files, samples and where things live Everything sits in your project link: drawings, 3D visuals, the finish schedule, the tracker. Physical samples come to you in one box and we collect it after concept sign-off. ### Invoices and the two separate budgets The design fee is $46,850, invoiced in three parts: $14,055 at kickoff, $18,740 at concept approval and $14,055 at order sign-off. Furniture and finishes are a separate budget of $186,000 to $214,000, including 10% contingency. Our procurement fee on that is 15%, and you'll see the net price of every line. ### If you change your mind after ordering Deposits on made-to-order pieces are usually 50% and rarely refundable. Before you sign off, we mark each line that can't be returned. After that, a change costs the deposit and restarts that item's lead time. ### Photographs of the finished house We keep the right to photograph the house when it's finished, and we'll agree the day with you. No street address and no family photos, ever, unless you ask. ## What we need ### What we need from you, and by when Three things in March. None takes longer than an evening, and the electrical drawings hold up everything else. ### Electrical drawings, March 12 Harlan Creek closes the walls in April. Send the current set so June can move outlets and lighting while it still costs nothing. *Electrical conduit running through open stud walls* ### What's staying, March 19 Photos and sizes of what's coming with you: the piano, the long table, any art. We plan around those first. *Upright piano against a pale wall* ### Appliance choices, March 26 Your kitchen supplier needs model numbers before Marcus can draw the joinery around them. A shortlist of two is fine. *Pale oak kitchen joinery with an integrated oven* ## Acknowledge ### One small sign-off to get going This isn't a new contract. It tells us you've seen the dates and the working terms, so we can book the site scan with Harlan Creek. Please confirm by Thursday March 4. ### Prepared by **June Dupree** Founder, Dupree Ayers 18 Tattnall Row, Savannah, GA 31401 june@dupreeayers.com ### For acknowledgement by **Claire and Ben Aldana** 41 Cordgrass Lane, Skidaway Island If you'd rather talk first, June has held Friday March 5 at 4pm for a call. ### We've read this and we're in By confirming, you acknowledge the working terms above and the March 8 kickoff at 41 Cordgrass Lane. Noor will issue the first invoice for $14,055 and send your project link. It changes nothing in the contract you signed.