Design Partnership for
Custom Home Builders
Design bottlenecks kill timelines. When your in-house capacity maxes out, permit delays stack up and clients get frustrated. Kelli Smith Home Designs has been the outsourced design partner for OKC builders for over 30 years — handling the drawings so you can keep building.
Talk to Kelli About a PartnershipWhy builders outsource design work to Oklahoma City specialists
When design work backs up, your crews sit idle. Outsourcing to Kelli means drawings move in parallel with site prep — not sequentially.
Incomplete or non-compliant drawings trigger rejection cycles. Kelli's 30-year track record with Oklahoma permitting offices means first-pass approvals.
Full-time designers carry overhead year-round, even in slow seasons. A partnership with Kelli scales with your project load — pay per plan, not per salary.
How the partnership works
Share the lot specs, client requirements, square footage, and any reference plans. Email or a 15-minute call is all it takes.
Kelli produces a complete CAD floor plan draft. Residential designer for builders OKC — no handoffs, no delays, no third-party lag.
Two included revision rounds. Changes are turned same-day. Builder feedback is implemented, not interpreted by a junior designer.
Final deliverables include permit-ready CAD, elevation drawings, and all construction documents. Formatted for Oklahoma City permitting.
The trusted name for outsourced home design in Oklahoma
Builders searching for ways to outsource home design Oklahoma need more than a freelancer — they need a partner who understands OKC soil conditions, local building codes, and the permit process inside-out.
Kelli Smith has spent three decades as the go-to residential designer for builders OKC relies on. From spec homes in Edmond to luxury custom builds in Nichols Hills, her plans have gone through permitting cleanly hundreds of times.
Whether you need one plan or a pipeline of designs running in parallel, the process is the same: fast, clean, permit-ready.
- 30+ years of Oklahoma residential design — deep familiarity with OKC permitting requirements and local building codes
- Direct communication with Kelli on every project — no junior designers, no project managers in the way
- Per-project pricing — no retainers, no overhead, no commitments beyond the current plan
- Handles capacity overflows — scale up without the hiring risk
- Full deliverable package: floor plans, elevations, sections, and permit-ready construction documents
Ready to clear the design bottleneck?
Tell Kelli about your current project load and she'll respond within 24 hours with pricing and availability.