3D renderings of your renovation, before anything is built.

Every model starts with the real house. We measure the rooms, the openings, the ceiling heights and the things that constrain a design: the chimney in the way, the stair that can't move, the beam over the kitchen. That becomes a 3D model of the existing house, and the new work is designed inside it, so an addition meets the real roof and a kitchen fits between the real windows.

From the model come plans, elevations and views, and we render the views that matter to you: the kitchen from the family room, the addition from the yard, the shower from the bath door. The drawings and the proposal are checked against the same model, so the rendering, the drawing and the price describe the same project.

Each design moves through three looks. The line drawing is geometry: walls, rooflines, window sizes and trim, the way a drafting set shows it. The clay model is the same geometry with every material stripped away, so you judge massing, proportion and how light falls across it without being swayed by a pretty finish. The rendering adds the materials and the light: the shingles, the paint color, the stone, the way the room looks at four in the afternoon.

Seeing all three keeps the conversation honest. People fall for renderings. The clay view tells you whether the shape is right on its own, and the line drawing is what the builder actually builds from. The comparison in the Design Studio section below holds the camera still and wipes between the stages.

A rendering is only useful if it shows what will be installed. We coordinate selections with the drawings: the cabinet layout in the rendering matches the cabinet drawings, the tile pattern matches the tile plan, the vanity is the vanity we're pricing. Our rule is simple. The renderings have to agree with the drawings, and when they don't, the rendering gets fixed.

That is also where allowances become real. If you're choosing between a soapstone and a marble counter, or painted and stained cabinets, we can render both and price both, so the decision is made with the cost in view.

Exterior work is where renderings pay for themselves fastest, because the decisions are big and hard to undo. Is the new gable taller than the old one? Does the dormer line up with the windows below it? Will a two-story addition crowd the original house from the street? A clay view answers those before anyone argues about shingle color.

We render the house from where people actually see it: the sidewalk, the driveway, the back lawn, the neighbor's side if setbacks are tight. On a coastal lot we render it from the water side too. We test trim details at a real scale: corner boards, the depth of an eave, the size of a window casing. Those small dimensions decide whether an addition looks original or added, and they are easy to get right on a screen and expensive to change once the siding is up.

Many change orders in a renovation aren't surprises behind the walls. They're decisions made late: the window that sits too low once the framing is up, the island that crowds the walkway, the tile that reads too busy across a full wall. Each one costs more once it's built.

Rendering moves those decisions into design, when changing your mind means a new view on the screen. It doesn't end change orders; old houses still hide things, and some choices only settle in person. It removes the ones that come from not being able to picture the room. Our guide to 3D renderings before you build walks through it with examples.

A rendering is a design preview. It is not a photograph and not a promise of an exact color. Screens shift color, natural stone and wood vary from slab to slab and board to board, and a rendered sky is always kinder than a February one. We use renderings to settle layout, proportion, materials and mood, and we confirm final colors and finishes with physical samples in your house's own light.

Every rendering on this site is labeled as a concept rendering. They show the kind of design work we do before building, not finished Penney projects. Our real jobs are listed by town, without names or addresses, further down this page.

3D design is part of how we work as a design-build contractor, not a separate product. It sits between the walkthrough and the proposal: we walk the house, model it, render the options and price what you choose. It earns its keep where the decisions are visual and many: additions that have to meet an old roof, kitchens, primary baths, ADUs and carriage houses, porches that change the back of the house, and lower levels where headroom and light need planning.

Renderings also help outside the family. Neighbors, zoning boards and historic district commissions understand a rendered view faster than an elevation. Once construction starts, your selections and drawings sit in your client portal next to the schedule and the daily photos.