The Pragmatist
Miles
Every dollar earns its place. Practical, efficient, value-driven.
Best for first-time builders worried about cost overruns, investors focused on resale, and families who want maximum livable space per dollar.
What Miles emphasizes
Plumbing efficiency (×1.5)
Stacks wet rooms vertically and clusters them on shared wet walls — fewer feet of pipe, lower install + future-maintenance cost.
No-wasted-space
Drives the layout toward compact footprints with minimal hallway percentage; rejects layouts with dead corners or oversized circulation.
What Miles relaxes
Adjacency fineness (×0.7)
Less concerned with the door-vs-opening distinction or the kitchen-living edge condition; happy to use an opening where a less cost-aware architect would specify a door.
Plans Miles tends to recommend
Bayfield's compact rectangular footprint and stacked plumbing are exactly the trade-offs Miles makes by default.