Our method
Our method & our team
We provide a wide range of professional services to meet your needs. We promise to provide every service with a smile, and to your highest level of satisfaction.
Free Designer Consultation Service
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We will meet with you in your home, take measurements, pictures and set up with the directions of your projects and goals
Design only
From first schematic sketches
and 3D rendering,
to full set of Construction drawings, with or without Permit filing
Design Build Construction Management
We are partnering since over 10 years with some Contractors and Design Builder, from Greenwich, to White plains, Manhattan or Waterbury.
Our method & our team
L' Architecte transforms the client's home remodeling ideas and vision for their home into a structurally sound and affordable home remodeling project using a rapid personal design method.
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Then, the project manager/general contractor will verify the home remodeling plans and confirm the budget for the home remodeling project in accordance to the client's needs and esthetics within
the value engineering approach.
Our home remodeling design services included:
Existing survey and design goal assessment
1 story, 2 story addition or complete home remodel
- Bathroom remodeling and renovations
- Kitchen remodeling and renovations
- Dining room remodeling
- Family room remodeling and renovations
- Built-ins, home office, basement remodel
- Deck, pool and garden designs
- Eco insulations and solar technologies
- Process Snapshot
Week 1 In-Home Designer Consultation
(free of charge)
- Introductions
- Measurements taken for home remodeling project
- On site, existing conditions sketch
- Digital pictures
- Remodeling design direction discussed
- Property analysis and survey
Week 1-2 Second meeting
(low, flat fee)
- Design review and adjustments
- Budget approach and discussion
- Project manager meeting set up
Week 3-4 Project Manager/General Contractor Meeting
- Specs and design review
- Take off document review
- Construction schedule established
Week 6-7 Design BUILD Contract Meeting
- Design finalized
- Budget finalized
- Specs and fixture shopping schedule established
- Building schedule finalized
- Web-portal opens
OR
Design BID contract meeting
Project division- Multi trade Contract
Take off documents finalized and budgeted
Client proceeds forward with his purchased designs and permits
To schedule a free consultation regarding your home remodeling project with one of our designers, please contact us.
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We want to know your needs exactly so that we can provide the perfect solution. Let us know what you want and we’ll do our best to help.
Originally named, Schema LLC, STREAM design is an acronym for Solutions To Remodel Engineer and Manage, it refers to the concept of placing the client in direct control of a design build process. Stream will assist the customer with contracted labor and material selection.
The use of a web portal is the latest tool which assures STREAM’s competitive edge in the home remodeling market.
The head designer, Alain Caren works in the residential tri-state area for the last 15 years.
He has managed a portfolio of over 300 projects, with yearly average turnover valued between $1.5 and $2 million.
This original approach comes from Alain’s unique background. Originally, from the French Riviera, he joins the family construction business very early. Originally founded by his grandfather in 1890, Alain gained experience and by 1983 he graduated as "Architecte DPLG" and went on to design custom-built villas and apartment complexes which blended
with the natural settings of the French Riviera.
Between 1995 and 2009, Alain honed his style in the tri-state remodeling market evolving
the remodeling process along with the technology. In 2009, Schema became Stream Design and launched its client web portal offering real-time visibility to projects. This enables STREAM clients to virtually manage their projects and maintain full visibility to project progress.
Joe Pelletan, Designer and CM in France, one of Alain’s longtime collaborators in the French Riviera is the other part of the STREAM partnership. Since 1992, SARL L’Architecte has design, managed and built hotels, villas, condominiums, golf courses. He actively manages projects in Europe, and owns a property in Florida; Joe has a wealth of experience adapted for all types of construction projects.
We have over 50 years of cumulative professional experience, consistently successful case histories, a vast library of specification resources, and established relationships with designers, architects, contractors and construction managers to provide you with optimal service and results.
Alain Caren
Alain moved to tri-state area in 1995 where he started Maison Design, LLC. which later became Schema, LLC. Since 1996 he has worked in the residential tri-state Design and Build field where he manages a portfolio of over 300 projects, yearly averaging a turnover valued between $1.5 and $2 million.
Jo Pelletan
In 1992, Jo and Alain created SARL L’architecte, a company specializing in the Design-Build concept of new residential properties, renovation of small hotels and tourist complexes along the Mediterranean coast.