The Design Phase

From Vision to Precision.

Designing Your
WoodLock Home

Every WoodLock Home begins with one essential question:

“How do you want to live?”

We turn that answer into a structure engineered, efficient, and beautiful.

At WoodLock Homes, we combine architectural creativity with engineered precision. Whether you select a pre-designed model or create something entirely your own, our process ensures that your home reflects both your personal vision and our proven laminated timber technology.

Your Options

You can start in one of two ways:

Customize a WoodLock Model

Choose a proven layout and modify it for your
lifestyle and site.

Bring Your Own Design

Our engineers will adapt your plan into a fully
engineered laminated timber system, ready for
fabrication and shipment.

Our design and structural partners are licensed across all 50 states, ensuring code-compliant, stamped
engineered drawings wherever you build.

Unlimited Design Possibilities

From mountain-view retreats to coastal rebuilds and urban ADUs, your home can take on any scale, size, or style.
Our partner mills have produced more than 2,600 laminated timber structures worldwide, ranging from compact cabins to affordable luxury multi-level homes.

Your imagination defines the form our engineering ensures the performance.

Our Process

Define Your Spaces

Start with room sizes and flow. Think about how you live how cooking, gathering, and privacy interact.
 Do you envision an open kitchen connected to the dining space?
 A sheltered deck for evening fires?
 A bright studio with mountain views?
 Your floor plan should reflect your life, not just your layout.

Orient and Optimize

Your home’s placement matters as much as its shape.
 We help align your design for sunlight, shade, and views integrating natural heating, cooling, and biophilic comfort.
 Orientation and window placement can improve both energy performance and daily experience.

Choose Your Timber Style

WoodLock offers multiple laminated timber profiles and finishes to match your vision from smooth, modern flat panels to architectural Cedar wraps.
 We help you select the ideal balance of Pine and Cedar, fire-rated coatings, and connection details for your climate zone and design goals.

Plan for Energy & Systems

Our design engineers integrate heating, ventilation, and solar-ready components directly into your structure’s layout.
 From radiant floors to solar roof integration, we ensure your home performs as efficiently as it looks whether your goal is low-energy living or full net-zero readiness.

Budget & Timeline

Your design is only as strong as its planning.
 We work transparently with your financial and project parameters to create a clear build timeline and cost map.
 With decades of experience, our planning team helps you balance scope, speed, and finish without hidden surprises.

Collaborate Visually

We encourage clients to use Pinterest boards, sketches, and reference imagery to share aesthetic ideas.
 The more inspiration you provide, the better our design team can visualize and engineer your vision.
 Don’t worry about drawing skill just express what matters to you.

Submit your sketch or designfor a complimentary engineering review today

WoodLock Homes Built from Experience. Designed for the Future.